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Christie O. Ferguson

Christie O. Ferguson, cashier of the Homer National Bank of Homer, Louisiana, is a thoroughly capable and experienced banker, and a short sketch of his highly honorable career is given below.

He was born in Drew County, Arkansas, on December 17, 1855, and is the youngest of a family of nine sons and three daughters that grew to mature years. He passed his boyhood and youth in Homer, received a liberal education in Homer College, and was then engaged in clerking for about, eight years. In 1881 be engaged in merchandising under the firm name of Camp Davidson & Ferguson, general merchants, and after two years Mr. Ferguson succeeded to the business himself, and continued the same up to 1890, when he sold out. He then engaged in the banking business as above stated.

On May 4, 1881, he was married to Miss Amelia Wilder, a native of Jackson Parish, Louisiana, who was reared and educated at Homer, and who is the daughter of J. B. Wilder, of Magnolia. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson lost one son, Guy O'Neal, who's death occurred in 1880, at the age of four years. Mr. Ferguson is one of the present board of aldermen, and has served for a number of terms. He has also held several other official positions.

Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and socially Mr. Ferguson is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P., having held official positions in the former organization. He is a man of superior business capacity, and on the organization of the Homer National Bank, he was elected the cashier, a position to which he is eminently fitted. He is a gentleman of social habits, and is popular with his friends who are legion.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890