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East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Wieck, Charles August 9, 1866 -
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Charles O. Wieck is one of the leading representatives of real estate
enterprise in his native city of Baton Rouge, and in his various operations has
done and is doing much to advance the civic and material progress of the
capital city and of East Baton Rouge Parish. He is president of the Wieck
Realty Company, which owns the Wieck Building, at the corner of Third and
Laurel streets, this being one of the leading commercial and office buildings
of Baton Rouge. Mr. Wieck is the owner of valuable real estate aside from his
interest in this building, and prominent among his local holdings is his fine
home place, at the corner of St. Philip and America streets. He is distinctly
to be designated as one of the most liberal and progressive citizens of Baton
Rouge.
Mr. Wieck was born in Baton Rouge, on the 9th of August, 1866, and is a son of
the late Charles F. W. Wieck, who was born in Germany, in 1831, and whose death
occurred at his home in Baton Rouge on the 25th of January, 1889.
Charles F. W. Wieck was reared and educated in his native land and there
learned the carpenter's trade. In 1858, when twenty-seven years of age, he
came to America and engaged in the work of his trade in the City of Quebec,
Canada, where he remained two years. He then, in 1860, established his
residence in Baton Rouge, where he continued for three years his operations as
a carpenter and builder. He then engaged in the general merchandise business,
and he was for many years one of the leading merchants of the Louisiana capital
city, and he became the owner also of a large amount of valuable real estate in
Baton Rouge, as well as an extensive plantation estate in East Baton Rouge
Parish. By his ability and well ordered activities he achieved substantial
success, and his sterling character and gracious personality won to him
inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. He was a staunch supporter
of the cause of the democratic party, and his civic loyalty was shown in a
service of several years as a member of the City Council. He and his wife were
zealous members of the First Presbyterian Church, and he was prominently
identified with the Masonic fraternity, in which his affiliations were with St.
James Lodge No. 47, A. F. and A. M., and Washington Chapter No. 57, R. A. M.,
in his home city, and with DeMolay Commandery of Knights Templar in the City of
New Orleans. His wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Wagenblast, was born in
Germany, in 1834, and was nearly eighty years of age at the time of her death,
December 29, 1913. She was a daughter of Conrad Wagenblast, who was born in
the year 1802, and who lived retired in the City of Baton Rouge for a number of
years prior to his death, which here occurred in 1876. Upon coming with his
family to America, Mr. Wagenblast engaged in farm enterprise in the State of
New York, near Buffalo, and there he remained until his removal to Louisiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Wieck are survived by five children: Sophia is the wife of Edward
Wax, and they maintain their home in Baton Rouge, Mr. Wax being a large
property owner and still actively identified with farm industry, and being. in
1924, a member of the police jury of East Baton Rouge Parish; Charles O., of
this sketch, was the next in order of birth; John A. is au accountant by
vocation and resides at Baton Rouge; Miss Annie D. still maintains her home in
her native city, as does also Edward F., who is the youngest of the children
and who here holds the position of master of transportation for the Standard
Oil Company of Louisiana.
Charles O. Wieck attended both private schools and the public schools in Baton
Rouge, and thereafter was for three years a student in the Louisiana State
University. Upon leaving the university, in 1882. he took a position in the
contracting department of the Yazoo & .Mississippi Valley Railroad, and after
five years of service in this connection he was for two years in the employ of
the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company. He then became associated with his
father in the mercantile business, and this alliance continued until the death
of his honored father in 1889, when he assumed control of the large and old
established business, which he successfully continued until 1919, when he made
a profitable disposal of the same. In the meanwhile he had become proprietor
of the well-known hotel designated as the Sumter House, and this likewise he
conducted until 1919. He also identified himself actively with plantation
industry in East Baton Rouge Parish, and after the lapse of almost fifteen
years he sold his fine plantation property in 1915. Since 1919 Mr. Wieck has
been one of the leading exponents of the real estate business at Baton Rouge,
and his operations have been of broad scope and importance, his offices being
maintained in the Wieck Building, of which mention is made in the opening
paragraph of this review. He has been for a bug period of years a member or
the democratic executive committee of the City of Baton Rouge, and has given
yeoman service in advancing the party cause. He is one of the active members
and staunch supporters of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Wieck is affiliated with the following named Masonic bodies: St. James
Lodge No. 47. A. F. and A. M., of which he is a past master ; Washington
Chapter No. 57, R. A. M.; Plains Commandery No. 11, Knights Templar and, in the
City of New Orleans, Jerusalem Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
He is a member also of Capital Lodge No. 29, Knights of Pythias, and he and his
wife are active members of the First Presbyterian Church.
September 11, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Wieck and Miss Laura Randolph,
daughter of the late Dr. Peter Randolph and Josephine (Courtney) Randolph, both
of whom died in New Orleans, Doctor Randolph having been a prominent physician
and surgeon and having had valuable plantation interests. Mr. and Mrs. Wieck
have no children.
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A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 392-393, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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East Feliciana-East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Benjamin March 20, 1885 -
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Benjamin Brown Taylor. An active member of the Baton Rouge bar for eighteen
years, Benjamin Brown Taylor has busied himself with many important
responsibilities both in his profession and the field of business. He was a
volunteer for World war service.
He was born in East Feliciana Parish, near Jackson, March 20, 1885. This
branch of the Taylor family came from England to Virginia in Colonial times.
His grandfather, J. Warren Taylor, born in Virginia in 1816, as a young man
settled in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, where he married and for many
years conducted an extensive business as a planter. He died there in 1903. His
wife was Mary Pipes, a native of Feliciana Parish, who was born in 1828 and
died in 1901. Their son, David H. Taylor, Sr. was born in East Feliciana
Parish in 1856, was reared and married there, obtained his education in
Centenary College at Jackson, and made his home in and around Jackson until
1910. As a merchant he was for many years a member of the firm of W. R.
McKowen & Company. Since 1910 his home has been at Hammond, Louisiana, and he
retired from merchandising there in 1922. He is a democrat and for a number of
years was president of the police jury of East Feliciana Parish. He is a
deacon in the Presbyterian Church. His wife, Callie Brown, was born in East
Feliciana Parish in 1860. They had a family of six children: Miss Mary Hill,
a teacher in the Hammond public schools; Benjamin Brown Taylor and David H.
Taylor, Jr., both of Baton Rouge; Lulie, wife of Henry McKowen, a dentist and
anesthetist at Baton Rouge; Camille, the youngest child, wife of J. Blackman
Nabors, a business man of Mansfield, Louisiana; Lewis Norman Taylor, fifth in
the family of children, now city salesman for the Louis Levy Grocery Company at
Baton Rouge, is a veteran of the World war, having attended the First Officers'
Training School at Fort Roots, Arkansas, was commissioned a second lieutenant
in the field artillery and later promoted to first lieutenant and served in
various camps of the United States until the close of the war.
Benjamin Brown Taylor acquired his early education in private schools at
Jackson, and graduated from Centenary College with the class of 1904, taking
the degree Bachelor of Science. He is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
After leaving college he was connected with the Whiteman-Decker Lumber Company
at Caro, Texas, for a year. He then entered the law department of Tulane
University at New Orleans, graduating with the degree LL. B. in 1906, and spent
another year and a half in the law school of the University of Michigan. which
gave him a similar degree in 1907. Admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1906, on
September 18, 1907, he engaged in private practice at Baton Rouge. As an
attorney he has devoted himself to a general civil law practice. He is a
member of the firm of Taylor & Porter, which firm has offices in the Louisiana
National Bank Building. Mr. Porter, his partner, is represented elsewhere in
this publication. From 1908 to 1918. Mr. Taylor served as United States
referee in bankruptcy.
He is vice president of the Louisiana National Bank and the Louisiana Trust and
Savings Bank, both of Baton Rouge, and is vice president of the Capitol
Building and Loan Association. He is secretary and treasurer of the Mayola
Realty Company, Inc., at Baton Rouge. Mr. Taylor is a democrat in Politics, is
chairman of the Board of Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church, is a member
of St. James Lodge No. 47, F. and A. M., and Capitol Lodge, Knights of
Pythias. He belongs to the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, the Baton Rouge
Golf and Country Club, the Baton Rouge Parish Bar Association, the Louisiana
State and the American Bar Association. He is president of the Baton Rouge Y.
M. C. A.
August, 1918, he volunteered for the service in World war, entering the Field
Artillery Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, where he
was in training as a field artillery officer until after the armistice was
signed.
Mr. Taylor, at Jackson Louisiana, June 10, 1910 married Miss May McKowen,
daughter of William R. and Sallie (Pipes) McKowen, the latter now a resident of
Baton Rouge. Her father died at Jackson in 1911, having spent his career as a
merchant and planter. Mrs. Taylor is a graduate of the Agnes Scott College of
Decatur, Georgia, taking the degrees Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. Mr.
and Mrs. Taylor have four children: Benjamin Brown Jr., May McKowen, Jane
Shannon and John McKowen. B. B., Taylor, Jr., is a student in the Junior High
School of Baton Rouge, and May is in the grammar school.
David Humphrey Taylor, Jr., younger brother of Benjamin Taylor, was born at
Jackson, Louisiana, June 13, 1888, was educated in private schools, completed
his junior year in Centenary College, and since leaving college in 1904 has had
a progressive business career. For some years he was with the W. R. McKowen &
Company at Jackson, and in 1908 removed to Baton Rouge, and for nine years was
on the road as a traveling salesman for Holmes & Barnes, Ltd., wholesale
grocers. In 1917 he took a similar position with the Cohn Flour & Feed Company
of Baton Rouge, at the same time acquiring financial interests and becoming
vice president of the company. Since January, 1923, he has been secretary and
treasurer and assistant manager of this wholesale grocery house. David H.
Taylor, Jr., married Miss Ellen Connell, June 13, 1907. She is a daughter of
Robert S. and Mary (Cage) Connell, her father a planter in West Feliciana
Parish. The three children born to their marriage are: Robert Connell,
Shirley Stewart and J. Warren.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 252-253, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....St. Amant, Alfred November 3, 1882 -
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Alfred D. St. Amant, student, scholar, business man, is the managing owner of
one of the leading general insurance firms of Baton Rouge. As an insurance man
his success has been phenomenal, for within five years of its beginning his
office has secured its full share of the insurance on Private property of the
city and virtually all of the desirable publicly owned property including the
entire Louisiana State University, Southern University, State School for the
Deaf, and State School for the Blind, besides other minor institutions.
Such success as is above recorded is not surprising when one knows the stock
from which the subject of this sketch sprung. On his mother's side he is a
direct descendant of pioneer stock of Virginia and Alabama, his great-
grandfather, Col. Isaac Parker, having been one of the founders of the Republic
of Texas and one of the makers of its constitution. His mother, who was Lucy
Halle, of Texas, not only bears all the marks of refinement to which a long
line of cultured ancestry entitle her, but is a writer of verse of more than
ordinary poetic quality.
On his father's side there is not so much of the poet or statesman as of the
trail maker and warrior. One of the earliest records in the old St. Louis
Cathedral in New Orleans is that of the marriage on April 13, l722, of Jean
Francois Daspit de Saint Amant and Marie Françoise Du Buisson, Jean Francois
having left France after informing his parents, Jean Daspit (de Saint Amant)
and Dominique Daspit, nee Bougilliere, that he refused to follow the time
honored custom of the oldest son of each branch of that family becoming a
priest. From this early identification with the history of Louisiana in its
very early Colonial days the family has occupied, through one branch or
another, a leading place in private enterprise and public service, all the
while characterizing itself with a quiet, modest attitude of practically never
seeking public office or favor, though always standing ready to serve.
