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Babin, Wallace Joseph, M. D., of Kenner, La., was born at San Gabriel, in Iberville parish, Jan. 18, 1876, and is a son of Louis and Odele (LeBlanc) Babin, both of whom were born in the same parish as was he. The paternal grandparents, Neville and Melanie (Part) Babin, were natives of Ascension parish. The maternal grandparents, Edward and Lucille (Allen) LeBlanc, were born in Iberville parish. Louis Babin enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of 19 years and served as a member of a cavalry company throughout the war. He took part in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and other important engagements. After the surrender he was honorably discharged and returned to his home at San Gabriel, where he lived the remainder of his days, devoting his energies to the business of a planter and general merchant. He was a public-spirited citizen and occupied a place of prominence among the people of his locality, serving many years as a member of the school board of Iberville parish and performing other public duties such as devolve upon the leading men of any region. He died in his 75th year, but is survived by his wife, who still resides at the family homestead. Eleven children were born to their union, and nine of these are now living, as follow: Louis Abner, married Anna Labiche of St. John the Baptist parish, who is now deceased, leaving 4 children; Wallace Joseph, subject of this sketch; Joseph Edward, now in the service of the Standard Oil Co., at Baton Rouge; Mary Mabel, wife of Joseph Byrne, merchant and planter of Iberville, Iberville parish, and mother of 1 child; Mary Mildred, wife of James Jumel, mechanical engineer, with the Standard Oil Co., at Baton Rouge, and mother of 5 children; Odele Ella, now Mrs. Mayhall, living at Burtville, La., where Mr. Mayhall is in the service of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R. They have 5 children. Mary Angel, educated at the Sisters' school, Baton Rouge, and Leah, educated at public and private schools in San Gabriel, are now at the parental home Louis Octave, a graduate of Soule' college, New Orleans, is now keeping books for the Standard Oil Co., at Baton Rouge. Wallace Joseph Babin received his early instruction from a private tutor at the home of his parents. Later he attended the public schools of San Gabriel. In 1892 he entered the pharmacy department of Tulane university, from which he graduated with the degree of master of pharmacy with the class of 1894. Thereafter he practiced the profession of pharmacy at his birthplace until the year 1900. In 1901 he entered the medical department of Tulane university and passed 3 years as a student at that institution, when, on account of threatened ill health, he withdrew and entered the medical department of the University of the South, from which he received the degree of M. D. with the class of 1905. In the same year he began the practice of medicine at Torres, La., but after 1 year in that location he moved his offices to Kenner, where he has since been engaged in general practice. He also owns an up-to-date drug store at the latter place, adjoining his residence, and does a general prescription business. The doctor is a member of the Catholic church. He affiliates with the democratic party, and has served as a member of the city council at Kenner since the incorporation of that place. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and Woodmen of the World, and fills the position of examining physician for the 2 last-named organizations; as well as for the Pan-American, New York Life and Cherokee insurance companies. Also, he is consulting physician for the St. Rosalie Italian society. Nov. 20, 1905, Wallace Joseph Babin was married to Emily LeBlanc, daughter of Simon and Emily (Greaud) LeBlanc of San Gabriel, and 3 children have been born to their union, namely: Jessie Lee, Mary Elsie and Rose Mary.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 711-713.

Bulloch, Hezzie D., M. D. Among the old Louisiana names that for generations have represented business, public, professional and social interests of importance, that of Bulloch occupies a leading place, and Dr. Hezzie D. Bulloch, physician and surgeon at Covington, and coroner of St. Tammany Parish, both professionally and personally maintains the old family prestige.

Doctor Bulloch was born in Washington Parish, Louisiana, August 15, 1882, a son of Sandy D. and Ida A. (Varnado) Bulloch, and a grandson of David and Lucinda Bulloch, the latter of whom still survives, residing at Picayune, Mississippi. David Bulloch was born on his father's plantation in Washington Parish, Louisiana, where the greater part of his life was spent as an extensive farmer. During the war between the states he served with valor in the Confederate Army, after its close retiring to his estate for the rest of his life.

Sandy D. Bulloch, who is one of the representative business men of Covington, was born on the home plantation in Washington Parish, March 16, 1861, grew to manhood there and engaged for a time in farming but later became a merchant. In 1896 he came to Covington, where he was active in mercantile life for ten years, in the meanwhile becoming interested also in banking, and since the Covington Bank & Trust Company was organized in 1898, has been its first vice president. He owns a great amount of valuable real estate, including extensive timber tracts. Mr. Bulloch is a very important factor in democratic political circles, for two terms serving as a member of the State Democratic Committee, and in the election for sheriff of St. Tammany Parish being defeated by only sixty-five votes. For a number of years he was an alderman of Covington, and at present is a member of the St. Tammany Parish Executive Committee of the democratic party. He is prominent also as a Mason, being a member of Covington Lodge No. 188, Free and Accepted Masons; Grand Consistory of the State of Louisiana, thirty-second degree, and belongs to Jerusalem Temple, Mystic Shrine, at New Orleans. He married Ida A. Varnado, who was born in Pike County, Mississippi, and died in December, 1923, at Covington, Doctor Bulloch being their only living child.

Hezzie D. Bulloch passed the first fourteen years of his life on the home farm in Washington Parish, where he attended both private and public schools. After the family moved to Covington he had further advantages, attending the high school at Franklinton, Louisiana, the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, in 1898, and the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Starkville, Mississippi, in 1899. He spent one year of study in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Atlanta, Georgia; another year in the medical department of the University of the South at Sewanee, Franklin County, Tennessee; a third year in the medical department of Tulane University, New Orleans, returning then to the University of the South for the fourth year of his course, and was there graduated in the class of 1903, with his degree of Doctor of Medicine.

It was in 1910 that Doctor Bulloch established himself in medical practice at Folsom, in St. Tammany Parish, where he practiced for seven years, and left an honorable professional reputation behind him when he came to Covington in 1917. He is a general practitioner and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens generally. An indication of this is shown by his election and reelections, continuous from 1916 to 1924 inclusive, to the office of coroner of St. Tammany Parish. He is a member of St. Tammany Parish Medical Society, of which he is a past president and a past secretary, and in December, 1924, was elected again as secretary and treasurer for 1925. He is also a member of the Louisiana State Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, and the Southern Medical Association. During the World war he was the medical member of the St. Tammany Parish Draft Board.

Doctor Bulloch married at Sewanee, Tennessee, December 20, 1903, Miss Elizabeth Levergne Brazleton, daughter of H. W. and Lottie Brazleton, of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Doctor and Mrs. Bulloch have one son, Wilson Donice, who was born September 30, 1904. He graduated in 1924 from the Covington High School and is now a student at the Louisiana State University. Doctor Bulloch and his family are members of the Baptist Church. He owns real estate at Folsom, Louisiana, and a comfortable, attractive residence situated on Lockwood Street, Covington, maintaining his offices in the Bulloch Building, a modern structure on Columbia Street, Covington, owned by his Lather, whose property interests here are large. In politics he has always been affiliated with the democratic party. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner, a member of Covington Lodge No. 188, Free and Accepted Masons; St. Tammany Chapter No. 80, Royal Arch Masons, Covington, of which he is a past high priest; Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar; Jerusalem Temple, Mystic Shrine, New Orleans, and the Grand Consistory of Louisiana. He is a member also of Holly Camp No. 31, Woodmen of the World, at Covington, and of the United Order of Ancient Druids.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, pp. 157-158.

