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Economy Hall 1939

(Courtesy The Historic New Orleans Collection)

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              Economy Hall 1939                                                                                                          

The Historic New Orleans Collection

 

Explanation of Exhibition

Fatima Shaik, author/curator

 

Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle emblem

designed by member Ludger Boguille

 

This 1825 map of the United States was part of an oversized atlas in the Economy library

 

The rear cover of Pétion et Haiti, advertises similar biographies of Toussaint L’Ouverture  

Names of members in 1872. 

 

Credits and Thanks

Economy Hall descendants join photographers Gerard Mouton III and Cedric Ellsworth (seated)  flanking author and exhibit curator Fatima Shaik October 29, 2022. Sophia Little photographed descendants’ portraits on October 23, 2022.

 

Special thanks to Ron Bechet, XULA Art & Performance Studies, Department Of Fine Arts and Anne Collins Smith, Director, Xavier University of Louisiana Art Gallery

 

Support for the exhibition came from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the Louisiana Creole Research Association,  and the Platforms Fund of Antenna, Ashé Cultural Art Center, Junebug Productions, The Black School and the Andy Warhol Foundation.

 

“If the United States has the right to arm us, it certainly has the right to allow us the rights of suffrage”—Economie member François Boisdoré fils, 1863

In 1863,  François Boisdoré fils spoke these words at a mass meeting for Black suffrage in Economy Hall

 

Haitian President Alexandre Pétion’s portrait hung in Economy Hall beginning in 1838 when it was donated by Marie Laveau’s father, Charles Laveau.

 

Capt. Louis Antoine Snaer served with the U.S. Colored Infantry, 1863–1865. He sponsored a fundraiser in Economy Hall.

Collection of Glen Cangelosi

 

(l-r) Clifton John Moore Jr., Henry Bart Jr., and Troy Moore are descendants of Engle Bart, a Battle of New Orleans soldier. Credit Cedric Ellsworth

 

 

(l-r) Lois Jones, descendant of Economy Society founder Manuel Moreau poses with Engle Bart descendants Elizabeth Moore Rhodes, Lucinda Moore Gaddis, Rhonda Baudy Moore, and Wendy Bordenave Moore, a descendant of cigar roller Manuel Bordenave. Credit Cedric Ellsworth

 

Engle Bart  youngest generation ( l-r) Felice Gaddis, Blaise Moore, Maya Moore, and Darby Moore. Credit Cedric Ellsworth

 

Descendants of Civil War soldier John Woods whose son Numa joined the Economy in 1909. (seated l-r) Carol Lizana Ward and Helen Marie Woods; (standing l-r) Beryl Small, Paula Woods Adams. Credit Sophia Little      

                            

(l-r) Fabian Blache Jr., Jeanne Woods, descendant of members Jules (joined 1882) and Gustav (joined 1908) Sarpy and Numa Woods (joined 1909); Bridget Rey, Leslie Rey, Lesley-Ann Rey, and Willis Rey descendants of Octave and Henry L. Rey, Civil War soldiers and Equal Rights advocates (joined before 1864). Credit Cedric Ellsworth

 

Descendants of Civil War soldiers and Economy members (l-r) Fabian Blache Jr. representing Ernest Blache (joined 1857); Leslie and Willis Rey, representing activists Octave and Henry L. Rey (joined 1860s). Credit Cedric Ellsworth

 

Labeau Colbert is a descendant of Economists Jean and Joseph Labeau (joined 1870s), and Henry L. Rey, a Union soldier quoted in New York Times as saying “Know that we have no prejudices; we receive the world in our camp.”  Credit Sophia Little

 

 

The Société de Cigarers  met regularly in Economy Hall as did other associations.

This cigar box represents the occupation of many men who joined the society as members.  

 

 

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson was the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman named Patricia Wright and became the only New Orleans native active in the Harlem Renaissance literary movement. She graduated from Straight University (now Dillard University). Her biography at the PoetryFoundation.org notes that she worked for women’s suffrage and against lynching.

