Simeon Oscela Shattuck; Miami Co., OH., then Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ** ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Simeon Oscela Shattuck has the distinction of having been elected for more terms as representative of Calcasieu Parish in the State Legislature than any other man who has ever lived in the parish. He has by election served five terms, his first term being forty years ago. He now represents the parish in the Legislature and has been well known for other public services. He was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1850, son of Benjamin F. and Eleanor (Manson) Shattuck. His father subsequently removed to Louisiana and engaged in sugar planting and was one of the prominent early lumbermen in the Lake Charles district. His home was in Lake Charles when he died in 1884. S. 0. Shattuck spent his boyhood years in New Orleans, where he attended school and as a young man was associated with his father in the timber business for a time. For several years he also taught school in Calcasieu Parish. In 1884 he was elected for his first term in the State Legislature, and was again elected in 1888, 1908, 1920 and 1924. His dominant interest in legislative work has been measured with the social welfare work. The first measure in the Louisiana Legislature on woman's rights and all humanitarian measures for women and children, including maternity laws, child labor laws, have received his close attention and study, and usually his support. For four years he was a member of the parish school board, has been on the city council, for twelve years was city clerk of Lake Charles, and since 1908 has been deputy tax assessor of Calcasieu Parish, with exception of three years. He took an active part in the various phases of war work during the World war period. Mr. Shattuck in May, 1898, helped organize Company K of the First Louisiana Volunteer Infantry and became first lieutenant of the company, when it was called to duty during the Spanish-American War. At Covington he was discharged on account of physical disability. He is an active member of the Baptist Church, and four different times has been elected master of Lake Charles Lodge, No. 165, Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Council and Knight Templar Commandery. It was Representative Shattuck who in the 1924 session of the Legislature introduced the bill creating the Lake Charles Waterway Harbor, wharves, docks and otherwise opening the way for modern port facilities for this Southwest Louisiana city. In 1872 Mr. Shattuck married Miss Huldah Ryan. There are five children: Winifred Eleanor, wife of E. Ott, of Vernon Parish; Zenobia, Mrs. H. J. Denney of Lake Charles; J. Frank Shattuck of Lake Charles; Charles W. of Lake Charles; and Katherine Alfreda, wife of M. A. Cole of Wichita Falls, Texas. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 270-271, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.