Characters

This page lists all characters mentioned in game lore.

## Real-Life Figures

#### Governor Murphy J. Foster

Foster was the real-life Governor of Louisana from 1892-1900. Foster worked to maintain white supremacy in Louisiana through his support of the Louisiana Constitution of 1898, which practically disfranchised blacks. He also led the fight which succeeded in outlawing the Louisiana Lottery Co. Foster fought for the interest of sugar growers and supported flood-control legislation and the regulation of railway rates.  Foster assures the public that there is no epidemic or plague in Lousiana.

### Hiram R. Lott

(1829-1895) Lott was a State Senator from and later the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana under Murphy J. Foster. He had an interest in the Nicaragua Canal. Lott died in Managua in 1895.

Lott employed Harold Black. The work was boring, and Harold Black frequently drank while doing paperwork. Lott was close with Harold Black, and they frequently argued.

### David Hennessy

The police chief of the city of New Orleans from 1882 to 1890. Hennessy captured the notorious Italian criminal Giuseppe Esposito in 1881, as a young detective.

Hennessy was assassinated in 1890 (after the game takes place) while walking home from work. The killers utilized sawn-off shotguns. Hennessy's death sparked a manhunt, ending with 19 Italian-Americans being imprisoned. Many of them were lynched in 1891. Harold Black, a journalist, bore witness to the event, which led to his experience with The Assassin.

## Other Characters

* A Lynch
* Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz
* Ada Shell
* Alessandro Guardini
* Azrail
* Christopher Pellella

### Daniel Klein

Dr. Daniel Klein commented on the street art in the Louisiana Event. "To the untrained eye, these examples of late 19th century American graffiti may seem like unintelligible gibberish, but Dr. Klein seems convinced there is a method to the madness."

Klein was a professor who specialized in grafitti, street art, and languages.

* D'Abbadie
* Edward Shell
* Elisa
* Father Nico
* Hannah Kinney
* Harold Black
* Hayden Collins

### Henrik Graf

Small-time business owner in Louisiana. Believes that people are lazy, and that there is no plague.

* Henry Caldwell
* Henry Shell
* Ishim Gird
* Jacques Blanchett
* James Buchanan Eads
* James Reeker
* Jeremy Byrne

### John Selman

Selman was on trial for the murder of notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin at the time of the incident in *El Paso.*

### John Wesley Hardin

A notorious outlaw, killed by John Selman.

### **Marie Laveau**

Laveau wrote a letter to Dr. Jones calling him to action against a growing corruption (desk of a hunter) practitioner of voodoo and the occult.

* Michel Baudouin

* Peter Roche
* R Ramsey

### Rebecca Collingwood

Collingwood donated a number of newspaper clippings to Dr. Klein before her passing.

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* Reinhard Winkler
* Reynard
* Tamrat Scognamiglio

#### Ernest Spleger

Spleger was a friend to Frederick Lichten and worked in the Yukon. Spleger found some geodes (masses of quartz inside rocks) while prospecting. In one of them, there was an unusual fluid. Spleger jokingly drank the fluid, "and soon after complained of a weight and pain in stomach and bowels He soon died, his body instantly rigid. In not a few hours, petrifaction took place. The whole body, flesh, blood, heart, liver, etc." This was reported on in a newspaper on the 24th of August, 1858.

becoming solid.

### Victor Caldwell

Caldwell was a gunsmith who worked with the AHA, including Dr. Philip Huff Jones. Caldwell had correspondence with the AHA, and offered them a variety of expensive prototypes, so long as they were given the "appreciation they deserved." Caldwell offered P.H. Jones unseen weapons and designs.

* Vincent Clemens
* William Roche
* William Salter

## Hunters

#### Ada Ruth Shell

A hunter within the AHA who told a firsthand account of her dealings with the transformation of a child. She had four siblings (Edward, Henry, Grace, and Samuel). Ada gave birth to a bizarre baby

* Elwood Finch
* John Hayward Hunter
* John Victor
* Jonathan Kinney

### Dr. Philip Huff Jones

Dr. Jones was the Director of the American Hunters Association, and Superintendent of the Louisiana Asylum at Jackson.

In the world of *Hunt: Showdown,* Huff was killed by The Twins, and was either shot from outside the hospital, or was stabbed inside the room by Lynch.

Dr. Jones was a **real person**, who lived from 8th November 1855 to 1946. Jones was a master Mason. As a young man, Jones was a student at Louisiana State University, and graduated from Centeray College at Jackson. In 1876, he participated in the highly contested 1876 Gubernatorial Election, a complicated affair that ended with the end of Reconstruction and the establishment of white supremacy in Louisiana.

Jones then recieved his M.D. from Tulane University in 1878. He began his medical practice in East Feliciana Parish, where he met Annabelle Smith and married her in 1882. Shortly after, was appointed as Superintendent of the Louisiana State Insane Asylum at Jackson. He held this position for 6 years, during which time he took an active part in the remodeling and reform of the institution which placed it as a leading mental asylum in the United States.

Later in life, he resumed practice of medicine, first moving to Lutcher and then to baton Rouge where he became the president of the city board of health.  Huff had four children; two of them died within a year, but two more survived into the 1970s. Junius Wallace Jones was born in 1890, fought in the first and second World War (rising to the rank of Major General) and died in 1977; Philip Harold Jones was born in 1896 and died in 1970.

Quotes: “I HAVE TAKEN AN OATH TO MAINTAIN THE SECRECY OF THE AHA AND WOULD I BREAK IT I WOULD NOT SURVIVE TO GLOAT.”

“but should you succeed the bounty will nourish more than just your wallet.” Supplier/Benefactor of Elwood Finch, provided him with *cabin* and credit to run it.'

### Dr. John Welch Jones

John Welch Jones was another real historical figure. John W. Jones came to Louisiana from South Carolina in 1848, and was of English, Irish, and Welsh descent. His family had fought in the American Revolution; both of his grandfathers (Samuel Jones and Samule Hilton) were soldiers in Marion's band in the war.

* Sinan
* T Co
* llins

### William Durant, ***The Black Coat***

Durant killed the mother of Jos and Fin, and killed their uncle (who was possible his brother) 15 years later. Durant was killed by Jos and Fin shortly thereafter.

## Lawson Delta Soldiers

* Alistair
* Daniel Captin
* Walther
* William

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Light Townsend Cummins Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, and Michael L. Kutz. 2014. ***Louisiana - A History***. Chichester: Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Louisana Incident documents
3. ↑ The Journal of Harold Black, 2/5
4. ↑ Louisana Incident - Graffiti Article
5. ↑ ARMORED entry - Newsprint, Various Sizes
6. ↑ LeMat Mastery
7. ↑ https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/320
8. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/eastfeliciana/bios/jonesp.txt