Bio: Walter S. Trichel, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Walter S. Trichel, a civil engineer by training and profession, has for the
last decade been a resident of Shreveport and is chief of the land and leasing
department of the Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana.

Mr. Trichel was born at Natchitoches, Louisiana, in 1876, and is a member of
an old historic family of that parish.  His grandfather, Leonard Trichel, was
born in France and was a pioneer settler in Natchitoches Parish.  His father,
G. L. Trichel, a native of the same parish, lived there through a long and
honorable career, serving twenty years as sheriff of the parish, and two terms
as state senator, representing the district comprising Natchitoches, DeSoto
and Red River Parishes.

Walter S. Trichel secured all the advantages of a liberal education, attending
the Louisiana State Normal School at Natchitoches and the Louisiana State
University at Baton Rouge, where he graduated in 1894. having specialized in
engineering.  For a number of years he had a varied program of work as a civil
engineer, including surveying operation throughout Northern Louisiana.  Mr.
Trichel in located at Shreveport, and has since been identified with the
executive headquarters of the Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana in that city.
He some very heavy responsibilities as head of the land and leasing
department, since the corporation has extensive land interests for oil
producing purposes throughout North Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas.  The
company is a subsidiary of the Gulf. Oil Corporation of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, one of the largest corporations in the petroleum industry.

Mr. Trichel married Miss Edna Allison, of South Louisiana.  Through her mother
she is a descendant of the famous La Fitte family of Louisiana.  The three
children of Mr. and Mrs. Trichel are:  Miss Gervais Trichel, who graduated
with the Bachelor of Arts degree from the State Normal School at Natchitoches
in 1924;  Mrs. Hazel Dowdell; and  Miss Edna Emma.  Mr. Trichel is a member of
the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 136-137, by Henry E. Chambers. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York,
1925.