Buquoi, Joseph Felicien, M. D., of Covington, St. Tammany parish, was born March 12, 1879, in Pointe Coup e parish, La., and is a son of L. Buquoi, native of Pointe Coup e, who died at the age of 48, and of Helen Bourgeois, of St. James parish. After having attended St. Stanislaus college, Bay St. Louis, Miss., and having selected medicine as his profession, Dr. Buquoi matriculated in the medical department of Tulane university, New Orleans, from which he received the degree of M. D. Succeeding this, he took a post-graduate course at the New York polyclinic. He began his professional career at Lutcher, where he remained for 5 years. Though strongly supporting the democratic party, the doctor has never accepted any public office. In religion, he is a Catholic. He is a member of the State and Parish Medical societies, and of the Knights of Columbus. June 25, 1903, Dr. Buquoi married Miss Mabel Comeaux, daughter of Capt. E. J. Comeaux, the widely known steamboatman of St. James parish, and his wife, Zulma Tircuit Comeaux. Dr. and Mrs. Buquoi have 4 children: Fabian Edward, 9 years of age; Earl Andrew, Mildred Cecelia and Francis Harold.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, p. 718.

Burns, Albert Sidney. A well-known figure in the professional and social life of Ponchatoula, Albert Sidney Burns deserves the esteem he enjoys, for he is an able and successful attorney and good citizen. He was born near Madisonville, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, April 2, 1892, a son of Edward Burns, and grandson of Freeman Burns, the latter born in St. Tammany Parish, now Tangipahoa Parish, where his entire life was spent. His death occurred at Covington, Louisiana. For many years he was an extensive operator in lumber, and owned and operated saw mills. During the war of the '60s he espoused the cause of the Confederacy, and served throughout that fiercely-contested conflict. He married Harriet Hornsby, also born in St. Tammany Parish, and she died near Madisonville. The Burns family is one of the very old ones of this part of Louisiana, the great-grandfather, Drosan A. Burns, having been a resident of St. Tammany Parish at a very early date. The great-great-grandfather, Ambrose Droson Borgne, as the name was then spelled, belonged, through his mother's family, to the Rousseau family.

Edward Burns was born in 1860, in St. Tammany Parish, on the Tehefuncta River, and died at Covington, St. Tammany Parish, November 18, 1918. Reared and educated in his native parish, he became a steamboat captain on inland lakes and their tributaries, and followed this calling for twenty-eight years. In 1900 he moved to Covington, and there lived in practical retirement. He was a democrat. The fraternal order of the Woodmen of the World held his membership. He married Rosalie Elflein, who was born at New Orleans, in 1871. She survives him and resides at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The following children were born to them: Robed H., who volunteered for service during the World war, went to France with the Thirty-ninth Division, was transferred to the Eighty-second Division, was wounded November 10, 1918, in the Argonne Forest, and died in a field hospital November 11, 1918; Albert Sidney, whose name heads this review; Clyde F., who resides at New Orleans, a marble worker; Frank G., who is mentioned below; Vandedor W., who is a chemist and registered pharmacist, now a pre-medical student in the Louisiana State University; and Ena E., who is a student of the Louisiana State University. Frank G. Burns, of the above family, was in time Naval Reserves for a short period during the World war, and then, at time age of eighteen years, he was released from this service and became a marine engineer. He financed himself through college and completes his four years course with the class of 1925 in the Louisiana State University, as a mechanical engineer. All of his expenses are being defrayed by him with money he has earned himself. He is specializing in efficiency and expects to become an efficiency expert.

Albert Sidney Burns attended the Covington public schools, and was graduated from its high-school course in 1910. After studying stenography he read law in time offices of Benjamin M. Miller, of Covington, Louisiana, and was admitted to the bar June 8, 1914. From that date until January 1, 1922, he was engaged in a law practice at Covington, and then established himself at Ponchatoula and has since built up a general civil practice. His offices are in the Merchants and Farmers Bank and Trust Company. A democrat, he is city attorney of Ponchatoula. He is a member of the Ponchatoula Presbyterian Church, the Louisiana Bar Association, Tangipahoa Parish Bar Association, the Hammond Country Club and the Louisiana Kennel Club. He is a director, attorney and one of the largest stockholders of the Ponchatoula Homestead Association, and stockholder, director and attorney for the Merchants and Farmers Bank and Trust Company. He specializes in commercial law. He owns a very desirable residence, corner of Magnolia and Eighth streets, Ponchatoula, and other real estate in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes.

On August 26, 1915, Mr. Burns married, at New Orleans, Miss Linnie Mai Locke, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Locke. Mr. Locke is residing at Chattanooga, Tennessee, but his wife is deceased. Mrs. Burns was graduated from Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, and for three years prior to her marriage was engaged in teaching school in Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. Burns have one child, Albert Sidney, Jr., who was born June 26, 1920.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, p. 168.

Cooley, Le Verrier, Jr., attorney-at-law, Slidell, St. Tammany parish, La., was born at New Orleans, La., Aug. 15, 1885; son of Le Verrier and Sophia (Bell) Cooley, the former of whom was born at Savanna, Ill., and the latter at New Orleans. Both the Cooley and Bell families have extensive branches, and trace their ancestors back through many successive generations. Representatives of the maternal branch of the family have long been residents of New Orleans. Le Verrier Cooley was educated in the public schools of New Orleans, later taking a course at Rugby academy, in that city, and finally entering the law department of Tulane university, from which institution he graduated in due time. Following his graduation, he was soon admitted to practice before the supreme court of Louisiana and the Federal courts, and at once entered upon what proved to be a satisfactory and successful practice as an attorney in New Orleans. However, for sufficient reasons, he some time later removed to Slidell, La., and has now removed to Slidell, La., and has now been a practicing attorney in that place something like 5 years, his clients increasing as the years go by. Mr. Cooley is a member of the New Orleans Bar association, the St. Tammany Bar association and the Barrister society of graduates of the Tulane law society of graduates of the Tulane law school. He is a reform democrat, and affiliates with the Protestant church.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, p. 720.

Elliott, Judge Clay, attorney-at-law, Amite City, La., was born in St. Tammany parish, La., Oct. 13, 1862; son of Charles and Sarah Ann (Bankston) Elliott, the former of whom was a native of Charleston, S. C., and the latter of St. Tammany parish. Charles Elliott, in 1866, moved to that part of the western portion of Washington parish which was soon afterwards incorporated into what is now the parish of Tangipahoa. Clay Elliott, the son, received his early education in the public schools of the parish of Tangipahoa, the Gullett institute at Amite City, and Mississippi college, at Clinton, Miss. He graduated from the law department of the Tulane university in 1888, and the same year began the practice of law at Covington, La., where he remained actively engaged in professional duties until 1898, when he moved to Amite City, at which place he has continued the practice of law. Judge Elliott is affiliated with the democratic party. By close application to the study of his profession, and being ever on the alert to stand in the front rank of those who follow his calling, Judge Elliott has come to be recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in Louisiana. His neighbors, recognizing this, have advanced him to important positions of honor and trust. He has held official positions, such as notary public in the parish of St. Tammany and mayor of Covington; member of the Louisiana state senate, representing the 17th senatorial district, and district judge of the 25th judicial district. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. In 1892 Judge Elliott was married to Miss Flora Spiller, daughter of Elisha and Mary J. (Singeltary) Spiller, the former of whom was born in the parish of St. Helena, and the latter in the parish of Livingston, La. Four children have been born to Judge and Mrs. Elliott, namely: Charles, now 20 years of age; Mary Pauline, 17; Robert Clay, deceased, and Charlotte Hortense, aged 12 years.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, p. 721.

Everitt, Charles A. In the building up of substantial business enterprises ample capital is not only requisite, the human factor being of still greater importance. There must be able, cautious men of sterling character and honesty of purpose, with judgment to inaugurate and courage to carry out policies, and also to secure and to keep the confidence and good will of the public. A man of this type is found in Charles A. Everitt, prominent in business circles at Slidell, Louisiana, for a long period, and one of the organizers of the Bank of Slidell, of which he is president and acting head.

