1925 Biography - S. J. Bowman Whited

S. J. Bowman Whited is numbered conspicuously among the industrial leaders of the City of Shreveport, where he is president o the Shreveport Blow Pipe & Sheet Iron Works. He is also known for his long continued and deep interest in boy welfare work, manifested especially through the Boy Scout Movement.

Mr. Whited is a native of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, son of F. T. and Katie (Bowman) Whited. When he was a small boy the family moved to Shreveport, where he acquired some of his education, and later they removed to Alden Bridge, Bossier Parish, where his father was in the lumber mill business.

Mr. Whited has been a resident of Shreveport since 1904. In 1912 he became associated with the Shreveport Blow Pipe & Sheet Iron Works, and in different capacities has assisted in the development of this as one of the important industries of the city and one that has added greatly to the city prestige as a manufacturing center.

He has the honor of being president of Norwela Council, Boy Scouts of America, and this council embraced a district of Northwest Louisiana, containing the Parishes of Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, DeSoto, Sabine, Natchitoches, Bienville and Red River.

Mr. Whited married Miss Dimple Dugey, who was born at Palestine, Texas, in Anderson County. They have two sons: Jack and Bowman. Her mother, Mattie Belle (Greene) Dugey, is a descendent of the Robert E. Lee family of Virginia. Her lather was Oscar Dugey, born on a sugar plantation owned by his mother and grandfather near Patterson, Louisiana, in the Teche Country.

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Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, page 115.

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