Samuel Malcom Lee, Allen Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by Mike Miller  


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Samuel Malcom Lee, who has been identified with every phase of the lumber 
industry since boyhood, is general manager for the Industrial Lumber Company, 
with headquarters at Elizabeth, in Allen Parish, and has a number of other 
prominent business connections in Southwest Louisiana. He was born near 
Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish, June 1, 1877, son of James Stephen and 
Rosa (Mazilly) Lee, his mother a native of Mississippi.  His father, now 
living retired at Beaumont Texas, was born in Louisiana in 1830, and during 
his active life was a timber contractor in Calcasieu Parish, and also in 
Newton County, Texas. Samuel M. Lee attended public schools in Newton 
County, Texas, and at the age of fourteen went to work and since then his 
experience has given him a knowledge of everything connected with the 
manufacture of lumber, beginning in the woods and continuing through the 
mills and business offices.  His experience was in logging operations until 
March 1914. Since that date he has been in the service of the Industrial 
Lumber Company, one of the largest manufacturing Companies in the pine woods 
in the South. At Oakdale he had charge of timber cutting, was then assistant 
woods superintendent, and then put in entire charge of logging operations.  
In 1914 he was promoted to general superintendent, and since February, 1922, 
he has been general manager in charge of operations of the Industrial Lumber 
Company at Elizabeth. He is also vice president and a general manager of the 
Calcasieu Manufacturing Company, is a director of the Producers' Turpentine 
Company, and is president of the Elizabeth Ice Company. Mr. Lee was appointed 
by Governor A. B. Hall as a member of the police jury from Ward 5 at the the 
Allen Parish was created in 1912. He was on the police jury when the first 
courthouse of the parish was erected. He is a member of the Oakdale Rotary 
Club, the Elizabeth Golf Climb, and in Masonry is affiliated with the Royal 
Arch Chapter, Council and Knights Templar Commandery at Oakdale, Scottish Rite 
Consistory at New Orleans, and the El Karubah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at 
Shreveport. Mr. Lee married at Call, in Newton County, Texas, Miss Hattie 
Pennington, a native of Warren, Arkansas.  Her father, the late Philip 
Pennington, was also born in Arkansas, and was a farmer in that state and 
in Texas. Mr. a nd Mrs. Lee have two sons:  Samuel Dwight, who as a graduate 
of electrical engineering from the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
and holds the rank of second lieutenant, Signal Corps, Officers' Reserve Corps.  
The second son, Charles Pennington, is attending the Texas Agricultural and 
Mechanical College.  

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 282, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.