Mr. Everitt was born at Handsboro, Mississippi, October 16, 1879. His parents were Charles E. and Effie (Liddle) Everitt, the latter of whom, born in 1857, resided at Pass Christian, Mississippi. His father, Charles E. Everitt, was born in 1856, at Decatur, Mississippi, a son of Dr. George G. Everitt, for many years a leading physician and surgeon, in his native state, his home being at Newton during the greater part of his life. His wife was a member of the well known old Mayers family of Mississippi. Charles E. Everitt was identified with large business concerns all his life, for many years prior to coming to Slidell in 1899, being with the Liddle Lumber Company in Mississippi, and afterward, until his death in February, 1904, was connected with the Salmen Brick & Lumber Company of this place. His political support was always given to the democratic party, and from youth onward he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Four children all survive: Charles A.; George William, who lives in Honduras, a locomotive engineer for the Bragman Bluff Lumber Company; Elere, who resides at Picayune, Mississippi, the widow of Norman Gillis, who died at Covington, Louisiana, while serving as deputy clerk of the court of St. Tammany Parish; and Dona, who is the wife of Levere V. Cooley, an attorney at law at Slidell.

Charles A. Everitt was instructed in private schools in boyhood, also attended the high school at Handsboro later on, but his school days were practically over by the time he was sixteen years old. He came to Slidell in 1896 and was employed as a bookkeeper and in other capacities in business houses until 1906, in which year he assisted in the organization of the Bank of Slidell, of which he was made cashier. In 1920 he was made its vice president and active head of the institution also, and was elected president in 1924. The Bank of Slidell was opened for business in January, 1906, capital stock $30,000; surplus and profits $40,000; deposits ~300,000. Its officers are: C. A. Everitt, president; A. E. Carr, cashier; E. F. Hailey, J. Peterson, H. Alens and T. J. Eddins, vice presidents.

Mr. Everitt married, January 8, 1906, at New Orleans, Miss Alice Carr, daughter of Fred and Henrietta (Chilcott) Carr, the former of whom died at New Orleans. Mr. and Mrs. Everitt have one daughter, Janice C., who is a student in the Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette. Mrs. Everitt, who is a graduate of the New Orleans High School and of the New Orleans Normal School, taught school in that city for one year before marriage. The family belongs to the Episcopal and Baptist churches.

Mr. Everitt has important business interests besides those of his bank. He owns a comfortable residence on Brakefield Avenue, Slidell; is vice president of the Southern Garage & Motor Company of this place, and is vice president of the Slidell Ice & Light Company. He is somewhat active in democratic politics and at present is treasurer of the town of Slidell. During the World war he was chairman of the Liberty Loan and the Red Cross drives for Slidell District of St. Tammany Parish and in every situation proved his patriotism and trustworthiness. Long prominent in Masonic circles, he is a member of Slidell Lodge No. 311, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master; Pontchartrain Chapter No. 68, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is a past high priest; and Jaques de Molay Commandery No. 2, Knights Templar, New Orleans. He belongs also to the Knights of Pythias and is a past chancellor of Rathbone Lodge No. 103 of this order.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, pp. 152-153.

Frederick, Edward Jacob. Among the substantial citizens of Covington, Louisiana, one of prominence both in business and public affairs is Edward Jacob Frederick, secretary of the St. Tammany Ice & Manufacturing Company, one of the most important commercial enterprises of this section. Mr. Frederick has other large interests in St. Tammany Parish, of which he is proud to be a native son, for he was born at Covington, January 30, 1871, the youngest child of Jacob and Pauline (Metz) Frederick.

Jacob Frederick was born in Alsace, France, in 1835, and died at Covington, Louisiana, in 1871, where he had resided ever since coming from his native land to the United States in early manhood. He was a man of energy and enterprise, of industry and good judgment, and among his successful business undertakings was the acquirement of farm lands, the raising of cattle, and the ownership and operation of sawmills. He married Pauline Metz, who was born at Metz, Germany, in 1838, and survived him many years, passing away at Covington in 1904. Of their family of eight children’ Edward Jacob was the youngest, an infant at the time of his father’s death, the others being: Charles, who was a merchant at Covington at the time of his death; Carrie B., who resides with her youngest brother; Emile, who is a retired merchant of Covington; Josephine, who is a resident of Covington, married first Capt. Henry T. G. Weaver, owner of the steamboat “Josie Weaver,” and after his death married Dr. George R. Tolson, now deceased, a well known physician and hotel proprietor at Covington; Adolph, who is distributor for the St. Tammany Ice & Manufacturing Company, and resides at Covington; Clara, who is the wife of Howard Burns, of Covington, surveyor of St. Tammany Parish, was married first to the late John M. Simmons, formerly a merchant at Covington; and Victor, who was in the drug business in New Orleans, where he died at the age of fifty-three years, always maintained his home at Covington.

Edward Jacob Frederick had both private and public school advantages at Covington, after which he took a full course in the Soule Business College, New Orleans, from which he was graduated in 1890, immediately afterward embarking in the mercantile business at Covington, in which he continued for fourteen years and during this period was engaged also in turpentine manufacturing under the firm name of Frederick & Singletary. In 1904, upon retiring from the above enterprises, Mr. Frederick became identified with the St. Tammany Ice & Manufacturing Company as manager, and since 1919 has been secretary of the company. ‘The offices of this company are situated on Theard Avenue, Covington, where the extensive plant is also located. The company is engaged in the manufacture of ice, with the latest improved modern machinery, and also supplies electricity to Covington, Mandeville, Abita Springs and Ramsay, and additionally to some adjacent rural districts, the comfort and accommodation of this service being beyond praise.

Mr. Frederick married at Covington, Louisiana, March 19, 1900, Miss Blanche A. Hebert, who is a daughter of Dr. Nemo Hebert, a retired physician and surgeon now residing at Claiborne, Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick have eight children: Edward J., who bears his father’s name, is an expert electrician at Covington; Elma, who lives with her parents; Lawrence C., who is assistant bookkeeper of -the St. Tammany Ice & Manufacturing Company; Hebert, who now operates a farm for his father, was graduated from St. Paul’s College, Covington, in the class of 1923; Helen, who graduated from the Scholastica School at Covington in 1924 and who is now a student at the State College at Lafayette, Louisiana; Charles O. and James B., both of whom are attending St. Paul’s College; and Allen T., who is yet in the parochial school. Mr. Frederick and his family are members of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church at Covington.

As an intelligent and public-spirited citizen Mr. Frederick has been more or less active in political life ever since he reached manhood, and at times has served most efficiently in public capacities. He has been clerk of the court of St. Tammany Parish, and for fourteen consecutive years served on the City Council of Covington, in which office his sound business judgment proved of very substantial benefit. He has always voted with the democratic. party. During the World war he served on the draft board of St. Tammany Parish, and was active in giving support to all patriotic movements. He is a member of the Covington Chamber of Commerce and as a watchful citizen is ever ready to give encouragement to worthy enterprises that seek a home here if they prove trustworthy in fact as well as promise. Mr. Frederick is one of the heavy landowners of St. Tammany Parish, his holdings including 5,000 acres of farm and timber land and his handsome residence on Theard Avenue, which is surrounded by a cultivated, beautifully laid-out lawn, a half city square in dimension, on which stand thirty historic old pine trees, that attract the interest and admiration of every tourist. He belongs to a number of representative fraternal organizations, being a member of Covington Lodge No. 188, Free and Accepted Masons, which he has served as junior warden; Covington Lodge, Knights of Pythias; and the United Ancient Order of Druids.

Contributed 2025 Jun 13 by Norma Hass, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, pp. 169-170.

Gardere, Paul Joseph, mayor of Slidell, St. Tammany parish, La., was born at New Orleans, La., June 20, 1876; son of August F. and Virginia (Fazende) Gardere, the former of whom died at the age of 47 years. The widow survives, and at this time has attained her 63rd year. Mr. Gardere, the subject of this sketch, was educated in public and private schools at the city of New Orleans and shortly following the term of his tutorage became engaged in the lumber business, which has from that time largely occupied his attention, he having filled the important position of manager of the lumber department of the Salmen Brick & Lumber Co., for 9 years. Mr. Gardere votes the democratic ticket, and is now serving his second term as mayor of the town of Slidell. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church. June 23, 1906, Mr. Gardere was married to Miss Lottie P. Hardee, daughter of M. T. and Adele (Cook) Hardee, of South Carolina. Their home has been blessed with 4 children, namely: Lydia Marie, 6 years old; Virginia, 4 years; Lottie Ella, 2 years, and Owena Hattie, 1 year. Mr. Gardere is also a member of the fraternal order of Redmen.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 721-722. .

