Barfield, John Richard "Dick" (1934-2018)
Dick was born March 8, 1934 in Corpus Christi, TX to Heck Green (1905-1969) and Viola Lee Wilgus (1907-2000) Barfield. He graduated from Mooringsport High School, served in the U. S . Army, received B.S. in Engineering from University of Houston, and MBA from University of Chicago. Dick worked at UOP for 39 years as Chief Engineer, Plant Manager and VP of Manufacturing and Purchasing at the Shreveport, LA; McCook, IL; and Des Plaines, IL locations.
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Barré, Charles Howard (1922- ), former Director and Vice-President of Refining for Marathon Oil Company. LSU Alumnus of the Year in 2004.
A Mooringsport native, Charles attended Louisiana State University where he earned a B.S. in Chemistry. Here he's shown as an LSU student.
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| Charles H. Barré (1942) |
Source: 1942 LSU Gumbo (yearbook), Page 573
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Source: Findlay (OH) Republican-Courier, 14-Apr-1972, Page 19
Named Marathon Oil Company Vice President of Refining in 1971.
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Elected to the Marathon Oil Board of Directors, March 1977.
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Source: Toledo (OH) Blade 04-Mar-1977, Page 19 (Barre named to Marathon BOD)
Retirement announced in November 1983.
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Source: Baton Rouge Morning Advocate 13-Nov-1983, Page 175 (3-J)
Below is his profile on the LSU Alumni website:
Charles Howard Barré retired as director and vice-president of refining from Marathon Oil Company, Findlay, Ohio, in 1984. He joined Marathon in Texas City, Texas, as a chemist in 1946 and steadily moved up in increasingly responsible positions in Marathon's operations in Munich, Germany, and Findlay. He was made vice-president of refining in 1971 and named director in 1977. Mr. Barré has served on the boards of the Companie Ibericia Refinadora de Petroles of Madrid, Spain, Erdol Refinere Mannheim, Mannheim, West Germany, San Francisco Plantation Foundation, Marathon Oil Foundation, the National Petroleum Refiners' Association.
Mr. Barré was born on August 8, 1922, in Mooringsport, Louisiana, son of Aubertan H. Barré and Edna Brouillette Barré. He received his degree in industrial chemistry from LSU in 1943 where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He also attended Harvard University's Advanced Management Program in 1965. He was a member of the LSU Foundation from 1978-89 and 1992-2003. Mr. Barré served as Director of the National Petroleum Refiners Association from 1972-83 and Vice-President from 1975-78. He served as Chairman of the Board of the San Francisco Plantation Foundation of Garyville, Louisiana, from 1976-83. He was a member of the General Committee on Refining for the American Petroleum Institute from 1971-83, Vice-Chairman from 1975-76, Chairman from 1977-78, and recipient of their Certificate of Appreciation in 1979. Mr. Barré was inducted into the LSU Alumni Association's Hall of Distinction in 1991.
He is an active member of the LSU College of Basic Sciences Development Council; he serves on the board of the United States Civil War Center; as a docent at the Lod Cook Alumni Center; and is a recipient of the LSU Foundation President's Award for Lifetime Giving. Mr. Barré is a major donor to LSU Alumni Association projects including: the Lod Cook Alumni Center, the Lod and Carole Cook Conference Center & Hotel, and the Jack and Priscilla Andonie Museum.
Source: LSU Alumni Website - Hall of Distinction
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| Charles H. Barre with wife Mary (2013) |
He and his wife Mary have generously donated to various causes around the campus including the Lod Cook Alumni Center and Cook Conference Center and Hotel, the Andonie Museum. They have established the Charles and Mary Barré Alumni Professorship in Music and the Charles Barré Professorship in Chemistry.
Caldwell, Samuel S. (1892-1953) Mooringsport native, former Shreveport Mayor, and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate, Below is a photo from the Shreveport Times 14-Oct-1942 announcing his reelection as mayor.
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The following bio appears on the Louisiana History website.