This attitude is exemplified by Pierre Daspit de St. Amant (born 1723), son of
the above referred to couple, whose services and distinction are a matter of
record and of his son, Major Alexis Alexandre St. Amant (born 1761), who with
others of Colonial military experience organized and trained the young state
militia, and as major brought his troops through the battle of New Orleans
after they had been mustered into the United States Army for that purpose,
retiring to private life on March 9, 1815, after that service was completed.
It is interesting to note that Major Alexandré St. Amant's son, Venance, the
grandfather of Alfred D. St. Amant, was one of the pioneer physicians of
Ascension Parish and that Alfred D. St. Amant's father, Francois Alfred St.
Amant, was one of the pioneer Mississippi River pilots and captains, his later
years being spent in charge of the ferry boats operating at Baton Rouge.
Alfred D. St. Amant was born November 3, 1882, in Lovelady, Texas, though he
was reared and educated in Baton Rouge, his parents having moved to Louisiana
in 1884. Besides a public school education he holds the degree of Bachelor of
Science as well as Master of Arts from the Louisiana State University.
His early work was the result of the desire to serve, so characteristic of his
ancestors, i.e., school teaching. As a public school teacher he was principal
of several leading high schools of the state, though in his early career he was
called to the State Normal School, where for six years he was in charge of the
social science department. The last position he occupied was that of professor
of history and economics in the University of Florida at Gainesville.
It was in his early days as an educator, while teaching at the North Carolina
Agricultural and Mechanical College in Raleigh, that he married Miss Lucy
Clifton Andrews, direct descendent of Sir John and Sir Richard Hawkins (see
Ency. Brit.), and of Gov. William Hawkins (N. C., 1811-1814) and Gov. Daniel F.
Fowle (N. C., 1889-91), her grandfather. Besides these she numbers among her
close cousins such figures as Gov. Robert B. Glenn (N. C., 1905-09) and John
Sharpe Williams.
To this union there were six children born, namely: Augusta Ford, Alfred D.,
Jr., Margaret Lucy, Thomas Harris, Philemon Andrews and Francis Chester.
In fact the opportunity for better providing for and training these future
citizens proved the deciding factor in causing the subject of this sketch to
enter commercial fields.
During the great war Mr. St. Amant, not perfectly qualified in age and physique
for military service, was selected by the United States War Department as
director of war aims courses and assigned to the University of Florida to
instruct the soldiers in training there. It was at the signing of the
armistice in 1918 that he was engaged as professor of history and economics by
that institution.
While to a stranger Alfred D. St. Amant may seem an unusually quiet and
unobtrusive person, those who know him best say that he possesses a fund of
knowledge equaled by few with whom he comes in contact, an ability at
conversation which immediately gives him the floor when he cares to speak, a
style of writing which is unusually easy to read, and fighting qualities which
would cause an opponent to consider long before forcing an issue.
Besides several bulletins and pamphlets on various public questions
(see "Popular Control," 1914) Mr. St. Amant has written a number of poems,
though the latter were never offered to the public except in a few cases and
then not signed by the author.
In addition to two brothers, Chester Phillips St. Amant, of Baton Rouge, and
Samuel Edgar St. Amant, of New York, and one sister, Mrs. G. Thomas McQuillen,
of Long Beach, California, Mr. St. Amant has many relatives in Louisiana,
particularly in Ascension Parish at Gonzales, St. Amant and Donaldsonville.
All of these are noted for their leadership in public service, though in only
One case has any of them sought public office. Suffice it to say that in this
case, that of Albert Sidney St. Amant, assessor of Ascension, he has not only
been repeatedly successful but usually is unopposed for the office.
Mr. St. Amant is a member of De Soto Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
St. James Lodge No. 47, Free and Accepted Masons, and Washington Chapter No.
57, Royal Arch Masons, while he and Mrs. St. Amant are members of Naomi Chapter
No. 38, Order Eastern Star. At the time of the writing of this sketch their
eldest daughter, Auguste Ford St. Amant, occupies the office of worthy advisor
in Assembly No. 3, Order of the Rainbow.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 241-242, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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East Feliciana-East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Pipes, William March 16, 1878 -
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William Henry Pipes, M. D,, who is established in the successful practice of
his profession in the City of Baton Rouge, with office at 47 Reymond Building,
has given special attention to the study, diagnosis and treatment of tropical
diseases as found during ten years' practice in the swamps and subtropical
sections of Louisiana and occasional vim to Central America. He finds this
information of especial value in his work as a general practitioner. The
Doctor is a native son of Louisiana and a scion of a family whose name has long
been associated with the annals of the fair old Southland. His paternal
grandfather, David Pipes, was born near Natchez, Mississippi, and passed the
closing years of his life on his fine homestead plantation, "Beech Grove," near
Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in which section of the state he
passed the major part of his life, he having been an extensive planter and
having also conducted a general merchandise business. David Pipes married Mrs.
Amanda Montgomery Collins (nee Dunn) who was born in Darling County, South
Carolina, and who died on the home plantation mentioned above. John McKowen,
maternal grandfather, was a licensed merchant at Castle Dawson, Ireland, and
came to New Orleans early the nineteenth century and established a g mercantile
and trading business at Jackson, Louisiana.
Dr. William Henry Pipes was born on the home plantation, Belleview, near
Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, March 16, 1878, and is a son of
William H. and Sarah Elizabeth (McKowen) Pipes, the former of whom was born
on "Beech Grove" Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, in the year 1840, and the
Jackson, Louisiana. she having been somewhat more than seventy years of age at
the time of her death, in 1909, at Nashville, Tennessee, and her husband having
died July 2, 1892, on his home plantation, Belleview, near Clinton. William H.
Pipes inherited a portion of the extensive landed estate of his parents, added
to the area of his holdings and became the owner of a large and valuable
plantation property near Clinton. He was a student in the University of
Virginia at the inception of the Civil war, and his youthful loyalty to the
Confederate cause was shown by his prompt enlistment for service in the
Southern Army. He became a member 0f a Louisiana regiment, and later was
transferred to a Tennessee regiment. He continued in active service until he
was captured, and he was thereafter held as a prisoner on Johnson's Island-
until the dose of the war, when he received his parole. He became one of the
influential citizens of his native parish, his plantation estate including
lands also in East Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee Parishes, and he served as a
member of the Louisiana Legislature. He had much of leadership in political
affairs, was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and
his inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem was indicated by his
election to the office of state treasurer, in which he served from 1888 to
1892, and gave a careful and effective administration of the fiscal affairs of
Louisiana. He and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
Of the children the eldest is David M., who is a merchant and planter residing
at Jackson, East Feliciana Parish. He has served as a member of both Houses of
the State Legislature, was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of
1918, and has served as a member of the police jury of his home parish. Amanda
M. is the wife of William W. Clendenin, formerly state geologist of Louisiana,
now connected with the public school system of New York City, with residence at
Mount Vernon, New York; Elizabeth Scott is the wife of Arthur George Elliott,
vice president of the Corsicana National Bank, Corsicana, Texas; Dr. William
H., of this review was the next in order of birth; John McKowen died at the age
of eight years; Ruth Langford is the wife of J. P. Keller, M. D., of Nashville,
Tennessee; and two children died in infancy.
As a boy and youth Doctor Pipes attended a private school at the home of Mrs.
E. H. Fay a pioneer educator of Louisiana, who had served as state
superintendent of education and principal of various colleges and had then
retired to plantation life. In 1895 he was graduated from Chamberlain Hunt
Academy, Port Gibson, Mississippi, and 'thereafter he was for one year a
student in the literary or academic department of Tulane University, New
Orleans, and for a similar period attended Centenary College at Jackson, this
state. He next passed eighteen months as a student in the Southwestern
Presbyterian University Clarksville, Tennessee, impaired health compelling his
withdrawal from this institution, In 1899 he was graduated from Centenary
College with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and thereafter he was for one
year instructor in Blees Military Academy, Macon, Missouri, and for two years
an instructor in Chamberlain Hunt Academy, in which he had previously become a
student. In 1906 he was graduated in the Medical department of Tulane
University, and spent three years in general practice at Torras, Pointe Coupee
Parish; three years at Pointe a La Hache; next at Myrtle Grove, where he
remained until 1917. He then subordinated all personal interests to the call
of patriotism, when the nation became involved in the World war. At New
Orleans he qualified for service in the Medical Corps of the United States
Army, but he was never called into active service. He was engaged in practice
a short time at Jackson, and then, in June, 1918, removed to Baton Rouge, where
he has since been engaged in active general practice and where he has a
representative clientage.
Doctor Pipes is loyally arrayed in the ranks of the democratic party, and is an
elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge. He is affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity and the Kappa Alpha college fraternity, and has
membership in the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce and the Baton Rouge Golf and
Country Club. He is an active member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Medical
Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society, and the American Medical
Association. In addition to his attractive home place in Roseland Terrace in
the capital city, Doctor Pipes still owns his portion of his father's
plantations.
September 22. 1916, recorded the marriage of Doctor Pipes and Mrs. Mary Kate
Anderson (nee Butler), of Port Gibson, Mississippi, she being a daughter of the
late Lord J. and Kate Coburn (Humphreys) Butler, both of whom died in
Mississippi, the father having been a civil engineer by profession, beginning
his career on the fortifications at Port Hudson. Mrs. Pipes completed her
higher education by attending a private academy in the City of Memphis,
Tennessee. Doctor and Mrs. Pipes have a winsome daughter, Sarah Humphreys.
Additional Comments:
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by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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William Asbury Peters is one of the vital, popular and successful workers in
connection with the public schools of the capital city parish of East Baton
Rouge, and is giving most effective and constructive service as principal of
the high school in the Village of Zachary.
Mr. Peters was born at Burrville, Tennessee, October 3, 1882, and is a scion of
the fourth generation of the Peters family in the United States. His paternal
grandfather, James Peters, was born in Germany, in 1798, and was a mere boy at
the time of the family immigration to the United States, the home being
established in Anderson County, Tennessee, where he was reared to manhood. In
1825 he established his home at Burrville, and in that locality he became an
extensive and successful exponent of agricultural and live stock industry, his
death having there occurred in 1874. His wife, whose maiden name was Rachel
McCart and who long survived him, was born in Anderson County, Tennessee, in
1806, and at Burrville, that state, her death occurred April 8, 1890.
On the maternal side William A. Peters is a direct descendant of John Howland,
one of the Pilgrim Fathers who came from England on the historic
ship "Mayflower." On the maternal side Mr. Peters can claim as a kinsman Hon.
Luke E. Wright, who served as secretary of war in the cabinet of President
Roosevelt.
Tobias Peters, father of him whose name initiates this review, was born in
Morgan County, Tennessee, May 27, 1835, and died at Burrville, that state,
September 27, 1901, his entire life having been passed in his native county.
Prior to the Civil war he had there been a successful school teacher, and after
the war he there continued a representative exponent of farm industry during
the remainder of his active career. He was a republican in politics, and he
and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs.
Peters, whose maiden name was Mary Jane Wright, was born at Chanute, Tennessee,
September 13, 1850, and at Burrville, that state, her death occurred August 13,
1917. Worcester, eldest of the children, is now (1924) principal of the junior
high school at Deerlodge, Tennessee; Barton, who was born in the year 1871 and
whose death occurred July 15, 1923, maintained his home at Burrville,
Tennessee, and was county superintendent of education in his native county at
the time of his death; Annis, who became the wife of John C. McGuffey, died at
Burrville, Tennessee, October 26, 1905, and her husband now resides at
Wartburg, that state; James 0., who was born March 16, 1875, died at Burrville
October 30, 1896, he having been a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; Robert K., a traveling salesman, resides at Tyler Texas; Carrie died
in infancy; Rula is the wife of Dillard G. Gunter, a farmer near Burrville,
Tennnessee; William A., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth;
Timothy V., a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, resides in the old
home town of Burrville; Edmond is teacher of English in a missionary school at
Shanghai, China; and Deborah May is the wife of Stephen Trascher, a locomotive
engineer, their home being at Columbia Mississippi. It will be noted that the
children of this large and interesting family have stood exponent of culture
and high ideals and have signally honored the family name in lives of
usefulness and honor.