Hand, Thomas Jefferson, of Slidell, St. Tammany parish, La., was born in Clark county, Miss., March 24, 1856, and is a son of John Fagan and Eliza Jane (Melton) Hand, the former of whom was born in Mississippi and the latter in Alabama. Mr. Hand was educated in the public schools of the locality adjacent to his Mississippi home, and for a number of years following the period of his schooling devoted his energies to the development of various enterprises and industries. In 1895 he removed to Slidell, St. Tammany parish, La., and since this date has continued to make that place his home. He is treasurer of the Slidell Light Co., and president of the Homestead association of that town. Mr. Hand has been a life-long democrat; and is at this time serving his 12th year as a member of the town council of Slidell. He affiliates with the Protestant church, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias, and Redmen. Nov. 13, 1883, Mr. Hand was married to Miss Elizabeth Pickel, a daughter of George Pickel. Mrs. Hand's death occurred in 1906. No children were born to them.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 724-725. .

Heintz, Ludwig C., M. D. Professionally considered, perhaps Covington is as well served as any of the smaller cities of Louisiana, for here are assembled a goodly group of highly educated men whose cultural tastes undoubtedly have an effect out every branch of community life. A representative member of this body is Dr. Ludwig C. Heintz, physician and surgeon, who deservedly occupies a place of prominence.

Doctor Heintz was born at Covington, Louisiana, March 21, 1883, eldest son of Dr, Frederick Julius and Winifred (Cochran) (Schafer) Heintz, and grandson of Rev. Ludwig P. Heintz, who for many years was a distinguished clergyman of the Lutheran Evangelical Church at New Orleans. He was born in Germany, in 1821, and came to the United States shortly before the Civil war, settling in New Orleans, which in a general way was the scene of his Christian work for forty years. He was the founder of the German Orphan Asylum, a great philanthropy, situated on State Street, New Orleans, and also founded the Lutheran Evangelical Church on the corner of Chippewa and Jackson streets, New Orleans, of which he was pastor for many years. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity.

Dr. Frederick Julius Heintz was born at New Orleans in 1854, was graduated in medicine from Tulane University, and shortly afterward established himself in practice at Covington, where he continued until 1897. In that year he removed to Abita Springs, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1909 while on a trip to New Orleans. For twelve years he served as mayor of Abita Springs, and during the same length of the was coroner of St. Tammany Parish. He was an able member of the medical profession, was honest and efficient in public office, belonged to the Masonic fraternity and was a member of the Lutheran Evangelical Church. He married Mrs. Winifred (Cochran) Schafer, who was born in New Orleans, in 1863, and now resides there. Her first marriage was to George Schafer, a druggist, and was associated with him in business, being the first registered pharmacist of her sex at Covington. Seven children were born to Doctor and Mrs. Heintz: Ludwig C.; Frederick J., who is a lawyer at Covington; Clarence, who is in the insurance business at New Orleans ; Alma, who is the wife of Edward Corrales, in the plumbing business at New Orleans ; Edward who is an electrician and lives in New Orleans; Edna, who is the wife of L. C. Broussard, in the electrical business at New Orleans; and Joseph, who is an electrician in business at New Orleans.

Ludwig C. Heintz attended the public schools of Covington, and in the class of 1902 was graduated from the Boys School, a private institution of merit conducted by the eminent Dr. Henry E. Chambers and then entered Tulane University, where he Completed his medical course in 1906, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the same year Doctor Heintz opened his offices in Covington, Where he has built up a fine practice and at present is located in the Cormier Drug Store out Main Street. From 1906 until 1914 he filled the office of coroner of St. Tammany Parish, he is a member of the St. Tammany Parish Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association,

Doctor Heintz married at New Orleans, June 20 1907, Miss Lucile Toujan, daughter of Edward and Eva (Lafleur) Toujan, the former of whom during life was a merchant in New Orleans. The wife of Doctor Heintz was a child of such beauty and perfect proportion, that she was chosen when a little girl as the model for the child on the McDonough statue, New Orleans. Doctor and Mrs. Heintz have five children, three of whom are in school: Mignon, Audrey, Romona, Ludwig C., Jr., and Jack H. Doctor Heintz owns one of the handsomest private residences of Covington, beautifully situated its the midst of a well kept lawn on Jhancke Avenue, and additionally has several valuable farms in St. Tammany Parish. In political sentiment he is a democrat, but not unduly active; fraternally he is a member of Olive Camp No. 31, Woodmen of the World; and since boyhood has been a member of the Lutheran Evangelical Church.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, p. 386.

Lyon, Elmer E.

In an earnest discussion concerning the true worth of the country's public school, it was a broad-minded, thoughtful, sensible school man who asserted, "It is the school superintendent and his work and standards that are the determining factors in the real value of the public schools." Thus in placing time responsibility on the superintendent no man of mediocre talent or attainments could hope to succeed. For the past twelve years, during which period the schools of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, have made remarkable progress, they have been under the superintendency of Prof. Elmer Eugene Lyon, who has spent his entire life in educational work,

Professor Lyon was born at Lunenburg, Vermont, November 13, 1874, and is a son of John W. and Elizabeth M. (Carter) Lyon, grandson of John Bowker and Arvilia (Olcutt) Lyon, and great-grandson of John and Lucy Lyon. The Lyon family, or original Scotch-Irish extraction, came from Scotland to the American colonies and settled in New England before and later took part in the Revolutionary war. John Lyon was born at Salisbury, Massachusetts, July 5, 1770, became a worthy citizen of Lunenburg, Vermont, and died there March 7, 1855. His wife, Lucy, was born at Guildhall, Vermont, April 5, 1765, and died at Newport, Canada, May 11, 1867. Their son, John Bowker Lyon, was born at Lunenburg December 30, 1804, and died on his farm adjacent, June 28, 1885. This farm he hath cleared from time wilderness and it represented years of patient industry and family thrift. He married Arvina Olcutt in 1828, born at Rockingham, Vermont, of noted ancestry, November 27, 1808, who died at Lunenburg February 26, 1866.

John W. Lyon, father of Professor Lyon, is a very highly esteemed citizen of Covington, Louisiana, near which he owns a small farm. He was born at Lunenburg, Vermont, on September 13, l850, and went almost forty years of his life as an extensive farmer there. In 1888 he removed to Wentworth, New Hampshire, and for time next quarter of a century conducted a tin shop and hardware store at that point, he was active in the affairs of that town and served as selectman for several terms. In early political life he was a democrat, but later became a republican. In 1914 he came to Covington and secured his small farm, finding interest in looking after its management although practically retired from active life. To his marriage with Elizabeth M Carter, born at Concord, Vermont, June 24, 1855, the following children were born: Elmer Eugene and Virginia Rose. The latter was married first to David N. Eaton, her second marriage was to Edward R. Greenlaw, who is president of the Greenlaw Truck & Tractor Company of New Orleans.

Elmer Eugene Lyon was primarily educated in time New Hampshire literary institute, a private school at New Hampshire in New Hampshire, passing from there to Lawrence, Academy, at Groton, Massachusetts, from which institution he was graduated in 1896. He then entered time University of New Hampshire, at Durham, and was graduated with the class of 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. While there he took part in many of the pleasant activities of the university outside of class work, and is a member of time Kappa Sigma Greek letter fraternity.

