Well known cottonseed extractor, politician and member of New Orleans society.
Jules Aldige developed the cottonseed oil business in Louisiana and was very involved in New Orleans society. He was Rex, King of Carnival in 1884 and the theme was Atlantis.
A beautiful Victorian-Italianate home was built by Jules at 1423 Esplanade in New Orleans and an extensive inventory after the deaths of his wife, daughter and granddaughter showed impressive and expensive furnishings.
Not only was Jules known in New Orleans high society, he also was a member of the NOLA Howard Association, a benevolent organization that was founded to assist and deploy money and aid in the wake of yellow fever outbreaks. It was during the 1878 NOLA yellow fever epidemic when Jules became a leader in the association.
He died in France in 1893 and his wife, Alice LePretre Aldige, brought his body back on the SS La Bourgogne shortly after his death. This was the same ship Alice was a first class passenger on along with a daughter, Amelie Aldige' Borde and her daughter, Amy Borde, when it sank five years later. The ship collided with another vessel near Nova Scotia and as it sank, all but one woman and not a single child survived. It was determined that crew members stabbed and flung passengers into the ocean in order to save themselves. The maritime law "women and children first" came to be because of the horrific murders of the La Bourgogne passengers.
Jules Aldige developed the cottonseed oil business in Louisiana and was very involved in New Orleans society. He was Rex, King of Carnival in 1884 and the theme was Atlantis.
A beautiful Victorian-Italianate home was built by Jules at 1423 Esplanade in New Orleans and an extensive inventory after the deaths of his wife, daughter and granddaughter showed impressive and expensive furnishings.
Not only was Jules known in New Orleans high society, he also was a member of the NOLA Howard Association, a benevolent organization that was founded to assist and deploy money and aid in the wake of yellow fever outbreaks. It was during the 1878 NOLA yellow fever epidemic when Jules became a leader in the association.
He died in France in 1893 and his wife, Alice LePretre Aldige, brought his body back on the SS La Bourgogne shortly after his death. This was the same ship Alice was a first class passenger on along with a daughter, Amelie Aldige' Borde and her daughter, Amy Borde, when it sank five years later. The ship collided with another vessel near Nova Scotia and as it sank, all but one woman and not a single child survived. It was determined that crew members stabbed and flung passengers into the ocean in order to save themselves. The maritime law "women and children first" came to be because of the horrific murders of the La Bourgogne passengers.
Well known cottonseed extractor, politician and member of New Orleans society.
Jules Aldige developed the cottonseed oil business in Louisiana and was very involved in New Orleans society. He was Rex, King of Carnival in 1884 and the theme was Atlantis.
A beautiful Victorian-Italianate home was built by Jules at 1423 Esplanade in New Orleans and an extensive inventory after the deaths of his wife, daughter and granddaughter showed impressive and expensive furnishings.
Not only was Jules known in New Orleans high society, he also was a member of the NOLA Howard Association, a benevolent organization that was founded to assist and deploy money and aid in the wake of yellow fever outbreaks. It was during the 1878 NOLA yellow fever epidemic when Jules became a leader in the association.
He died in France in 1893 and his wife, Alice LePretre Aldige, brought his body back on the SS La Bourgogne shortly after his death. This was the same ship Alice was a first class passenger on along with a daughter, Amelie Aldige' Borde and her daughter, Amy Borde, when it sank five years later. The ship collided with another vessel near Nova Scotia and as it sank, all but one woman and not a single child survived. It was determined that crew members stabbed and flung passengers into the ocean in order to save themselves. The maritime law "women and children first" came to be because of the horrific murders of the La Bourgogne passengers.
Jules Aldige developed the cottonseed oil business in Louisiana and was very involved in New Orleans society. He was Rex, King of Carnival in 1884 and the theme was Atlantis.
A beautiful Victorian-Italianate home was built by Jules at 1423 Esplanade in New Orleans and an extensive inventory after the deaths of his wife, daughter and granddaughter showed impressive and expensive furnishings.
Not only was Jules known in New Orleans high society, he also was a member of the NOLA Howard Association, a benevolent organization that was founded to assist and deploy money and aid in the wake of yellow fever outbreaks. It was during the 1878 NOLA yellow fever epidemic when Jules became a leader in the association.
He died in France in 1893 and his wife, Alice LePretre Aldige, brought his body back on the SS La Bourgogne shortly after his death. This was the same ship Alice was a first class passenger on along with a daughter, Amelie Aldige' Borde and her daughter, Amy Borde, when it sank five years later. The ship collided with another vessel near Nova Scotia and as it sank, all but one woman and not a single child survived. It was determined that crew members stabbed and flung passengers into the ocean in order to save themselves. The maritime law "women and children first" came to be because of the horrific murders of the La Bourgogne passengers.
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