Biography: Mr. W. E. Hamilton, Caddo Parish La.
Submitted by: casteel@hiwaay.net (Thomas J. Casteel)



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W. E. HAMILTON.

MR.. W. E. HAMILTON, vice president of the First National Bank for a number
of years, is a gentleman of hereditary business instincts and tendencies
and is identified with almost every important business move and enterprise
of the city. He is a progressive citizen in every progressive movement
organized in the city. His readiness and ability have been cultivated by a
college course in Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va., with a
special course at John Hopkins University at Baltimore, Md.

Mr. Hamilton commenced his business career in 1886 assisting his father in
his plantation interests and the oil mill which his father established in
this city. In 1894 Mr. Hamilton was president and general manager of the
Shreveport Gas, Electric Light and Power Company, vice president and
general manager of both lines of electric street railway, a prominent and
active member of the Board of Trade and the Development club, and takes an
active interest in every progressive movement organized in the city. His
readiness and ability have been demonstrated in all the active energies of
his life, and he is deservedly classed with the representative young men of
the city of Shreveport. He has large property interests and is fully alive
to the commercial, industrial and traffic interests of the city.

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From Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish, Maude Hearn O'Pry, 1928,
Page 354
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