Cornelius D. Keen, Holland, then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Cornelius D. Keen for the past fifteen years has been a prominent figure 

in the oil producing and oil mining industry of Northern Louisiana.  

His home and the center of his operations are at Shreveport.



Mr. Keen is a native of Holland, and acquired a liberal and technical 

education in his native land.  He graduated in engineering from the 

University of Delft, and in the pursuit of his profession he came to 

the United States in 1910 and Soon afterwards located in Shreveport.  

Here his time and talents have been taken up with engineering and 

development of problems in connection with the oil fields of North 

Louisiana.  His achievements have been on a scale to make him one 

of the most successful men in this line of business in time state.



Mr. Keen is president of the Shreveport Producing and Refining 

Corporation, which owns and operates one of the largest refineries 

in the state, at Jewella, on the outskirts of Shreveport.  The company 

is also engaged in production in the north Louisiana field, and does 

an extended business in all branches of production, refining and 

marketing of petroleum and its products.



Mr. Keen is also one of the vice presidents of the Mid-continent Oil 

and Gas Association, and is vice president of the Keen and Woolf Oil 

Company, and senior member of the firm Keen and Woolf, oil operators.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 129, by Henry E. Chambers.  

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