The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-12-29
HON. CLAY KN0Bl0cH.
The Democratic Nominee for
Lieutenant Governor.

lnaSmnch as the parish OF La
fourche has been honorpd with the
Lieutenant Govcrnorship in the
person of one of her favorite sons,
by the late Democratic State Con.
vention, we deem it appropriate to
briefly sketch the fife and record of
the nominee, who, in this case, is
assured of election.
Henry f. Knobloch, the father
of the subject of this article, a Ger
man by birth, and the first of the
name in this country, came over
from Europe in the twenties, and
first settled in Philadelphia. He
and IL friend from the Fatherland
subsequently lett the Quaker City
together aud came IL New Orleans
at a time when Il yellow fever
epidemic was raging there. The
two friends were stricken by the
fever within a week of their arriv
al i'll New Orleans; Knobloch re-
covered, but the friend died.
1t was while at a hotel in New
Orleans that Lieutenant Governor
Henry S. Thibodaux made the &C
quaihtance of Mr.. Knobloch, discov
cred that he was all accomplished
classical scholar, and prevailed on
him to accept a professorship in
the Governors family in I.afour
che. At the end Of a year Mr..
Knobloch entered the Office of p.
Daspit, Parish Judge of Lafourche.
as assistant and amanuensis, q posi-
ton for which he was admirably
qualified by reason of his graceful
and elegant penmanship and at
the death Of Judge Daspit he was
appointed Parish Judge. an office
which he filled with great credit up
to the time of his death in June,
1871. Fair and impartial as a
Judge, a friend of the poor and the
champion Of the oppressed, Judge
knOb'och soon acquired the proud
title of "Father Of L%afourche.r
His memory is still revered in
this parish as that of a model ma
%lstrate, IA patriotic citizen, and as
one who ever manifested in his life
the highest civic aud domestic vir
tues. At his death, he left his fam
lily in comfortable circumstances.
On the 9th. OF February, 1882.
Judge KnObloch married a Miss
Guedry, a native of Lafourche, and
a descendant OF the original Aca
dian stock, and from that marriage
four children were born, viz : LIST. Ar
thur +. Knobloch, tho present able
District Judge of the Goth. Judicial
District of Louisiana, composed Of
the parishes of Lafourche aud AS
sumption, End. Clara E. surviving
widow of L. S. Allaiu-a first cousin
Of Col. Louis Bush, of New Orleans,
3rd. Amanda NJ. who died III her
sixteenth year, on the verge of a
bright womanhood, of yellow fever
the epidemic of 1858, and
4th. Clay Kuobloch, the subject of
this sketch, who was born in the
of Lafourche on the 25th.
November, 1889, aud was conse
quentIy one year and a half old
when his father died.
Too much praise cannot be. award
ed to the widow Of Judge Henry
F. Knobloch for the pains which
she took to secure to her children
the benefits of a good education.
The daughters received the best
training in all the accomplishments
BETTING their high social position,
nothing was spared in giving
the sons the advantages of a libc
raj education in the best schools of
country.
Clay KnoblOch was sent to school
1T the early age of five years, and
was under the instruction of good