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Samuel Locke Breaux

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Samuel Locke Breaux

Birth
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
1 Jun 1933 (aged 73)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
497 Locust Hawthorne Cedar - Samuel Locke tomb
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BREAUX, Samuel Locke, broker, businessman.

Born, New Orleans, La., February 13, 1860; son of Emelie Locke and Gustave Arvilien Breaux (q.v.).

Education: St. Philip School, New Orleans; St. Stanislaus, Bay St. Louis, Miss.; Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., graduated 1875.

Married (1) Nina Williams (d. 1892), April 6, 1885. Child: Samuel Locke, Jr.

Married (2) Nina Alica Rogers, April 19, 1894.

Married (3) Etta M. Hargis.

Worked for several rice and cotton factoring firms in New Orleans; headed own factoring business, 1896-1914; worked for other firms from 1914 to his retirement in 1933; president, New Orleans Board of Trade, 1898 and 1900; headed freight and transportation bureau of that board; leader in movements to obtain parity in freight rates for New Orleans; vice president, Pan American Life Insurance Company of New Orleans. Member, Young Men's Gymnastic Club.

Died, June 1, 1933; interred Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans. J.B.C. Sources: Alcée Fortier, Louisiana (1914); New Orleans Times-Picayune, obituary, June 2, 4, 1933.

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BREAUX, Samuel Locke, broker, businessman.

Born, New Orleans, La., February 13, 1860; son of Emelie Locke and Gustave Arvilien Breaux (q.v.).

Education: St. Philip School, New Orleans; St. Stanislaus, Bay St. Louis, Miss.; Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., graduated 1875.

Married (1) Nina Williams (d. 1892), April 6, 1885. Child: Samuel Locke, Jr.

Married (2) Nina Alica Rogers, April 19, 1894.

Married (3) Etta M. Hargis.

Worked for several rice and cotton factoring firms in New Orleans; headed own factoring business, 1896-1914; worked for other firms from 1914 to his retirement in 1933; president, New Orleans Board of Trade, 1898 and 1900; headed freight and transportation bureau of that board; leader in movements to obtain parity in freight rates for New Orleans; vice president, Pan American Life Insurance Company of New Orleans. Member, Young Men's Gymnastic Club.

Died, June 1, 1933; interred Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans. J.B.C. Sources: Alcée Fortier, Louisiana (1914); New Orleans Times-Picayune, obituary, June 2, 4, 1933.

Information supplied by FindAGrave member #47208251

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Husband of Etta M. Hargis



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