MSS 0113, Alice Dunbar-Nelson papers, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

 

The Goodness of St. Roque is a collection of short stories by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson

 

Morticians and Social Relations

Economy Secretary Charles Charbonnet wrote these words of condolence to Widow Aristide Rivarde “The torments, the despair and grief as deep as it is painful…has found in our grieving hearts, believe it well, Madame, a doleful echo.” Photo courtesy of Fr. Phil Flot

 

Undertaker and Economist Nelson Etienne Dockminie Morand interred society brother François Lacroix, whose son Victor was murdered in the 1866 New Orleans massacre. Photo courtesy of the Rosenberg family

 

Economy Secretary Ludger Boguille’s copied  his condolence letter to the widow of Joseph Soudé into a book of society meeting minutes with a filigreed script. Economy member Soudé was murdered on a Mississippi River dock.

 

After the death of Aristide Rivarde, his wife sent a letter demanding help from the Economists. “Sirs, since the death of my husband A. Rivarde, one of your brothers, last week, I have found myself without resources for my four children. My children have eaten everything and cry. They have a right to your benevolence.” 

 

Therese Fortin Morand, wife of undertaker N.E.D. Morand. Photograph courtesy of the Rosenberg Family .

Descendants of Economists who interred members as undertakers are l-r Charles Rosenberg, Suzanne Stokes, and Alan Rosenberg (N.E.D. Morand, Economy president 1879); Wendy Bart (Charles Charbonnet, secretary 1872);  Kayla, Mary and Elizabeth Hebert (Pierre Casanave, joined before 1857 and interred Lt. Gov. Oscar Dunn in the Casanave family crypt in St. Louis #2 after his suspicious death.) Photo credit Cedric Ellsworth

 

Descendants of Economy President Pierre Casanave are granddaughter Juana Casanave, (seated) whose father was Saint Felix Casanave, treasurer LA Republican party 1872 and mother, Virginia Pineda, came from Mexico, and Juana’s German husband (also seated) and their children. Photo courtesy of Mary Hebert

 

The fifteen founders of the Economy Society signed this  declaration to create their institution in 1836: “Considering all the advantages and the benefits that are repaid to a group of men joined together in society, in order to put into practice good morals to mitigate and relieve human suffering, we have committed ourselves to persevere and to put all our efforts into instituting a society upon a solid and strong foundation.”

             

New members received this diploma after joining the Economy Society

 

Jeanne Woods, descendant of Economists Jules (joined 1882) and Gustav (joined 1908) Sarpy and Numa Woods (joined 1909) shares these ancestors with Jennifer Quezergue, also a descendant of Neville J. Jarreau (joined 1910). Photo credit Cedric Ellsworth

 

Carole Lizana Ward is the granddaughter of Numa Woods Sr. whose photo she holds. Photo credit Sophia Little

 

Oscar Cangoletti descendants (l-r top) Ryan Reels, Lynne Smothers Reese, Terri Smothers-Doyle, Dana Rudd-Bozeman, Amirah Bozeman, and Shani Smothers. (l-r bottom) Isaiah Reels, Jordyn Jenee Louise Smothers, June Pajaud, and Logan Reels

 

Oscar Cangoletti descendants Ryan Reels; Dana Rudd-Bozeman; Shani Smothers

 

Oscar Cangoletti also spelled Cangolatti became president of the Economy in 1932. Photo courtesy of the Cangoletti family

 

 

Barbara Trevigne is a descendant of New Orleans Tribune editor Paul Trevigne and Economy Hall guardian Doresmon Crocker. He went to court in 1848 to rescue his four enslaved nephews. He was successful with three. The fourth had been kidnapped and disappeared.  Photo credit Sophia Little

 

Following his father, Armand, photographer Arthur P. Bedou became an Economy member in 1898.