The public schools of his native place afforded William A. Peters his early
education, and he had the further advantages implied in his having been reared
in a home of culture and refinement. After his graduation from the Burrville
High School in 1900 he was for four years a successful teacher in the schools
of his native state. In 1903 he became principal of the graded school at Sunny
Hill, Louisiana, where he remained two years. During the ensuing two years he
was principal of the school at Spring Creek, and he then assumed the position
of principal of the Agricultural High School at Chesbrough, Tangipahoa Parish,
where he continued his effective services six years. He then, in 1915, became
principal of the Junior High School at Natalbany, that parish, where he
remained three years, the following year having found him in service as
principal of the Junior High School at Roseland. He then entered the Teachers'
College of the Louisiana State University, where he completed a general course
and also specialized in history and mathematics, and where he was graduated as
a member of the class of 1921 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At the
university he was a member of the Glee Club and the Square and Compass Club.
>From 1921 to 1923 Mr. Peters was principal of the high school at Denham
Springs, this state, and he has since continued his admirable service as
principal of the high school at Zachary, where he has supervision of the work
of seven teachers, the enrollment of pupils showing a total of 165.
The principles of the democratic party well represent the political views of
Mr. Peters. He is affiliated with Spring Creek Lodge No. 184, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. He is a member of the executive committee of the
Parish Rally Association of East Baton Rouge Parish.
August 30, 1911, recorded the marriage of Mr. Peters and Miss Winnie McDaniel,
a daughter of Elias and Mary (Sylvest) McDaniel, of Kentwood, Louisiana, where
the father died June 22, 1924. The early educational advantages of Mrs. Peters
included those of McComb Female College at McComb, Mississippi. Mr. and Mrs.
Peters have no children.
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A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 118, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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Ray Deveil Magruder. An old and honorable name in American history is that of
Magruder. Originally Covenanters from Scotland, the Magruders brought with
them the sturdy qualities which have made the Scotch a great people. They
established themselves in colonial Virginia and assisted in the founding of
Georgetown, District of Columbia. As years passed they increased in numbers
and in fortune, and with their spirit of thrift and enterprise, began to look
westward for further expansion. In 1835 John Magruder, the great-grandfather
of Ray Deveil Magruder, a leading citizen and prominent member of the bar at
Amite, Louisiana, moved to Coshocton County, Ohio, became a farmer and tanner,
and spent the rest of his life there, leaving descendants who, in peace and
war, proved worthy of the honorable name he had left them.
Ray Deveil Magruder was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, November 6, 1888, the
on1y child of Lawrence L. and Elizabeth (Hankins) Magruder, both born in
Coshocton County, the father, July 28, l865, the mother, July 28, 1866. She
died at Zanesville, Ohio, July 29, 1912, the father surviving until September,
1915. His parents were John Wesley and Mary Jane (Jenkins) Magruder, the
former a native of Virginia and the latter of Ohio. John Wesley Magruder was a
successful farmer and a man of sterling character. He served as a soldier in
the Union army all through the Civil war until seriously injured at the battle
of the Wilderness. Lawrence L. Magruder was reared on his father's farm, but
following his marriage moved to Zanesville, where he owned and operated a
pottery during his years of business activity, in political sentiment he was a
republican but no seeker for public office. With his family he belonged to the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many years he was an active member of the
order of Knights of Pythias.
Ray D. Magruder was graduated from the Zanesville High School in the class of
1906, then spent a year and a half its Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware,
Ohio, following which came a commercial course in the Meredith Business College
at Zanesville, which he completed in 1908 and in the same year conic to Amite,
where he was court reporter for a year. He then entered upon the study of law
in the office of B. B. Purser, whose law partner he became upon his admission
to the bar, December 2, 1912. The law firm of Purser & Magruder is a leading
one in this section and has its offices on Mulberry Street, just opposite the
courthouse. Not only in his profession but also in political life and business
affairs has Mr. Magruder become an important factor since coming to Amite.
Among the substantial enterprises with which he is officially connected and of
which the firm is general counsel may be mentioned the Security Bank of Amite,
the Standard Machine Company of Baton Rouge, the Istrouma Foundry Company of
Baton Rouge, the Holloway Gravel Company of Amite, the Fleming Lumber Company
of Frost, Louisiana, and the Central Light & Power Company of Amite. Since
1916 he has been chairman of the democratic committee of the Twenty-fifths
Judicial District, and since 1920 has been chairman of the Tangipahoa Parish
Democratic Committee.
Mr. Magruder also has maintained his family's prestige as to loyal citizenship,
in August, 1917, he volunteered for service in the World war, wherever he could
be the most useful, He was sent to the Second Officers' Training Camp, Camp
Stanley, Leon Springs, Texas, and was commissioned a second lieutenant of
infantry. On December 27, 1917, he was transferred to the One Hundred Twenty-
third Air Squadron, Kelley Field, San Antonio, Texas; December 29th was
transferred to Camp Upton, New York; January 14, 1918, was made adjutant of the
Second Battalion, One Hundred Fifty-second Depot Brigade, then adjutant of the
camp provost guard at Camp Upton; one June 1, 1918, was made assistant camp
adjutant, and on that date was commissioned first lieutenant of infantry;
September 1, 1918, was appointed assistant camp personnel adjutant, on August
24. 1918, having been appointed captain of infantry. In addition to the many
duties incident to his well earned promotions on October 23, 1918, he was
appointed assistant camp judge advocate, and so continued until he was
honorably discharged on December 21, 1918.
Captain Magruder married, January 3, 1914, at Amite, Miss Mary Gladys Fulton
Denson, who died at Amite July 29, 1919, survived by one son, Ray Deveil, who
was born February 206, 1915. Mrs. Magruder was a daughter of Edward T. and
Mary (Quinn) Denson, retired residents of McComb, Mississippi. Mr. Magruder's
second marriage took place at Amite April 20, 1922, to Miss Lyda Newton, who is
a daughter of James H. and Eliza Agnes (Rouse) Newton, of Amite, where Mr.
Newton is a general contractor. Mr. and Mrs. Magruder have two children, James
Newton, who was born July ii, 1923, and Elizabeth, born September 7, 1924. The
family home is an attractive, comfortable residence on Hickory Street, and Mr.
Magruder has other valuable real estate in Tangipahoa Parish. He is a member
and a past master of Amite City Lodge No. 175, A. F. and A. M., and with his
family belongs to the Presbyterian Church at Amite and is superintendent of the
Sunday school.
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East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....McGehee, John November 14, 1875 -
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John Webb McGehee, M. D., is a physician and surgeon whose professional skill
and personal popularity have been the potent forces in his upbuilding of a
substantial and representative practice in the Capital City of Baton Rouge,
where he maintains his offices at 509-510 Roumain Building.
Dr. J. Webb McGehee was born at Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama, November 14,
1875, and is a son of the late Edward L. McGehee, M. D., a representative of
one of the old and influential families of the State of Mississippi, his birth
having occurred~ at Woodville, that state, in 1851, and his father, Charles
Goodrich McGehee, having there passed his entire life, his birth having there
occurred in 1810 and his death in 1901. Charles G. McGehee loot continued as
one of the extensive planters and representative citizens of his native county,
and in Mississippi, likewise his wife, whose maiden name was Stella McNair,
passed her entire life. He was * son of Judge Edward McGehee, who was a yeoman
when he came from Arkansas and established his residence at Woodville,
Mississippi, where became the owner of a large landed estate and ~ long an
extensive planter. In making the over journey from Arkansas he and his young
wife on horseback, and his slaves were transported by boat. He served as judge
of early courts in Woodville district of Mississippi, and had the distinction
of constructing the second railroad to be built in the entire United States,
this pioneer rail road having been built as a medium for the transportation of
his Cotton from Woodville, Mississippi, to Bayou Sara, Louisiana. the nearest
available market shipping point. He erected the Edward McGehee College for
Girls at Woodville, Mississippi. The Agricultural School of Woodville is
located on the grounds formerly occupied by the old buildings (the old school
house). Judge McGehee also donated most of the money which went in to the
building of the Carondelet Methodist Episcopal Church, South, now occupied by
the Scottish Rite Masons. Judge McGehee once remarked to a friend: "I give my
money away by the shovel full and the Lord gives it back by the barrel." He
was one of the venerable citizens of Woodville at the time of his death.
Dr. Edward L. McGehee gained his preliminary education at Woodville, and later
was graduated from the old Southern University at Greensboro, Alabama. In 1874
he was graduated from the medical department of Tulane University at New
Orleans. and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for
thirty years engaged in the successful practice of his profession in New
Orleans. Upon retiring from general practice he established a tuberculosis
hospital at Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, and this he conducted during the last
few years of his life, his death having there occurred in 1919. The Doctor was
a thoroughgoing advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and in the
line of his profession he attained much of prominence and distinction, as is
indicated by the fact that he served as president of the Mississippi State
Medical Society and also of the Louisiana State Medical Society. He was a
Knight Templar Mason, and he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. South. In the World war period Doctor McGehee served as a
member of the district exemption board for Louisiana, with headquarters in the
City of Baton Rouge. His wife, whose maiden name was Anna Overton Webb, was
born at Greensboro, Alabama, in 1846, and her death occurred in 1913, at
Hammond, Louisiana.
In a private school at Woodville. Mississippi, Dr. J. Webb McGehee received his
earlier education, and thereafter he was for four years a student in the
Southern Methodist University at Greensboro, Alabama, in the preparatory and
academic departments. From this institution he received a special diploma in
languages. In preparation for the profession dignified by the character and
services of his honored father he entered the medical department of Tulane
University, where he completed the Prescribed curriculum and was graduated in
1900, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was the founder, and a charter
member of the Sigma Alpha epsilon fraternity at Tulane University, and among
his associates in establishing this chapter were J. D. Lily and John D. W.
Dix. He was a member of the ~la-Iota Chapter before attending Tulane. After
his graduation he fortified himself by the clinical experience he gained in one
year of service as an interne in the Shreveport Hospital, and by a service of
one year, previous to his work at Shreveport. As an externe in the New Orleans
Charity Hospital, under distinguished Doctor Schumpert. Thereafter was for two
years established in general practice Greensboro, Alabama, and he then removed
to St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, where, for sixteen years he was
chief surgeon for the On Cypress Company. His contract with this company and
the incidental importance of its operations caring upon national industrialism
in the World Period, prevented his service in the Medical Corps of the United
States Army in that period, though he volunteered jot such service. Since 1920
Doctor McGehee has been established in general practice in the City of Baton
Rouge. He is an active member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Medical Society,
the Louisiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and
his pronounced civic loyalty and progressiveness find expression through his
membership in the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce. He is a democrat, and he
and his wife are zealous members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, in their home city, he being a member of the Board of Stewards of this
church. The basic Masonic affiliation of Doctor McGehee is with Capital Lodge
No. 399. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is worshipful master at
the time of this writing, in 1924, and in the Scottish Rite Consistory at New
Orleans he has received the thirty-second degree, besides being there a knight
commander of the Court of Honor and a Noble of Jerusalem Temple of the Mystic
Shrine. He owns and occupies one of the many attractive homes of the capital
city, the same being situated at the corner of Wistaria Street and Roseland
Terrace.
