Historic Louisiana

Rountree, Louis M., 62, 63
Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company, 59-60
Royal Dutch Trading Company, 59
Royal Petroleum Company, 59
Ruddock Cypress Company, 54
Russell, William, 44
Russell, William Howard, 41
Ryan, Jacob, 55
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Sabine Lake, 6
Sabine River, 6, 59
Sallier, Charles, 55
Samuelson Trading Company, 59
Sarah Thornton, 40
Savage, J. S., 59
Savage, W. A., 59
Scott, John, 28
Seale, William, 40
Seguin, Andre, 56
Senet, Jean Louis, 10
Sewall, John O., 33
Shaw, A. M., 62
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 68
Shreve Town Company, 33
Shreve, Henry M., 33
Shreveport, 33-34, 59, 73-74
Sibley, John, 33
Sicily Island, 6
Sigur, Laurent, 53
Slidell, John, 27, 29, 74
Slidell, Thomas, 27, 29
Smedley, E. J., 33
Soulé’s Business College, 59
Southdown Plantation, 46
Southern Lumberman, 54
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 49,
55, 57
Southwest Louisiana Land Company, 50
Spanish-American War, 36
St. Augustine Church and Cemetery, 18
St. Bernard Parish, 5, 14, 72
St. Charles Hotel, 63-64
St. Charles Parish, 5, 13, 23, 62
St. Cyr, Paul, 75
St. Francisville, 8
St. Francisville-Woodville Railroad, 39
St. James Parish, 13, 49
St. John the Baptist Parish, 5, 13
St. Landry Parish, 55
St. Louis Church, 9, 15
St. Martinville, 13
St. Mary’s Parish Land Company, 64-65
Standard Oil Company, 58-59, 74-75
Stanton, Frederick, 47
Strong, Jesse, 40
Suburban Land Company, 62
Sun Oil Company, 65
Swamp Hunting, 14
Swampland Act, 53
Sweet Lake Land & Oil Co., 55
T
Taft, William Howard, 29
Tennessee Valley Authority, 35
Ternant, Vincent, 9
Terre Aux Boeufs, 14
Texaco Corporation, 59, 76
Texas Pacific Railroad Company, 35, 57
Thorton, William, 30
Tidewater Marine, Inc., 60
Timken Roller Bearing Company, 63
Timken, H. H., 63
Todd Shipyards, 56
Tulane University, 62-63, 74
Tulin, 5
Tunica Indians, 6
Twentieth Pursuit Group, 34
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
35-36, 61, 63
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 46, 48,
62
U.S. Land Office, 28
U.S. Public Health Service, 37
Union Bank, 32
Universal Oil, Gas, and Mining Company,
59
Ursuline Sisters, 11, 20
V
Van Predelles, B. F., 28
Vastar Resources, Inc., 65
Vernon Ranger District, 55
Viavant, James G., 58
Vigé, Louis, 10
Villars, Gabriel, 12
Villeré, Jacques Philippe, 29-31
Vivant, Constance, 17, 43
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War of 1812, 30, 39
Ward, Toby, Jr., 44
Washington Parish, 28
Washington Parish Fair, 28
Watkins, Lynn Boyd, 69
Waud, A. W., 11
WCAG, 75
Weiss, Carl, 76
West Baton Rouge, 30
West Feliciana Parish, 27
Westwego, 10, 50-51, 70
Wheeler, Burton, 76
White Hall, 39
White Lake, 6
White, Edward Douglas, 29-30
White, Edward Douglass, 29-30, 35, 67-
68, 74
White, James, 29
Whitesides, George, Jr., 44
Whitney Bank, 33
Whitney Plantation, 65
Whitney, Eli, 46
Wilkinson, James, 31
Williams, Francis Bennett, 54
Win or Lose Oil Company, 76-77
Winnfield, 74
Wisner Estates, Inc., 63
Wisner, Edward, 61
Woodward, Wight, and Company, 54
World War I, 37, 59
World War II, 34, 55, 57-58, 60, 65
Wright Laboratories, 49
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 60
Wright, Salmon “Sol” Lusk, 49-50
Y
Young Men’s Democratic League, 73
Z
Zeringue, Michel, 10
Zimpel, Charles Frederick, 32
SPONSORS
The Advocate.........................................................................118
Best Western Hotel Acadiana..................................................100
Harold Callais ........................................................................136
The Castagnos Family ............................................................140
Community Trust Bank ..........................................................124
DePaul • Tulane Behavioral Health Center .............................114
Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc. ...............................87
The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center .................................98
Frank’s Casing Crew & Rental Tools, Inc..................................84
Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. and
McMoRan Exploration Company ..........................................88
Grambling State University ....................................................130
Kalorama Nature Preserve ......................................................141
LATTER & BLUM, Inc./Realtors .............................................110
Louisiana Federal Credit Union..............................................128
The Louisiana Historical Society.............................................129
McIlhenny Company..............................................................123
MMR Group.............................................................................92
Morris & Dickson Co., Ltd. ...................................................116
Motiva Enterprises, LLC...........................................................94
New Orleans Firemen’s Federal Credit Union.........................126
Northeast Louisiana Telephone Company...............................108
Omni Royal Orleans.................................................................96
Orleans Materials & Equipment Company, Inc.......................133
Piccadilly Cafeterias ...............................................................120
Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans...............................102
SLEMCO................................................................................106
Sonesta Hotels of New Orleans ..............................................101
Southeastern Louisiana University..........................................132
Southern Comfort and M. W. Heron.........................................99
Texaco, Inc...............................................................................80
Trico Marine Services, Inc. .......................................................90
Tulane University Hospital & Clinic.......................................112
Village of Bonita.....................................................................135
Village of Collinston...............................................................134
Whitney National Bank ..........................................................127
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