Notable New Orleanians: A Tricentennial Tribute

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BIOGRAPHICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS ABRAMSON, MARION 109 ALCIATORE, ANTOINE AND FAMILY 76 AMBROSE, STEPHEN E. 122 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS 108 BALDWIN, ALBERT 80 BECHÉT, SIDNEY 105 BEGUE, ELIZABETH 79 BEHRMAN, MARTIN 95 BIENVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE 11 BLANC, ARCHBISHOP ANTONIE 41 BOGGS, HALE AND LINDY 115 BRENNAN, OWEN AND FAMILY 112 BRION, JULIE 23 CABLE, GEORGE W. 82 CALDWELL, JAMES A. 37 CARONDELET, DON FRANCISCO 19 CELESTIN, OSCAR 98 CLAIBORNE, WILLIAM 26 CLAPP, REV. THEODORE 35 COHEN, WALTER LOUIS 91 COLE, CATHARINE 88 CORDEVIOLLE, ETIENNE AND FRANCOIS LACROIX 44 COUVENT, MARIE C. 21 DART, HENRY PLAUCHÉ 90 DE ARMAS FAMILY 37 DEJOIE, ARISTIDE 83 DELGADO, ISAAC 82 DELILLE, HENRIETTE 47 DENT, ALBERT W. 109 DESDUNES, RODOLPHE 85 DOLLIOLE, JEAN LOUIS AND JOSEPH 28 DREYFOUS, FELIX 86 DUBREUIL, CLAUDE-JOSEPH VILLARS 14 DUNBAR-NELSON, ALICE 96 DUNN, OSCAR J. 78 DURHAM, JAMES 22 EASTON, WARREN 84 FAVROT, CLAUDE-JOSEPH AND FAMILY 20 FORTIER, ALCÉE 89 FRANCIS, MURIEL BULTMAN 119 GAYARRÉ, CHARLES 43 GODCHAUX, LEON 77 GOLDMAN, JEROME 120 GOTTSCHALK, LOUIS MOREAU 78 HALEY, ORETHA CASTLE 124 HANNAN, ARCHBISHOP PHILLIP 115 HAUGHERY, MARGARET 48 HENRY, TROY (CHINK) 111 HERBERT, WALTER 106 HIGGINS, ANDREW 99 HOLMES, DANIEL HENRY 73 JACKSON, MAHALIA 113 KING, GRACE 87 KOCH, RICHARD 102 LABORDE, ALDEN J. “DOC” 116 LAFFITE, JEAN AND PIERRE 31 LAFON, BARTHELEMY 25 LAFON, THOMY 46 LAVEAU, MARIE 41 LIVAUDAIS, JACQUES 12 MALONE, SISTER STANISLAUS D.C. 94 MARIGNY, BERNARD 33 MATAS, RUDOLPH 92 MATASSA, COSIMO 121 MCDONOGH, JOHN 29 MONTANA, ALLISON “TOOTIE” 119 MOREAU-LISLET, LOUIS 24 MORIAL, DUTCH 121 MORRISON, JACOB AND MARY 114 NAVARRO, FELIX 17 NEWMAN, ISIDORE 81 NICHOLSON, ELIZA JANE 85 NICKERSON, CAMMIE 101 OCHSNER, ALTON 104 PETERS, SAMUEL JARVIS 42 PILIÉ, JOSEPH AND LOUIS H. 34 PLESSY, HOMER ADOLPH 93 PONTALBA, MICAELA 39 POYDRAS, JULIEN 18 PRUDHOMME, PAUL 125 RILLEUX, NORBERT 45 ROBB, JAMES 73 ROBERTS, NASH 117 ROUDANEZ, LOUIS CHARLES 75 SALAZAR, JOSÉ 16 SAVARY, JOSEPH 30 ST. MAXENT, GILBERT ANTOINE 15 STERN, EDITH AND EDGAR 103 TOURO, JUDAH 27 TOUSSAINT, ALLEN 123 TUREAUD, A.P. 107 URSULINE NUNS 13 VACCARO, JOSEPH 89 WILLIAMS, L. KEMPER AND LEILA 100 WISDOM, JOHN MINOR 110 WOOD, ALBERT BALDWIN 97 WRIGHT, SKELLY J. 111 NOTABLE NEW ORLEANIANS: A Tricentennial Tribute 4
INTRODUCTION On the occasion of the Tricentennial of the founding of New Orleans, the Louisiana Historical Society is pleased to honor a selection of the men and women who contributed to the creation of our community. Some received notice in their lifetimes, others not. Their achievements serve as models for our present generation, so that men and women of today will persevere in building up New Orleans. We here begin our praise of these departed men and women, some who were famous, “but of others there is no memory….” 1 The one hundred notables described in this volume include the famous like Lindy and Hale Boggs as well as the forgotten like Julie Brion. In many cases each represents a class, or cause, or enterprise. But, as the prophet Sirach assures us, their virtues have not been forgotten; their heritage remains with their descendants. These Notable New Orleanians explored the wilderness, laid out the city, established families and businesses, engineered technological solutions, created music or literature, carved out our legal system, wrote history, spoke the language, built our neighborhoods, preserved architecture, carried on customs, gave spiritual nourishment, nursed the sick, left bequests, or provided political or civil