In the year of his graduation Mr. Lyon went to Meriden, Connecticut, where for the next two years he was a teacher in the Connecticut School for Boys, and then accepted the offices of commandant and instructor in history and literature in the Dixon Academy at Covington, Louisiana, which was founded by B. V. D. Dixon, ex-president of Sophia Newcomb College of New Orleans, where he continued for three years. For two years following he was a teacher in Rugby Academy, New Orleans, and then returned to Covington to become principal of the Covington High School. After serving as such for two years he went back to Rugby Academy, where he taught until January, 1912, in time meantime having under consideration the offer of time superintendency of the schools of St. Tammany Parish. Since taking charge he has been reappointed every four years since, his last reappointment dating from 1921 to 1925. In this position he has under iris supervision 102 white teachers and fifteen colored teachers, while time pupils aggregate 5,800.

Mr. Lyon married at New Orleans, June 12. 1906, Miss Emma Virginia Whelpley, daughter of Samuel M. and Emma (Hoffman) Whelpley, both deceased. The father of Mrs. Lyon was a civil engineer, and in that capacity built a large lighthouse at Columbia, South America, where be served as United States consul under the administration of President Harrison. Mr. Lyon owns his comfortable residence on Jackson Street, Covington. In political sentiment he is a democrat, and in religious association belongs to the Universalist Church. He is a member of Covington Lodge No. 188, Free and Accepted Masons, and St. Tammany Chapter No. 80, Royal Arch Masons, and belongs also to time Order of Odd Fellows. He has many connections that are congenial with representative professional organizations, and is in close membership with time Louisiana State Teachers Association, time National Education Association, and the Superintendents' Division of the national body.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, pp. 179-180.

Marrero, Frank G., M. D., physician, of Covington, La., and long identified with public affairs, was born at Natchez, Miss., Jan. 21, 1855. He is the 5th son born to Bastian A. and Lydia Ami (Swayze) Marrero. The father was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools, and followed overseeing for some years in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. While yet a young man he went to Adams county, Miss., where he married Miss Phipps, who bore him 1 child, a girl, both mother and child dying in less than 2 years. He engaged in merchandising at Natchez until 1855, when be moved to Concordia parish, La., and followed cotton planting until 1862. In that year he moved to Franklin parish, later to Ouachita, and in 1867 to St. Bernard, his native parish. His parents were Spaniards, who settled in St. Bernard many years ago and remained there until their death. Lydia Ann Swayze died in Concordia parish in 1857. She was the eldest daughter of Louis H. Swayze, a cotton planter of Adams county, Miss. Dr. Frank G. Marrero, having acquired the necessary preliminary education, entered Tulane university, from which he received the degree of M. D. After some previous experience in his professional work, he located in Covington in 1885. By close attention to his professional calling and being constantly on the alert to improve himself in its manifold developments, he has acquired a satisfactory and in every way desirable practice. As a democrat, he has taken a lively interest in all local questions of importance. His standing in the community where he lives may be judged by the fact that he has been mayor of the city of Covington for 3 terms. His religious affiliations are with the Catholic church. April 30, 1884, Dr. Marrero married Miss Adeline Ames, daughter of Charles P. and Harriet (Moore) Ames, of New York. To their union 1 son, Edward Frank, was born Dec. 10, 1885.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 781-782.

Miller, Henry Carlton, successively United States district attorney and justice of the supreme court of the state of Louisiana, was born at Covington, La., in the year 1828, son of Branch W. Miller, who was a lawyer of prominence and reporter of the Louisiana supreme court from 1831 to 1834, inclusive, in which latter year the father died. Henry Carlton Miller received such education as was common to young men of the South at that time. His primary instruction was received in private schools, but the advanced knowledge he gained as a young man was derived from careful private study and from extensive and intelligent reading a habit he retained until it is said reading had become second nature with him, and erudition a marked characteristic. After the completion of his earlier studies, Mr. Miller accepted a position as clerk in the postoffice. When nineteen years of age he began the study of law in the office of Elmore & King, one of the leading law firms of that time. Mr. Elmore, who later became Judge Elmore, was then attorney general of Louisiana. After the completion of his professional studies, and creditable passage of the required examination, Mr. Miller was admitted to the bar in the year 1851, and began the practice of law in the city of New Orleans. Three years later he entered into partnership with Thomas Hunton, and in 1858, when Hon. Thomas J. Semmes was elected attorney general of Louisiana, Mr. Miller was appointed to succeed him as United States district attorney, this being only 7 years from the time Mr. Miller had commenced the practice of law. He remained incumbent of that office until the state of Louisiana seceded from the Union, when he was appointed to the same position under the Confederacy. In this capacity, throughout the period of the Civil war, he was a part of the "Nomadic court," which moved from place to place as the Federal lines of conquest came too close for officer. Returning to New Orleans after the surrender. Mr. Miller practiced law alone until the summer of 1869, when he became associated with the firm of Lea, Finney & Miller, previously Bradford, Lea & Finney, and prior to that Benjamin, Bradford & Finney, eventually succeeding to the large legal practice of those firms, of which he finally became the only surviving member. During these years Mr. Miller was attorney for the Canal and Louisiana National banks, for the Citizens' bank during 25 years, and for the board of liquidation of the city debt from the time of creation of that board, being of counsel in almost every important case in which the city was involved up to the time of his appointment as a justice of the supreme court of Louisiana. He was attorney for a number of large corporations, and enjoyed the patronage of a very large general clientele, resulting in an extensive and important business, at once a test and a proof of superior legal abilities. In 1893, when Mr. Justice Parlange was appointed Federal judge for the eastern district of Louisiana, there were the usual number of candidates for the prospective vacancy on the supreme bench, but Gov. Foster went outside the field of aspirants and asked Mr. Miller to accept the appointment so soon as the U. S. senate should confirm Judge Parlange's nomination. At first Mr. Miller declined, but Gov. Foster pressed the matter, and the appointment was finally accepted, rather against the will of the appointee. After having served on the supreme bench with distinguished ability during a number of years, and while yet incumbent of that high office, Justice Miller died at his home in New Orleans at 11 :45 p. m., Saturday, March 4, 1899, after a brief illness. Justice Miller was twice married. His first wife was Miss Louisa Knox, a daughter of Thomas B. Knox, of St. Landry parish, La., and 3 children were born to this union, namely: Branch Knox Miller, who became a distinguished lawyer of the New Orleans bar, now deceased, and who is elsewhere referred to in this work; Grace, widow of Horatio W. Turner, and Annie, wife of Dr. A. W. de Roaldes. Some years after the death of his first wife, Judge Miller was married to Miss Laura Clement, a daughter of Dr. Charles Clement, of Iberville, La. This marriage was in the year 1866, and 4 children, as follow, were born to this union: Clement Miller, now deceased; Mrs. E. W. Hall, of Baltimore, Md., and the Misses Laura and Ethel Miller, of New Orleans.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 799-800.

Moise, Leonard Compton, of Covington, St. Tammany parish, was born at New Orleans, June 8, 1862; son of Theo. S. and Mathilde (Vaughn) Moise; the former died at the age of 76 and the latter when 72 years of age. After studying at the Christian Brothers' college, Bay St. Louis, Miss., and next at Spring Hill college, near Mobile, Ala., Mr. Moise took up the practice of law. He was attorney of the town of Houma, and district attorney of Terrebonne parish. For the past 9 years he has been a resident of Covington, where he is engaged in the practice of law. Mr. Moise is a member of the St. Tammany bar, and of the supreme court bar of the state. He married, Feb. 17, 1887, Miss Regina Mouton, daughter of Onesime and Mathilde (Dugas) Mouton, of Louisiana, and niece of the late ex-Gov. Mouton, of Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. Moise have 8 children. The eldest is Marie Lucille, now Mrs. Bernard Dauterive, 25 years of age; mother of Vaughn, and Bernard Dauterive; the other children are: Leonard Sidney, Robert Vaughn, Rock Compton, Thomas Garland, Anthony Kenneth, Joseph Russell and Rita Louise. In religion, Mr. Moise is a Catholic, and in politics a democrat.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 729-730.

