William Henry Managan; Covington, PA., then Calcasieu Parish, 
Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller


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William Henry Managan for thirty-five years has been a well known 
figure in the lumber industry of Southwest Louisiana.  He is one of the 
executive officials of the Krause & Managan Lumber Company, and is 
interested in a number of other corporations well known in the timber 
industry of the Southwest.  His home is at West Lake, and he also has 
active affiliations with interests at Lake Charles and other points in 
Southwest Louisiana.

He was born at Covington, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1864, son of 
Thomas Jefferson and Harriett (Bixby) Managan, his father a native of 
New York and his mother of Sylvania, Pennsylvania.  His father died 
when forty-two and his mother at seventy-two.  His father was a farmer 
at Covington, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Baptist Church.

William Henry Managan attended country schools in his native locality 
of Pennsylvania, finished his education in the Pennsylvania State 
Normal School and for four years engaged in teaching.  Then following 
a course in the business college at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, he came 
to the Southwest in 1889, spending a brief time as stenographer in the 
lumber office of the Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company at Orange, 
Texas.  During the same year he came to West Lake, Louisiana, and 
began what has been practically a continuous service with the Perkins 
& Miller Lumber Company.  He entered that firm as stenographer, but 
acquired increasing responsibilities and finally he and R. Krause 
became stockholders and, in time, the principal owners of the business 
and in 1906 changed its name to the Krause & Managan Lumber 
Company, Ltd.  This firm was one of the largest individual operators in 
the manufacture of pine lumber in Southwest Louisiana until 1921, 
since which year they have operated retail lumber yards at De Quincy, 
Vinton, Jennings and Westlake, and also have a large commissary store 
at Westlake.  At Lake Charles the firm operates a heading mill.  Mr. 
Managan is vice-president of the Krause & Managan Sulphur Lumber 
Company, Ltd., is vice president of the Houston Canal Company, 
operating the canals and rice farms in the Sulphur Mine Marsh.  He is a 
stockholder and director in Peavey-Moore Lumber Company, the 
Peavey-Wilson Lumber Company and the Peavey-Byrnes Lumber 
Company, all of them well known names in the lumber business.

Mr. Managan for a number of years has been one of the best known 
Baptist laymen in Louisiana.  He was reared in the faith of that church, 
and has given generously of his time and means to its cause.  He was 
largely responsible for the beautiful Baptist Church at West Lake, of 
which he is a deacon and a leader in the Bible class of the Sunday 
school.  He is president of the Executive Board of the Louisiana Baptist 
Convention.  He has done much for the Boy Scout movement, and is a 
member of the Court of Honor.  He is a member of the Lake Charles 
Country. Club and enters heartily into every movement to secure better 
citizenship and more efficient management of public affairs.  He is past 
president of the Lake Charles Rotary Club.

Mr. Managan married at Lake Charles on October 2, 1889, Miss 
Matilda East of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, daughter of John C. and 
Lucy Anderson) East of Williamsport.  Her father was a native of 
Virginia and served with a Virginia regiment in the Confederate army 
during the Civil Way following which he engaged in the lumber 
business in Pennsylvania.  Mr. and Mrs. Managan have five children:  
William Henry, Jr., now in the lumber business with the Krause & 
Managan Lumber Company, Ltd., was in the Engineer's Corps with the 
United States Forces in France during the World war, is married and 
has one son, William W., and one daughter,  Emma Jean.  Clarence M. 
Managan, the second son, also in the lumber business and a director of 
the Lake Charles Trust & Savings Bank has been prominent in Baptist 
Church work and since 1917 has served as president of the Louisiana 
Baptist Encampment; he is married and has two children, Patrick Henry 
and Erin Kathleen.  The three younger children are:  Ralph E., married, 
and with the Peninsula Lumber Company at Portland, Oregon;  Luther 
C., with the Krause & Managan Lumber Company; and Lucille, wife of 
J. T. McCollum, Jr.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 270, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.