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| South America & Caribbean:The first Pan American Conference is held in Panama, but one U. S. representative dies enroute and another arrives too late. | |||||||||||
| North America:The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. | |||||||||||
| Europe: A Dutch steamship crosses the Atlantic, but steam will remain an auxilliary power source to sails for more than a decade. Sir Walter Scott, Delacroix, von Weber dies, Beethoven, Schubert, advances in primative photography in France. | |||||||||||
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In 1826 double-tongued auctioneer Joseph Le Carpentier has grown wealthy after a start selling contraband for the Baratarians. He buys a French Quarter lot from the Ursuline nuns at 1101 Chartres and hires architect François Correjolles and builder James Lambert to craft a mansion for him. The Beauregard-Keyes House was originally a honeymoon cottage for his daughter Telcide and aristocratic Spanish merchant Alonzo Morphy, later parents of chess champion Paul Morphy. It is later purchased by Mme. Josephine Laveau Trudeau widow of Creole Merchant Manuel Andry who lends the house as a honeymoon cottage for PGT Beauregard and his bride Caroline Deslonde. But the threat of war intervenes and Beauregard’s young wife dies. Beauregard stays here later, after the war, before he embarks on a new career as an industrialist. In 1952 Author Francis Parkinson Keyes buys the house for restoration and tears down a building on the corner to restore part of Correjolles’ original garden. The Old Mortuary Chapel built in 1826 as a burial church for victims of yellow fever in New Orleans. The chapel is the oldest surviving church in the city. Now called Our Lady of Guadeloupe, the chapel is the official chapel of the New Orleans Police and Fire Departments. |
The marriage of Jefferson Davis and Knox, the daughter of Zachary Taylor was at first rejected by Taylor because Lt. Davis, one of his aides, was a military man. Jefferson Davis resigns his commission and the marriage takes place in 1826, only to end in tragedy a month later with the bride’s death from yellow fever. | Eugene Warburg (1826-18) is the son of a distinguished German Jewish Real Estate speculator, Daniel Warburg, and his Cuban Mulatto mistress. Eugene will become a sculptor with an international reputation. In New Orleans he studies with Philippe Garbeille a French sculptor and sets up a shop in 1849 and creates mostly funerary works. St. Louis Cathedral is being rebuilt at this time and some of the marble flooring may be Warburg’s. Finding a lack of artistic opportunity in New Orleans he travels to Europe in 1852 and develops a stellar reputation until he dies on January 12, 1859. His younger brother Daniel, trained by Eugene and left in New Orleans to run the shop, continues to work until his death in 1911. In 1826 the young Duke of Saxe-Weimar visits the St. Philip Theatre and calls it a den of ruffians while describing a fight in which 20 people are injured. |
Maurice Plantation on the Red River in Winn
Parish, is built on the site of an original land grant to Ignatio
Sequin by Denis Fort. Owned by William Prothro family, 1846-1856. Purchased
by Dr. David H Boullt in 1856. Later owned by E.W. Teddlie family it is
r restored in 1871.
Varina Howell Davis |
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