1925 Biography - Fred F. Millsaps

Fred F. Millsaps. Fred F. Millsaps is cashier of the Ouachita National Bank at Monroe. He was born in that city and represents families that have been intimately identified with the financial, commercial and civic history of the locality. His father was the first cashier of the Ouachita National Bank, and his uncle is now its president.

Fred F. Millsaps was born in Monroe in 1888. son of T. F. and Alice (Flournoy) Millsaps. The Millsaps family came to Louisiana from Mississippi, where they have been an old and prominent family. Millsaps College in that state was named for one of the family. T. F. Millsaps, a native of Downsville, Union Parish, Louisiana, became one of the organizers in April, 1887, of the Ouachita National Bank, and accepted the post of cashier. Prior to that time, he had been a member of the private banking firm of Breard & Millsaps, which was merged with the Ouachita National Bank. T. F. Millsaps died in 1888, the same year that his son Fred F. was born.

Uriah Millsaps, a brother of T. F. and uncle of Fred F. Millsaps, was for many years an outstanding prominent Citizen of Monroe, a business man and banker of wealth, with large property interests. He lived a much longer life than his brother, T. F. He was president of the Ouachita National Bank from 1904 to January, 1907, when he was succeeded by T. E. Flournoy, now president. During the same period, Uriah Millsaps was also connected with another flourishing financial institution of Monroe, the Central Savings Bank & Trust Company, of which he was one of the organizers in 1905. He was its first president and held that position until his death ~n 1914.

Mrs. Alice (Flournoy) Millsaps, mother of Fred F. Millsaps, is a sister of T. E. Flournoy, president of the Ouachita National Bank, and one of the best known citizens in Northern Louisiana.

Fred F. Millsaps was educated in local schools and in 1908 graduated from Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia. His first regular business connection was in the offices of the Monroe Hardware Company, but in 1910 he entered the Ouachita National Bank as clerk and subsequently was promoted to the position he now holds, that of cashier. He married Miss Josephine Logan of Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was a native Virginian and a minister of the Episcopal Church. Their two children are Fred F., Jr., and Ellen Kent.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, pages 244-245.