Bio: David J. Anderson; Cedartown, GA., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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David J. Anderson.  The work of David J. Anderson as a building contractor is
widely known over several states in the South.  He is president of the A. & M.
Construction Company at Shreveport, and since locating in that city has
handled a large part of the volume of constructive enterprise that marks that
as one of the most progressive and rapidly growing cities of the Southwest.

Mr. Anderson was born and reared at Cedartown, Georgia, and during his youth,
alter a common school education, learned the carpenter's trade.  After a few
years of work as a journeyman carpenter, he entered contracting and building
and from contracts involving a few hundred dollars has steadily increased his
facilities, credit and capital to a point where he conducts operations on a
large scale in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and other states of the
South.

Late in 1919 Mr. Anderson came to Shreveport, and attracted by the wonderful
progress of the developing city, decided to make his permanent home here. 
From the start he won the confidence of the public, and by honorable business
dealings and straightforward methods, giving prompt and efficient service to
his clients, he was enabled to build up a large and profitable business in a
comparatively short time.  This business was incorporated under the name of
the A. & M. Construction Company, of which he is president; M. W. McDonald,
secretary, his partner, being likewise an experienced builder.  The firm has
handled some of the largest of the individual buildings in the construction
program that has been carried out in Shreveport during the last three years. 
They act as general contractors for all classes of buildings, business,
industrial and residential.

A special tribute to Mr. Anderson's success as a building contractor came to
him within three years after he located at Shreveport, when he was honored by
election as president of the Shreveport Builders' Exchange.  He is affiliated
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and Mrs. Anderson are
members of the Dunlap Memorial Presbyterian Church.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 256, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.