Doherty, A.

 Submitted by Mike Miller

A. Doherty, wholesale and retail hardware merchant, Baton Rouge, is a native of West Feliciana parish, La., born in 1844. He received his education in the state of Kentucky, and when he left school he entered the confederate army, enlisting in the Eleventh Louisiana regiment in 1861. He served through the entire struggle, being two years in the Army of Tennessee, and the remainder of the time in the cavalry command of Col. John Scott. He was three times taken prisoner: first he was captured at the battle of Perryville, after he was wounded; he was held only six weeks, at the end of which time he was exchanged and returned to his command; at Port Hudson he again fell into the hands of the enemy, and after his release returned to his regiment; at the raid at Bayou Sara he was taken the third time and was held three months, at the end of which time he was exchanged. He was promoted to a lientenancy in Scott's cavalry. After the surrender he entered the employ of C. W. Slocumb & Co., as traveling salesman, and was afterward with A. Baldwin & Co., remaining with that house until he came to Baton Rouge in 1883. Here he opened a wholesale and retail hardware store under the firm name of Doherty & Co. From a small beginning this business has grown to immense proportions, the stock carried being worth $60,000. Mr. Doherty employs salesmen on the road and fifteen men in the house. He is erecting a commodious business edifice, 65x100 feet, three stories high, which he has found necessary to accommodate the volume of trade, the largest in thin line in the state outside of New Orleans. He was married in West Feliciana parish to Miss C. M. Hereford, and seven children have been born to them. His parents, Anthony and Charlotte (Swaze) Doherty, were natives of Louisiana, and of Irish extraction. The father was a sugar planter by occupation.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 380. Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.