1925 Biography - C. Percy Caldwell

D. Percy Caldwell is an ex-service man of the World war, and since coming out of the service, when about twenty-one years of age, has made rapid progress to a position of high responsibility in the business and also in the civic affairs of Shreveport.

Mr. Caldwell was born at Athens, in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, in 1898, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Caldwell. His education was one of liberal advantages in the high school at Marksville, Louisiana, and the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He left the university and went into the United States Army early in 1918. At first he was assigned duty in the Marine Hospital at Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, Louisiana, and in August, 1918, was transferred to the naval service at tie naval station at Baton Rouge, remaining there until his honorable discharge in December, 1918.

After leaving the army he was for a short time a member of the clerical force in the Continental National Bank at Shreveport, but in the early part of 1919 entered the service of the Southwestern Gas and Electric Company as billing clerk. His faithful service and efficiency have promoted him throng, various positions to that of assistant auditor of this large and important public service corporation, which owns and operates the electric light, electric power, natural and artificial gas franchises in Shreveport, Texarkana, Beaumont and at Gulfport, Mississippi. The president of the corporation is Henry M. Dawes, of Chicago, brother of Gen. Charles Dawes, vice president of the United States. The civic work in which Mr. Caldwell is particularly interested is done through the medium of the Shreveport Kiwanis Club, of which he is secretary and treasurer. This club has 110 members representing a cross section of the outstanding business and professional citizens of Shreveport, through its active service each week throughout the year has become one of the bulwarks behind the best Civic movement in Shreveport. One of the primary objects of its service is what it does for under-privileged children. Mr. Caldwell is also a Mason, and a member of both the Senior and Junior Chamber of Commerce, serving as first vice president of the Junior organization.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, pages 154-155.