Andrew L. Tillotson, Atchison, KS., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Andrew L. Tillotson, certified public accountant, with offices in the Ardis 

Building at Shreveport, has been long and favorably known in that Louisiana 

city, where he has played a varied and active part as a business man and educator, 

and since the close of the war has been a successful representative of that 

distinctively modern profession, certified public accounting.



Mr. Tillotson was born in 1885, was reared and educated in the City of Atchison, 

Kansas, and was a young man of twenty-one when in 1906 he located at Shreveport. 

For several years he was a teacher of bookkeeping and conducted a business college.  

Following that for some years he was chief accountant for the Pierce Oil Corporation 

in Shreveport offices.



For two years Mr. and Mrs. Tillotson made their home in Cleveland, where he was 

employed in war work during the World war, being assigned to duty in the cost 

accounting section of the Ordnance Department of the United States Army.  Mrs. 

Tillotson, who had begun her Red Cross work in Shreveport, also went to Cleveland 

and devoted her entire time to Red Cross activities in that district.



Since the latter part of 1918 Mr. Tillotson has maintained offices in the Ardis 

Building, and has served a large and important clientage as a public accountant.  

His long residence in the city and his high character have enabled him to build 

up a permanent business in that profession.  He has been retained by some of the 

larger corporations and business and industrial concerns of Northwest Louisiana.  

Mr. Tillotson is also auditor of the Shreveport Mutual Building and Loan Association, 

and does considerable auditing work for the city.



Mrs. Tillotson before her marriage was Miss Lois Strong, of Henderson, Texas, 

where her grandfather was one of the pioneers.  Mrs. Tillotson for several years 

has been chief assistant in charge of Mr. Tillotson's office, and the growth and 

success of that business has been greatly promoted by her skill and management.  

Mr. and Mrs. Tillotson have an interesting family of four children, named  Lois May,  

Ruth Lee,  Frances and  Andrew L., Jr.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 145, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.