Bio: John B. Atkins, Jr.; Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000



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John B. Atkins, Jr., a son of the late John B. Atkins, whose career as a
founder and builder of Shreveport is given in the preceding sketch, has during
the brief years since he attained his majority gained a prominent place in the
oil industry of the Southwest.

He was born at Lake End, Louisiana. in 1897, and was liberally educated,
attending Washington and Lce University at Lexington, Virginia.  In the spring
of 1917, going to Washington, he enlisted at the age of twenty in the naval
air service, and was on duty until the close of the war.

Since leaving the army he has been identified with the oil industry in North
Louisiana, and he succeeded his father as president of the Shreveport-El
Dorado Pipe Line Company, an enterprise founded by his father.  His business
offices are in the Commercial National Bank Building.  Mr. Atkins married Miss
Katherine Adger, granddaughter of Mr. F. T. Whited, of Shreveport.

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