1925 Biography - Carl H. McHenry

Carl H. McHenry. One of the men most prominent in bringing in and developing the great natural gas industry of the Monroe field is a Monroe attorney, Carl H. McHenry, whose abilities have been equally conspicuous in time field of the law and the field of industry.

Mr. McHenry was born in Union County, Arkansas, July 5, 1887, and in 1892 when five years of age his parents moved to Monroe. His first teacher in the public schools was Prof. Henry E. Chambers, author of the present history of Louisiana. Mr. McHenry had a thorough and liberal education in preparation for time various duties of life. He graduated with the Master of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1908. His law studies were pursued in Monroe, at the office of Judge Potts, and he was admitted to the bar in 1912.

Mr. McHenry was a member of time company that drilled and brought in the first gas well in the Monroe field in 1916. Since then most of his time has been given to the legal and executive duties of several of the important corporations in this territory. At the present time Monroe is the center of time greatest natural gas field in the world, in a district comprising about 400 square miles there are approximately 325 producing gas wells. His activities in this industry have brought Mr. McHenry important financial interests. He is secretary of the Natural Gas Company, Inc., which includes the Monroe Gas Company, extensive distributors of natural gas both for domestic and industrial purposes. He is attorney for the Southern Carbon Company, producers of natural gas and manufacturers of carbon black. He is also secretary of the F. Stovall Drilling Company, Inc., which is a contracting firm, engaged in drilling natural gas and oil wells in North Louisiana. Mr. McHenry is a director in, and attorney for, the Central Savings Bank and Trust Company, and his offices are in time Central Savings Bank Building at Monroe.

He married December 1, 1921, Miss Frances Major, of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and a daughter of Reese E. and Mary (Hunt) Major.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, page 230.