Gálvez, Bernardo de, 1746-1786

Bernardo de Gálvez, born in Marchavariaya, Spain, July 23, 1846, to Matias de Gálvez and Josefa Gallardo Madrid, served as a Spanish military officer and as the fourth Spanish governor of colonial Louisiana.

Spanish governor of Louisiana.

Gálvez served as Spanish governor of Louisiana from 1777 to 1783 during which time he supported American colonists against the British. He was named viceroy of Mexico in 1785.

Colonial governor of Louisiana.

Bernardo de Galvez, born in Marchavariaya, Spain, July 23, 1846, to Matias de Galvez and Josefa Gallardo Madrid served as a Spanish military officer and as governor of colonial Louisiana. He and his wife, Felicite de St. Maxent married in 1777 and had a son Miquel, and two daughters, Matilda and Guadalupe. The youngest, Guadalupe, died in childhood.

A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. An avid researcher and amateur historian, Parsons published numerous articles, pamphlets, and books, such as The Noble Art of Printing: An Exposition, with Some Account of Johann Gutenberg, the Father of Printing (1940), The Letters of Robert R. Livingston: The Diplomatic Story of the Louisiana Purchase (1943), The Alexandrian Library, Glory of the Hellenic World: Its Rise, Antiquities, and Destructions (1952), and The Wonder and the Glory: Confessions of a Southern Bibliophile (1962).

Source:

Lentz, Lamar. The Parsons Collection Revisited. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, No. 30, 1985: pp. 70-81.