Gay-Butler-Plater family papers, 1814-2009.

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Gay-Butler-Plater family papers, 1814-2009.

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The Gay-Butler-Plater Family Papers consist of correspondence, financial records, legal records, photographic materials, and personal papers created and accumulated by the Gay, Butler, Plater, and Price families of Louisiana documenting their political, social, and financial progression between 1814 and 2009. Correspondence consists largely of discussions regarding family news and problems, financial and legal issues, politics, travel, social life, plantation management and activities, and genealogical information. Financial and legal issues are often closely related and should be treated as complimentary information to each other. In addition to personal financial information particular to prominent family members, items reflect the growth of the family estates through investments, acquisitions of property, real estate development, and their capitalization on mineral and oil rights. Many of the early photographic images are portraits of family members. Most of the items related to Acadia Plantation (the Plater family home in Thibodaux, La.) are collected in their own series and for the most part are of a financial, legal, or administrative nature. Information related to the additional properties owned by the family (Calmes Neck, Foxlair, and Play Garden to name a few) are also available and contain information regarding their acquisitions and activities taking place there.

29 linear ft.25 v.14 oversize folders.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7048166

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Gay family.

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Edward James Gay (1816-1889) and Lavinia Hynes (1821-1891) were married in 1840. They lived in St. Louis, Mo., until the late 1850s, when Gay constructed St. Louis Plantation in Iberville Parish, La. The couple had six children: Andrew Hynes Gay (1841-1914), Edward J. Gay Jr. (1850-1878), John H. Gay (1853-1915), Sophia M. Gay [Crow] (1843-1929), Mary Susan Gay [Butler] (1846-1882), and Anna Margaret Gay [Price] (1855-1939). Edward J. Gay was a planter owning several plantations, sugar mills, an...

Gay, Edward J. (Edward James), 1816-1889

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Edward J. Gay, planter, merchant, and politician, was born Feb. 3, 1816, to John Henderson Gay and Sophia Mitchell Gay of Liberty, Va. The family relocated to St. Louis, Mo.,in 1824, where John established himself as a merchant. Edward later married Lavina Hynes, daughter of Andrew Hynes on Oct. 22, 1840. They had three daughters, Sophia, Mary Susan, Anna Margaret, and two sons, Andrew Price and Edward James, Jr. Upon the death of his father-in-law, Edward assumed control of Hynes' property in I...

Butler, Lawrence Lewis, 1836-1898.

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Plater, David D. (David Dunboyne), 1936-

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Price, Andrew, 1854-1909

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Gay, Lavinia Hynes, 1821-1891.

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Platter family.

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Plater, Richard C., 1872-1955.

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Plater, Richard C., 1908-

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Price, Anna Margaret Gay, 1855-1939.

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Hale, R. Walter, 1906-1987.

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Plater, Anna Gay Butler, 1877-1961.

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Gay, Edward J. (Edward James), 1850-1878.

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Butler, Edward Gay.

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Butler family.

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Plater, Sheela Burke, b. 1942.

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Plater, Ormonde

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Plater, Pamela Q. Robinson, 1914-1999.

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Butler, Mary Susan Gay, 1846-1882.

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