Genealogical papers, 1936-1986.

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Genealogical papers, 1936-1986.

Letters, genealogical sketches and charts, and transcriptions of records relating to the Leche family in Louisiana and Germany. Also included are materials dealing with the Charleville, Reynolds and other related families. Among the correspondents are Karl J. Arndt, Professor of German at Louisiana State University (and later at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.) and Mrs. John Trotwood (Mary Brown Daniel) Moore, State Librarian and Archivist of Tennessee. Later correspondence of Richard W. Leche, Jr. and other family members carries on the genealogical study of Governor Leche following his death.

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New Orleans public library

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Charleville family.

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Arndt, Karl John Richard.

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Karl Arndt, born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1903, was a scholar of German-American history specializing in utopian societies. He was a professor at Louisiana State University from 1935 until 1947, and at Clark University, where he was head of the German Department from 1950 to 1969. He served in the United States Military Government in Germany, in the Office of Church-State Relations, from 1945 to 1950. Arndt wrote several volumes of history on the Harmony Society, including George R...

Leche, Richard Webster, 1929-

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Reynolds family.

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Leche family.

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Moore, Mary Brown (Daniel), 1875-1957.

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Leche, Richard W. (Richard Webster), 1898-1965

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Attorney, politician, and governor of Louisiana (1936-1939). From the description of Genealogical papers, 1936-1986. (New Orleans Public Library). WorldCat record id: 18770596 Richard W. Leche graduated from Loyola University Law School in New Orleans, La., in 1923. He managed Louisiana Governor Huey Pierce Long's campaign for the United States Senate in 1930, was secretary to Long's successor as governor, Oscar K. Allen, and was elected governor in his own right as the Long...