BIO: Hockaday, W. E. s/o Eugene Hockaday - Shelby Co

HOCKADAY, W. E. - Shelbyville, KY., then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller   "mike_m@deq.state.la.us"


W. E. HOCKADAY, PLAQUEMNE BRULEE.--W. F. Hockaday was born in Kentucky, in
1868.  He is the younger of two children born to Eugene and Anna (Lake)
Hockaday.  Eugene Hockaday was educated at Shelbyville, Kentucky, and
removed to Louisiana early in life, where he became a prosperous planter
and merchant.

W. E. Hockaday, the subject of this sketch, received his education
principally in Illinois.  He is one of the most successful planters and
stock raisers in this section of Louisiana.  He has charge of three
thousand acres of very fertile land.  He gives special attention to the
breeding and importing of a fine grade of Herford and short-horned cattle.
Mr. Hockaday is united in marriage with Miss Beatrice Lyon, a daughter of
Crawford Lyon of this State.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p.
264.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.

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