Bioraphy of Carl H. McHenry; Union County, AR., then Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 230, by Henry E. Chambers.
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 



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Carl H. McHenry.  One of the men most prominent in bringing in and
developing the great natural gas industry of the Monroe field is a
Monroe attorney, Carl H. McHenry, whose abilities have been equally
conspicuous in time field of the law and the field of industry.

Mr. McHenry was born in Union County, Arkansas, July 5, 1887, and
in 1892 when five years of age his parents moved to Monroe.  His first
teacher in the public schools was Prof. Henry E. Chambers, author of
the present history of Louisiana.  Mr. McHenry had a thorough and
liberal education in preparation for time various duties of life.
He graduated with the Master of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University
at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1908.  His law studies were pursued in Monroe,
at the office of Judge Potts, and he was admitted to the bar in 1912.

Mr. McHenry was a member of time company that drilled and brought in the
first gas well in the Monroe field in 1916.  Since then most of his time
has been given to the legal and executive duties of several of the important
corporations in this territory.  At the present time Monroe is the center
of time greatest natural gas field in the world, in a district comprising
about 400 square miles there are approximately 325 producing gas wells.
His activities in this industry have brought Mr. McHenry important financial
interests.  He is secretary of the Natural Gas Company, Inc., which includes
the Monroe Gas Company, extensive distributors of natural gas both for
domestic and industrial purposes.  He is attorney for the Southern Carbon
Company, producers of natural gas and manufacturers of carbon black.  He
is also secretary of the F. Stovall Drilling Company, Inc., which is a
contracting firm, engaged in drilling natural gas and oil wells in North
Louisiana.  Mr. McHenry is a director in, and attorney for, the Central
Savings Bank and Trust Company, and his offices are in time Central Savings
Bank Building at Monroe.

He married December 1, 1921, Miss Frances Major, of Arkadelphia, Arkansas,
and a daughter of Reese E. and Mary (Hunt) Major.

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