Paine, Ruffin Baker, M. D. An old Southern family that is claimed by both Mississippi and Louisiana bears the name of Paine, a name well known in the professions and of distinction in military life. The Paines came from England in Colonial days and established themselves in Mississippi as farmers and artisans. The Louisiana branch of the family was founded by Lieut. Ferdinand Paine, an honored veteran of the Mexican war, who was the grandfather of Dr. Ruffin Baker Paine, prominent citizen and leading physician and surgeon of Mandeville, Louisiana.

Dr. Paine was born at Jackson, Louisiana, November 23, 1865. His parents were John L. and Ann Eliza (McPherson) Paine, and his paternal grandparents were Ferdinand and Mary (Wilkes) Paine. Ferdinand Paine was born at Vicksburg, Mississippi. He learned the carpenter trade, and followed the same after coming to Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. He enlisted as a private for service in the Mexican war, a conflict that brought to light the military genius of many commanders, but few exploits excited more comment or were more successful than at a critical point in battle with Gen. Santa Anna when Private Paine broke ranks and almost alone captured the enemy’s breastworks. This was such a serious breach of military discipline that a court-martial followed, but instead of the gallant soldier being punished, he was applauded and commissioned a first lieutenant. His health was undermined, however, by the hardships of the campaign, and his last days were spent in a hospital at Bayou Sara. His wife was born in the City of London, England, was brought to America by her parents when two years old, and was reared at Vicksburg.

John L. Paine, father of Doctor Paine, was born at Jackson, Louisiana, February 15, 1837, and died at Bayou Sara November 22, 1877. He was a cooper by trade, and had his own shop when coopering was done by hand. He served in the Confederate army all through the war between the states, and for a number of years afterward was active in democratic politics at Bayou Sara, where he served in such offices as town constable. He was twice married, first to Ann Eliza McPherson, who was born in 1833. in West Feliciana Parish, and died at Bayou Sara in 1868. Of their five children, Theodore, Lelia Anna, Nellie, Ruffin Baker and Henry Hartford, Doctor Paine is the only survivor, the others dying in childhood. John L. Paine’s second marriage was to Mattie Eckert, who was born at Fort Adams, Mississippi, and died at Bayou Sara leaving one daughter, Mary J. Lucas, who died in Arkansas at the age of thirty-five years.

The public schools of Jackson prepared Doctor Paine for Centenary College, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1882, with the degree of A. B., during his college period having been an active member of the Union Literary Society. He then entered Tulane University, and was graduated from its medical school in the class of 1888 with his degree of M. D., having already established a practice at Anacoco, Louisiana, where he remained for seven years. Seeking a wider field of usefulness Doctor Paine came to Mandeville in 1894, and during his thirty years of residence here has built up an enviable professional reputation throughout St. Tammany Parish, and also has had much to do with the substantial progress and development of the city, of which he has had the honor of serving two terms as mayor. He is a member of St. Tammany Parish Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. He is the present health officer of Mandeville.

Doctor Paine married at Anacoco, Louisiana, November 23, 1887, Miss Ida Weldon. Her father, Rev. Abraham J. Weldon, was a well-known minister in the Baptist Church, and both parents are deceased. Doctor and Mrs. Paine have five children: Ruffin Alexander, who is a physician and surgeon at Shreveport, Louisiana, is an overseas veteran of the World war, and served eight months in France as a first lieutenant in the American Army Medical Corps; Ella Eugenia, a teacher by profession, was vice principal of the Mandeville High School in 1922-23; Clyde Weldon, who is connected in a business way with the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans, is an overseas veteran of the World war, during his seven months’ service in France as a first lieutenant in an infantry regiment being seriously wounded in the St. Mihiel offensive and in hospital from October 23, 1918, until March 31, 1919; Marion Ida, who is the wife of William E. Johnson, a cotton buyer for Newburger, Rankin & Company, New Orleans; and Frances Helen, who is a student in All Saints College, Vicksburg. Doctor Paine and his family belong to the Mandeville Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is a steward of the church property. He owns an exceedingly handsome residence situated on the corner of Lake and Coffee streets, Mandeville, and maintains his offices there and has additional valuable real estate here. In his political views: Doctor Paine has always been a democrat. He is a member of Covington Lodge No. 188, F. and A. M., of Coving- ton; St. Tammany Chapter No. 80, R. A. M., Covington, and is a past high priest of the same. Other representative fraternal organizations of which he has long been a member include Rathbone Lodge No. 104, Knights of Pythias, Slidell, of which he is a past chancellor; and Mandeville Camp No. 451, Woodmen of the World, of which he is a past consul commander, and for four years past has been clerk of Mandeville Camp.

Contributed by Norma Hass, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, pp. 150-151.

Anthony John Park, A. B.

Public spirit and civic pride have been manifested by the citizens of Covington, Louisiana, in securing and retaining so able and well, qualified an educator as principal of the city high school as Prof. Anthony John Park, who has been a resident of Louisiana for the past sixteen years.

Anthony John Park was born at Grafton, Pennsylvania, June 16. 1872, eldest son of Thomas N. and Anna B. (Anderson) Park, and grandson of Anthony Park, who was born in New Jersey, in which state his forefathers had settled when they came to the American colonies from England. Anthony Park became ~n extensive farmer near Grafton, Pennsylvania, married Nancy Showalter, of that state, reared a creditable family and died at Markleysburg, Pennsylvania.

Thomas N. Park was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, in 1831, and during some years was a farmer there. In 1894 he moved to Windber, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the mercantile business until he retired from active life in 1923. He still resides in that village, one of its most highly respected citizens, a republican in political life, and a leading member of the German Baptist Church. He married Anna B. Anderson, who was born in Huntingdon County in 1849, and the following children were born to them: Anthony John; Ruhama Catherine, who is the wife of Elliott, C. Schuldt, a lumber dealer at Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Samuel W., who resides at Grafton, Pennsylvania, a painter and decorator; Ella, the wife of Robert Stewart, who is employed by the Loraine Steel Company at Johnstown, Pennsylvania; and Janie and Lottie, twins, the former of whom is the wife of Howard Smeltzer, foreman in the lumber yard at Johnstown, and the latter, the wife of Chalmer Dilling, a contractor and builder at Nanty Glo, Cambra County, Pennsylvania.

Professor Park received his early educational training in the public schools of Huntingdon County, and when nineteen years old taught his first school there and continued to teach for the next five years, when he became associated with his father in the mercantile business, but, finding himself not commercially inclined, after four years of merchandising began to turn his attention to further preparation for the profession toward which he was naturally inclined, and in the class of 1908 was graduated from Juniata College with the degree of B. E. In the meanwhile he worked for one year in the coal mines of Somerset County, and for one year as a logging contractor in the lumber regions, prior to 1900, when he became principal of a grammar school at Windber, in which position he continued until 1907. In 1908 he came to Louisiana, and in the fall of that year accepted the principalship of the high school at Cheneyville, this state, and during the four years he remained there his reputation became so well established as an organizer and educator that Covington became anxious to secure his services. In 1912 he came to Covington as principal of the Covington High School, and the relation so established has been cordially maintained ever since. Under his supervision he has seventeen teachers and 350 pupils. A hearty spirit of co-operation marks the school's activities, Professor Park's broadminded policy and sympathetic interest, as well as his personal example, exerting an influence that arouses emulation. He has always been an enthusiastic student himself, and in the class of 1918, was graduated from Potomac University at Washington, District of Columbia. He is a member of the Louisiana State Teachers Association.

Professor Park married at Warren, Ohio, July 21, 1906, Miss Eva Bell, daughter of Thomas M. and Frances Bell, the latter of whom resides at Toledo, Ohio. The father of Mrs. Park was a mine carpenter, and died at Windber, Pennsylvania. She was afforded superior educational advantages, attending the Indiana State Normal School and Juniata College, and for two years prior to her marriage was a very acceptable teacher in Pennsylvania. Professor and Mrs. Park have two daughters: Ruby Helen, who is a member of the sophomore class in the Covington High School; and Camille, who is also a high school student.