October 9, 1907, recorded the marriage of Doctor McGehee and Miss Elizabeth
Tillery, daughter of the late William Tillery, who was a representative
merchant and planter and whose death occurred at Greensburg, Louisiana. where
his widow, Mrs. Sallie (Davis) Tillery. still maintains her home. Mrs. McGehee
is a graduate of the Louisiana State Normal College at Natchitoches. Doctor and
Mrs. McGehee have three children, whose names and respective years of birth are
here recorded John Webb, Jr., 1909; Elizabeth, 1911 and Laura, 1916.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 100-101, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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East Feliciana-East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....McKowen, John February 13, 1889 -
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John McKowen, M. D.. is successfully engaged in the practice of his profession
in the City of Baton Rouge, with offices in the New Reymond Building, and as a
specialist in the surgical branch of his profession he has gained precedence
and high reputation. He is an active member of the East Baton Rouge Parish
Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Southern Medical
Society, the American Medical Association, besides being affiliated with the
medical college fraternity known as the Nu Sigma Nu.
Doctor McKowen was born at Lindsay, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, February
13, 1889. His grand father, John McKowen, was born and reared in Ireland and
was a young man when he came to the United States and established his residence
in East Feliciana Parish. There he became a successful merchant at Jackson,
and he also owned and operated a large plantation, the remainder of his life
having been passed in that parish. Thomas C. McKowen and his wife, parents of
Dr. McKowen, still reside at Lindsay. The father was born at Jackson, East
Feliciana Parish, in the year 1850, and the education which he received in the
local schools was advanced by his attending a college in Ireland. He is one of
the representative citizens of his native parish, where he owns and operates a
valuable plantation of 6,000 acres, besides conducting the only mercantile
establishment at Lindsay. He and his wife are zealous members of the
Presbyterian Church, and he is a stalwart supporter of the principles and
policies for which the democratic party stands sponsor. His wife, whose maiden
name was Maggie Germany, was born at Bayou Poydras, Pointe Coupee County, this
state, in 1854, and their children are nine in number: Arabelle is the wife of
Judge George Woodside, who is presiding on the bench of the District Court of
East and West Feliciana parishes; Mamie is the wife of Thomas L. Mills, M. D.,
who is engaged in the practice of his profession at Plains, West Baton Rouge
Parish; Thomas Shannon is a progressive representative of agricultural
industry in his native parish, as is also William S., the next younger of the
children; Henry G. is a dentist by profession and is engaged in practice at
Baton Rouge; Mabel remains at the parental home; Doctor John. of this review,
was the next in order of birth; Margaret is the wife of Albert Mills, a
prosperous farmer near Plains, East Baton Rouge Parish; and Alexander C.
continues to be actively identified with agricultural enterprise in the old
home parish.
In private schools at Jackson Dr. John McKowen continued his studies until he
had completed a high school course, and thereafter he was for three years a
student in the University of Louisiana. He then entered the medical department
of Tulane University, and in this excellent school he was graduated as a member
of the class of 1912. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he
gained valuable clinical experience by two years of service as an interne in
the New Orleans Charity Hospital. Since 1914 he has been engaged in practice
in Baton Rouge, save for the period of his service in the World war, and his
professional ability and personal popularity have combined to gain to him a
substantial and representative practice.
When the nation became involved in the World war Doctor McKowen promptly
tendered his services as a member of the Medical Corps of the United States
Army. In this corps he received commission as first lieutenant, and in May,
1917, he was assigned to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he remained one year.
He was then placed in charge of Base Hospital No. 76, at Oglethorpe, and
proceeded to Camp Devons, Massachusetts, and with this unit, three months
later, the rest of the officers were assigned to the hospital and the unit
departed for active overseas service. He remained in France eight months,
during which he was stationed at Vichy, and in the meanwhile, in May, 1918, he
received commission as captain in the Medical Corps. Upon his return to his
native land the Doctor received his honorable discharge May 2, 1919, at Camp
Dix, New Jersey.
Doctor McKowen is loyally aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, is a
member of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce and the Baton Rouge Golf and
Country Club, and is affiliated with the Kappa Sigma college fraternity. He is
a stockholder in the Capital Building and Loan Association, the Commercial
Securities Corporation, and the Bank of Baton Rouge. In the capital city he
owns and occupies a fine modern residence at 402 Oleander Street, and he is the
owner also of a well improved residence property at 140 East Boulevard.
On the 29th of March, 1920, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor McKowen and
Miss Olga C. Engebretsen, who was born at Wellesley, Massachusetts, and who is
a graduate nurse. Doctor and Mrs. McKowen have a fine little son, John, Jr.,
who was born on the 23d of December, 1921.
Additional Comments:
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St Helena-East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....McGrath, John May 25, 1835 -
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John McGrath, who died in his ninetieth year, lived retired at Baton Rouge, and
had a career of singular experience and service, both as a military man and a
public official.
He was born at Bangor, Maine, May 25, 1835, but for the greater part of his
life was a resident of Louisiana. His father, Martin McGrath, was killed in
the Seminole Indian war of 1837-38. His mother, Catherine Rouark, died of
yellow fever in September, 1853. John McGrath lived as a boy at Baton Rouge,
and his education was chiefly derived from work in the printing office of the
Baton Rouge Gazette and a brief attendance at public schools.
When a youth of twenty years he joined William Walker's expedition to
Nicaragua, and was gone about two years, being twice wounded while in the
service. Returning to Louisiana, he resumed his work as a printer, and when
the war broke out between the states he at once enlisted in the Confederate
army and became captain of Company G of the Thirteenth Louisiana infantry, he
participated in all the battles fought by the army of Tennessee, being under
the command of Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph Johnston, Braxton Bragg and
Hood. He was twice wounded during the war.
In the printing business General McGrath is remembered for his long service as
an editor and publisher for twenty-six years of the Daily Truth. From 1866
until 1877 he served as recorder of deeds and mortgages at Baton Rouge, was
deputy collector of internal revenue for four years during the first term of
President Cleveland, and served as commissary general of Louisiana during the
Spanish-American war. He was for four years state printer during the term of
Governor Foster, and was for twenty years a member of the State Board of
Pensions, serving as president of the board for eight years.
Mr. McGrath was a democrat, was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, was a Catholic and a member of the Confederate
Veterans and the Veteran Firemen. He married at Baton Rouge, in 1858, Lavinia
Ann Smith, daughter of Jacob Smith, and a descendant of Nicholas Smith, who
served under Washington during the Revolutionary war, being a member of a
Pennsylvania regiment. Mr. McGrath had two daughters, Mattie B. and Julia J.
The following tribute to General McGrath was given in a local publication:
A governor of a great state, a governor-elect, and hundreds of Louisiana's
citizens of high and lesser rank met at the bier of Gen. John McGrath a weeks
ago and paid silent tribute to that venerable man who as a hero of two wars,
editor, publicist and philanthropist, endeared himself to the entire southland.
Baton Rouge, especially, owed a debt of gratitude to General McGrath, for it
was here that he came as a boy of ten, and it was here that he labored for many
years, absenting himself from it only when adventure called him to the tropics
and when for four long years he bore arms and fought for what he deemed the
right. As an editor General McGrath wielded his pen for every cause that he
thought just: he helped rebuild the Village of Baton Rouge during the trying
days of the reconstruction; he saw the village grow into a town, and before he
passed away he saw Baton Rouge take her rightful place as one of the principal
cities of the South.
General McGrath has answered the last roll call on this earth, and he has
joined his comrades of other days, but to his sorrowing relative we would say:
"Weep not for him, who has lived such a complete and useful life, for the name
of McGrath shall live as long as the pages of history shall endure."
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St Helena-East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Odom, Fred June 18, 1882 -
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John Fred Odom has gained excellent standing as one of the able and resourceful
members of the bar of his native state, and, with residence in the City of
Baton Rouge, he is serving (1925) his third term as district attorney of the
Nineteenth (formerly twenty-second) Judicial District of Louisiana.
Mr. Odom was born at Grangeville, St. Helena parish, Louisiana, on the 18th of
June, 1882, and is a son of the late James M. Odom, who was born in that parish
in the year 1849, and whose death occurred in the capital city of Baton Rouge
on the 18th of January, 1922. James M. Odom was a son of Isaac Odom, who was
born in Darlington District, South Carolina, December 24, 1824, and who came to
Louisiana and established himself as a P liter in St. Helena Parish, where he
took up his residence in the year 1848 and where he continued his activities
until 1912, when he retired and returned to Baton Rouge, his death having here
occurred in the spring of 1916. Isaac Odom represented Louisiana as a loyal
soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, and the same fine loyalty
characterized his civic stewardship. His wife, whose maiden name was Zylphia
Stanley, was born in Alabama, and her death occurred at the home in St. Helena
Parish in 1891. Isaac Odom was a son of Thomas Odom, who was born in North
Carolina, where the family was founded in the Colonial era, but who passed
virtually his entire life in Darlington District, South Carolina, where he was
a successful exponent of agricultural industry. His father, Jacob Odom,
likewise was a native of North Carolina, and shortly after completing his
service as a patriotic soldier in the War of the Revolution removed with his
family to Darlington District, South Carolina, from Robinson County, North
Carolina. He was numbered among the substantial planters in Darlington
District, and there remained until the close of his life. The original American
representatives of the Odom family came from England.
James M. Odom received in his youth excellent educational advantages, including
those of Mississippi College, at Clinton, Mississippi. He gained place as one
of the leading merchants in St. Helena Parish, where he continued his residence
until 1901, when he established himself in the same line of enterprise in Baton
Rouge, where his death occurred in 1922, as previously noted in this context.
He was influential in the councils of the democratic, party in St. Helena
Parish, and represented that parish as a member of the State Legislature from
1896 to 184O. During the administration of Governor Hall he served as
president of the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana State Institute for the
Blind, 1912-l3. He was a zealous member of the Baptist Church, as is also his
widow, who still resides in Baton Rouge, and in this church he served as a
deacon. He was a past master of Grangeville Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons.
In St. Helena Parish was solemnized the marriage of James M. Odom and Miss Mary
J. Brown, who was born in East Feliciana Parish, this state, in February, 1861,
and who resides in the capital city, as previously stated. Of the children the
eldest is John Fred, the immediate subject of this sketch; Dr. Kirk S. was a
student in the medical department of Tulane University at the time of his
death, in 1914 Lee is the wife of Montfort Hull, who is giving effective
service in the extension work of the University of Louisiana, and they maintain
their home in Baton Rouge; Perla is the wife of George Baillio, an expert and
registered accountant, and they reside at Lake Charles, this state.
To private schools in his native parish is John F. Odom indebted for his early
educational discipline. which was advanced by his attending Baywood Academy, in
East Baton Rouge Parish, and by the completion of the studies of his sophomore
year in the Louisiana State University, where he became affiliated with the
Kappa Sigma college fraternity. Upon leaving the university, in 1901, he
turned his attention to the life insurance business, with headquarters in Baton
Rouge, and he continued his activities along this line until 1905. In the
meanwhile he had entered the law department of Tulane University. and in this
institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906, his reception of
the degree of Bachelor of Laws having been virtually coincident with his
admission to the Louisiana bar. At Tulane lie was a member of the
representative student organization known as the Ivy Club. In the year of his
graduation Mr. Odom established himself in the practice of law at Baton Rouge,
and here he has made a record of admirable professional achievement, including
his service as judge of the Municipal Court, 1915-17, and also his specially
effective work as district attorney of the Twenty-second (now Nineteenth)
Judicial District, an office to which he was first elected in 1916 and of which
he has continued the incumbent, by re-election in 1920 and in 1924, since
January 1, 1917. His second and third elections to this office were effected
without the appearance of an opposing candidate, and indicated the high popular
estimate placed upon his service.
