HART, William O., Orleans Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be Reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any Other organization or persons. Persons or organizations Desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent Of the contributor, or the legal representative of the Submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with Proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for Personal use only. Hart, William O., lawyer and author, is a native of Louisiana, and was born in the city of New Orleans, Aug. 29, 1857. His parents were Toby and Anna (Hussey) Hart. The father was born in Newberry, S. C., Aug. 29, 1835, and died at New Orleans, Dec. 27, 1907, and the mother was born in the city of New Orleans, April 12, 1838, and died here in 1891. Toby Hart was a son of William R. Hart, who was born in the city of New York and was a son of William Hart, who was a British soldier in the American revolution, settled in New York city, and there married American lady and became an American citizen, removing later to South Carolina, from which state his son, William R. Hart, moved to New Orleans when the father of William O. Hart was a boy. Toby Hart won distinction in the war of secession, serving as captain of Company E, Eighth Louisiana battery of heavy artillery. He planted the first gun at Vicksburg, Miss., served till the close of the war, and surrendered at Meridian, Miss., in May, 1865. For many years he was a prominent contracting painter at New Orleans. William O. Hart was reared in New Orleans. He obtained an academic education at New Orleans and Gainesville, Ala. He began the study of law in the office of Braughn, Buck & Dinkelspiel, of New Orleans, and was admitted to the bar in 1880, although he had practiced law 2 years when admitted. Mr. Hart became a member of the law firm of Braughn, Buck, Dinkelspiel & Hart, the successor of which firm is the well known law firm of Dinkelspiel, Hart & Davey. Mr. Hart has won an enviable reputation as a lawyer. He has been a member of the American Bar Association since 1893, and has been continuously a member of the association's committee on uniform state laws since 1895; was a member of the executive committee in 1908-09-10; was elected chairman of the committee on legal education in 1909, and is now a member of the committee on taxation, also of the local council. For many years he has been a prominent member of the Louisiana Bar Association, serving a long period as a member of the executive committee of the association; one year as chairman of the library committee and as chairman of the committee on uniform state laws since that committee was created, and has been on many other important committees. Mr. Hart is also a member of the American Society of International Law, the International Law association, and the Medico-Legal society. At the Louisiana State university he delivered in 1907 a course of lectures which has been published under the title of "Fragments of Louisiana Jurisprudence." He has published several well received and valuable treatises, including: "License Taxation in Louisiana," "Legal Problems of the Country Banker,'' ''A Boy's Recollection of the War," "Universal Peace Impossible without an International Code," "Relation of the Public to School Boards." He has compiled the laws of Louisiana for Sharp & Alleman's Legal Directory and Corporation Manual for many years. Mr. Hart was a member of the International Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, held at St. Louis in 1904, and in 1906 a member of the credential committee of the National Divorce Congress. He has delivered addresses before the state bar associations of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Mississippi. In politics he has taken an active part in behalf of the men and measures of the democratic party. He was a member of the Louisiana constitutional conventions of 1898 and 1913; was presidential elector in 1900; delegate to the national democratic conventions of 1908 and 1912. He has served as a member of the civil code commission; was a member of the first tax commission of Louisiana; also as a member of the play ground commission of New Orleans; was one of the curators of the Louisiana State museum from 1907 to 1912; has been one of the commissioners on uniform state laws since 1902, and was vice-president of the national body in 1903 and 1907. Mr. Hart has taken an active part in the affairs of the Sons of Confederate Veterans; was the first to suggest the observance of the anniversary of the birth day of Gen. Robt. E. Lee, in Jan., 1907, and was chairman of the exercises in New Orleans on the first occasion of the celebration; is a member of the executive committee of the general committee for the celebration of the one-hundred years of peace between Great Britain and the United States-1914-15. He was a member of the second, third, and fourth national peace congresses, and delivered an address before the second. He is treasurer and member of the executive committee of the Louisiana Historical society; vice-president of the Presbyterian hospital of New Orleans; vice-president of the Louisiana Forestry association; member of the Louisiana child labor commission, of the Louisiana prison reform association, of the Louisiana state Sunday school association, of the First Presbyterian church of New Orleans, of the Presbyterian Men's union; member of the board of directors of the National Tax association, and is chairman of the committee on uniform tax laws of the Southern congress; member of the executive committee of the American Flag association, and influenced the passing recently by the Louisiana legislature of a law preventing the desecration of the national flag and a law legalizing the Louisiana state flag. He originated in the public schools recognition of "peace day," May 18, and "flag day," June 14. Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 762-764. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit. D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association. ********************************** HAYNE, Franklin B., So. Carolina then Orleans Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be Reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any Other organization or persons. Persons or organizations Desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent Of the contributor, or the legal representative of the Submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with Proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for Personal use only. Hayne, Franklin B. In all the annals of the South there is no name stands out more conspicuously than that of Hayne. Franklin B. Hayne, the prominent and successful business man of New Orleans, is a descendant of John Hayne, who settled in South Carolina in 1700 and from that day to this the descendants of John Hayne have been among the leaders in every great public crisis of the country. The Hayne family furnished patriots and martyrs in the Revolution, and it was also distinguished in the late Civil war, 1861-65. In the field of law and statesmanship the name of Robert Y. Hayne stands pre-eminent as an orator, his famous debate with Daniel Webster while a member of congress being destined to live in American history as long as the republic of the United States has a history. Arthur P. Hayne, brother of Robert V. Hayne, was an aide of Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans and a warm personal friend of Jackson, and in literature the family had its distinguished representatives. Franklin B. Hayne is a direct descendant of John Hayne and his genecology is traced thus: 1, John Hayne, who died about 1718, married Mary Dean, and the children of this union were John, Edward, Joseph, Hannah, Matthew, Susannah, Isaac, and Abraham. 2, Isaac Hayne, the fifth son and seventh child of this marriage was born on July 27, 1714, and died Dec. 23, 1751. He married first Elizabeth Oswald, by whom he had 2 children, Elizabeth and Isaac, the latter born in 1738 and died the following year. His second wife was Sarah Stokes, and after her death he married Sarah Williamson, who bore him 2 children, Mary and Isaac. His fourth wife was Mary Bee, who bore him one son, John. 3, Isaac Hayne, the only son of Isaac and Sarah (Williamson) Hayne, and great-grandfather of Franklin B. Hayne, was born Sept. 23, 1745. He married Elizabeth Hutson on July 18, 1765, and their children were Isaac, Mary, Sarah, John H., Elizabeth, Mary, and William Edward. He was unjustly executed by the British on Aug. 4, 1781, contrary to thee usages of war, and his cousin, Abraham Hayne, the only other male Hayne of the generation, and the grandfather of Robert Hayne, died on a British prison ship, both having been martyrs to their belief that the American colonies ought to be free and independent. Owing to the heroic services of Isaac Hayne as a colonel of the Colleton county regiment of South Carolina militia, his capture by the British while thus holding the colonel's commission, and the manly dignity with which he met his tragic death sentence inflicted upon him by the British military authorities, he became a national historical figure of the Revolutionary period and is known in South Carolina history as "the Martyr Hayne." 4, William Edward Hayne, the youngest child of Isaac and Elizabeth (Hutson) Hayne, and the grandfather of Franklin B. Hayne, was born Aug. 29, 1776, and was, therefore, but six years old when his father was executed. He became prominent in the affairs of South Carolina, and on Dec. 20, 1839, was elected comptroller-general of the state. He and a Mr. Davidson owned and operated one of the first iron foundries in South Carolina. His death occurred in 1843. He married Eloise Brevard, Jan. 28, 1806, and to them were born the following children: Isaac William, Rebecca H., Alexander B., Franklin A. B., Eloise Mary, and Sarah Martha. Isaac William Hayne, the eldest of the above named children and the father of Franklin B. Hayne, was born on March 16, 1809, and died in March, 1880. He was elected attorney general of South Carolina in 1848 and served until 1868, when he was displaced by the carpet-bag regime, displaced by the carpet-bag regime, which at that time took possession of the state. Prior to the war he was an active figure in the political affairs of the state and was one of the signers of the ordinance of secession, Dec. 20, 1860, the first ordinance of its kind passed by any state. Before his marriage he fought a duel with Col. John Ashe Alston, a noted duelist ,which was considered quite remarkable, even in those days when affairs of honor were common occurrences. As the challenged party, Mr. J. Hayne selected pistols at a distance of five paces, and in the duel he received a slight flesh wound, while Col. Alston was seriously wounded. On May 1, 1834, Isaac William Hayne and Alicia Pauline Trapier were united in marriage and their children were, Isaac, Harriet B., Richard T., Theodore B., Edmund T., T. Shubrick, Mary E., Paul T., William E., and Franklin B. Five of these sons served in the Confederate army, and the eldest being but 22 years of age at the time of his enlistment, and the father was also active and prominent in behalf of the Confederate cause. In addition to being one of the signers of the secession ordinance as previously noted, he was sent by Gov. Pickens in Jan., 1861, as a special envoy from the state of South Carolina to President Buchanan ''to effect if possible an amicable and peaceful transfer of the fort (Sumter) and the settlement of all questions relating to the property." His son, Edmund T. Shubrick Hayne, a brother of Franklin B., is included in the tablet to the memory of the Confederate dead at St. Phillip's Church, Charleston, S. C., and on the tablet in the statehouse at Columbia, placed there to commemorate the gallant services of the color-guard, and at the battle of Gaines' Mill, June 27, 1862, when the color-bearer, James H. Taylor, was killed, he seized the flag and bore it proudly forward in the face of the foe until he fell mortally wounded. Franklin B. Hayne, the immediate subject of this review, was born Feb. 13, 1858. He was originally christened Branford S. Hayne, but on April 13, 1861, his name was changed to its present form. He was educated in his native state of South Carolina, and in 1873 entered the employ of Watson & Hill at Charleston, at that time one of the most prominent firms engaged in the cotton trade in the world. About the same time another young South Carolinian, H. de L. Vincent, entered the employ of the same firm. These 2 young men were destined subsequently to develop one of the most extensive cotton trading concerns in the United States. The history of their struggles from 1883, when they decided to start for themselves on $2,000, of which $1,500 was borrowed and $500 given them by their employer, reads like a page from romance. They first began business at Montgomery, Ala., but after a short period of success there an opportunity offered for a partnership with Daniel Partridge, of Selma, Ala. Mr. Partridge was a man of ample means and in this connection gave the young cotton merchants a desirable opening, of which they promptly availed themselves. They established themselves in Vicksburg, Miss., with branches at Yazoo City, Greenville, Greenwood, Jackson, Meridian, and Port Gibson. There business prospered from its very inception and in a short time began to assume important proportions. In 1890 Mr. Partridge retired from the firm under circumstances that stamped him as a man of unusual character and high-minded fairness, leaving the two young men to conduct the business in their own way. Mr. Hayne had opened a branch office in New Orleans in 1885, and the business there grew so rapidly that Mr. Vincent later also came to New Orleans to assist in taking care of it. Under the firm name of Vincent & Hayne the firm acquired an international reputation, and its opinion on all matters relating to the cotton trade being of the highest rank. The transactions of the firm were confined strictly to legitimate trading, and its methods were always above suspicion. On Nov. 1, 1905, Mr. Vincent retired, and Mr. Hayne succeeded to the large trade which had been established. Since that time he has conducted the business on the same high plane he and his partner had instituted and it is no disparagement to other dealers in cotton to say that he has probably done as much as any man in the South to enhance the value of the cotton crop each year and to make the Southern farmer realize the value of a commodity, three-fourths of which is grown in Southern states, though used by the people of every civilized nation on the globe. As a young man, Mr. Hayne was devoted to athletics of all kinds. He was a member of the Carolina Rifle club of Charleston, S. C., the first organized rifle club started in the South after the war. He took an active part in the campaign which resulted in the election of Gen. Wade Hampton to the governorship of South Carolina, which is the only connection he has ever had with politics, with the exception of the Young Men's Democratic association and the Citizens' League of New Orleans, in both of which movements he was an active and useful participant. Mention has been made of Robert Y. Hayne, the distinguished orator and statesman. Another Robert Y. Hayne became superior judge at San Francisco, Cal., and was later appointed commissioner of the Supreme court of that state, resigning his position in 1891. He has written practically on all legal subjects. The poets, Paul Hamilton Hayne and William Hamilton Hayne were also descendants of the original John Hayne of South Carolina. Franklin B. Hayne continuing the leadership which has ever marked those who bear the name, has acquired in the field of commerce a prominence no less conspicuous than that which other members of the family achieved in other lines of endeavor. In addition to his large interest in the cotton trade, he is now president of the Poitevent & Favre Lumber Co., member of the cotton exchange, and is active in every movement for the advancement of the Crescent City's commercial interests. Mr. Hayne is a prominent figure in the club life of the city, having been for many years president of the Pickwick club, and is a member of the Boston and other clubs. He has long been one of the active promoters of the Mardi Gras festivities, which have made New Orleans famous all over the world, and in 1904 was chosen king of the carnival-a distinct tribute to his unflagging zeal in this feature of the city's social life. On April 30, 1896, Mr. Hayne led to the altar Miss Emily Poitevent, a woman of rare charm and accomplishments, and this union has been blessed by the following children: John Poitevent, born Jan. 28, 1898; Mary H., born Dec. 9, 1900; Emily P., born Nov. 9, 1903; Franklin Brevard, born March 20, 1905. Mr. Hayne's home, at 2508 St. Charles avenue, is known for its delightful hospitality. Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 759-762. Edited by Alc e Fortier, Lit. D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association. Note: Original source includes a photograph of Mr. Hayne.