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Jean Baptiste Adoue (1846-1924) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Aurignac, France,
October
24, 1846.
Merchant;
banker;
Consular
Agent for France in Dallas,
Tex., 1897-1907.
French ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Suffered an apoplectic
stroke, and fearing that he would become an invalid, he killed
himself, by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., June 20,
1924 (age 77 years, 240
days).
Interment at Grove
Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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Jean Baptiste Adoue Jr. (1884-1956) —
also known as J. B. Adoue, Jr. —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
4, 1884.
President, Dallas National Bank of
Commerce, 1924-56; chairman, Gulf Insurance
Company; chairman, Universal Life and Accident Insurance
Company; director, Graham-Brown Shoe
Company; director, First Texas Chemical
Company; director, Cosmopolitan Hotel
Company; mayor of
Dallas, Tex., 1951-53; defeated, 1949.
Episcopalian.
French ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Arbitration Association; Rotary;
Phi
Delta Theta; Newcomen
Society.
Died, from a heart
attack, while working at his
bank, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
17, 1956 (age 72 years, 13
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Crown
Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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Stephen Earnest Aguirre (1892-1972) —
also known as Stephen E. Aguirre —
of El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.
Born in Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., November
11, 1892.
U.S. Vice Consul in Ciudad Juarez, 1917-20; Chihuahua, 1920; Manzanillo, 1921-24; Nuevo Laredo, 1925-27, 1927-29; Piedras Negras, 1927; Mexico City, 1929-32; U.S. Consul in Ciudad Juarez, as of 1943.
Mexican,
Scottish,
English,
French, and German
ancestry.
Died, from an aortic
aneurysm, in Southwestern General Hospital,
El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., November
19, 1972 (age 80 years, 8
days).
Interment at Restlawn
Memorial Park, El Paso, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen Monroe Aguirre and Mary Wilhelmina (Sneed) Aguirre;
married to Jeannette Adelina Krause. |
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Alfred Courchesne (1848-1932) —
of El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.
Born in Quebec,
November
15, 1848.
Owner, limestone
quarry; president, El Paso Ice and
Refrigerator Company; Consular
Agent for France in El Paso,
Tex., 1897-1907.
French Canadian ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Elks.
Died in El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., July 18,
1932 (age 83 years, 246
days).
Interment at Concordia
Cemetery, El Paso, Tex.
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Albert Ferrier (1848-1908) —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.
Born in Carcassonne, France,
June
29, 1848.
Accountant;
Galveston city auditor; Consul
for Central America in Galveston,
Tex., 1898; Consul
for Honduras in Galveston,
Tex., 1899-1903; Consul
for Nicaragua in Galveston,
Tex., 1899-1902.
French ancestry.
He was found wandering in St. Louis, well-dressed but suffering from
amnesia and confusion; police identified him from letters and tickets
in his pocket; died about three weeks later, in a hospital
at St.
Louis, Mo., August
31, 1908 (age 60 years, 63
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.
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George Washington Paschal (1812-1878) —
also known as George W. Paschal; Lorenzo Columbus George
Washington Paschal —
of Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark.; Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; Austin, Travis
County, Tex.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Greene
County, Ga., November
23, 1812.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; justice of
Arkansas state supreme court, 1840; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1846; candidate for Texas
state attorney general, 1850; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 1868.
French Huguenot ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
16, 1878 (age 65 years, 85
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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