1925 Biography - Shea E. Prince

Shea E. Prince, M. D. The Prince family was established in Bossier Parish at Princeton, a village named in their honor about the close of the war between the states. The family has ever since been one of the strong substantial ones of Northwest Louisiana, with growing interest as planters, professional and business men.

Dr. Shea E. Prince, now a resident of Shreveport, was for many years a prominent physician in Bossier Parish, and is president of two banks at that parish.

He was born at Princeton, in Bossier Parish, in 1860, son of J. W. and Virginia Alice (Locke) Prince. His father came from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1866, and acquired a large plantation on which was built the Town of Princeton. This community is halfway between Shreveport and Minden. The late J. W. Prince devoted the rest of his life to the management of his large planting interests.

Shea E. Prince grew tip on a plantation, and after his early education entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he was graduated Medical Doctor in 1896. Continuously for the next twenty years he looked after an extended practice in town and country in Bossier Parish, discharging with splendid skill and fidelity the responsibilities of a physician and surgeon. Since retiring from his profession he has given most of his time to banking as president of the Bossier State Bank at Bossier City, and the Bank of Plain Dealing in the town of that name. Doctor Prince's home is at 1033 East College Street in Shreveport.

Some of his brothers are still identified with the ownership and management of plantations at Princeton. His brother, Mr. A. W. Prince, is a member of the firm Eiston, Prince and McDade, Inc., wholesale grocers at Shreveport. Doctor Prince throughout America's participation in the World war served as medical examiner for the Bossier Parish Draft Board.

He married Miss Pauline Trigg, member of a prominent family of Southern Arkansas. Her father was a lumberman, and at one time was associated with Mr. E. A. Frost in business under the corporate name of the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company. Doctor and Mrs. Prince have three children, Mrs. Emeline Glover, Miss Helen Beverly and Miss Hallula Sue Prince.

Note: The referenced source contains an autographed portrait of the subject.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, Volume 2, pages 199-200.