Collection of Xavier University of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections

 

Brothers who have been oppressed unjustly let us preach to our compatriots that they must follow the path which leads to fraternity and come out of that isolation which our oppressors admire for they would like to see us forever disunited, tearing each other apart (among ourselves) and having only hatred in our hearts one for the others.” Pierre Casanave, Economie president 1858

Undertaker and President Pierre Casanave led the Economy members toward a more radical vision in the 1850s, insisting that they advocate for equality and brotherhood.

 

Oscar Dunn, first African-descended governor in the United States, attended the 1865 Friends of Universal Suffrage convention in Economy Hall that became the Republican Party of Louisiana. Photo credit Matthew Brady.

 

Oscar Dunn’s descendant, Dr. Brian Mitchell, wrote the book Monumental about his ancestor.  

 

The Friends of Universal Suffrage,  including members of the National Equal Rights League and the Economy Society met in the Hall and created the Louisiana Republic Party.

 

Ingrid Stanley is a descendant of Economy member Francois Boisdoré fils who advocated for the Black vote at a mass meeting in Economy Hall saying, “We have waited long enough.” Photo credit Sophia Little

 

Louis Charles Roudanez published the New Orleans Tribune, the first Black-owned daily newspaper in the United States.

Photo courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection and Mark Roudané

 

Politician Walter L. Cohen, Economy Chairperson from 1896 to 1930, promoted jazz dances in Economy Hall. Photo courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections

 

Economy secretary Ludger Boguille registered voters for the Friends of Universal Suffrage’s mock election five years before the passage of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

 

Mark Roudané, descendant of Louis Charles Roudanez, posts historical articles from the New Orleans Tribune on Roudanez.com Photo credit Sophia Little

 

Jari C. Honora is a certified genealogist, conversant with the lost history of Louisiana families,  and a biographer of Walter Cohen Photo credit Sophia Little

 

EconomyHall.com/descendants shows organizations that met in Economy Hall. Picture here are the rental charges for a few meetings in 1895. Note the progressive titles of the groups.

 

“When you made Economy Hall, you was tops. It was just like you was playing at that big place . . . Carnegie Hall.”—Musician George “Pops” Foster, 1958 This quote from the George “Pops” Foster is only one of one hundred oral histories in the Hogan Jazz Archives of Tulane University that mentions Economy Hall as an incubator of jazz.

 

The composers of these scores played in Economy Hall. They are Basile Barès, the only known composer to be published while enslaved; Edmond Dédé, born in Louisiana whose parents immigrated from San Domingue (Haiti) and were friends of Economist Ludger Boguille’s parents; and Samuel Snaer, a relative of soldier Louis Snaer

 

Givonna Joseph is a culture bearer of the classical tradition in Economy Hall as the founder of OperaCréole. Photo credit Sophia Little

 

KeShuna Jones-Lee is a descendant of Emanuel Martin Gabriel, Martin Emanuel Gabriel and Charlie Gabriel--a family that carries the jazz traditions of Economy Hall. Photo credit Sophia Little

 

Bandleader Armand J. Piron was the nephew of Economy president Myrtil Piron who served on the Citizens Committee.  Members of the A. J. Piron orchestra included Peter Bocage and Lorenzo Tio Jr.  both known as early jazz innovators.

Photo courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection

 

In 1915, the collaboration of Armand J. Piron and Clarence Williams  marked the first Black owned music publisher in the United States. In this photo are Clarence Williams (seated front); (seated l-r) Ernest Trepagnier, d; Armand Piron, v; Tom Benton, bj and vo; Johnny St. Cyr, bj. (standing l-f) Jimmy Noone, cl; William "Baba" Ridgley, tb; Oscar Celestin, co; and John Lindsay, sb

Photo courtesy of the Hogan Jazz Archive, Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Tulane University

 

