Henderson, W. W.

Submitted by Mike Miller

W. W. Henderson, a native of Louisiana, is a young business man, best known as an expert in all the technical processes of the pulp and paper manufacture. He was attracted to Bastrop following the great business boom consequent upon the development of the natural gas resources and has been manager of the Bastrop Pulp & Paper Company since 1922.

He was born in West Feliciana Parish in l892. He attended the common schools, had his first business experience as office boy in an insurance office and for three years was at Baton Rouge as an employe of the Doherty Hardware Company. For five years he was in the executive offices of the Baton Rouge headquarters of the Standard Oil Company'

Following that Mr. Henderson entered the service of the Great Southern Lumber Company at Bogalusa, where he became secretary to W. H. Sullivan, founder and vice president of that great industry. In that position he began extending his experience to a knowledge of the paper industry, becoming connected with one of the first pulp and paper mills in Louisiana in Bogalusa, an industry promoted and financed by Mr. Sullivan and managed by R. J. Cullen.

Mr. Henderson worked in every department of the paper manufacturing industry at Bogalusa, and made him proficient in all departments. Back in 192O when the plant of the Bastrop Pulp & Paper Company at Bastrop was begun, he was selected by the interests promoting this industry to assist Mr. G. G. Cullen in the construction of same. Since the completion of the plant, which is one of the finest paper mills in the country, Mr. Henderson has had the executive responsibility of managing the industry.

Mr. Henderson is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and Elks. In 1915 just prior to leaving Baton Rouge for Bogalusa. He married Miss Etheline Duhon of Baton Rouge and has a family of five children.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 214-215, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.