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BEN JOHNSON
Ben Johnson, chairman of the Board of Pickering Lumber Corporation, was born August 31, 1881, in Mansfield, Louisiana, the son of Walter and Sue (Roberts) Johnson. He graduated from Louisiana State Normal College, at Natchitoches, in 1899.
Mr. Johnson started his career in 1903 as a runner for the Bank of DeSoto, Mansfield, Louisiana, becoming a clerk in 1903, cashier in 1905, organizer in 1909, and was vice president from 1909 to 1910. From 1910 to 1932, he was president of the Bank of Commerce & Trust Company, Mansfield, Louisiana; also president of Commercial National Bank at Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1921 to 1932. From 1936 to 1938, he was vice president of the Commodity Credit Corporation at Washington, D.C., and trustee of Export-Import Bank, 1936 to 1938; special assistant to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1932 to 1938. He became president of Pickering Lumber Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, and Standard, California, in 1938 and has been chairman of the Board of the corporation since 1946.
Mr. Johnson was chairman of American Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives, De Soto Parish, Louisiana, during the World War. He is a Democrat; Episcopalian; Mason and Shriner.
On March 23, 1909, Mr. Johnson married Irma Nabors and they have three daughters: Eleanor, Irma and Kathryn (deceased). Their home is in Sonora, California.
Offices: Pickering Lumber Corporation, Standard, California.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 455, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Joyce Rugeroni.