Caldwell, Samuel S. politician, oilman. Born, Mooringsport, La., November 4, 1892; son of Samuel A. Caldwell and Alice Jeter. Education: Mooringsport School; Louisiana Tech. Worked for nine years at Kansas City Southern in accounting and auditing departments. Worked seven years for Shell Petroleum, part of which time was spent as assistant superintendent of the land department. After leaving Shell he went on to become an independent oil operator. Served as Caddo Parish police juror. Mayor of Shreveport, 1934-1946. Campaigned unsuccessfully for governor against Jimmie Davis, 1944. Merged the city and parish boards of health into one unit. Oversaw the stocking of Cross Lake. Married Anna Pauline Owen of Monroe, La., 1914. One child: Betty Ann (b. 1923). Member, First Presbyterian Church, Masons. Died, August 14, 1953.
P.L.M. Source: Lilla McLure and J. Ed Howe, History of Shreveport and Shreveport Builders (1937).
Mayor Caldwell is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Shreveport, LA.
Croom, Calvin Stewart (1825-1896)
The following is from an 1890 profile:
Calvin S. Croom is next to the oldest citizen in Ward 3, Caddo Parish, La., and has long been a prominent merchant in this region, although his birth occurred in Greene County, N. C., June 11, 1825, his parents being Isaac and Olive (Godwin) Croom, also natives of that State. About 1826 they removed to Jackson, Tenn., and from there to Houston County, Tex., in 1839, thence to Caddo Parish, La., in 1844, making their home here until their respective deaths in 1876 and 1844, he being eighty-three and she fifty years of age. The father was a successful farmer, a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics was a Democrat.
He was a Scotch-Irish descent, a son of Charles Croom, of North Carolina. To his union nine children were born, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth, three now living, and after his wife's death he married Mrs Elizabeth Robertson. Calvin S. Croom began to learn the printer's trade when a boy of ten years, in Jackson, Tenn., and followed this calling in Austin and Washington, Tex., continuing until 1852, during which time he worked on the Caddo Gazette and also on the first daily paper published at Shreveport. After giving up his trade he came to Mooringsport and opened a mercantile establishment and warehouse, which he has conducted with the best of success ever since. He has been in business in Caddo Parish longer than any other merchant now residing there, and served one term in the capacity of magistrate. In February, 1863, he joined an independent company, which afterward became attached to the Third Louisiana Cavalry, and was on active duty until April, 1864, when he was detailed as a ferryman at Mooringsport, serving in that capacity until the close of the war.
On January 12, 1851, he was married to Miss Margaret Ann Mooring, a daughter of Timothy Mooring, one of the oldest settlers of the parish, who had come in 1837 from Henderson County, Tenn. Mrs. Croom was also born in that State, and by Mr. Croom has become the mother of six children: Mrs. Thomas Cooper, W. H. B. (in the mercantile business), Mrs. Eliza Hales (of Gilmer, Tex.), Calvin B. (of Lake Charles, La.), Mrs. E. R. Hales (of Gilmer, Tex.), Mrs. Margaret I. Wood (of Queen City, Tex.). Mrs. Croom has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from girlhood, and is a truly charitable and Christian lady. Mr. Croom is a Democrat, a thoroughgoing business man, full of enterprise and energy. He owns extensive tracts of land aggregating 2,500 acres and has a large portion under cultivation.
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
He is buried in the Mooring Family Cemetery, Mooringsport, LA.
Croom, William H. B. (1864-1912) LA State legislator
Below shown as a member of the state appropriations committee in 1902.
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He also was manager of Mooringsport branch of Shreveport-based Continental Bank and Trust Company, and and postmaster
He is buried in Mooringsport Cemetery.
Dunham, Volla Albert , Jr., M.D. (1920-1983)
The future Dr. Dunham was born 25-Jan-1920 in Bowie, Texas to Volla, Sr. and Trudie Dunham. The elder Volla's occupation was listed as switchman and later engine foreman for the Kansas City Southern Railway. It's not clear when the family moved to Mooringsport or for how long, but in 1935, he received honorable mention All-State recognition as a fullback playing for the local school.
After high school Volla enrolled at Louisiana Normal College (now Northwestern State University) where he played tackle on the Demon football Team. For information about his football career, see Memorable Athletes and Coaches.
During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps 10th Anti-Submarine Squadron as a First lieutenant and was awarded the Air Medal. After the war, he entered Tulane Medical School, graduating in 1951 and passed medical exam later that year. By then he resided in Shreveport.
He and family moved to Phoenix where he lived for the remainder of his life. He did however retain some Louisiana connections as a newspaper article about his son John's marriage in 1959 mentions the younger Dunham being a student at LSU.
