W. W. Henderson; W. Feliciana, then Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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W. W. Henderson, a native of Louisiana, is a young business man,
best known as an expert in all the technical processes of the pulp and
paper manufacture.  He was attracted to Bastrop following the great
business boom consequent upon the development of the natural gas
resources and has been manager of the Bastrop Pulp & Paper
Company since 1922.

He was born in West Feliciana Parish in l892.  He attended the
common schools, had his first business experience as office boy in an
insurance office and for three years was at Baton Rouge as an
employe of the Doherty Hardware Company.  For five years he was
in the executive offices of the Baton Rouge headquarters of the
Standard Oil Company'

Following that Mr. Henderson entered the service of the Great
Southern Lumber Company at Bogalusa, where he became secretary
to W. H. Sullivan, founder and vice president of that great industry. 
In that position he began extending his experience to a knowledge of
the paper industry, becoming connected with one of the first pulp and
paper mills in Louisiana in Bogalusa, an industry promoted and
financed by Mr. Sullivan and managed by R. J. Cullen.

Mr. Henderson worked in every department of the paper
manufacturing industry at Bogalusa, and made him proficient in all
departments.  Back in 192O when the plant of the Bastrop Pulp &
Paper Company at Bastrop was begun, he was selected by the
interests promoting this industry to assist Mr. G. G. Cullen in the
construction of same.  Since the completion of the plant, which is
one of the finest paper mills in the country, Mr. Henderson has had
the executive responsibility of managing the industry.

Mr. Henderson is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and Elks. 
In 1915 just prior to leaving Baton Rouge for Bogalusa.  He married
Miss Etheline Duhon of Baton Rouge and has a family of five
children.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 214-215, by Henry E.
Chambers.  Published by The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, 1925.