PEAVY, Anderson Jasper,Butler County, AL., then DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged
in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 348-349.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914,
by Century Historical Association.

Peavy, Anderson Jasper, president of the Peavy-Byrnes Lumber Co., of Mansfield, La., was born
in Butler county, Ala., Aug. 8, 1866, a son of William Arrington and Lexy Jane (Deal) Peavy,
both natives of Alabama.  The family moved to Angelina county, Texas when the subject of this
review was only 11 years of age, where the father engaged in farming.  At the outbreak of the
great war between the states he enlisted in the cause of the Confederacy, and fought valiantly
through the war.  A. J. Peavy received his education in the county schools, after which he taught
for four years.  He then became a clerk in a mercantile business at Lufkin, Tex., and after  4 years
in this capacity, went into the logging business in Angelina county, following this for 8 years.  He
later became associated with the Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co., during which time he organized
the Henderson Land & Lumber Co.  In 1905 he came to Mansfield and accepted a position with
the De Soto Lumber Co., where he remained for 3 years, until this company was taken over by
the Frost-Johnson Lumber Co., with which he remained 1 year.  In 1909 he organized the
Peavy-Byrnes Lumber Co., which was incorporated Nov. 20, 1909, and began operating in July,
1910, at Kinder, La.  The plant consists of a double band mill, with a capacity of 100,000 feet per
day.  The mill was destroyed by fire June 13, 1911, but was immediately rebuilt, and again began
operating in September of that year.  The firm wholesales its output, having offices at Shreveport. 
Under the skillful management of Mr. Peavy, the mill has prospered and is regarded as one of the
most modern and up to date plants of its kind in that section.  Mr. Peavy is also a director of the
Bank of Commerce, at Mansfield, is interested in the Pawnee Land Co., at Pawnee, La., Buckley
Lumber Co. at Yelgar, La., Boyington Lumber concern in Monterey, Tex., National Bank of
Commerce, Houston, Tex., Youree Hotel Co., Shreveport, La., and Peavy Bros. Mercantile Co.,
Lufkin, Tex. Mr. Peavy resides in Shreveport with his family.  Nov. 7, 1894, he led to the alter
Miss Emma Handley, of Lufkin, Tex.  Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, being a
Knight Templar and 32d degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine, and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  In religious faith Mr. Peavy is a Baptist.