Dr. Dunham must have been an avid golfer, as he once scored a hole-in-one.
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He was active at supporting Phoenix community activities; working with YMCA, and serving on the Board of Education of the Phoenix Union High School System.
Dr. Dunham died 10-Apr-1983 and is buried beside wife Blanche Paul Dunham (1925-1999) in Greenwood Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, AZ.
Jarratt, (Dr.) Virginia R. (1923-2006) A native of Mooringsport, during her career Dr. Jarratt held the position of Dean of Nursing at both the University of Arkansas and Texas Christian University. She also served as an ensign in the U. S. Navy during World War II.
Here's a link to her obituary - University of Arkansas for Medical Services Intranet
There are duplicate records of her interment or lack thereof. One states she was cremated while another displays a military burial marker in Woodlawn Cemetery, Timpson, TX. Note the obit contained on the "cremated" entry implies she did not live long in Mooringsport, however a 1935 newspaper article of an incident regarding one of her brothers indicated her family was still in town, when she would have been 12 years old. That article also noted her father, Oscar Jarratt, as a former mayor of Mooringsport.
Jennings, Pauline Riley (1922-2013) was born in Vivian, LA, a 1938 Mooringsport High graduate, attended LA Tech, and earned a degree from East Texas State Teachers College (now Texas A&M-Commerce).
She became a war correspondent during WWII and later was a news editor for U.S. News & World Report magazine. During her tenure there, she worked to get equal pay for female workers. She was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War (of which her son was a decorated veteran) and an active supporter of Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign.
Source: Obituary - Washington Post 20-Mar-2013
Moore, Randle T. (1875-1957) was born in Mooringsport. He began his business career in 1901 in Zwolle, where he organized the Sabine Lumber Co. In Shreveport, he was vice-president of the old City Savings Bank and Trust and vice-president of the newly organized Commercial National Bank from 1921-1932. His other business interests included Frost Lumber Co., Kansas City Southern Railway, Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad, and the Commercial Building Company, which he owned and directed until 1956. In civic affairs, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Centenary College, treasurer of the Shreveport Council of Boy Scouts, a director of the YMCA, and past president of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.
Shreveport Times 22-Aug-1937, Page 13
His former home, located on the corner of Kings Hwy and Fairfield Ave. in Shreveport, was donated to the city and serves as community center.
Shreveport Times 27-Jun-2004 Page 5I
Source: wikipedia article
He is buried in Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, LA.
Tillinghast, Edwin L., M.D. (1839-1915)
The following is from an 1890 profile:
E. L. TILLINGHAST, M. D., is a native of Beaufort District, S. C., where he was born August 3, 1839, his education being also received in his native State, graduating from Columbia College. Upon attaining manhood he commenced the study of medicine, and in 1861 attended the medical department of the Louisiana University, at New Orleans, graduating the same year, having previously taken a course at Charleston, S. C., in 1858-59.
In the month of April, 1861, he joined the Second South Carolina Regiment of Infantry, as assistant surgeon, a position he held until the close of the war, and was on the battlefield of the first Manassas, the seven days' fight around Richmond, Lewisburg, and Savage Station, where he received a flesh wound, by a bursting shell. For some time he was on detached service in a hospital, and his war experience was of great service to him. In 1866 he came to Mooringsport, and commenced the practice of his profession, and two years later settled on his present well-improved farm. He is acknowledged by all to be an excellent physician and surgeon, and his practice is large and lucrative.
He was married in 1867, to Miss Pattie Lewis Fly, daughter of Benjamin Fly, of this parish, formerly of Tennessee, and her birth occurred near Jackson, in the latter State. Their union has resulted in the birth of seven children: Mary Currie (wife of Edward Currie), Maude N., Arthur Y., Blanche E. and Roy. Albert L. and Edwin L. both died when young. Dr. and Mrs. Tillinghast are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is a Mason, and in his political views, a Democrat. He is a son of Robert L. and Sophia E. (Wilson) Tillinghast, the former of whom was born in Georgia, and was a successful lawyer. He died in 1858, at the age of forty years, after having served both as a representative and senator in the General Assembly of his State, being chosen to these positions by his Democratic friends. His father, Parvin Tillinghast, is supposed to have been a lawyer by profession, and his life was spent in Georgia and South Carolina.
