He visits with George Washington Cable, attended a voodoo rite, and was driven around town by General Beauregard. Dr. Rudolph Matas translates Dr. Findlay's theory on Yellow Fever and publishes it in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. The O'Brien brothers live at 704 Esplanade. Patrick Burke O'Brien arrives from St. Louis in 1844 at age 20 and Richard Michael O'Brien followed in 1955 at age 22. The old Jackson press and R. M. was president of the New Orleans City Railroad Company for years.
Spanish moss is neither Spanish or moss, it is an epiphyte, a rootless fragment of a plant.
The French called it Spanish beard , the Spanish called it French hair in retaliation. The Indians called it itla okla . Tillandsia usneoides is used for upholstering furniture, replacing horse hair. Louis Winterhalder works for the Daily Picayune in New Orleans from 1882 until 1931 will create the weather frog and the first political cartoon in a New Orleans newspaper. Touro Infirmary moves to 1401 Foucher St., its present site, from Coliseum Square.