The Peerless Orchestra played at Economy Hall in 1909. Pictured here c. 1911 are  John Vigne, Charles McCurgy, Armand J. Piron, Coochie Martin, Vic Gaspard, Andrew Kimball, Tom "Oak" Gaspard.  The Vigne, Gaspard, and Piron families were members of the Economy Society. Photo courtesy of the Hogan Jazz Archive, Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Tulane University

 

William J. Nickerson, an Economy member, taught early jazz musicians including  Jelly Roll Morton, Emma Barrett, Manuel Manetta, and Henry Kimball. Photo courtesy of the Hogan Jazz Archive, Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Tulane University

 

On March 5, 1875, the Economy Society resolved to hire brass bands for every member’s funeral. Wanda Rouzan, descendant of Economist Louis Rouzan, walked with other legends of New Orleans jazz in the funeral procession for musician Teddy Riley.

Photo courtesy of Al Kennedy

 

Jazz musician Teddy Riley, the last person to play Louis Armstrong’s coronet at his funeral in 1971, was interred with a jazz procession. Economy culture bearer Dr. Michael White played.

Photo courtesy of Al Kennedy

 

The Sudan Social and Pleasure Club’s second line, is only one of the organizations that follows the dancing, pride-infused parade codified in the Economy Society’s 1875 resolution to march with a brass band, and which carries a legacy from Africa.  Photo credit Sophia Little

 

Albert Burbank and “Big Eye” Louis Nelson played the jazz and blues typical of music heard in Economy Hall.

 

Louis Armstrong played with the Kid Ory band on Monday nights in Economy Hall

 

The title piece of Jim Robinson’s Economy Hall Breakdown album is the  well-known second line riff.

 

Internationally known band of  Sidney Bechet, cl, with Ray Parker, p, Pops Foster, b, Bunk Johnson, tp, George Thompson, d.

Photo courtesy of the Hogan Jazz Archive, Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Tulane University

 

Xavier University department head, artist Ron Bechet, is the descendant of Leonard and Sidney Bechet. Some Economists in the arts were musician Charles Martinez,  marble cutter Joseph Daniel Warburg, and Arthur P. Bedou, official photographer of Booker T. Washington. Photo credit Girard Mouton III

 

Journalist Warren Bell Jr. is a descendant of musicians Jean Vignes and Warren Bell Sr. Photo credit Girard Mouton III

 

Economy Hall was sold to St. Mark’s Missionary Baptist Church but continued to be the starting point for second lines including this one by the Odd Fellows. Photo courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection

 

Center pedestal This saxophone belonged to Xavier University of Louisiana professor Mohamed J. Shaik, a protégé of Frank Crump Jr. Shaik occasionally substituted for Crump in the jazz band of Billie and De De Pierce.

 

From 1957 to 1963, Shaik drove from New Orleans to the province of Quebec to earn a Ph.D. from nearby Université d’Ottawa. He was accompanied by his daughter and French-speaking wife, Lily Anne LaSalle. She was a Xavier University graduate—like Shaik—and the granddaughter of an enslaved man, Colincourt LaSalle.  

 

The family’s interest in languages and history compelled Shaik to rescue the old journals of the Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle (the Economy and Mutual Aid Society) from the back of a pickup truck after being told by Economy member Louis Wilderson that the books were bound for the dump.

 

The book Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood and this exhibition are the result.

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Organizations that met at Economy Hall and invited Economy members to their events

HELD MEETINGS IN ECONOMY HALL

The Jefferson Dramatic Club

The Friends of Universal Suffrage (the anti-slavery Louisiana Republican party)

Société des Vétérans de 1814-15

Société des Bienfaisance des Frères-Unis (Haitian repatriation organization)

La Société des Amis Sincères (The Sincere Friends)