The first Tillinghast to come to America bore the name of Parvin (actually Pardon), who came with Roger Williams, the Baptist. He was the fifth elder of the State of Rhode Island, had been a soldier under Cromwell, and came to America on account of his political views, after the death of that great leader. One of Parvin Tillinghast's sons moved southward, the subject of this sketch being one of his descendants. There have been many distinguished men in the family, and some became noted in the Revolutionary War, particularly Lieut. Thomas G. Tillinghast, of the United States navy, and for gallant services was given a sword by the State of South Carolina. Another, Capt. Tillinghast was a graduate of West Point Military Academy, and was at one time a United States Senator from Rhode Island. The subject of this sketch had two brothers in the late war, Thomas S., aged fifteen, and Robert G., aged seventeen, they being members of the Second South Carolina Cavalry, and took part in all the battles of the Georgia campaign, under Gen. Hardee. Some members of the family were also in the War of 1812.
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Dr. Tillinghast is buried in Mooringsport Cemetery.
Here's a link to her obituary - University of Arkansas for Medical Services Intranet
There are duplicate records of her interment or lack thereof. One states she was cremated while another displays a military burial marker in Woodlawn Cemetery, Timpson, TX. Note the obit contained on the "cremated" entry implies she did not live long in Mooringsport, however a 1935 newspaper article of an incident regarding one of her brothers indicated her family was still in town, when she would have been 12 years old. That article also noted her father, Oscar Jarratt, as a former mayor of Mooringsport.
Jennings, Pauline Riley (1922-2013) was born in Vivian, LA, a 1938 Mooringsport High graduate, attended LA Tech, and earned a degree from East Texas State Teachers College (now Texas A&M-Commerce).
She became a war correspondent during WWII and later was a news editor for U.S. News & World Report magazine. During her tenure there, she worked to get equal pay for female workers. She was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War (of which her son was a decorated veteran) and an active supporter of Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign.
Source: Obituary - Washington Post 20-Mar-2013
Moore, Randle T. (1875-1957) was born in Mooringsport. He began his business career in 1901 in Zwolle, where he organized the Sabine Lumber Co. In Shreveport, he was vice-president of the old City Savings Bank and Trust and vice-president of the newly organized Commercial National Bank from 1921-1932. His other business interests included Frost Lumber Co., Kansas City Southern Railway, Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad, and the Commercial Building Company, which he owned and directed until 1956. In civic affairs, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Centenary College, treasurer of the Shreveport Council of Boy Scouts, a director of the YMCA, and past president of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.
Shreveport Times 22-Aug-1937, Page 13
His former home, located on the corner of Kings Hwy and Fairfield Ave. in Shreveport, was donated to the city and serves as community center.
Shreveport Times 27-Jun-2004 Page 5I
Source: wikipedia article
He is buried in Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, LA.
Tillinghast, Edwin L., M.D. (1839-1915)
The following is from an 1890 profile:
E. L. TILLINGHAST, M. D., is a native of Beaufort District, S. C., where he was born August 3, 1839, his education being also received in his native State, graduating from Columbia College. Upon attaining manhood he commenced the study of medicine, and in 1861 attended the medical department of the Louisiana University, at New Orleans, graduating the same year, having previously taken a course at Charleston, S. C., in 1858-59.
In the month of April, 1861, he joined the Second South Carolina Regiment of Infantry, as assistant surgeon, a position he held until the close of the war, and was on the battlefield of the first Manassas, the seven days' fight around Richmond, Lewisburg, and Savage Station, where he received a flesh wound, by a bursting shell. For some time he was on detached service in a hospital, and his war experience was of great service to him. In 1866 he came to Mooringsport, and commenced the practice of his profession, and two years later settled on his present well-improved farm. He is acknowledged by all to be an excellent physician and surgeon, and his practice is large and lucrative.
