Raymond W. Day, Richland Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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 Raymond V Day.  The possession of exceptional personal talent, 
mastery of his business and forceful enterprises have put Raymond 
W. Day at the age of thirty in the ranks of Shreveport's most 
progressive and successful men.  Mr. Day is a furniture manufacturer 
and designer and furniture merchant, his retail place of business 
being known to all patrons of fine furniture in Northwest Louisiana.

Mr. Day was born at Rayville, Richland Parish, Louisiana, in 1894, 
and was reared and educated in that community.  Talents manifested 
when a boy caused him to go to Chicago when still a youth and he was 
four years in that city, pursuing manual training forces and gaining 
practical shop experience in furniture designing and manufacture.  With 
this experience and training, he returned to Louisiana and to Shreveport 
in 1914, and though only twenty years of age at the time, he was soon 
successfully engaged in the retail furniture business.  His fine retail 
store is located at 1146 Texas Avenue.

In the spring of 1924 Mr. Day, as president of the Louisiana Furniture 
Manufacturing Company, acquired a factory building at Agurs, a suburb of 
Shreveport, and arranged and equipped a modern plant for manufacturing 
purposes, the plant being equipped with modern machinery for furniture 
manufacture.  Mr. Day is ambitious to build up a distinctive and useful 
industry, expanding as rapidly as possible, creating a business that will 
not only be a credit to himself and a mark of his talent and enterprise, but 
a source of pride to the city itself, and a factor in the growing importance 
of Shreveport as a manufacturing center.  His ambition and enthusiasm, combined 
with a high character and business integrity, have given him the confidence of 
financial interests and practically assure a magnificent realization of his plans.  
The hardwoods used in the manufacture of his furniture come from sections of 
which Shreveport is the natural market center, and his factory is turning out a 
line of breakfast room suites, dining room suites and library tables, all the 
furniture being of his own special design.  He designed and patented a special 
gateleg breakfast room table.

Mr. Day married Valetta Reagan of Mer Rouge, Louisiana.  They have one son, L. B. Day.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p.301, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The 
American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.