Biography of William Edward Hixon; Richland Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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 William Edward Hixon, president of the Mangham State Bank, is one of the 
youngest bank executives in the northeastern part of Louisiana.  He was 
only twenty-eight years of age when he succeeded his father as president 
of this institution.  His father was identified with the bank from the 
time of its organization in 1905.

William E. Hixon was born on a plantation near Mangham January 17, 1890, 
son of Samuel M. and Emma J. (Boughton) Hixon.  His father, a native of 
Alabama, was brought to Louisiana at the age of fourteen by his mother.  
He had a hard struggle during his early years, working for fifty cents a 
day and made a crop on the shares and eventually purchased a small farm, 
his industry and good management enabling him to extend his acreage from 
time to time until he was one of the leading planters of Richland Parish.  
He was associated with his brother, B. N. Hixon, in the mercantile business 
under the firm name of Hixon Brothers.  He was also active in politics, but 
never accepted any office except as a member of the town council.  He was a 
Baptist.  Samuel M. Hixon died in 1918 at the age of fifty-five years. His 
widow still resides at Mangham.  There were five children:  William E.;  
Mrs. J. C. Cochran of Del Rio, Texas;  Mrs. W. R. Graves of Mangham;  
Samuel M., Jr. and  Bennie N., both of whom are associated with the management 
of the Service Oil Company, which is owned by William E. Hixon.

William E. Hixon acquired his early education in the local schools, spent 
three years in Jefferson College and also took work in commercial law and 
business at Baylor University at Waco, Texas, and the Bowling Green Business 
College at Bowling Green, Kentucky.  As a youth he spent two years with his 
uncle, J. F. Boughton, in the mercantile firm of Boughton & Hixon.  He then 
entered the Mangham State Bank as bookkeeper, became assistant cashier and 
upon the death of his father in 1918 became president.

Mr. Hixon married Miss Nellie Golden, who was reared and educated at Baton Rouge, 
completing her education in the Woman's College at Columbia, Mississippi.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Hixon have one daughter, Jeannette.  Mrs. Hixon is a Presbyterian while 
he is a Baptist.  Fraternally he is affiliated with the lodge and Royal Arch 
Chapter of Masons at Mangham, the Scottish Rite Consistory and El Karubab Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine at Shreveport.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 240, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by 
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.