The Manhattan Club

The Cigar Rollers —Alcide J. Bacchus, R. M. Laboustrie

The Ladies and Misses Candem Society

Infant de la Providence

Dames Indépendance                 

Demoiselles Jeunes Amis            

Les Coeurs Fidèles                        

Société de Sainte Barbe                                           

La Reforme                                    

Bon Secours                                  

La Propagande                              

Société La Candeur                                    

Salvator                                          

Jeunes Amis Cadet         

Dames Louisianaises     

Harmonie

La Dignité

Le Fidélité                                      

Les Cœurs Unis

Le Journal Pelican-Standard

La Société Le Progrès d’Algiers

Le Silence

Les Nouveau Amis Sincères

Les Frères de la Louisiane

Les Young-men Vidalia (Vadalia in the minutes)

Les Amis-Inséparable

Les Vrais-Amis (The True Friends)

L’Institution des Orphelins Indigents

Cercle Harmonique

Curé of St. Augustine Church

Bureau des Veterans

Bureau de Jeunes Amis.

Freedmen’s Aid Association

Ecole Saint Agnes (white, against the laws)

Mothers Club and Teachers of Bayou Road School

Bayou Road School

Marigny School

Parents and Patrons Club and Teachers of Marigny School

Civil League (regarding Southern University)

Fisk School

Craig School (concert)

Valina Jones school

Community Center of the Craig School

Wicker School

Ladies of Indulgence

 

FRIENDS OF ORGANIZATION THAT INVITED ECONOMY TO THEIR EVENTS

Dames de Pais

St. Paul School

Colored Industrial Home and School

Saint Catherine Church

The Dames du Progrès

Des Amis de L’Espérance

Société Jeunes Vétérans

Cercle Auxiliaire de la Justice, Protective et Education

Young and True Friends Social Club

Holy Family Thomy Lafon Home for the Elderly

Thomy Lafon Boys Home Auxiliary

Société L’Avenir

Louisiana Association for the Benefit of Colored Indigents

La Concorde

Société de Salvatore (sp)

Le Supérieur Conseil des Maçons

L’Avenir,

La Persévérance

Nouvelle Inespérables

Les Compagnons de l’Equité

Société des Artisans

Dames de Charité Congréganiste

Workers Cooperative Club (German)

 

 

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Names of members in some organizations

The anti-slavery first Louisiana Republican Party (Members of Equal Rights League, Friends of Universal Suffrage, National Union Republican Club) created in Economy Hall and including Economy members.

Civil War Soldiers, including Economy Society members who celebrated Emancipation of Louisiana’s Enslaved People in Economy Hall.

Members of Les Amis Sincères (The Sincere Friends)

The Louisiana Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans that met in Economy Hall.

Madame L.C. Roudanez, President.

Vice Presidents – 1st, Madame Armand Thiot; 2d, Madame J.P. Lanna; 3d, Madame A. Raynal; 4th, Madame Isidore Amand.

Treasurer – Miss Leonine Thézan.

Recording Secretary – Miss Nathalie Puig.

Corresponding Secretary – Madame Paul Trevigne.

Board of Directresses – Madame Aveline Vigers, Madame Jules Julien, Madame Celestine Hypolite, Madame Sylvain Daquin, Miss Louise Morphy, Miss Irène Dauphin, Miss Eliza Vigers, Mrs. A. Perrault, Mrs. Eliza Quanders, Mrs. Nancy Henry, Mrs. Charlotte Henry, Mrs. Martha Smith, Miss Gustavie Wilson, Mrs. Aimée Roudanez, Miss Ernestine Queroux, Miss Odile Puch, Mrs. Felix Délile, Mrs. A. Jones, Mrs. Irene Scorcia, Mrs. Leon Thomas, Mrs. Mary Crawford, Mrs. Charles Robinson, Mrs. Joseph Sago, Miss Ernestine Thiot, Mrs. Drozin Dolliole.

Board of Advisers – J.P. Lanna, Tomy Lafont (sic), Paul Trevigne, Bernard Soulié, Augustin James, A. Plantey, Dr. L.C. Roudanez.

