Roy P. Bennett, Gibson Co., TN., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000






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Roy P. Bennett, president of the Shreveport Rotary Club, has had his 

home in this Louisiana city for a number of years.  Much of his 

experience has been in the field of commercial salesman, and he is 

now sales manager of one of Shreveport's leading manufacturing 

industries.



Mr. Bennett was born at Humboldt, Gibson County, Tennessee, October 

10, 1886, and spent the first sixteen years of his life in that 

locality, acquiring a common school education.  After leaving home 

he spent several years in Texas, chiefly at Fort Worth, where he 

supplemented his early educational opportunities as a student in Fort 

Worth University.  While at Fort Worth he was a clerk in the offices 

of Swift & Company at North Fort Worth, and for several years was a 

salesman for the Remington Typewriter Company both in Fort Worth and 

on the road.



Mr. Bennett first located at Shreveport on May 10, 1910.  For two and 

a half years he was in the sales department of the M. L. Bath Company, 

dealers in office supplies.  His next position was with the Sherwin-

Williams Company, paint manufacturers, a firm that called him to St. 

Louis as the sales manager there.  On returning to Shreveport, December 

25, 1918, Mr. Bennett became associated with the Colossus Company, 

manufacturers of metallic piston rod packing.  This is the only 

concern of its kind south of the Mason and Dixon line, but its products 

have a national distribution, and it is one of the valued industries 

of Shreveport's industrial districts.  Mr. Bennett is vice president 

of the company and sales manager.



For several years he has taken a prominent part in the affairs of the 

Shreveport Rotary Club, and in April, 1924, was honored with election 

to the office of president.  He is also a member of the Chamber of 

Commerce.  Mr. Bennett married Miss Estelle Braunig, who was born and 

reared in Shreveport.  Their two children are Roy, Jr., and Shirley.



Mr. Bennett is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Noble 

of the Mystic Shrine.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 124, by Henry E. Chambers.  

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