Mr. Odom is influential in the councils and campaign activities of the
democratic party in Louisiana. He is a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish
Bar Association and the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, and he holds
membership also in the Baton Rouge Golf and Country Club. In the Masonic
fraternity his affiliations are with St. James Lodge No. 47, A. F. and A. M.;
Washington Chapter No. 37, R. A. M.; and Plains Commandery No. 11, Knights
Templar, all at Baton Rouge. He was a vital factor in advancing local
patriotic service and measures in the World war period, and served as
government appeal agent for East Baton Rouge Parish.
June 29, 1908, recorded the marriage of Mr. Odom and Miss Ada Reddy, of Baton
Rouge, in which city the death of her father, Charles J. Reddy, occurred in the
year 1899, he having been president of the First National Bank and the Baton
Rouge Brick Yard Company, and also the executive head of the wholesale grocery
house of Gang, Reddy & Company. Mrs. Reddy, whose maiden name was Julia
Bonnecaze, died in the capital city in July, 1924. Mrs. Odom received
educational advantages including those of a college at Memphis, Tennessee. Mr.
and Mrs. Odom have no children.
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A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 121-122, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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John F. Macmurdo. Twelve miles north of the Capital City of Baton Rouge, and
one mile north of the Village of Chamberlin, the fine "Smithfield" Plantation
extends along the west bank of the Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge
Parish, the estate having an area of 2,200 acres. Of this large and well
ordered plantation John F. Macmurdo is the efficient and progressive manager,
and under his administration its productiveness and all incidental
appurtenances and provisions are kept up to high standard.
Mr. Macmurdo was born in Baton Rouge, February 11, 1883, and is a son of Major
Charles A. Macmurdo and Josephine (Adams) Macmurdo. the former of whom was born
in Virginia, in 1831, a representative of one of the old and honored families
of that historic commonwealth, and the latter of whom passed her entire life in
Louisiana, where her birth occurred in 1839.
Maj. Charles A. Macmurdo was reared and educated in the Old Dominion State,
where he received collegiate education, and he was a young man when he came to
Louisiana and established his residence at Baton Rouge, where he gave many
years of effective service as a clerk in the office of the state auditor of
Louisiana and where he was well known as an efficient official and as a man of
sterling attributes of character. He served as a gallant soldier of the
Confederacy during the entire period of the Civil War, took part in many
engagements, and held the Office of major of the regiment which he commanded in
many important battles, as well as minor engagements. His continued interest
in his old Comrades was signalized in later years by his active affiliation
with the United Confederate Veterans. He continued his residence in the
capital city until his death, which occurred in 1894, and there his widow
remained until she too was summoned to the life eternal, on the 27th of
December, 1923. Henry H., eldest of the children, became a veritable "soldier
of fortune," and he acquired mining interests in Spanish Honduras, where he met
his death in connection with the revolution in 1894; Lulie resides in Baton
Rouge and is the widow of Isadore Larguier, who was there engaged in the coal
business at the time of his death; Charles A., Jr., an architect by
profession, was a resident of New Orleans at the time of his death, in 1913;
Tal became the wife of Dan B. Burden, a successful planter, and both died in
the City of Baton Rouge; Emmie is the wife of Lauzin J. Amiss, who holds the
office of registrar of voters for East Baton Rouge Parish, and they maintain
their home at Baton Rouge; James B. is a stillman with the Standard Oil
Company of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge; Georgie is the wife of Frank B. Jones,
manager of the Fuqua Hardware Company of Baton Rouge; and John F., of this
sketch, is the youngest of the number
In the public schools of Baton Rouge John F. Macmurdo continued his studies
until he was fifteen years of age, and thereafter he clerked three years in a
grocery store in that city. He then assumed the position of overseer of
the "Smithfield" plantation, and his efficiency continually led to his
advancement to his present responsible position of manager of this large and
important landed estate, which has the best of modern facilities, including its
own sugar refinery.
Mr. Macmurdo is unwavering in his support of the cause of the democratic party,
takes loyal interest in community affairs of public order, and is serving as a
member of the Board of Education of West Baton Rouge Parish. At Port Allen,
the judicial center of the parish, he is affiliated with Blazing Star Lodge No.
212, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in his native City he holds
membership in Baton Rouge Lodge No. 490, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. He still permits his name to remain on the roster of eligible bachelors
in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 78-79, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....McHugh, T. Jeff October 16, 1890 -
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T. Jeff McHugh, M. D., who is one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of
the younger generation in the City of Baton Rouge, is a representative of a
sterling family whose name has been identified with the history of this part of
Louisiana for nearly a century and a half. The original representatives of the
family in America came from Ireland and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and 142 years ago the family was founded in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
Doctor McHugh was born at Zachary, East Baton Rouge Parish, October 16, 1890,
and is a son of Thomas F. and Nettie (Brown) McHugh, both likewise natives of
this parish, and now residents of the City of Baton Rouge.
Thomas B. McHugh was born at Zachary, this parish, in the year 1863, was there
reared and educated and there he became a leading merchant and influential
citizen. He there continued in the mercantile business until 1893, and for
seven years thereafter was engaged in farm enterprise near Baker, this parish.
He then, in 1900, removed with his family to Baton Rouge, where he and his wife
have since maintained their home. Mr. McHugh Served sixteen years as clerk of
the District Court of East Baton Rouge Parish, and at the time of this writing,
in the spring of 1924, he holds the office of deputy sheriff of this parish.
He has been active in the ranks in the democratic party, and served for a time
as mayor of Zachary. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. Mrs.
McHugh was born at Baker, this parish, in 1869. Of the two children Dr. T.
Jeff, of this review, is the elder, and Doris A. is the wife of Dr. Arthur T.
Prescott, professor of government in the University of Louisiana, and the
subject of individual mention on other pages of this work.
Dr. McHugh attended a private school in Baton Rouge, and in 1908 he was here
graduated from St. Vincent Academy. Thereafter he was for one year a student
in the University of Louisiana, and he then entered the medical department of
Tulane University. In this latter institution, at New Orleans, he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1914 and with the degree of Doctor of
Medicine. As a collegiate the Doctor is affiliated with the Kappa Alpha
academic fraternity and the Kappa Psi medical fraternity.
After his graduation from the medical college Dr. McHugh further fortified
himself by the experience he gained in two years of service as an interne in
the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, and since 1916 he has been successfully
established in the general Practice of his profession in the capital city of
Baton Rouge, where his well-appointed offices are in the New Reymond Building.
He is giving effective service also as health officer of the city. The Doctor
is actively identified with the East Baton Rouge Parish Medical Society, the
Louisiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a
member of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, is a loyal advocate of the
principles of the democratic party, and he and his wife are communicants of St.
James Church, Protestant Episcopal. In the Masonic fraternity he has received
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, in the Consistory at Shreveport,
where also he is a Noble of El Karubah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His basic
York Rite affiliation is with St. James Lodge, A. F. and A. M.. in his home
city, when also he holds membership in Baton Rouge Lodge No. 490, B. P. 0. E.
Enduring honor shall attach to the name of Doctor McHugh by reason of the loyal
and effective service of patriotism which he rendered in the World war. On the
28th of March, 1917, he volunteered for service in the Medical Corps of the
United States Army, and at Camp Nicholls, in New Orleans, he received on the
same date his commission as lieutenant in the Medical Corps. He was
transferred to Camp Beauregard, at Alexandria. this state, there in March,
1918, he was commissioned captain the following August, with the One Hundred
and Forty-first Field Artillery. He sailed for overseas service, and he
remained in France, in active and valuable service, until March, 1919, as
regiment surgeon of the command mentioned above. At Shelby, Mississippi, the
Doctor-Captain received his honorable discharge in May. 1919. He is a member
of Nicholson Post, American Legion, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
On the 8th of June, 1920, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor McHugh and Miss
Ruth Puckett, daughter of Henry L. and Addie Puckett, who reside in Baton
Rouge, where Mr. Puckett is a prominent representative of the cotton brokerage
business. Mrs. McHugh was graduated from the Baton Rouge High School and
thereafter continued her studies in the University of Louisiana with her
graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Doctor and Mrs. McHugh have a
winsome little daughter, Ruth, who was born August 24, 1922.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 78-79, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
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Iberville-East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Moyse, Hermann September 11, 1891 -
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Hermann Moyse, one of the able and popular younger members of the bar of Baton
Rouge, is junior member of the law firm of Cross & Moyse, and of his partner,
T. Jones Cross, a veteran member of the bar of the capital city, specific
mention of whom is made in the preceding sketch.
Mr. Moyse was born at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, September 11,
1891, and is named in honor of iris paternal grandfather, the late Hermann
Moyse, who was born in Nancy, France, where he passed the major part of his
life, he having been a resident of the City of Paris. France, at the time of
his death, in the spring of 1891.
Simon Moyse, father of him whose name initiates this review, was born at Nancy,
France, August 25, 1853, and there he was reared and educated. In 1872, as a
youth of seventeen years, he came to the United States and established his
residence at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, where he became a successful merchant.
In 1881 he established himself in the general merchandise business at St.
Gabriel, and since 1916 he has been one of the leading retail merchants in the
City of Baton Rouge, where he is vice president of the incorporated mercantile
concern bearing the title of Sommers, Incorporated. He is aligned loyally in
the democratic party, and he and his wife are active members of Congregation
B'nai Israel. Mrs. Moyse, whose maiden name was Flora Joseph, was born in the
Province of Lorraine, France, March 4, 1857. Harriet, eldest of the children,
is the wife of Leopold Sommer, president of Sommers, Incorporated, Baton
Rouge; Jeanne is the wife of Gabriel Kahn, secretary and treasurer of Sommers,
incorporated; Carrie is the wife of Max Mansberg, assistant manager of the
Krauss Company, New Orleans; Ike resides at Baton Rouge and is a civil
engineer by profession; Hermann, of this sketch, was the next in order of
birth; and Stella is the wife of Edward K. Hirsch, M. D., of Baton Rouge.
Hermann Moyse is indebted to the public schools of St. Gabriel and New Orleans
for his earlier educational discipline, and for seven years he was a student in
the Louisiana State University, from which he received his degree of Bachelor
of Arts in 1910, and in the law department of which he was graduated as a
member of the class of 1912, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws
having been deputy of the Southern District of Louisiana Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.
A chapter in the life history of Mr. Moyse that shall ever stand in evidence of
his loyalty and patriotism is that which records his gallant service as a
soldier in the World war, and special consistency attended this service by
reason of his ancestral connections in France. On the 6th of May, 1917, he
became one of the earliest Louisiana volunteers, and was sent to Fort Logan H.
Roots, Little Rock, Arkansas, where he entered the First Officers Training Camp
and where he won, August 15, 1917, his commission as a second lieutenant of
infantry. On the last day of that month he was assigned to the Thirty-second
Division at Waco, Texas, and on the 4th of the following month there received
commission as first lieutenant. In January, 1918, Mr. Moyse went overseas as a
member of the advance party of the Thirty-second Division, and in this division
he served as a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry until July
31, 1918. He was for two months in the trenches of the Alsace sector, and
while participating in the Aisne-Marne offensive he was severely wounded, July
21, 1918, when he was shot through one of his lungs and suffered the loss of
two toes, which were shot off by a machine gun. Thereafter he was confined in
hospital until November 8, 1918, from which date forward to April 20, 1919, he
was in service as assistant to the adjutant general of the Service of Supply at
Tours, France. He returned home with the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
Infantry, and at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, he received his honorable discharge
May 21, 1919. He was commissioned a captain in the Reserve Corps of the United
States Army, and this rank is his at the present the. Captain Moyse received
from the United States Government its highest decoration, the Distinguished
Service Cross, and from the French government the Croix de Guerre, with palm.
