Harry K. Oliphint, Little Rock, AR., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000






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Harry K. Oliphint.  Numbered among the successful young business men of 

Shreveport, Louisiana, Harry K. Oliphint, manager of the Saenger Brothers 

Drug Company, has made a very enviable record for his executive ability 

and his personal reputation in his home city is deservedly high.  He was 

born at Little Rock, Arkansas, a son of Thomas J. Oliphint, for years one 

of the most prominent attorneys practicing at the bar of Little Rock.



Harry K. Ohiphint was reared in his native city, and attended its public 

schools.  In 1912 he came to Shreveport, and in 1914 began his long 

association with the Saenger Brothers Drug Company.  During the past 

couple of years he has been manager of this company s two retail stores 

in this city, which comprise a drug business that is one of the largest 

in the South.  The Saenger Brothers Drug Company is composed of Messrs. 

A. D. and J. H. Saenger of New Orleans, who have a national reputation 

in the amusement world.  In addition to their theatres and moving picture 

houses at Yew Orleans and Monroe, they own three picture theatres at 

Shreveport, and in the fall of 1924 opened the New Strand in this city, 

one of the finest theatres in the country.  Mr. Oliphint in addition to 

his duties as executive of the drug stores has charge of the personal 

interests of the Messrs. Saenger at Shreveport.



Mr. Oliphant is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, and he also 

belongs to the Mystic Shrine.  He is a past worshipful master of Shreveport 

Lodge No. 115, A. F. and A. M., and formerly was its secretary.  He is a 

member of the Kiwanis Club, and through other channels is very active in 

civic affairs.



Mr. Oliphint married, at Little Rock, Arkansas, Miss Lillian Raiff, of 

that city, and they have three children: Mary Jane, Beverly and Joan Raiff.  

When only six months old the latter, in November, 1924, took the first 

prize for girl babies in the annual baby contest at the Louisiana State Fair.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 54-55, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.