Biography: Captain Hardie B. Hearn, Caddo Parish La.
Submitted by: casteel@hiwaay.net (Thomas J. Casteel)



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H. B. HEARN

CAPTAIN HARDIE B. HEARN was born February 12, 1859, on a farm in Choctaw
County, Alabama. His parents, David Russell and Martha Jane Mixon Hearn,
removed to Madison County, Mississippi, while he was quite young. His
father, in addition to his farm activities, owned and operated a public
gin, grist mill, sawmill and shop where the public was served in having
their cotton ginned, corn ground and farm implements repaired. The boy
worked on the farm and in the shop and mill until 1877. When he began work
as a laborer in the station of the Illinois Central Railroad at Madison
Station, Mississippi. He learned telegraphy, his first position being
telegraph operator at Manchac, Louisiana. By diligent study and application
to business, he became very efficient in the performance of his duties and
was promoted from time to time, in both traffic and operative departments.

He came to Shreveport as agent of the V. S. & P. Railway in 1889. He was
promoted to Commercial Agent in 1898 and was very successful in soliciting
 business for his road and in creating a most harmonious relationship
between his company and the public.

In 1905 he was made assistant general freight agent where he served with
distinction until be was made superintendent in 1907. Here he won the
respect of the officers and employees, and was regarded by the public as a
model executive.

Captain Hearn was elected president of the Shreveport Railways Company in
1918, where he still presides as an able, patient, untiring, servant of the
public. He has won the confidence of his employees and the public whom he
strives so faithfully to serve.

Captain Hearn is also the vice-president of the City Savings Bank & Trust
Company, Director of the Louisiana State Life Insurance Company; H. B.
Hearn Vice-president of the Texas Ball League; Past Master of the Caddo
Lodge No. 179 A. F. & A. M.; holds membership in all the Masonic degrees of
York Rite and Scottish Rite bodies, and is an enthusiastic member of the
Rotary and Country Clubs.
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From Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish, Maude Hearn O'Pry, 1928,
Page 354
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