The Captain maintains the deepest of interest in his old comrades, and that his
popularity among them is unstinted needs no further evidence than [has] been
soon followed by his admission to the bar ~ the 11th of September, 1912. At
the University he became a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and held
various offices in his class, besides which he was president of tire University
Athletic Association in 1911-12. Since his admission to the bar he has made a
record of excellent achievement in his profession, and is a member of one of
the leading law firms of Baton Rouge, with offices in the Roumain Building.
Elected as a candidate on the democratic ticket, Mr. Moyse has represented East
Baton Rouge Parish in the State Legislature since 1921, his term expiring at
the close of 1924. In 1916-17 he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of
the Louisiana State Normal School at Natchitoches, and since 1919 he has been a
valued member of the Board of Supervisors of the State Colony and Training
School at Alexandria. He and his wife are active members of Congregation B'nai
Israel, and he is treasurer and a director of the Baton Rouge Chamber of
Commerce. He is affiliated with the East Baton Rouge Parish Bar Association,
is vice president of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and is a member of
the American Bar Association.
Mr. Moyse is a member of St. James Lodge No. 47, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons; is past exalted ruler of Eaton Rouge Lodge No. 490, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, and at the time of this writing, in 1924, he is
serving as district statement that he is now (1924) serving as commander of the
Louisiana Department of the American Legion.
September 30, 1920, recorded the marriage of Captain Moyse and Miss Rosalie
Gottlieb, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Hahn) Gottlieb, of Baton Rouge, where
Mr. Gotthieb is president of the Union Bank & Trust Company. Mrs. Moyse was
graduated from the Louisiana State University, as a member of the class of 1918
and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Captain and Mrs. Moyse have a fine
little son, Hermann, Jr., born August 3, 1921.
Additional Comments:
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East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Nesbit, Grover 1846 -
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Grover E. Nesbit, secretary and treasurer of the Baton Rouge Water Works
Company, was born on the family homestead plantation in East Baton Rouge
Parish, July 13, 1888, and he is a representative of one of the old and honored
families of this parish, within whose borders his paternal grand father, George
Nesbit, passed his entire life. He became one of the extensive planters of
this section of the state, and his wife, whose family name was Brown, was
likewise a lifelong resident of East Baton Rouge Parish.
John R. Nesbit, father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Algiers.
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, in 1846, was there reared to manhood and there
enlisted for service as a loyal young soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil
war, he having been in service during the last three rears of the conflict and
having participated in numerous engagements. He was but sixteen years old at
the time of his enlistment. After the war he gave his attention to the
management of his fine plantation in East Baton Rouge Parish, where also he
operated his own cotton gin and conducted a general store. He was a staunch
democrat, was called to various local offices of public trust, and he and his
wife were earnest communicants of the Catholic Church. Mrs. Nesbit, whose
maiden name was Rosa C. Klienpeter, was born in East Baton Rouge Parish, in the
year 1857, and both she and her husband passed the closing years of their lives
on their old home plantation, where Mr. Nesbit died in 1919 and his widow in
1921. Miss Mary R., eldest of the children, is a is popular teacher in the
public schools of her native parish and resides in the home of her brother,
Grover E., of this review; John G. was engaged in mercantile business at Baton
Rouge at the time of his death, when thirty-f our years of age; William K.
died at the age of twenty years; Henry A., a traveling commercial salesman,
resides at Houston, Texas; Rosa C. is the wife of John C. Burch, of
Montgomery, Alabama; Grover E., whose name introduces this sketch, was the
next in order of birth and Edward B., who is now in the employ of the Standard
Oil Company of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge, was for eighteen months in active
service in France in the World war, he having been a member of the One Hundred
and Fifty-sixth United States Infantry, and, as a machine-gun operator, having
taken part in several of the major offensive movements of the great conflict;
Aurelia 0. is the wife of Horace D. Schwing, a railway employe, and they reside
at Burtville, East Baton Rouge Parish; Ruth E. died at the age of twenty years.
The public schools of his native parish afforded Grover E. Nesbit his early
education, which included a course in the Baton Rouge High School. Thereafter
he was for one year a student in the University of Louisiana, and upon leaving
this institution, in 1904, he entered the service of the Baton Rouge Water
Works Company in the capacity of meter reader. In 1908 he was promoted to a
responsible clerkship, and since 1912 he has been secretary and treasurer of
this important Public utility corporation of the capital city, the company
having a modern plant and system that effectively supplies water to the city
and its suburbs. Of this corporation W. P. Council is president and H. P.
Connell the vice president.
Mr. Nesbit takes loyal interest in all that touches the welfare of his home
city and native parish and state, and is a democrat in Political adherence. He
and his wife are communicants of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and he is
affiliated with Baton Rouge Council No. 969, Knights of Columbus, as is he also
with Baton Rouge Acne No. 1083. Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is one of the
active members and supporters of the local Chamber of Commerce and also the
Rotary Club. In the World war Period he was zealous in the furthering of all
patriotic activities in his native parish, and gave specially effective service
in assisting the draft board of the parish, besides having helped effectively
in the local campaigns in support of the government war loans, Red Cross
service, etc.
On the 6th of June, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Nesbit and Miss
Louise Huchel, who was born and reared in Baton Rouge and who was here
graduated from St. Joseph's Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Nesbit have five children,
the names and respective birth-dates of whom are here recorded: Rose Louise,
July 14, 1917: Grover E., Jr., August 19, 1918; John Philip, October 10,
1920; Alice C., January 5, 1922; and William Daniel, April 5, 1923.
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East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Reiley, George May 3, 1816 -
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George Jenkin Reiley is not only one of the prominent and successful exponents
of plantation industry in Louisiana but is also giving specially efficient
service as registrar of the United States Land Office in the City of Baton
Rouge.
Mr. Reiley was born at Blairstown, Warren County, New Jersey, March 16, 1854,
and is a son of Rev. John A. Reiley, who was born at Durham, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, May 3, 1816, and who died of yellow fever, on his plantation ten
miles south of Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, September 30, 1878.
Rev. John Arndt Reiley passed the period of his youth in Warren County, New
Jersey. He secured his education at private schools, at Lafayette College,
Easton, Pennsylvania, at Miami University, Ohio, having followed Rev. George
Junkin, D. D., the president of Lafayette College, when he went to Miami
University as president, and at Princeton Theological Seminary.
In September, 1845, Rev. John A. Reiley was ordained and installed pastor of
the Presbyterian churches of Blairstown and Knowlton by the Newton Presbytery,
he having preached at the Presbyterian Church in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, for
over a year prior thereto. For about nine years he served the Congregations of
Blairstown and Knowlton as their pastor, and thereafter for twelve years, the
Presbyterian Church of Blairstown as its pastor.
His eyes having become impaired in the fall of 1866, he resigned his pastorate
at Blairstown. Continuing to retain his connection with the Newton Presbytery,
Mr. Reiley removed with his family to Oak Grove Plantation, East Feliciana
Parish, Louisiana, and engaged in missionary work for the uplift of the
negroes, and as a planter. He eventually became one of the extensive and
successful planters of East Feliciana Parish, and was a citizen honored for his
gracious personality, his civic loyalty, and his constructive influence in
community affairs.
In politics he was a Republican, served as president of the police jury in his
parish for several years, and also gave effective service as a member of the
Parish School Board.
As a young man, while in Miami University, Ohio, he was commissioned a captain
in the State Militia of Ohio by the Hon. Thomas Corwin, governor.
The maiden name of his wife was Anna Carroll whom he married at Port Carbon,
Pennsylvania, November 5, 1845. She was born in New York City, May 28th,
1823. She survived her husband by many years, passing the closing years of her
life at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where she died October 18th, 1910, in her
eighty-eighth year.
Of the children, four succumbed to yellow fever in the month of October, 1878;
Amy Carroll, who was born December 10, 1847, and died October 15, l878;
Elizabeth, Mary Trimble, and William Marshall, who was born June 17, 1861,
and died October 22, 1878; Elizabeth (Mrs. James T. Neasom), born January 25,
1832, and died October 23, 1878, left a daughter surviving. Ann Reiley Neasom,
now general secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association of St. Joseph,
Missouri; George Junkin, of this review, was next in order of birth after
Elizabeth; John I. Blair, who was born February 3, 1856, is a lawyer and ex-
prosecutor of the Picas of Warren County, New Jersey, and ex-judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of Warren County, New Jersey; Abraham Lincoln, familiarly
known as "Lynn," who was born October 4, 1864, and is secretary and assistant
treasurer of the Warren Foundry & Pipe Company of Phillipsburg, New Jersey;
Mary Trimble, born May 17th, 1858, was twenty years of age when her death was
caused by yellow fever October 16 in the scourge of 1878, as well as the death
of other members of the family circle as already noted. She was graduated from
the State Normal School at Trenton, New Jersey, in June of the year of her
death with the highest standing of any graduate of the institution up to that
time. She was not only a student of marked ability, but was a poet of unusual
promise, a number of her poems having been published in the New York
Independent prior to her death. After her death a volume of her poems
containing 276 pages compiled by Miss Mathews, her teacher and intimate friend,
was published. Three children died in infancy: Edward Carroll, born September
17, 1846, died September 24, 1846; Joseph Carroll, born February 18, 1850,
died September 11, 1851; and James Carroll, born August 13, 1869, died
November 29, 1870.
George Junkin Reiley was afforded the advantages of an excellent private school
at Blairstown, New Jersey, and thereafter, at Tuscarora Academy, at Academia,
Juniata County, Pennsylvania, until the summer of 1872, and at Blairstown
Presbyterian Academy, Blair Hall, at Blairstown, Yew Jersey, until the summer
0f 1873. His father having been one of the founders of the said Blair
Presbyterian Academy.
He remained on the old home plantation in East Feliciana Parish for the ensuing
twenty years, and then, in 1898, engaged in conducting a brick yard at Clinton,
the judicial center of the old home parish, where also he operated a planing
mill and where he held for a number of years the position of postmaster. In
1920 he established his residence at Baton Rouge, and after here living retired
two years, he became receiver in 1922 in the local United States Land Office.
On the 1st of July, 1923, he was advanced to his present important post, that
of registrar of this Government office, the while he continues also his service
as receiver, the two offices having been consolidated July 1, 1923. His
official headquarters are in the Roumain Building.
Mr. Reiley is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, and in his old home
parish he served four years as a member of the police jury. He was mayor of
Clinton for four years, and in 1910 he was United States census supervisor for
the Fourth District of Louisiana. He was a delegate to the national republican
conventions that nominated McKinley, Roosevelt, Hughes and Harding, and was
also the candidate of the republican party for Congress in the Sixth
Congressional District of the State of Louisiana in the year of 1910. He is a
zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife, whose
death occurred September 6, 1906. Mr. Reiley is a past master of Olive Lodge
No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, at Clinton, and he is affiliated also with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and Knights of
Honor. He is a director of the Bank of Clinton, and has made many and
judicious real estate investments, including his beautiful home place, 810
Golden Rod Avenue, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He retains the old home plantation,
improved with a fine house and other modern buildings, the estate comprising
8,000 acres, and being in active charge of his sons, John A. and Henry Dunn.
On the plantation special attention is given to the breeding of fine cattle.
At Clinton Mr. Reiley owns a valuable residence property; at Scotland, East
Baton Rouge Parish, he is the owner of twenty dwellings ; and in the capital
city he owns twelve residence properties, including his home place.
In the World war period Mr. Reiley was instant in patriotic service, and he did
much to advance the sale of Government War Bonds, Savings Stamps, Red Cross
work, etc., in East Feliciana Parish.
