Bio: Joseph Richard Herrin; Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000





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Joseph Richard Herrin is a prominent young business man of Shreveport, member
of the firm Herrin Transfer & Warehouse Company.  The owners and proprietors
of this business and the men who have made themselves personally accountable
for its efficiency of service and operation are the Herrin brothers, five in
number, sons of John Beverly and Willie Cora (Bartlett) Herrin.

The parents, who have resided at Shreveport since December 10, 1910, were born
in Tennessee, the father in February, 1867, and the mother on September 16.
1873.  They were married at Timpson, Texas, in August, 1892, and they lived
for a time at Timpson, also in Van Zandt County, Texas, and in New Mexico
prior to coming to Shreveport.

Mrs. Willie Cora (Bartlett) Herrin represents a very distinguished family,
being a daughter of Joseph Richard and Lavinia (Hancock) Bartlett.  Mr. and
Mrs. Bartlett have been married fifty-four years and are still living.  They
were one of the three couples which recently formed a group for the Pathme
weekly pictures, comprising husbands who were all Confederate soldiers, with
their wives, the wives being bridesmaids for one another fifty-four years ago
and together they celebrated their golden wedding anniversaries.  Lavinia
(Hancock) Bartlett is related to W. S. Hancock, a distinguished soldier and
one time candidate for president on the democratic ticket.  A branch of the
same family has been very prominent in Texas, one brother of Mrs. Lavinia
Bartlett being candidate for lieutenant governor on the prohibition ticket at
one time and one of his sons a member of the Texas Legislature.  All of this
family are descendants of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of
Independence of the United States.

The five sons of John Beverly and Willie Cora (Bartlett) Herrin are:  Joseph
Richard,  John Beverly, Jr.,  Oscar Bartlett,  Cicero Gibson and  Robert
Taylor Herrin, all associated in the business of the Herrin Transfer &
Warehouse Company.  There are also three daughters:  Willie May, who married
Clarence Le Blanc,  Miss Swan and  Miss Mildred Blanche Herrin.  The father of
these children by a previous marriage had two sons,  James and Lemuel Herrin,
and one daughter,  Mattie, now Mrs. W. H. Foster of Tyler, Texas.

Joseph Richard Herrin was a soldier in the World war, entering the service
July 2, 1918, and was assigned to duty training recruits at Augusta, Georgia,
being promoted to sergeant after serving two months.  He was special
instructor in machine guns, and remained on duty until after the armistice. 
His brother, John Beverly, Jr., served in the Motor Transport Corps as a
corporal, and arrived in Germany three days before the armistice was signed,
continuing overseas for six months.  After returning to America and Shreveport
he became actively associated with his father and brother in the present
transfer business.

This business was started by John Beverly Herrin, Sr., in a small way, his
sons coming into it one after the other as they left school, and their united
enterprise has been responsible for a rapid growth and development until the
company now uses warehouse space of eighty thousand square feet, in a
practically new building erected at a cost of approximately $130,000.00.

Joseph Richard Herrin married, April 27, 1920, Miss Ophelia Madeline Mulliken,
of Shreveport, a native of Caspiana, Louisiana.  She graduated from St.
Vincent Academy at Shreveport in 1918.  Her parents, William and Mary Lena
(Adley) Mulliken, are residents of Caspiana, Louisiana.  Mr. and Mrs. Herrin
have one son, Joseph Richard, Jr., born August 14. 1923, at Shreveport.

Joseph R. Herrin is a member of the First Baptist Church at Shreveport, with
Rev. Dr. Dodd as his pastor.  He belongs to the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
and Traffic Club and is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and also a
member of the Masonic Grotto and Shrine.

NOTE:  The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the
subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 187-188, by Henry E. Chambers. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York,
1925.