In politics Professor Park is affiliated with the democratic party, but only as a private citizen, cherishing no desire for public office. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner, a member of Covington Lodge No. 188, Free and Accepted Masons, and secretary of the lodge for the past four years; St. Tammany Chapter No. 80, Royal Arch Masons, of which chapter he was elected secretary in 1924; Jacques de Molay Commandery No. 2, Knights Templar, New Orleans; and Jerusalem Temple, Mystic Shrine, New Orleans. He still retains, from boyhood, his membership in the United Brethren Church at Windber, Pennsylvania. His Bachelor of Arts degree was secured at Potomac University.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, pp. 181-182.

Powell, Cincinnatus Dickson, M. D. One of the most successful and highly esteemed members of the medical profession, Dr. Cincinnatus Dickson Powell has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Delhi, Franklin Parish, for the past decade, and owns and operates a fine plantation in the Fifth. Ward of this parish, He was born at Issaquena, Mississippi, August 15, 1883, a son of John and Cynthia (Hutchins) Powell.

John Powell was a merchant and planter of Issaquena County, Mississippi, and died when Doctor Powell was an infant. For the next few years the family lived at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and then moved to Utica. The surviving children of the family are: William B., who is a merchant of Utica; J. M., who is a business man of Belzoni, Mississippi; C. D. Powell, and Mrs. J. C. Winters, of Utica, Mississippi.

Carefully educated, Doctor Powell was first a student at Jefferson Military College, and later of the University of Kentucky, and his medical training was taken at the Memphis, Tennessee, Hospital School, from which he was graduated in 1908, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1911 and 1912 he took up post-graduate work at Tulane University. Following the securing of his degree, Doctor Powell located at Folsom, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. From there he went into the cattle district of Ashland, Montana, and upon his return did some special work at Tulane University. He then established himself in the Fifth Ward of Franklin Parish. When Doctor Powell entered upon his professional duties he made his rounds on horseback or with a horse and buggy. Now he travels in a highpowered car. Other changes quite as remarkable have taken place during the period he has been in practice. He has followed with zealous interest the wonderful discoveries in medical and surgical science, and kept himself abreast of all of them, not only by means of his post-graduate work, but also by reading and study. His success in his profession is not to be wondered at, for he is well fitted by nature for his work, and his kindly, sympathetic manner wins him warm friends at the same time that his undoubted skill commands respect and inspires confidence.

In 1921 Doctor Powell was married to Jessie Redfield, a daughter of James Redfield, of Winnsboro. Doctor Powell finds congenial relaxation in hunting and fishing, and is a great lover of nature. His time and attention are so fully occupied with his professional duties and the cares of his plantation that he has never cared to enter public life, but he is interested in having the right men put into office, and willing to work to bring about this end. Although not a native son of the parish, he is enthusiastic with reference to its possibilities, and feels that its natural resources are almost inexhaustible, and if they are properly developed, practically no limit can be placed upon the advancement of this section of the state. He is a Knight of Pythias and a Mason.

Contributed 2025 Jun 13 by Norma Hass, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, p. 234.

Singleton, Foote Rivers, M. D. One of the prominent and useful citizens of Slidell, Louisiana, is Dr. Foote Rivers Singleton, physician and surgeon of long experience, who is justly held in high esteem because of his professional skill and his sterling character. Doctor Singleton was born at Fort Gibson, Mississippi, December 19, 1881, and is a son of Rev. Hiram Rivers and Amelia (Smith) Singleton, the latter of whom survives and resides at Covington, Louisiana.

The late Rev. Hiram Rivers Singleton, for many years a distinguished minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in 1852 at Jeanerette, Louisiana, and died at El Paso, Texas, in 1912. He was educated at Potter’s College, a well known institution at Jackson, Louisiana, at that time, and then entered upon his ministerial work, which he continued until the close of a long and useful life. He filled many charges in Mississippi and Louisiana, and assisted in building up some of the largest in his church body, notably the churches at Canton and Yazoo, Mississippi, the Rayne Memorial Church at New Orleans, which was the first Methodist Episcopal Church south of Baton Rouge. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity. To his marriage with Amelia Smith the following children were born: Hampton R., who died at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1916, was at that time pastor of the Cook Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, South of that city; Lila, who is the widow of John H. Blumer, lives at Moss Point, Mississippi; Ruth is the wife of Claude N. R. James, of near Gulfport, Mississippi; Frank E. is pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Fort Worth, Texas; Foote Rivers; Ewell D. is general sales manager with the Continental Roofing Company, Baltimore, Maryland; and Charles G. is general manager of the N. O. Nelson hardware store, Dallas, Texas.

Doctor Singleton had excellent educational advantages in his youth, as the family home was usually in some large city. From the high school in New Orleans he entered Centenary College at Jackson, Louisiana, which he left in 1902) While there he became a member of the Kappa Sigma college fraternity. He then entered Vanderbilt. University, Nashville, Tennessee, and was graduated from the Medical School of that institution in 1907 with his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Prior to coming to Slidell in 1916 Doctor Singleton had engaged in medical practice at other points in Louisiana, spending two years at Acadia; one year at Woodworth; one year at Jackson, and four years at Pointe a la Hache. Since coming to Slidell and establishing his offices opposite the Community House he has built up a very substantial practice and has served two years as president of the Board of Health of the town. He belongs to many representative medical organizations, including St. Tammany Parish Medical Society; Louisiana State Medical Society; Southern Medical Association; American Medical Association; and the Association of Surgeons of the Southern Railway, and is local surgeon for the Southern and also for the Standard Brick and Clay Products Company. During the World war he was local surgeon for the government ship yard at, this point, where 1,200 men were then employed.

Doctor Singleton married in March, 1908, at Jackson, Louisiana, Miss Mary Edith Tomb, who is a graduate of Feliciana Female Collegiate Institute. She is a daughter of Samuel G. and Mary (Tomb) Tomb, the latter of whom is deceased. Her father, .a merchant, now lives retired at Jackson. Doctor and Mrs. Singleton have three sons and one daughter: Rivers, Guy Tomb, David and baby Marguerite. The family belongs to the Slidell Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Doctor Singleton being a steward of the church property. He is a Chapter Mason, belonging to Slidell Lodge No. 311, Free and Accepted Masons, and to Pontchartrain Chapter No. 68, Royal Arch Masons, at Slidell, of which he is high priest. He is a member also of Slidell Camp, Woodmen of the World. By tradition, inheritance and conviction Doctor Singleton is loyal to the principles of the democratic party.

Contributed 2025 Jun 13 by Norma Hass, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, pp. 156-157.

Sylvest, Murphy J. is not only the efficient and popular principal of the high school at Franklinton, judicial center of Washington County, but is also serving (1924) as representative of his native county in the Louisiana Legislature.

Mr. Sylvest was born on a plantation near Franklinton, Washington County, March 19, 1892, and is a scion of the third generation of the Sylvest family in Louisiana. His paternal grandfather, Francis Sylvest, was born in Portugal, where he was reared and educated, and he was an ambitious youth of seventeen years when he came to the United States, he having thereafter been employed three years on a whaling vessel. His marriage occurred in South Carolina, and finally he came to Louisiana and established his residence in St. Tammany Parish. He operated a schooner between Mandeville and New Orleans until his removal to Tangipahoa Parish, where he became a prosperous farmer. He passed the closing years of his life with his children who were residing in Washington Parish, and was venerable in age at the time of his death. His wife, whose family name was Stevenson, was born and reared in South Carolina and she preceded him to eternal rest, her death having occurred in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.