November 7, 1877, recorded the marriage of Mr. Reiley to Miss Mary S. Dunn,
daughter of the late Veleria H. and Mary S. (Bostwick) Dunn, the father having
been one of the extensive planters in East Feliciana Parish. Mrs. Reiley
attended Silliman College, at Clinton, was a woman of culture and gracious
personality, and her death brought sorrow to a host of her appreciative
friends. Of the children, the eldest is John A., who was for four years a
student in Blair Hall, an academy at Blairstown, New Jersey, and who is now
associated in the management of the old home plantation, as is also Henry, who
was for a similar period a student at Blair Hall; Amy Carroll is the widow of
Joseph S. Jones, D. D. S., who died in Baton Rouge, and she is now the
chatelaine of the beautiful home of her father; Edward C. is here in the
employ of the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana; Mary T. is the wife of T.
Spec Jones, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of his profession in Baton
Rouge; Elizabeth is the wife of Jesse McClendon, M. D., a representative
physician at Amite, Tangipahoa Parish; Lillian is the wife of E. Reeves
Waller, who is district manager at Baton Rouge for the Mutual Life Insurance
Company; George J., D. D. S., is engaged in the practice of dentistry at Baton
Rouge, he having been commissioned a first lieutenant in the medical corps of
the United States Army at the time of the World war and having been stationed
in New Orleans during the eighteen months of his service.
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NOTE: The sketch is accompanied by a black and white photograph/drawing of the
subject.
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 291-292, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
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William Carruth Jones, who is one of the representative members of the bar of
Baton Rouge and who is now presiding on the bench of the Nineteenth Judicial
District of Louisiana, was born at Jackson, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana,
on the 25th of October, 1876, and he is a scion of the third generation of the
family in this state. His paternal grandfather, William W. Jones, was born in
South Carolina, and was residing near Jackson, Louisiana, at the time of his
death, in the early '70s. William W. Jones was a planter by vocation and
passed the greater part of his life in South Carolina and Alabama, he having
established his residence near Jackson, Louisiana, a few years prior to his
death, and there also occurred the death of his wife, whose maiden name was
Edith Hilton and who likewise was born and reared in South Carolina. The Jones
family was there founded in the Colonial period of our national history and the
original representatives came from Wales.
John Welch Jones, M. D., father of Judge Jones of this review, was born in
South Carolina, October 17, 1826, and died at Jackson, Louisiana, June 24,
1916, about five months prior to the ninetieth anniversary of his birth. Dr.
Jones was reared in the State of Alabama, and in preparing himself for the
profession of his choice he entered the medical department of Louisiana
University (now Tulane University) at New Orleans, where he was in due course
graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. As an able physician and
surgeon Dr. Jones developed a large and representative general practice in the
parishes of East Feliciana and East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and from 1874 until
1888 he. was superintendent of the East Louisiana Insane Asylum at Jackson.
After retiring from the work of his profession he directed his attention to
agricultural industry and became the owner of several valuable plantations. He
was a thoroughgoing democrat, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and
he and his wife held membership in the Baptist Church. Doctor Jones was a
soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, in which he served from 1861 to
1863, inclusive, and in which he was captain in the Plains Guards. His wife,
whose maiden name was Amarintha Huff, was born in Wilkinson County,
Mississippi, in 1833, and her death occurred at Jackson, Louisiana, on the 3d
of May, 1889. Of the surviving children the eldest is Dr. Philip H., one of
the prominent physicians and surgeons engaged in practice at Baton Rouge; Dr.
George H. has likewise followed in the professional footsteps of his father,
and he is engaged in the practice of medicine at Lutcher St. James Parish;
Pearl is the wife of George G. Keller, a prosperous planter near Jackson, this
state; Miss Lily resides in the home of her Sister. Pearl; and Judge Jones, of
this sketch, is the youngest of the number. Five children died in infancy.
To well ordered private schools is Judge Jones indebted for his early
education, which was advanced by his attending Centenary College at Jackson,
this state, and the Louisiana State University. In the law department of
Tulane University he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, and his
reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws was followed in May, 1902, by his
admission to the bar of his native state. He forthwith engaged in the practice
of law at Baton Rouge, and here he made himself known for his ability as a
resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor, with the result that his
law business showed a constantly cumulative tendency. He continued in active
practice in the capital city until 1923, in July of which year he was elected
judge of the Twenty-second Judicial District, to fill out the unexpired term of
Judge H. F. Brunot, who was advanced to the office of associate justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court. Judge Jones was in 1924 elected judge of the
Nineteenth Judicial District, comprising the same territory as the first
mentioned district. The Judge finds opportunity for loyal and effective
service in behalf of the principles of the democratic party, and from 1916
until his elevation to his present judicial office he represented East Baton
Rouge Parish in the Louisiana Legislature. He was a valued member of the
Louisiana State Constitutional Convention of 1921, and was influential in the
framing of much of the present Constitution of this historic old commonwealth.
In 1912 he served as judge of the Municipal Court of Baton Rouge. In his home
city the Masonic affiliations of Judge Jones are with St. James Lodge No. 47,
A. F. and A. M.; Washington Chapter No. 57, R. A. M.; and Adib Ahmar Grotto No.
98, Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm. He is a past exalted ruler of
Baton Rouge Lodge No. 490. B. P. 0. E., is a member of the Baton Rouge Chamber
of Commerce and the Baton Rouge Golf and Country Club. The Judge was a
prominent and valued member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Bar Association, and
has served as president of this organization. His is one of the fine residence
properties of the city, situated at 2103 Government Street. He is the owner of
other realty in the city and other parts of the parish.
November 19, 1908, recorded the marriage, at McComb, Mississippi, of Judge
Jones and Miss Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, daughter of James Roger and Ida (Fly)
Kirkpatrick, both now deceased. Mrs. Jones is a specially talented musician
and is a graduate of the celebrated New England Conservatory of Music in the
City of Boston, her special ability being as a pianist. Judge and Mrs. Jones
have five children: Elizabeth Pearl, William Carruth, Jr., John Roger,
Philip K. and George H.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 59, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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Thomas Sambola Jones, M. A., LL. D., is a distinguished member of the bar of
the capital city of Louisiana, and in his active career his qualities as a
statesman and diplomat have caused him to be called to many positions of high
public trust, including that of United States minister to Honduras. At the
time of this writing.. 1924, he is a member of the House of Representatives of
the Louisiana Legislature, a body in which he had served also in earlier years.
Judge Jones was born in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, October 5, 1839. His
grandfather on the paternal side was William Henry Jones, who passed his entire
life in Alabama, where he was a resident near Russellville at the time of his
death. William H. Jones became one of the extensive planters in the vicinity
of Russellville, and was a scion of a Welsh family that was founded in Alabama
in the Colonial period of our national history, the original orthography of the
family name having been Jones. The maiden name of the wife of William H. Jones
was Ann Cox, and she likewise passed her entire life in Alabama.
Thomas S. Jones, M. D.. father of him whose name initiates this review, was
born near Russellville, Alabama, in the year 1823, and passed the Closing
period of his bug and useful life in the home of his son, T. Sambola, of this
sketch, at Baton Rouge, where his death occurred in 1909. He received from
LaGrange College. in the city of Philadelphia, the academic degrees of Bachelor
and Master of Arts, and thereafter was graduated in its medical department
also. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for forty-five
years engaged in the active and successful practice of his Profession at
Jackson, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and in the period of the Civil war
he was there designated by both the Confederate and Federal authorities to
serve as physician and surgeon in the care of the ill and wounded soldiers of
both the Southern and Northern armies. He served not only as Visiting surgeon
of the Louisiana Insane Asylum at Jackson, but was for thirty years in service
also as chairman of the executive board of this institution. His services as a
skilled surgeon were widely requested in the Civil war period, and he performed
many surgical operations not only in Louisiana but also in Mississippi. In
1889 he established his residence in Baton Rouge, and here he continued in the
practice of his profession, as one of the distinguished physicians and surgeons
of Louisiana, for an additional period of twenty years, his professional
services having thus covered a period of more than thirty years. As a democrat
he served one term in e Senate of the Louisiana Legislature. The Doctor was
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, was identified with various professional organizations, including the
Louisiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and he
and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Mrs. Jones, whose maiden name was Eliza Perkins Perry, was born at Jackson.
this state, and was sixty-six years of age at the time of her death, which
occurred in Baton Rouge, at the home of her son, the immediate subject of this
sketch. The home of Judge Jones also figured as the place of the death of his
only sister and two of his brothers. The sister, Annie Leonora, eldest of the
children, was sixty years of age at the time of her death and was the widow of
Rev. David M. Rush, D. D., who was a distinguished clergyman of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and who was president of Centenary College at Jackson,
this state, at the time of his death. Dr. Joe S., next younger of the
children, adopted the profession of his father, served as state quarantine
physician of Louisiana, and was forty-four years of age at the time of his
death, in the home of his brother. T. Sambola. Mr. Robert R., a successful
young physician and surgeon, likewise died at the home of Judge T. Sambola
Jones, his next older brother, he having been thirty-six years of age at the
time of his death. Robert Perry, the third of the children, was killed in an
accident :it Jackson when seventeen years of age.
At Jackson, as a member of the class of 1876, Judge T. Sambola Jones was
graduated from Centenary College. from which he received the degrees of both
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science, this institution being now
established in the city of Shreveport. In 1879 he received from his alma mater
the supplementary degree of Master of Arts, and in 1920 the same fine old
college conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. For two
years after his graduation Judge Jones taught school at Trinity, Catahoula
Parish, and thereafter he attended lectures in both the medical and law
departments of Tulane University, in the latter department of which he was
graduated in 190 , with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. From that year to the
present time he has continued as a representative member of the Baton Rouge
bar. His scholastic and executive ability was shown also in bus for years of
constructive service as superintendent of the public schools of Baton Rouge in
the earlier days of his residence in the capital city. For more than ten years
he here presided on the bench of the inferior court of the city, and for six
years he was private secretary to Governor M. J. Foster. His versatility has
been shown in divers other directions, he was for fifteen years, editor of the
official journal of the State of Louisiana, The Daily Advocate. He represented
East Baton Rouge Parish in the Lower House of the State Legislature in the
period from 1912 to 1918, and he resigned his seat to accept the diplomatic
office of United States envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
Honduras, a position to which he was appointed by the late and revered
President Wilson. He retained this post during 1919-20. In the period of
American participation in the World war Judge Jones served as chairman and
manager of the Louisiana State Council of Defense. In the spring f 1924 he was
again elected to the Legislature, in which he is now serving as speaker of the
House of Representatives. The Judge was a Southern commissioner at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, and later was an official
representative as Commissioner at large in the United States of the Panama-
Pacific Exposition.
He was for several years owner and editor of the Louisiana Educator, which he
made a power in connection with educational affairs in the state. He was
associated with Colonel Thomas D. Boyd and Rev. T. K. Fontleroy in establishing
the Louisiana Chautauqua at Ruston, and there served a number of years as a
lecturer. He has gained wide reputation as a brilliant public speaker, and in
his capacity as commissioner for the two expositions above referred to he
delivered addresses before a majority of state legislative bodies in the United
States. He has been influential in the councils and campaign activities of the
democratic party for a long period of years. The judge has been affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Knights of Pythias. He is actively
identified with the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, and was a charter member
of the Baton Rouge Golf and Country Club, from which he resigned in 1919. He
is affiliated with the East Baton Rouge Parish Bar Association and the
Louisiana State Bar Association. In the practice of his profession he was for
many years associated with K. A. Cross, as junior member of the firm of Cross &
Jones. He is now virtually retired from the active practice of his profession.
