L. S. Wescoat, Bridgeton, N.J., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000






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L. S. Wescoat, president of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, has 

been identified with several important industrial corporations during 

his active business career, is a veteran of the World war, and since 

locating at Shreveport has been vice president and treasurer of the 

Southwestern Gas & Electric Company.



Mr. Wescoat was born at Bridgeton, New Jersey, in 1889, and received 

his education in eastern cities, attending grammar and high schools 

and the Pierce School of Philadelphia.  His early business experience 

was with the banking syndicate of Philadelphia, and in 1917 he was 

made general manager of the Horn & Hardart Company of Chicago.



He volunteered in the spring of 1918 in the air service of the United 

States Army, and was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to 

duty in the Eight Hundred and Sixteenth Depot Air Squadron at Detroit.   

After about a year in the army he remained in Detroit, and in the fall

 of 1919 he became connected with the Fisher Body Corporation of that 

city.  In 1922 he was associated with the organizers of the Earl Motors 

Company at Jackson, Michigan.



Mr. Wescoat in July, 1922, came to Shreveport, to assume his present 

position as vice president and treasurer of the Southwestern Gas & 

Electric, Company.  The president of this corporation is Rufus G. Dawes

, of Chicago, brother of Charles Dawes.  Mr. Wescoat has the executive 

director of the company's affairs.  This corporation owns and operates 

the Natural Gas & Electric Company, supplying light and power in 

Shreveport and contiguous territory, also the natural gas, electric 

light power and street railway system at Texarkana, Texas, manufactured

 gas properties at Beaumont, and the manufactured gas properties at 

Biloxi, Gulfport and Pass Christian, Mississippi.



During his brief residence at Shreveport Mr. Wescoat has found many 

useful and congenial affiliations in the community.  After having 

lived there less than two years he was honored at the annual election 

of January. 1924, as president of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.  

He also belongs to the Shreveport Rotary Club, the Shreveport Country 

Club, and is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.  He married 

Miss Ethel Couse, of Detroit.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 140-141, by Henry E. Chambers.  

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