George Richardson, Vernon Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: July 23, 2013
 
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Vernon-Caddo Parish Louisiana Archives Biographies
Name: George Richardson 
Date: April 1887

Source: A History of Louisiana, v.3, p. 13; 1925
Author: Henry E. Chambers

GEORGE N. RICHARDSON is one of the younger bank presidents of Louisiana, 
and is prominently connected with financial institutions at Leesville 
and Shreveport. He has won his way to distinction in his chosen vocation 
entirely through his own efforts and abilities. He began without special 
educational advantages or family influence and has worked his way 
steadily step by step.

He was born in Union County, Arkansas, in April. 1887, son of 
Robert D. and Fannie (Norman) Richardson, his father a native of 
Forsyth, Georgia, and his mother of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Robert D. 
Richardson moved to Arkansas in 1860 and located at Eldorado of that 
state, spending his active life as a farmer and livestock man. He was 
clerk of court at the time of his death in 1905. The widowed mother now 
lives at Hamburg, Arkansas. She is a Presbyterian, while he was a 
Methodist and was affiliated With the I. O. O. F. and was a democrat in 
politics.

Oldest of five children, four of whom are living, George N. 
Richardson spent most of his early life at Hamburg, Arkansas. He had the 
advantages of the public schools there, and the first opportunity that 
came to him in the business world was as clerk in a general store. He 
spent about eight years clerking in stores, and then accepted the 
opportunity to get into the bank at Forsyth, Arkansas, as bookkeeper. 
Subsequently he was promoted to assistant cashier, and from that rural 
community of Arkansas went to Colorado Springs and became cashier of the 
Colorado Savings Bank. In 1912 he came to Leesville, Louisiana, and was 
cashier of the First State Bank, was elected its vice-president in 1920 
and since 1922 has been president of this institution, with total 
resources of two million dollars. The bank has two branch banks, one at 
Fullerton and one at Slagle. He is also vice-president of the City 
Savings Bank & Trust Company of Shreveport, and divides his time almost 
equally between Leesville and Shreveport.

Mr. Richardson married Miss Sue Pugh, a native of Hamburg, 
Arkansas. She died in 1913 and is survived by one child, Norman 
Richardson, of Shreveport. In October, 1914, Mr. Richardson married 
Hettie Tucker, a native of Wilson, Louisiana, who died in October, 1918, 
the mother of two children, Fannie Belle and George. Subsequently Mr. 
Richardson married Effie Eisler, of Owensboro, Kentucky. She was a 
teacher for several years before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson 
have one son, Robert. She is active in the Methodist Church and he is a 
Mason and democrat.

Additional Comments:
George N. Richardson, born Union Co., AR

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