Donelson Caffery, Jr. letter, 1889.

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Donelson Caffery, Jr. letter, 1889.

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Letter dated 1889, from D. Caffery, Jr., to W.B. Logan, U.S. Marshal in New Orleans, concerning the sale of Ivanhoe Plantation (St. Mary Parish, Louisiana).

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Caffery, Donelson, 1835-1906

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Donelson Caffery was born near Franklin, La., on September 10, 1835, and served as a lieutenant in the 13th Louisiana Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He married Bethia Richardson in 1869. He was a planter in St. Mary Parish, La., state senator for St. Mary Parish (1892-1894), and U.S. senator from Louisiana (1893-1901). He died in New Orleans, La., on December 30, 1906. His son, John Murphy Caffery, was a 1901 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, a prominent St. Mary Parish planter, and s...