Bio: Thomas H. Flenniken; Knoxville, TN., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000





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Thomas H. Flenniken, secretary-treasurer of the Flenniken Construction Company
of Knoxville, Tennessee, is manager of the local branch of that business at
Shreveport, Louisiana.

The main offices of the company are at Knoxville.  This is one of the largest
firms of municipal contractors in the South.  It has been established for many
years, and has carried out many extensive programs, particularly of street
paving in the states of Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana and
other Southern states.

It was in 1919 that the company established an office in Shreveport, with
Thomas H. Flenniken as secretary and treasurer.  Mr. Flenniken was born at
Knoxville, Tennessee.  Under his direction the Shreveport office of the
company has carried out some notable contracts for street paving, involving
many hundreds of thousands of dollars in value.  Most of these contracts have
been at Shreveport and vicinity, Crowley, New Iberia and several other cities. 
A notable example of the work done by this company is found in the residential
suburb of Shreveport known as South Highland.  The Flenniken Construction
Company handled the entire paving project of this suburban community, which is
one of the finest and wealthiest home communities in the state.

J. W. Flenniken, brother of Thomas H. Flenniken, was born at Knoxville, and
still remains a resident of that city.  For twelve years he was commissioner
of public works there, and is widely known as an authority on municipal and
public construction and engineering.  The Flenniken Construction Company has
well earned the splendid esteem and reputation it enjoys as a contracting
firm.

Thomas H. Flenniken is a Knights Templar and Shriner. an Elk and a member of
the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.  He married Miss Amy Eula Stephenson,
daughter of W. R. Stephenson, of Knoxville, Tennessee.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 227, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.