William H. Seymour papers, 1796-1917.

Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879

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Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire on July 24 1798, the son of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins, and brother of composer Marion Dix Sullivan. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and joined the US Army as an ensign in May 1813, serving under his father until the latter's death a few months later. He attained the rank of captain in August 1825 and resigned from the Army in December 1828. In 1826, Dix married Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan, who g...

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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John Quincy Adams (b. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts-d. February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in neg...

Carondelet, Luis Héctor, barón de, 1748-1807

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Francisco Luis Hector, Baron de Carondelet, was the Spanish governor of Louisiana from 1792-1797. From the description of Francisco L.H. Carondelet papers, 1791-1819 (bulk 1792-1796). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 122467738 Spanish colonial governor of Louisiana. Name in full: Francisco Luis Héctor, barón de Carondelet. From the description of Order of Luis Héctor, barón de Carondelet, 1795. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455717 ...

Seymour, William H.

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William H. Seymour was a Louisiana politician and amateur historian. A native of Warrenton, Miss., Seymour spent his childhood in Europe. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as an artillery sargeant. After relocating to Algiers, La., Seymour took an interest in local affairs and was elected justice of the peace and president of the Orleans Parish Police Jury. Seymour was the author of The story of Algiers, a history of the city published in 1926. ...

Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...

Baker, Joshua, 1799-1885

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Morgan, David Banister, 1773-1848

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David Banister Morgan (1773-1848) served in the Louisiana territorial legislature, was a member of the Constitutional convention, and after the admission of Louisiana to the Union, was in the state legislature. He was surveyor-general of Louisiana and Mississippi, and a commander of troops on the west bank of the Mississippi River under Andrew Jackson between 1814 and 1815 during the Battle of New Orleans. He later owned land in St. Tammany Parish. David Morgan died July 15, 1848 in Covington, L...