From 1932 to 1945, Higgins’ offices were located at 1755 St. Charles Ave., now the site of Houston’s Restaurant. Higgins, born in Nebraska in 1886, moved to New Orleans to manage a lumber company.

Andrew Jackson Higgins, an entrepreneur from Nebraska, founded Higgins Industries in New Orleans. Before the war, the company specialized in designing small shallow-draft boats for operating the ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins, an entrepreneur from Nebraska, founded Higgins Industries in New Orleans. They designed the boats that made the D-Day invasion in Normandy possible.

As late as 1935, the company’s total sales were only $87,000. But the next year the U.S. Engineers Corps gave him an order for two river steamer inspection boats.

A World War II Higgins boat salvaged from a California lake is unveiled at the Nebraska ... Military contracts allowed Higgins to grow his company from 75 employees in 1938 to as many as 30,000 ...

The Higgins boat, known as an LCVP, took US and allied troops ashore across Europe and the Pacific. ... Higgins remained at the helm of his company until he had a stroke and died in 1952.

Higgins died in August 1952 at age 65 as his company navigated peacetime labor issues and multiple manufacturing endeavors, including shipbuilding. Higgins Marine Sales operated at the City Park ...

Andrew Higgins while celebrating his company's production of its 10,000th boat in July 1944. His company produced the famous amphibious landing craft, dubbed Higgins Boats, that allowed Allied ...