rights leadership. This is a volume about contributions, not criticism. The individual histories do not seek to weigh the pros and cons of each life. They present the positive and leave the negative for others. How poorer would our history have been without their contributions? “It is well,” writes Will Durant, “to study history as it was lived and made.” 2 With that truth in mind, we offer our notables in the order in which they were born, confident that as the stories of our civic ancestors unfold, so develops the story of our community. Their contributions were such that they affected the outcome of events, thus influencing the lives of citizens. As no successful leader works in a vacuum, the participation of others has always been required to accept and carry on their inspiring work. In this way the achievements of our notables have spread into the municipal culture, into its landscape. It is evident that the Louisiana Historical Society can only present a limited number of achieving men and women from the city’s three hundred complex years. But choices must be made and the Louisiana Historical Society is proud to offer its choices to contemporary New Orleans. Among our criteria is that a given figure is deceased. Thus, representation from those born in the twentieth century was reduced. In addition fame was not a requisite for being chosen. Though the volume begins with biographies of Jean Baptiste Bienville and the Ursuline Sisters, continuing through Gilbert Antoine St. Maxent and Governor Francisco Carondelet, it includes the unknown such as physician James Durham. These one hundred men and women are notable for what they did and whom they helped. Charity was never far from their lives, but it was principally their occupations in life that made them notable. Engineer Albert Baldwin Wood made pumps that changed New Orleans. A. P. Tureaud fought lawsuits that revolutionized even more than New Orleans. Oscar Dunn set an example for business-like prudence that shows where Reconstruction might have gone. The great doctors learned their profession and then worked ceaselessly to advance it. Professor Stephen Ambrose not only conceived the National WWII Museum, but also donated substantial sums to make it happen. John Schwegmann did not give away food, just a way to sell it to more people more conveniently. Dutch Morial didn’t give away caresses; he demanded the right to do his job. The great families of Livaudais, Favrot, De Armas and Dejoie were great not because of their generosity, but because of their self-confidence, their faith in the future. Unlike the modern family, they had numerous children, because they were proud of their culture, present and future. The Louisiana Historical Society has always stood apart from serving a political or private interest. Through eight lectures a year the LHS invites all those who burrow in Louisiana’s archival records to speak about their work. It celebrates! For a century the LHS has hosted a great banquet in honor of the victory at Chalmette of the American forces. It likewise hosts a commemoration at the Cabildo each December to re-enact the transfer of Louisiana from France to the United States. In this volume this Tricentennial year the Louisiana Historical Society points to the notable men and women of our past and asks your recognition. William D. Reeves NOTES 1 Sirach 44: 9. 2 Will Durant (Compiled and edited by John Little), The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 69. INTRODUCTION 5
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community was abandoned after 1850
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first president of the Levee Board.
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