Bio: Sidney R. Elliott; Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000





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Sidney R. Elliott is a prominent business man in the City of Shreveport, where
he was born and reared, and where his family name has been held in high esteem
for many years.  Mr. Elliott is vice president and general manager of the
Interstate Electric Company, wholesale dealers in electrical supplies, with
place of business at 310 Spring Street.

Mr. Elliott was born at Shreveport in 1877, son of Robert Sidney and Alice
(Gardner) Elliott.  Both parents are now deceased.  His father, a native of
North Carolina. was a pioneer in Shreveport and a noted old time river man,
having been a steamboat captain on the Red River during the '50s and '60s,
when river navigation was at its heighth.

Sidney R. Elliott attended local schools in Shreveport, and for several years
was an employe of the telephone company.  This brought him his opportunities
to engage in the electrical profession, and for several years he did business
as an electrical contractor.  Then, in 1919, he branched out into the
wholesale business, organizing the Interstate Electric Company, of which he is
vice president and general manager.  This concern has proved one of the
conspicuous business successes of Shreveport and is the largest business of
its kind in Northern Louisiana, employing nine traveling salesmen to handle
and distribute electrical and automotive supplies.

Mr. Elliott has proved one of the loyal business men of Shreveport, interested
in civic and welfare movements of all kinds.  He is a director of the
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, is a director of the Louisiana State Fair, and
fraternally is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 207, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.