Rudolph Krause; Schlawe, Prussia, then Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Rudolph Krause for a long time has been one of the conspicuous 
factors in the lumber industry of Louisiana, his name and enterprise 
being particularly associated with the business life of the City of Lake 
Charles and vicinity.

Rudolph August William Henry Krause was born in Schlawe, Prussia, 
June 26, 1863, son of Rudolph and Augusta (Kuhn) Krause.  His father 
was a contractor.  The son was educated in public schools in his native 
town and at Coeslin, Prussia, and was eighteen years of age when he 
came to America in 1881.  His first location was at Jersey City, and 
subsequently he came South and in 1890 went to work as bookkeeper 
and assistant treasurer for the Perkins & Miller Lumber Company at 
Westlake, Louisiana.  Since then in a period of a third of a century he 
has made himself a power in the lumber and business affairs of the 
state.  He and William H. Managan gradually acquired the stock of the 
Perkins & Miller Company and in 1906 changed the name to the 
Krause & Managan Lumber Company, Ltd, of which Mr. Krause is 
president.

He is also a director and vice president of the First National Bank of 
Lake Charles; is president of the Lake Charles Trust & Savings Bank, 
president of the Calcasieu Building & Loan Association, is a director 
and vice president in the Murray Brooks Hardware Company, director 
in the Peavy-Byrnes Lumber Company of Shreveport, director of the 
Kinder & Northwestern Railway Company, director of the Peavey-
Wilson Lumber Company, director and secretary-treasurer of the 
Christie & Eastern Railway Company, also a director of the Peavy-
Moore Lumber Company and officer and director of several other 
industrial concerns.

Mr. Krause was honored with election as president for 1924 of the Lake 
Charles Association of Commerce.  His chief diversions from a 
strenuous business career are golf, bridge and fraternities.  He is one of 
the very prominent Masons of Louisiana, being past grand master of 
the Louisiana Grand Lodge of Masons, and has also held the post of 
master of his local lodge, and is past grand commander of the Louisiana 
Grand Commandery Knights Templar.  He belongs to the Scottish Rite 
and the Mystic Shrine.  He is also past grand master of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows and belongs to the Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World.

Mr. Krause married at Westlake, Louisiana, October 8, 1895, Miss 
Della Alma Sherard, daughter of James Sherard, a planter near Homer, 
Louisiana.  They have four children:  Elizabeth A., married August 1, 
1918, to Joseph A. Partridge;  Rudolph E., married on April 15, 1925, 
to Della Bel;  Alma married on August 1, 1923, to Hubert E. Foster, 
and  Karl James, a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 276, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.