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Albert A. Thoman, postmaster of Monroe, has had many years of active connection
with and experience in the lumber industry of the South, at first in Mississippi
and later in Louisiana. He has been one of the popular and energetic citizens of
Monroe for fifteen years.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was reared
and educated in that city. Leaving there in 1902, he came South and had varying
interests in the lumber industry in the manufacturing side in the timber
district of Mississippi and later in Louisiana.
Becoming a resident of
Monroe in 1909, he transferred his business interests to Northern Louisiana and
gave his time to the lumber business until 1922. In that year he was appointed
by the Federal Government to a position in the Internal Revenue Department as
collector of internal revenue at Monroe. He was in the Federal service until the
summer of 1924, when President Coolidge appointed him postmaster. He took charge
of that office August 9, 1024. As he had made a splendid reputation in the city
for his upright character and thorough business qualifications, his appointment
was a popular one with the citizens. Mr. Thoman is a member of the Masonic
fraternity. In 1911 he married Miss Betty B. Buckley, daughter of W. F. Buckley,
of an old and prominent Mississippi family.
Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, page 247.
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