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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

JOHN HENRY KRUGER.
    John Henry Kruger, whose training, experience and business activity have
been such as to make him fit and ready to take a large place and play a large
part in the world of men, is now the state sales manager for the Magnolia
Petroleum Company. Important and responsible as is this position it has been
attained solely through individual merit and ability. He started out in the
business world in the humble position of messenger boy with the Waters-Pierce
Company of Galveston, Texas. Since that time he has made steady progress in
connection with the oil industry and today his name is widely known in business
circles not only in Arkansas but throughout the southwest. He was born in
Peoria, Illinois, November 10, 1871, his parents being Edward Henry and Dora
(Johnson) Kruger. The father was a musician, devoting his life to the art and
his last days were spent in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a soldier of the Civil war,
serving with the rank of corporal in the Union army and was with General Sherman
on the celebrated, march from Atlanta to the sea. Because of wounds which he
received during a charge on Rome, Georgia, he was not returned to active
service. Both he and his wife have departed this life. Their family numbered
three sons, one of whom died in infancy.

    The youngest of the family, John Henry Kruger, was a young lad when his
parents removed from Illinois to Atlanta, Georgia, where he pursued a public
school education. He was a youth of eighteen years when he first became
identified with the oil business in Galveston, Texas, as a representative of the
Waters-Pierce Company in 1889, accepting the minor position of office boy. He
was industrious and energetic and steadily won promotion, becoming bookkeeper
and eventually an agent for the company at Galveston, in 1908. He continued to
serve in that connection for three years, or until 1911, when he accepted the
position of sales agent with the Magnolia Petroleum Company at Galveston, his
territory covering four counties. In that position he remained until 1913, when
he was transferred to Fort Worth, Texas, as assistant manager of the
northwestern division. In 1916 he was transferred to Little Rock as state
manager of the Arkansas division of the Magnolia Petroleum Company and has since
acted in that capacity, covering a period of five years. The Magnolia Petroleum
Company was organized in 1911 and now has a capital stock of one hundred and
twenty million dollars and also has nearly six hundred distributing stations in
the southwest. The corporation not only owns valuable oil land that is doing
splendid production work, but places upon the market many of its manufactured
products, including engine oil, machine oil, cup grease, cylinder oil, tractor
oil, auto oil, gasoline, gas engine oil, fibre grease and many other of its
by-products. As manager of the Arkansas division Mr. Kruger has greatly
developed the business of the company in this state.

    On the 22d of June, 1896, Mr. Kruger was married to Miss Mary Lallier
Davison, who was born in Texas, in July, 1872. Their children are: Florence
Dorothy, born in 1900 and now a graduate of the Little Rock high school, while
for two years she has been a student in the University of Arkansas; and Edward
Davison, who was born in 1901 and is a graduate of the Little Rock high school
with the class of 1920.

    The religious faith of the family is indicated by their membership in the
Second Baptist church, in which Mr. Kruger is serving as a deacon. His political
endorsement is given to the republican party and 'he keeps well informed on the
vital questions and issues of the day. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, is
a Scottish Rite Mason and is a member of the Spring Lake Club. His record is
commendable and should serve as a source of encouragement and inspiration to
others. His steady rise with the company in spite of early educational
disadvantages is certainly worthy of admiration. His leisure time in his youth
and early manhood were given to study with the realization of the value of
education as a factor in success in life. He is yet a comparatively young man
and what he has already accomplished indicates that his future career will be
well worth watching.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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