Samuel Malcom Lee, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Samuel Malcom Lee, who has been identified with every phase of the 
lumber industry since boyhood, is general manager for the Industrial 
Lumber Company, with headquarters at Elizabeth, in Allen Parish, and 
has a number of other prominent business connections in Southwest 
Louisiana.

He was born near Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish, June 1, 1877, son 
of James Stephen and Rosa (Mazilly) Lee, his mother a native of 
Mississippi.  His father, now living retired at Beaumont Texas, was 
born in Louisiana in 1830, and during his active life was a timber 
contractor in Calcasieu Parish, and also in Newton County, Texas.

Samuel M. Lee attended public schools in Newton County, Texas, and 
at the age of fourteen went to work and since then his experience has 
given him a knowledge of everything connected with the manufacture 
of lumber, beginning in the woods and continuing through the mills and 
business offices.  His experience was in logging operations until March 
1914.  Since that date he has been in the service of the Industrial 
Lumber Company, one of the largest manufacturing Companies in the 
pine woods in the South.  At Oakdale he had charge of timber cutting, 
was then assistant woods superintendent, and then put in entire charge 
of logging operations.  In 1914 he was promoted to general 
superintendent, and since February, 1922, he has been general manager 
in charge of operations of the Industrial Lumber Company at Elizabeth.  
He is also vice president and a general manager of the Calcasieu 
Manufacturing Company, is a director of the Producers' Turpentine 
Company, and is president of the Elizabeth Ice Company.

Mr. Lee was appointed by Governor A. B. Hall as a member of the 
police jury from Ward 5 at the the Allen Parish was created in 1912.  
He was on the police jury when the first courthouse of the parish was 
erected.  He is a member of the Oakdale Rotary Club, the Elizabeth 
Golf Climb, and in Masonry is affiliated with the Royal Arch Chapter, 
Council and Knights Templar Commandery at Oakdale, Scottish Rite 
Consistory at New Orleans, and the El Karubah Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine at Shreveport.  Mr. Lee married at Call, in Newton County, 
Texas, Miss Hattie Pennington, a native of Warren, Arkansas.  Her 
father, the late Philip Pennington, was also born in Arkansas, and was a 
farmer in that state and in Texas.  Mr. and Mrs. Lee have two sons:  
Samuel Dwight, who as a graduate of electrical engineering from the 
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, and holds the rank of 
second lieutenant, Signal Corps, Officers' Reserve Corps.  The second 
son, Charles Pennington, is attending the Texas Agricultural and 
Mechanical College.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 282, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.