Millsap, Walter, 1886-1971

Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association.

Keikichi Akana Imamura was a salesman for Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries before World War II and an adjunct professor in Oriental languages at Yale University in the fall of 1945.

From the description of Walter Millsap / Keikichi Akana Imamura family papers, 1942-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702135775

Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony was established in the Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles, Calif., as a socialist colony in 1914. It was re-incorporated in Nevada as the Llano del Rio Company of Nevada in 1916. In 1917 approximately 150 colonists moved to Vernon Parish, La., to establish the colony of New Llano on the site of a played-out lumber mill town. It was liquidated in 1939, but lawsuits from the colonists continued into the 1970s.

Walter Millsap was an active member of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony from 1916 to 1919. He founded United Cooperative Industries in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1923. George T. Pickett was a socialist, a member, and later a leader of the Llano Colony.

From the description of Colony news, 1935 Nov. 17. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 319706964