The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-14
'pE CLARION.
s5ssTPPI AND LOUISIANA
O.,minent Citizens for Whom
- Indebted to the Former
State.
NAroaEz. Jan. 20. ISIS.

sfairs. was a citizen of Missis-
q ID Governor thereof, when he
lid to Louisiana by President JEFF
y. ,reat iurist and historian, Judge |
y; 81 resided here before he went to
,aas Green Davidson, of st. Hele- |
u John H. Harmanson, Of Rapids, |
u tbe most popular and influential |
mr. Congressman, were born in JEFF
a county, Miss.
y late Judge McCaleb of the Unit
tstes District Court, New Orleans,
M LAWYER, an accomplished scholar
finished gentleman, was a native
slo;horne county Miss, and so was
other who held such high posi-
at your bar.
enry Johnson, Governor and United
4 senator, a Virginian by birth, re-
several years in Mississippi before
emoyed to Louisiana.
M Joseph Walker, Of Rapides, was
and raised within three .miles of
chez.
oy Isaac johnson, of West Feliciana,
! native of Wilkinson county, Miss.
N three most prominent politicians
Worth Louisiana 25 years ago were
s w. Downes, of Ouachita; Gen.
ard Sparrow, of Concordia, and Col.
s. Parham, of Madison. The first
horn in Warren county, where his
IN came before the Spaniards had
the country. The second was raised
Natchez; the third was raised
Kinds and Madison counties, Miss.
op. e. w. Noise, Speaker Of your
NJ Of Representatives, commenced
career in WoodvilIe, Miss.
he late DIR. Mercer, who as a capi-
4 and philanthropist, stands in a
with Corcoran and Tulane, resid-
n this county and here acquired
preat fortune which he disposed of
benefcently in your city. In 1919,
thereabouts, he was an army sur
\. and was with small detachment
roops at Bay st. Louis. The late
Ripley (who owned what is now
0'Brien property at the Bay,
night over his family In a schooner.
Of his servants, an Irish woman,
kened on the lake and died in a
or two, after they landed, with
TX yomit. From that moment the
Rase rapidly spread, and a terrible
demic ensued. There happened to
several families from this quarter
nding the summer at the Bay;
bng them Capt. Ben. Farrar, his
I, sister and daughters. All but one
ghter died. She owed her life, un-
Providence, to the young surgeon
twelve months thereafter became
wife. He thus became the wealth..
man in Mississippi and perhaps in
entire South, and your city in af
years received substantial proofs o.
munifcence.
Your distinguished Senator, Gen
ndall Gibson distinguished as sol
i, scholar, orator and statesman, ant
whom we think, the highest honor
in reserve comes from famil!
Eminent in Mississippi since the frs
nerican immigration. His grandfath
was our pioneer clergyman, univer
ly beloved and honored, who founde'
re family numerous and influential
hays prominent socially and political
The father of the Senator was
pst accomplished gentleman and exter
e planter, who married at Lexington
!, niece Of Mrs. Henry Clay and Q
bn. Thomas I'll. Benton.
am not sure that Mississippi ca
i'm Senator Jonas, but his brother
n Of brilliant talents, and not exec
as writer by any one in the Soutl
citizen of Aberdeen, Miss.
The family of your Mr.. Blanchar
no is so rapidly acquiring reputatio
Congress), came here from Norfol
i, when Mississippi was territor
Is grandfather was an able lawyer, WI
on died. His grandmother was sist'
the Hon. Thomas Newton, for twent
q years representative from Norfo
strict, and during the entire teri
airman Of the committee on nav
Iairs.
Your talented young statesman, Ho
I. Lewis, who has Just been nomin!
for Congress, is Of Mississippi origi
y grandfather, Hon. Seth Lewis, "
leading lawyer Of the Nashville b
hen w. G. G. Claiborne, then represel
3 Tennessee in Congress, was appolI
Governor Of Mississippi Territol
3 prevailed on Mr.. Lewis to move he
ID appointed him Chief Justice OF I
erritory. Subsequently he removed
pelousas, and Gov Claiborne, n
ansferred to Louisiana, appointed h
the Supreme Court. He was q P
pund lawyer and scholar, and q VIII
great ability. The sister of JUG
evils was a woman of rare accompli
Tents, wife Of Major Isaac Guiop.
as the son Of French Huguenot, v
ettled in New York. Major Guion
red the army at an early age; was
ne staff Of General Alexander HaI
n, was subsequently under Y
wayne in his Indian campaigns,
ame down the river with the tirst
.chment Of American troops that oc
led Fort Nogales(now Vicksburg,) W
ne Spaniards evacuated it. He sui
aently retired from service, and sett
the foot Of the Hallway Hill, =
atchez. Both husband and wife y
adowed with remarkable talents,
lghly cultivated. Their sons inner
Iese gifts. Frederick, a lieutenant
" army, fell in duel here with
erbX young lawyer Of WOODY
onn Guion, distinguished as a.