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Musicians who played at Economy Hall

Basile Barés

Victor-Eugene McCarty

French Opera Company

Edmond Dédé (according to Maude Cuney Hare)

Onward String Band

Eureka Brass Band

Eagle Brass Band

Piron’s Orchestra

Sidney Bechet

Blue Imperial Orchestra

La Société Philharmonique  (The Philharmonic Society, See James Monroe Trotter)  

Famous Olympia Brass Band

William Nickerson

Kid Ory

King Oliver

Louis Armstrong  

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Jazz musicians who played at Economy Hall or spoke about the hall in oral histories/ Tulane University’s Music Rising site.

Isaiah Morgan

Frank Adams

Richard Alexis

Andrew Bailey

Dave Bailey

Isadore Barbarin

Paul Barbarin

Danny Barker

Emile Barnes

Alex Bigard

Sidney Brown

John Brunious

John Casimir

Jesse Charles

Hypolite Charles

Mike Delay

Natty Dominique

Maurice Durand

Abbey “Chinee” Foster

Earl Foster

“Pops” Foster

Willie Foster

Cie Frazier

Clarance Gabriel

Louis Gallaud

Ed Garland

Ed Garland

Booker T. Glass

Christopher Goldston

Albert Glenny

Israel Gorman

John Handy

Willie Humphrey Younger and Elder

Kid Howard

Albert Jiles

Chester Jones

George Justin

John Joseph

Ben Kelly

Louis Keppard

George Lewis

Manuel Manetta

Eddie Marrero

Milton Martin

Archie Martin

Bill Matthews

Punch Miller

Roger Mitchell

Herb Morand

Isaiah Morgan Jr.

Joe “Wooden” Nicholas

Stella Oliver

Kid Ory

Willie Parker

Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau

Alphonse Picou

Billie and Dede Pierce

Eddie Richardson

Ike Robinson

Jim Robinson

Johny St. Cyr

Lester Santiago

Luke Schiro

George Sterling

Capt. Verne Streckfus

Joseph “Brother Cornbread” Thomas

Clarence Vincent

Albert Warner

Bob Watts

Horace White

Cassius Wilson

Alice Zeno

Alfred Williams

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Signatories of the 1876 Constitution

The typescript list below is an attempt to decipher the handwriting in the revised constitution of the society in 1876 (above) and replicates those spellings. Be aware that the names may be spelled differently on other documents. When possible, I have noted with an asterik names that I have double checked in other minute books to denote a more complete spelling or a transposed surname. A question mark means that I could not confirm the spelling. The remainding names should be accurate as written.
 

M. J. Piron

F. Casenave (*Florestan) 

V. A. Meilleur (*V. Albert) 

E. G. Gignac (*George) 

Leon Vigne

T. William (*Théodule?)

Andre Dominguez (*André)

Raymond Mary

Jules Bard

Ignace Steel

Jos. Delay (*Joseph)

Louis Carlon

J. B. Margueze (*Marquez?) 

L. A. Meilleur

Jos Laurent (*Joseph)

J. Sepere?

Valsin Boutté

Simeon Labeau

Simeon Labeau

Alfred Jourdain

Mazin Pierre (*Pierre Mazin)

Louis Rouzan

Victor Hubert

Dussuau Emile (*Emile Dussuau) 

Francis Gardere (*Gardère)

 M. E. Perrault

M. Camps (*Manuel)

Rob. Willard (*Robert)

Ant. Rousseau (*Antoine)

Arm. Bedout (*Armand) 

Jos. Percy (*Joseph)

Louis Legros

Ch. Middleton (*Charles)

Prosper Avril

Homer Boutté

Gus Bedout (*Gustave) 

Henri Labeau

Hypolite Nicolas

J. Sangade?

V. Populus

Edgar Davis

Marcelin Martin (*Martin Marcelin)

Robert Charles (*Charles Robert)

Mollay P. A. (*P.A. Mollay)

Louis Daniel

Lacoste Hortaire (probably Hortaire Lacoste)

