The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-08-25
aud left family by both marriages.

aud left family by both marriages.
Two Of his children Mrs. Gordon, a
daughter by his first marriage, and
Mrs. Layton, daughter by his second
marriage) are still living; but there are
numerous surviving grand and greut-
grand children living in different parts
of the State and elsewhere Il may be
said without doubt, that no man ever
lived 10 Ouach;ta parish wEo was
more beloved ami respected than Judge
Henry Bry he Was we'll know II to all
| he aiding lnen of tho State.
There were four lawyers living in
Monroe and in full practice when Mr..
Ray came there in 1886. The Oldest
was:
Ephzain X. wilson, d KeEtuckian
by birth. He was appointed Judge of
the 9Th Judicial District, in 1886, to fiji
the vacancy occasioned by the resigna-
ton Of John OvertOn, who moved TO
Opplousas, st. Landry i,,.S''
Robert F. Mcclure, The ask n:ds s,
lawyer, was also a KenluckiuD, aud
had immigrated 10 Louisiana In 1919
as practising physician but after
practising medicine a few years he
studied law, and bscame one of the
soundest jurists in the State; he never
entered politics.
Isaiah Garrett, the next Oldest lawyer,
was Missourian of ripe education
and scholarly attainments he ranked
high on the list of emii:ent men of
Louisiana; he had studied law with
Judge Wilson aud was his partner
when Wilson went on the bench. Col.
Garrett was an able lawyer he was
member of the constitutional c0nveu
ton to revise and frame new constitu-
ton for the State in 1915, and was
elected to the secession convention in
1860, and was one If the seven MEM
| bers who refused to sign the Ordinance
of Secession. He lost his life by being
thrown out o. his bpg gE III 1Niudroe.
John. NJ Iaulk was the other lawyer
at the bar in Monroe in 1886. He was
a native of Louisiana, ard had studied
law with Judge Lalny and r. F. Nc
CURE, and had jus. come to the bar.
He was assasInated in his bed in April
1887: it was never known who perpc-
trated the cowardIy act. Faulk was a
man of good ability and stood well in
the parish; his friends predicted for
him brilliant future, but it was Gu.
off by his untimely death.
| The next lawyer who settled in
Monroe, after Mr.. Ray came there,
was George w. Copeley. Hs came TO
Louisiana from New York and settled
in Monroe in June 1886 he was man
OF extraordinary energy and industry,
and of fine talent. He was taken into
partnership by Solomon S. Downs,
when he first settled in Ouachita parish;
and after Downs quit the practice for
politics he entered into partnership
with r. W. Richardson, the present
District Judge OF Ouachita.
Copeley was appointed 10 the District
bench and remained in that position
until he died. He accumulated large
fortune by his practice and specuIa-
lions.
Judge Louis F. Lamy was native
OF Ouachita parish, of French parentage;
born in 1900, and educated at Trans
sylvania University, KY, during the
Presidency of DR.. Holly. He studied
law, but was appointed Parish Judge
soon after he was licensed in 1882, and
continued in that position until the
Office was abolished. He died at the
ripe age of eighty years, one of the
in that parish.
The next lawyer who came to the
bar in Ouac:iita parish was John Ray,
In 1889, as is herein before stated-a
Missourian by birth.
The more prominent mcn in Ounch;ta
in 1889 were:
James w. Mason, profniEent n1er-
chant, an emigraut from Massachusetts,.
Hypolite Pargoud, who crligrated
from France in 1919. Pargoud acquired
great wealth and was much the richest
man in Ouachita parish.
DR.. John M. A. Hamlin, !, Vlrginian,
who was then Registrar of the U. S.
Land Office at Monroe.
Ransom EastOn, who was receiver of
the U. S. Land Office, and Louisi-
anian.
Bernhard Hemkin, q German, and
a prominent merchant of Monroe.
Or. Hardy Holmes, son-in-law of
Judge Henry Bry; for several years
Receiver of the Land Once Al Monroe.
Or. John l.. Lewis, a native Of Louis
lana, was elected to the State Senate,
of the second Parish Judge Of Ouachita
Parish, and was raised in that Parish.
Grammont Fiihiol, the son of the
Commandant of the Post of Ouachita
under the Spanish Government. He
was born, raised, and always resided
in Ounchita parish. He was man OF
great responsibility, and has numerous
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