He was married in 1867, to Miss Pattie Lewis Fly, daughter of Benjamin Fly, of this parish, formerly of Tennessee, and her birth occurred near Jackson, in the latter State. Their union has resulted in the birth of seven children: Mary Currie (wife of Edward Currie), Maude N., Arthur Y., Blanche E. and Roy. Albert L. and Edwin L. both died when young. Dr. and Mrs. Tillinghast are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is a Mason, and in his political views, a Democrat. He is a son of Robert L. and Sophia E. (Wilson) Tillinghast, the former of whom was born in Georgia, and was a successful lawyer. He died in 1858, at the age of forty years, after having served both as a representative and senator in the General Assembly of his State, being chosen to these positions by his Democratic friends. His father, Parvin Tillinghast, is supposed to have been a lawyer by profession, and his life was spent in Georgia and South Carolina.
The first Tillinghast to come to America bore the name of Parvin (actually Pardon), who came with Roger Williams, the Baptist. He was the fifth elder of the State of Rhode Island, had been a soldier under Cromwell, and came to America on account of his political views, after the death of that great leader. One of Parvin Tillinghast's sons moved southward, the subject of this sketch being one of his descendants. There have been many distinguished men in the family, and some became noted in the Revolutionary War, particularly Lieut. Thomas G. Tillinghast, of the United States navy, and for gallant services was given a sword by the State of South Carolina. Another, Capt. Tillinghast was a graduate of West Point Military Academy, and was at one time a United States Senator from Rhode Island. The subject of this sketch had two brothers in the late war, Thomas S., aged fifteen, and Robert G., aged seventeen, they being members of the Second South Carolina Cavalry, and took part in all the battles of the Georgia campaign, under Gen. Hardee. Some members of the family were also in the War of 1812.
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Dr. Tillinghast is buried in Mooringsport Cemetery.
Walker, Hugh Sanders (1935-2000) was a Mooringsport High School graduate who became a college football player and ultimately a nationally-recognized engineering professor.
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| Hugh as a senior at Mooringsport High in 1953 |
Born in Shreveport to Lloyd E. and Susie Bickham Walker, Hugh grew up in Mooringsport, LA where his father was school principal. He played football in high school and received honorable mention for the Class B All-State team in 1952. He earned an athletic scholarship to Louisiana State University where he also played football. (For information about his football career, see Memorable Athletes and Coaches)
He left the team after two seasons to concentrate on his studies and graduated in 1957 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
He left the team after two seasons to concentrate on his studies and graduated in 1957 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Source: 1957 Gumbo (yearbook), Page 118
Hugh continued his education at LSU, later earning a master's degree; and was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship while pursuing his doctorate at Kansas State University, which he completed in 1965. He then began his career at that university. Here he's shown teaching at Kansas State in 1970.
In 1974 he developed a computer program to assist the KSU football team in preparing for opponents.
Additional information from his obituary:
Dr. Walker was a licensed mechanical engineering professor in Louisiana and Kansas. He was on the staff at Kansas State University at the time of his death. He served as an instructor at Louisiana State University from 1957 to 1960, and he was an aircraft modification design engineer at Tinker Air Force Base in 1958. He was an NFS Science Faculty Fellow at Kansas State University form 1960 to 1962 and an assistant professor in mechanical engineering at K-State from 1965 to 1968. He was an associate professor from 1968 until he became a full professor in 1976. He was active in the Institute for Computational Research in Engineering and was named associate director of the program when the program was started in 1969. He also served as a captain in the Army.
He was born July 31, 1935, in Shreveport, La., the son of Lloyd E. (former Mooringsport High School principal) and Susie Bickham Walker. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a master's degree in 1960 from Louisiana State University. He earned a doctorate from K-State in 1965. His research focused on stress analysis, vibrations, numerical analysis and acoustics. He also had worked on new bridge construction methods, statistical analysis of football teams and their tendencies, chest protectors for young batters, design of sporting equipment and muffling farm tractor noise.
Source: KSU Royal Purple (yearbook) Page 150
Source: KSU Royal Purple (yearbook) Page 150
Dr. Walker was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for the Experimental Stress Analysis and the American Society for Engineering Education. He was an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics. He was named in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in Technology Today, Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in Computer Education and Research.
Dr. Walker was a member of College Avenue United Methodist Church.
He married Margaret Ann Warren on Aug. 15, 1958, in Mooringsport, La. She survives.
Other survivors include three sons, Sandy Walker, Lloyd E. Walker and Charles J. Walker, all of Manhattan; a daughter, Nancy E. Becker, Manhattan; and five grandchildren.
He is buried in Sunrise Cemetery, Manhattan, KS.
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