Steele Burden oral history interview, 1978.

Koch, Richard, 1889-1971

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McIlhenny, Edward Avery, 1872-1949

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Edward Avery "Ned" McIlhenny, son of Tabasco brand pepper sauce inventor Edmund McIlhenny, was a Louisiana businessman, explorer, naturalist, and conservationist. He participated in Arctic expeditions as a young man before assuming control of the McIlhenny Company, overseeing Tabasco sauce production as president of the organization until his death. During his tenure, McIlhenny expanded, modernized, and standardized sauce production, as well as experimented with new ways of promotin...

Wilson, Samuel, 1911-1993

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Below Samuel Wilson's name is written "Burnbrae, " which indicates this Samuel Wilson was probably the Galloway poet and historian (1784-1863). He attended Glascow University for one session at least; perhaps this is a work from that period. For a time he was a wood merchant and may well have been involved in shipping. From the description of The Mariner's Compass : manuscript treatise by Samuel Wilson, 1806. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866460 ...

Hall, William Weeks, 1894-1958

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Burden, Steele, 1900-1995,

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Steele Burden worked for the city of Baton Rouge and LSU initially as a gardener and later as a landscape architect. He played a pivotal role in the founding and development of the LSU Rural Life History Museum at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., by donating the museum's site, Windrush Plantation, his family's home. From the description of Steele Burden oral history interview, 1994. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 262478452 Steele Burden worked...

Weeks, David, 1786-1834

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David Weeks was a planter, plantation owner, and sugar manufacturer of New Iberia, La. The son of William Weeks and Rachel Hopkins Swayze, Weeks was born in Feliciana, Spanish West Florida, in 1786. He purchased Parc Perdu Plantation and assumed management of the Weeks family estate upon his father's death in 1819. In 1825 he purchased the site of Shadows on the Teche Plantation in New Iberia but did not move into the completed house until 1834, the year of his death. Weeks owned a ...

National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States

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Knatt, J. Clement.

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

Cox, Robert Ray.

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Weeks Hall, the fourth generation and last private owner of Shadows on the Teche Plantation, restored its gardens in the 1920s and 1930s. Hall divided his grounds into "rooms" with a square garden, a round garden, and a "naturalistic garden," these being formed by boxwood hedges and aspidistra walks. He also added azaleas and increased the number of camellias. From the description of Robert Ray Cox oral history series, 1978. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70276850 ...