Joseph Alcindor

N. E. D. Morand (*Nelson) 

Ch. P. Vigers (*Charles)

F. Herriman (*Frederic)

Geo. Madison (*George)

E. J. Tennette (*Emile) 

A. J. Cheveau(*Auguste) 

Ben Xavier (*Benjamin)

Domingo Cadaron (*Dominique Cadaron) 

Isadore Armand 

Fran Pigneguy(Francis Pignéguy)

Henry L. Rey (*Louis)

J. Abelard (Joseph Abélard)

Joseph Rippoll

Fran Georges (*Francis) 

Aug. Motin (*Augustin Mutin) 

Fran. Diaz (*Francisco)

Jean Fournier

George James 

Manuel Barriere (Barrière) 

F. Tervalon (*François)

Francisco Oliba

Louis N. Fouché (*Nelson)

Edgar Davis

Patricio Martinez

Ch. Aubert (*Charles Auber)

Joes. Alcina (*Joseph) 

Armand Bond (*Bon) 

M. H. Nelson

H. Christophe (*Henri)

L. Pesson

Alfred Mary(*Jean Alfred Mary) 

A. Ferrand (*Armand or Joseph A.)

Ant. Steel

Jules Déjan

Ernest Alix

Jos. Rippoll (*Joseph)

Jos. Labeau

Fran Hernandez

Wm. Moulaizon (*William)

Ant Luciani (*Antoine/ Antonio) 

Joe. Burel (*Joseph)

Labeau Jean (*Jean Labeau) 

Engle Barthe (*also Engle Bart) 

Adam Manuel (*Manuel Adam) 

Antoine Pierre

George James (*George F. James) 

Marcelin Fortin

Nickerson William (*William Nickerson)

credit to Fatima Shaik, fatimashaik.com & economyhall.com

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1874 Members

Joseph Allain

Ludger Boguille

Eugene Meilleur

Alexandre Perez

St. Marc Pajaud

Adolphe Desmazilliere

Ernest Vila

Charles Chord

Thézir Populus

Ernest Blache

Ernest Bertow

Eugene Rillieux

François Remy

Henry J. Willz?

Othello Dimmouille

Pedro Barthelemy

Français Gallaud

 Benjamin J. Xavier

Jeauble? Siméon

Victor Hubert

Ernest Wolf

Leopold Hewlett

François Tervalon

Henry Camps

E. Berthelot

Ones? Azaretto

Siméon Monde

Emile Trosclair​

 H. Thomas Auginnie?

Joseph Bady

Anthony Péralt

Louis Sylvaino

Manuel Bordenave

Emile Bagneris

William Joseph Taylor

Joseph N. Caytano

Eugene Cabrere

Gustave Mathiew

Hippolyte Grelet?

Florestan Casenave

Richard Leaisoux

Ernest Lacroix

Michel Montégut

Aleide Lewis

Edouan Dumouille

Frédérie Herriman

Charles Charbonnet

Heimozene Gallaud

Remil Chiada

Alfred Jean Marie

Manuel Fuentes

Alcide Pemossier?

Joachim Louis

William Moulazon

Jean Lambert

V. Albert Meileu (sic Meilleur)

Samuel L. Armstrong

Antoine Joseph

Joseph Brulé

Lolo Dominique

Octave Esteves

Isadore M. Armand

Jules Bernard

Aristide Rivarde

Lucien?

Pessou?

Arthur L. Thibaut

Frank Smith

Charles Gignard

Jean Labeau

Charles P. Vigers

Lucien J. P. Capla

Ernest Slade

Charles Savary

Alfred Bougeois

Placide L. Lalourner?

Engle Bart

Adlophe Roger

Achille François

Eugene Rapp

Joseph Vila

Antione Mathiew

Edgar Lewis

Jean V. Bossiere

Elezée Pizéro

Jules L. Frédéric

Eugene L. Picotte

Joseph Sépéro

credit Fatima Shaik, fatimashaik.com & economyhall.com

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