The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-30
General Estopinal Dead
From Times Picayune)

pressman from the First Louisiana
District since 1908, died ealy Monday
at his home in St. Bernard. He was
~ wears old Death followed siege
OF heart trouble of several years du-
ration. For the last five weeks of his
life General Estipinal had been con-
fined to his bed with little hope OF
recovery. The body will lie in state
in the st. Bernard courthouse from
Tuesday until funeral arrangements
are complete. These will await def
mite word from Washington as to
the coming OF congressional dele
CATION to attend the service. The
serpeant-at-ar1ns Of the House of
Representatives has been notified.
General Estopinal was a figure IN
parish and state life from the close
Of the Civil war, through which he
served, to the time Of his death.
fall from his horse at the time OF the
last inaugural parade in Washington
fastened his passing away. He never
fully recovered from the injuries.
The descendant of Spanish family
which settled in Louisiana during
Spanish days, Albert Estopinal was
born January 80, lS45. When the
Civil war broke out in 1862 he left
his studies in New Orleans to fight
in the Twenty-eight Louisiana Vol
unteers. an artillery regiment under
General Allen Thomas. Escaping
the loss of that regiment when
Vicksburg fell because he had been
sent in charge of a batch of prison.
ers to a point at the rear he re-enter-
ed active service with the Twenty
second Louisiana Regi1 fnt under
Colonel l. w. Patton.
Following six years as J New Or
leans merchant directly after the
war, General Estopinal returned to
plantation life at St. Bernard and re
NAMED a planter until few years
ago. Soon after ging to St. Bernard
he entered public life, serving first
as sheriff for two terms beginning
in 1872. After two terms in the State
Legislature, as member of the low
er house between 1876 and 1880, he
went to the State Senate in the lat
ter year and served there continuous
~ until 1900 He then was selected
lieutenant governor on the ticket
with w. w. Heard, serving four
years.
Election to Congress from the
First Louisiana District came in
1908. General Estipinal held the
seat continuously thereafter, becom-
ing ranking member Of the commit
tee on naval affairs. He would have
been House chairman of that COM
mittee had the present Congress been
Democratic. Besides these public
offices General Etsopinal held the
position as chairman of the Demo-
cratic state central committee from
1908 to 1912. He also was delegate
to the constitutional conventions of
1879 and 1893.
In 1863 General Estopinal and Miss
Elisha Legier of New Orleans were
married. OF sixteen children born
ten reached maturity and nine, all
sons, are living. A daughter, Miss
Leila Estopinal, died several years
ago. Surviving sons are Albert Jr.,
now sheriff of St. Bernard; Fernan-
do, attorney and secretary of the
Lake Borgne Levee Board; DR.. Jo-
seph A., physician of New Orleans
and St. Bernard; Benjamin, secretary
; to his father at Washington; Dr..
Rene L., dentist at St. Bernard; Glenn
j.. contractor; Lieutenant David Es-
topinal, just discharged from the ar
my; Leonidas B., recently discharg-
ed from the navy, and Frederick N,
lieutenant of the Marine Corps.
Mrs. Estopinal, who survives her
husband, is the aunt of Robert Leg
Ter and John Legier, Jr., of New Or
leans.
General Estopinal received his IT,