Caddo County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Bain, Hollace 
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Source: A History of Louisiana, v.3, pp. 14-15; 1925
Author: Henry E. Chambers

HOLLACE H. BAIN, thirty-third degree Mason; Past Grand Master of Masonry in the 
State of Louisiana; founder and proprietor of the H. H. Bain Sheet Metal Works; 
organizer and proprietor of the Bain-Beaird Company; Cotton planter; a director 
and a vice-president of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.

	Hollace H. Bain was born in DeKalb County, Tennessee. His father moving 
soon after to Hot Springs, Arkansas, Hollace H. received his education in the 
public schools of that city. He also learned there the sheet metal business.

	In 1896 he came to Shreveport, Louisiana, and founded the H. H. Bain 
Sheet Metal Works, which, with the possible exception of one or two others, is 
the largest business of its kind in the entire South.

	In 1915 he organized the Bain-Beaird Company for the wholesale 
manufacture of oxygen, acetylene gasses, tank cars, filling station equipment 
tanks, structural steel and kindred commodities. This company operates two 
plants, one located at Shreveport and one at Cedar Grove, Louisiana.

	Mr. Bain, however, has done much more than build up successful 
industries for his own profit. He is widely known for his generosity and his 
ever ready willingness to contribute of his time, energy and money for the 
promotion of public interests. He has entered with characteristic energy and 
effectiveness into the program for a better and greater city, a better greater 
and more prosperous Southland.

	Mr. Bain is one of the best known and highly esteemed Masons in the 
state. In 1921 he was elected Most Worshipful Grand Master of the 

Grand Lodge of Masons in Louisiana. During his administration he labored 
incessantly to build, through the Grand Lodge, a Masonic Home for Orphan 
Children. His efforts were successful and there now stands in Alexandria, 
Louisiana, a magnificent home for orphans, the original cost of which was 
approximately a quarter of a million dollars.

	He was also instrumental in securing for Shreveport one of the splendid 
Orthopedic Hospitals which are built and maintained by the Order of the Mystic 
Shrine. Mr. Bain is a member of the Governing Board of this hospital for 
crippled children.

	In 1922 he was elected Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and 
Select Masters of Louisiana. Mr. Bain is a Knight of the Illustrious Order of 
the Red Cross of Constantine and has had upon him the honorary thirty-third 
degree of A. A. S. R. of Free Masons.

	In the year 1900 Mr. Bain married Miss Ida Leona McCartney. Three sons 
blessed this union: Hollace H.. Junior, Ferdinand and Leon. In 1909 Mrs. Bain 
passed to the Great Beyond.

	In 1917 Mr. Bain married Miss Mary Fitzhugh Easterling, of Jackson, 
Mississippi, a descendant of two famous southern families, the Fitzhughs of 
Virginia and the Easterlings of South Carolina. They have one son, William 
Lamar Bain.

        Mr. Bain is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and labors with 
zeal through his church for the uplift and betterment of humanity.



Additional Comments:
Hollace H. Bain, born DeKalb County, TN

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