Edward A. Sylvest, father of the subject of this review, was born in Tangipahoa Parish, in 1854, and since his young manhood he has been successfully engaged in farm enterprise near Franklinton, Washington Parish, though he has been retired from the active management of his farm since 1921. He is a staunch democrat and he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church. Mrs. Sylvest, whose maiden name was Leah Wallace, was born ana reared in Washington Parish, which has ever continued her place of residence. Odeal, eldest of the children, is the wife of Robert E. Baham, a prosperous agriculturist and stockgrower in Tangipahoa Parish; Idell is the wife of Isaac Corcoran, a farmer near Franklinton; Stevenson, a progressive farmer in Washington Parish, was for six months in service in an infantry regiment of the United States Army in the World war period and was stationed at Camp Nichols, near New Orleans; Mozella is the wife of Isaac Baham, a merchant and farmer in Tangipahoa Parish; Murphy J., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Edward E. is (1924) a student in the Bible Institute in the City of New Orleans; Grace died at the age of twenty-two years; Walter is a student in the Franklinton High School; Hammond resides on and has active management of the old home farm; Earl remains at the parental home and is attending the public schools of. Pine Ridge; — Junia is the wife of Moses Vineyard, of Ponchatoula; and Elva is the wife of Edward Walker, a merchant at that place.

The early educational advantages of Murphy J. Sylvest included those of the high school of which he is now the principal, and in 1915 he was graduated in the Louisiana State Normal College at Natchitoches. At the age of twenty years he had initiated his service as a teacher in the schools of his native parish, and he was for four years principal of the high school at Pine Ridge. In 1917-18 he was principal of the high school at Moreauville, and in the summer of 1918 he resigned the position of clerk in the enrolling room of the Louisiana Legislature to enter the military service of the nation in connection with the World war. His enlistment occurred June 25, 1918, and at Camp Pike, Arkansas, he was assigned to a regiment of infantry. Subsequently he was there assigned to service in the information office of the medical department, at the base hospital, and he thus continued his service, with the rank of corporal, until he received his honorable discharge, July 1, 1919. In 1919-20 Mr. Sylvest was principal of the Pine Ridge High School, and in the latter year he was elected representative of Washington Parish in the State Legislature, the high estimate placed upon his activities as a legislator having been shown in his reelection in 1924 without opposition for a second term of four years. In 1920 he became assistant principal of the high school at Franklinton, and since the autumn of 1922 he has been its principal, with supervision of the work of seventeen teachers and somewhat more than 500 pupils. In the meanwhile, with characteristic assiduity, Mr. Sylvest had applied himself to the study of law, and in 1922 he received from Hamilton College, in the City of Chicago, the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He has been admitted to the bar of his native state and intends eventually to engage in the practice of law, though he is an enthusiast in. his service in the pedagogic profession.

Mr. Sylvest is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, and he and his wife are active members of the Baptist Church at Franklinton. In the period of 1921-23 he was secretary and treasurer of the local Farm Loan Association, representing the Federal Land Bank. In 1921 he was made captain of Troop G of the One Hundred and Eighth Cavalry of the Louisiana National Guard, and he retained this office until the early part of 1924. He is affiliated with Franklinton Lodge No. 101, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Though he resides at Franklinton, Mr. Sylvest is the owner of a valuable farm property of 120 acres, seven miles southwest of this place, and forty acres of this tract are planted to young pine trees.

August 16, 1922, recorded the marriage of Mr. Sylvest to Miss Jennie Burris, daughter of Stephen H. and Alma (Varnado) Burris. Mr. Burris was a representative merchant at Franklinton at the time of his death, and here his widow still maintains her home. Mrs. Sylvest was graduated in the Franklinton High School and thereafter was a student in the Louisiana. Polytechnic Institute at Ruston. In the South Mississippi Infirmary, at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, she received Her diploma as a graduate nurse, and thereafter she was engaged one year in the work of her profession at the Mississippi State College for Women, at Columbus. Mrs. Sylvest is a popular figure in the social and cultural activities of her home community.

Contributed 2025 Jun 13 by Norma Hass, extracted from 1925 A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, vol. 2, p. 314.

Todd, John Alexander, well-to-do citizen and retired lumberman; son of John Alexander and Martha F. (Gaines) Todd, was born in St. Tammany parish, La., March 1, 1879. The father was born near Biloxi, Miss., whence he moved to ' St. Tammany parish about 1849 and followed farming there until his death, Aug. 9, 1904. John Alexander Todd, the grandfather was a native of Scotland. Arriving in America, he first located in Ohio. Being a sailor, he made several trips down the Mississippi river with barges of produce to the New Orleans market. Attracted by the Southern climate, he finally settled in Biloxi, where he remained the rest of his life. The subject of this sketch has always lived in his native parish. As there were no public schools in his vicinity, he acquired only an elementary education, but his early training while assisting his father in the logging business gave him the thorough knowledge of timber, which contributed so largely to his later success. In 1905, while but a young man of 26 years, he built and began operating a saw mill at Lacombe, which he enlarged and improved several times. In conjunction with this, he also conducted a very successful commissary. In 1913 he sold the entire business-mill, timber and commissary to the W. W. Carre Co., Ltd., of New Orleans, for $125,000.00; it is now known as the Lacombe Lumber Co. Since retiring from the lumber business, Mr. Todd has been principally dealing in real estate, of which he owns about 2,000 acres, and is very enthusiastic in the settlement and development of the rich lands about him. Mr. Todd's father was a member of the police jury of St. Tammany parish for 20 years, and the son has held the same office for the past 2 years, being a member of the Finance committee. Mr. Todd owned the commissary in Lacombe for 3 years. The last year the business amounting to $33,500.00 with a $4,000.00 stock. This was sold with the mill to the Carre' company. Jan. 21, 1903, he was married to Miss Bertha M. Pierce, of Iowa. They have 5 children: John A., Jr., Walter, Mandane, Arthur, Elizabeth. He belongs to and is a steward of the M. E. church, South. Mrs. Todd's father was Howard A. Pierce, who was born in Kennebec county, Me., Aug. 16,1837, and in 1851 went to Boston as clerk in a dry goods store. In 1854 be moved to Fond du Lac, Wis., where he married, Sept. 9, 1857, Miss Mandana L. Knight. In 1858, with 15 others, he started on an overland journey to California. Thirteen abandoned the journey, but Mr. Pierce continued. His wife went via New York, thence to the Isthmus of Panama, crossed it and then on the Pacific to California. They lived in California until 1862, Mr. Pierce being engaged in mining and stock raising. In that year he moved to Nevada, and in 1863 returned to Wisconsin. Mr. Pierce enlisted in Co. D, 50th Wisconsin infantry, and served to the end of the war. After the war he moved to Sac county, Ia., where he took an active interest in all public affairs. In 1885 he went to Sac City, Ia., and conducted a foundry and machine shop, giving attention to plumbing and the manufacture of lightning rods. In 1897 he left Iowa for Central America, but got no further than New Orleans. He went to Lacombe to visit relatives, and was so taken with the opportunities that he decided to locate there. His remaining years were spent in Lacombe as a farmer, his death occurring Nov. 30, 1909.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 578-579.

Warren, William Julian, planter and merchant, residing in Covington, La., was born in St. Tammany parish, La., Aug. 17, 1877. He is a son of Harrison Rankin and Arthemise Harriet (De Maille) Warren, the latter of whom was born in Covington, La., in 1850. Mr. Warren was educated in the public schools of his native parish, and there continued to reside throughout his youth and early manhood. As the years advanced he devoted his time and energies to the occupation of planter and later entered the mercantile business in the town of Covington. He has given his attention to his business so successfully that it is now one of the largest in the parish. Mr. Warren, on his mother's side, is a direct descendant of the noble house of De Maille of France, and he has in the Archives of his family the title, crest and seal of the family. His genealogy traces direct to the Marquis de Maille, through his grandfather, Jules B. de Maille. In politics Mr. Warren is aligned with the democrats, and is a communicant of the Catholic church. He is numbered among the membership of the Knights of Columbus, and of Boguefalaya Grove No. 21, Ancient Order of Druids. Nov. 6, 1901, Mr. Warren was married to Miss Mary Augusta Toffier of New Iberia. They are the parents of 2 children, Harrison Rankin, Jr., and Hazel Augusta.

Contributed by Mike Miller, extracted from 1914 Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 580-581.