Bio: John Franklin Hawthorne, Hempstead Co., AR., then Natchitoches Parish,
Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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John Franklin Hawthorne is a veteran in experience in the lumber industry,
having been identified with every phase from the mill itself to the business
office.  His home is at Montrose in Natchitoches Parish, where he is
superintendent of the local plant of the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company.  He has
been with that corporation continuously since 1905, a period of twenty years. 
He checked the lumber that went into the construction of the Frost-Johnson
Mills at Mansfield, and was located it that point until 1919.  For six years
from 1913 he was assistant superintendent of the Mansfield Mills and then came
to Montrose as superintendent.

Mr. Hawthorne was born January 18, 1876, on a farm five miles north of Hope,
in Hempstead County, Arkansas, son of A. J. and Lanie (Pruitt) Hawthorne.  His
father was a Confederate soldier, and participated in the battle of Mansfield,
where he was wounded.  Of the children only two sons survive, the oldest and
the youngest;  D. W., of Hope, Arkansas, and  John F.

John F. Hawthorne spent the first twenty years of his life on his father's
farm.  For a time he was engaged in the livery business at Hope, and his first
experience in the lumber industry was acquired at Spring Hill, Arkansas, where
he was employed as a laborer, hauling sawdust in the Buchanan Mills.  After
seven years he was given the responsibilities of shipping clerk for the firm,
and from Spring Hill entered the service of the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company. 
This is one of the largest firms producing lumber in western Louisiana and
eastern Texas.  It operates seven mills, four in Louisiana, at Montrose,
Campti, Bastrop and Mansfield, two in Texas, at Nacogdoches and Jasper, and
one in Arkansas, at Huttig.

Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne have three sons.  Francis Willard, born in 1900, was a
member of the Student's Army Training Corps in the Louisiana State University
during the World war, took his law degree at the university and is now
successfully practicing law at Bastrop.  The second son, Harry, born in 1908,
is a student in the Bolton High School at Alexandria, and the youngest is
Frank, Jr.  Mr. Hawthorne is a member of the Christian Church, is affiliated
with the Masonic Order, Woodmen of the World, Knights of Pythias, and belongs
to the Lumbermen's social fraternity known as the Hoo Hoos.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 21, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.