To the physical advancement of his home city Judge Jones has contributed by the
erection of many homes, and his extensive real-estate holdings in the capital
city include his modern and beautiful home place at 630 Third Street.
In 1883 Judge Jones wedded Miss Deborah Henrietta Spencer, daughter of the late
Judge W. B. Spencer, who was a justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Mrs.
Jones was survived by one child, Eliza Perry, who became the wife of James E.
Halligan and who was only thirty years of age at the time of her death, in New
Orleans. Mr. Halligan, who was for a number of years chief chemist at the
Agricultural Department of the University of Louisiana and who was also
associated with the cotton industry in this state, is the author of a number of
text books presently taught in Louisiana on stock raising and agricultural
subjects.
While serving as minister to Honduras Judge Jones was there united in marriage
to Miss Julia deDuron, daughter of Romula deDuron, who was then chief justice
of Honduras, where he is now (1924) serving as secretary of state. Mrs. Jones,
a woman of culture and attractive personality, is a popular figure in the
social activities of Baton Rouge.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 123-124, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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Thomas 0. Harris. The opening period of the year 1925 finds Mr. Harris giving
most effective administration in the important office of assistant supervisor
of public accounts, and he is one of the honored members of the official family
of this commonwealth in its capital city of Baton Rouge.
Mr. Harris was born in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, on the 27th of
March, 1870, and is a son of Otis and Kate (O'Neill) Harris, the former of whom
was born at Mobile, Alabama, in 1842, and the latter of whom was born in the
City of New Orleans, where she still maintains her home. Otis Harris was
reared in his native city, and there was graduated from Springhill College,
besides which he attended the State University of Vermont. He was a young man
when he established his residence in New Orleans, where he became a
representative figure in business, as well as a citizen of no minor influence
in civic affairs. He was secretary and treasurer of the corporation of F. F.
Hansell & Brother, dealers in stationery, New Orleans, for many years prior to
his death in 1919. He was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the
democratic party. Of his three surviving children, Thomas 0., of this review,
is the eldest; Augustus B. resides in New Orleans and is district United States
inspector of internal revenue; and Cary I. is engaged in the publishing
business in the City of Atlanta, Georgia.
In the public schools of New Orleans Thomas 0. Harris continued his studies
until he had duly advanced through the curriculum of the high school, and later
matriculated with the Louisiana State University. He was a member of the first
law class of that institution. Thereafter he was identified with newspaper
business in his native city until 1904, when he became private secretary to
Hon. N. C. Blanchard, governor of Louisiana. He retained this position until
1908, in which year he was appointed traveling auditor of Louisiana. In this
capacity he continued his service until 1909, and thereafter he held until 1920
the position of editor of the Shreveport Journal and Shreveport Times, leading
daily papers in the City of Shreveport. In 1920 he was called to the executive
office of secretary-manager of the Independent Oil Producers' Association at
Shreveport, but in the following year he received appointment to the position
of secretary to Governor John M. Parker. In August, 1922, he was appointed to
the office of state auditor of Louisiana, to fill out the unexpired term of
Hon. Paul Capdevielle, deceased.
Mr. Harris has been active and influential in the local councils and campaign
work of the democratic party. an(l is an effective exponent of its principles
and policies. In 1906 he served as secretary of the Louisiana Probe
Commission. In the World war period he served on committees directing the
drives in support of government war loans in Caddo Parish, and was most loyal
and liberal in advancing the service of all local organizations of patriotic
order. He made many speeches throughout Northwestern Louisiana in connection
with the drives for the, government loans, Red Cross service, etc. Mr. Harris
is an active member of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, is affiliated with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics, and he holds membership in the Christian Science Church.
On the 19th of October, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harris and
Miss Marie Wolff, who likewise was born and reared in the City of New Orleans.
Of the children of this union the elder is Otis G., who resides at Shreveport
and is city editor of the Shreveport Journal. He was one of the gallant young
sons of Louisiana who served in the United States Army in the World war, he
having been first lieutenant in a machine gun company and having served
eighteen months with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Thomas A.,
the second son, is engaged in the automobile business at Shreveport, and he
likewise was in overseas service in the World war period, he having been in
active duty in France and also having been with the allied Army of Occupation
in Germany after the close of the war, his stay overseas having covered a
period of one year.
Additional Comments:
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T. Jones Cross is a native son of Louisiana who has found in the capital city
of the state a field for most successful professional achievement, and he is
distinctly one of the representative members of the bar of Baton Rouge, where
he has been engaged in active practice more than forty years.
Mr. Cross was born at Jackson, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, June 3, 1861,
a son of Kimball Allyn Cross, who was born at Clinton, in 1837, and whose death
occurred in the City of Baton Rouge June 4, 1896. Richard Cross, grandfather
of the subject of this review, was born in Tennessee, and upon coming to
Louisiana, about the year 1830, he first settled in De Soto Parish, where he
reclaimed and developed a plantation. Later he established a general
merchandise Store in East Feliciana Parish, his death having occurred at
Clinton in the '40s. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth McMillan, was
born in Cleveland, Ohio, and as a young woman became a school teacher at
Clinton, Louisiana, where her marriage occurred and where she passed the
closing years of her life. The father of Richard Cross was born at Nashville,
Tennessee, a member of one of the pioneer families of that city, and he became
a successful planter and merchant in his native State, where he passed his
entire life, his children having been seventeen in number. In connection with
the family history it is interesting to record that T. Jones Cross is a
descendant of the historic Indian princess, Pocahontas.
Kimball Allyn Cross was reared at Jacks Louisiana, and there was graduated from
Centenary College, from which he received the degrees of both Bachelor and
Master of Arts. He then prepared himself for the legal profession, and after
his admission to the bar he was engaged in practice in Shreveport a few months,
until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he promptly enlisted for service as a
soldier of the Confederacy. He served during the entire course of the war, and
after its close continued to be engaged in the practice of law at O~. ton until
1881, when he removed with his family to Baton Rouge, the capital city having
thereafter continued the central stage of his professional active until his
death, and he having been recognized as one of the specially able and
distinguished member of the Louisiana bar. He was the author of a valuable law
book, entitled "Cross on Successions," also of two other volumes which have
likewise become standard publications in Louisiana Jurisprudence,
namely: "Cross on Practice" and "Cross on Pleading." These works are in
general use throughout the state. As a staunch advocate of the principles of
the democratic party Mr. Cross was influential in political affairs in
Louisiana, and served one term as a member of the State Senate besides which he
represented his party and state as a presidential elector in 1876. He was
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife hold
membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In the earlier period of
his residence in Baton Rouge Mr. Cross served several years as editor of the
Baton Rouge Advocate, and he not only gained reputation as a virile and able
writer, but also had the record of utmost precision in diction and
orthography. His wife, whose maiden name was Fredonia Rosalie Perry, was born
at Jackson in this state, in 1841, and her death occurred at Baton Rouge in
1917. Of the children T. Jones, immediate subject of this sketch, is the
eldest; David Hardee, who was born June 1, 1864, became a member of the Baton
Rouge bar, and continued in the practice of law in the Parish of Livingston and
in the capital city until his death, December 3, 1917; Mary Saunders, now a
resident of New Orleans, is the widow of William T. King, whose death there
occurred in 1922, he having been a merchant and also having been identified
with the lumber industry; Robert Perry died in infancy; and Kimball Allyn, Jr..
who was born in January, 1872, died at Baton Rouge in June, 1895.
T. Jones Cross gained his earlier education in the public schools at Clinton,
and thereafter he completed the studies of his sophomore year in Centenary
College. He left this institution in 1879, and then began reading law under
the able preceptorship of his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1882, and
among those conducting his examination were Hon. E. D. White, now deceased, who
had been a justice of the Supreme Court of the state and later became chief
justice of the United States Superior Court, and Hon. Francis T. Nichols, a
former governor of Louisiana, who later was again elected governor of the
state, and also became chief justice of the Supreme Court of the state. From
the time of his admission to the bar Mr. Cross has been engaged in the general
practice of law in Baton Rouge, where he has long been known as a resourceful
trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. His offices are at 504-5 Roumain
Building, and he is senior member of the representative law firm of Cross &
Moyse, individual mention of his coadjutor, Hermann N. Moyse, being made in the
following sketch of this publication.
Mr. Cross believes, thinks and talks as a democrat. He served several years as
city attorney of Baton Rouge, and under the administration of Gov. L. E. Hall
he served as vice president of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural
and Mechanical College. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, and he is a member of the Baton Rouge Chamber or Commerce, the Baton
Rouge Golf and Country Club, the East Baton Rouge Parish Bar Association, the
Louisiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In the
Masonic fraternity Mr. Cross has the following named affiliations: St. James
Lodge No. 47, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 57,
Royal Arch Masons; and Plains Commandery No. 11 Knights Templars. He is a
director of the Bank' of Baton Rouge and is president of the Louisiana Fire
Insurance Company. Mr. Cross has extensive real estate holdings in Baton
Rouge, including his attractive home property at `11 St. Philip Street.
In the World war period Mr. Cross served as a member of the Military Draft
Board of East Baton Rouge Parish, and was zealous and liberal in support of the
government war bonds, as well as the Cross and other patriotic agencies.
September 2, 1885, recorded the marriage of Mr. Cross and Miss May A. Barr,
daughter of the late Rev. D. Eglinton Barr and Cornelia (Holmes) Barr, the
father having been a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mrs. Cross
is a graduate of Reade Villa Seminary, Baton Rouge, and has long been a popular
factor in the social and cultural activities of the capital city. Bolling
Allyn, elder of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Cross, is engaged in the real-
estate business at Baton Rouge, besides being a clerk in his father's law
office. He was graduated from the University of Louisiana with the degree of
Bachelor of Science. He was specially active in patriotic service in his home
parish during the World war period. Cornelia Holmes, the second child, is the
wife of Alfred Scott John, civil engineer for the Standard Oil Company of
Louisiana, in charge of construction, with residence and headquarters in Baton
Rouge.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 66-67, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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Author: Henry E Chambers
Robert E. Farrell is a veteran of the New Orleans cotton market, though a
comparatively young man in years. He has spent nearly thirty years of his life
with the same firm of cotton brokers at 843 Union Street.
Mr. Farrell was born at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 1, 1878, son of William H.
and Mary (Morris) Farrell, his father a native of Ireland, and his mother of
New Orleans, where she is still living. William H. Farrell was a contractor
and builder, and died when his son Robert E. was six years of age. His widowed
mother then removed to New Orleans where her son attended public schools and
the Soulé Business College. He was only sixteen when he went to work in a
railroad office, and two years later at the age of eighteen became an employe
of a cotton firm. With that firm he learned all the details of the cotton
brokerage business and in a few years had reached the position of a partnership
and has since been one of the active men in this organization. Mr. Farrell has
been a popular and resolute Citizen of New Orleans and for five years was
president of the Young Men's Gymnastic Club.
On September 8, 1897, he married Miss Fannie Newman Young, who was born in
Mississippi. They are the parents of three sons and four daughters: Miss
Frances M., Robert W., William Mason, Charles Fernand, Maud Dorothy, Mary
Elizabeth and Margaret Dixie, the oldest being twenty-three and the youngest
eight years of age. The son, Robert W. is a graduate of the Gulf Coast
Military Academy at Gulfport, Mississippi, and is now associated with his
father in the cotton business. The two other sons, William Mason and Charles
F., are members of the class of 1925 in the Gulf Coast Military Academy and
have made splendid records in that institution; Charles being captain of
Company B, on the sixth highest offices in the battalion, while his brother is
captain of Company A. Charles was captain of the football team in 1924, and was
elected president of the senior class. Mr. Robert E. Farrell is a director in
the Canal Commercial Bank & Trust Company at New Orleans.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 11, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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