Avoyelles-Rapides County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Hakenyos, Louia J 

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Author: Henry E Chambers

Louis J. Hakenyos is a native son of Louisiana, and since 1888 has been a 
prominent member of the bar.  His reputation as a lawyer has been made chiefly 
at Alexandria, where he is also well known as a banker and a man of affairs.

He was born in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, December 8, 1866, son of Francis 
and Sophia (Walkling) Hakenyos.  His parents were natives of Germany, were 
married after coming to Louisiana, and his father spent the rest of his career 
in the saddle and hardware business at Marksville.  He was a democrat and a 
Catholic in religion, while his wife was a Lutheran.

Louis S. Hakenyos, only child of his parents, was liberally educated, attending 
St. Vincent's College at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and he studied law under 
Judge A.. V. Coco, who recently retired from office is attorney general of 
Louisiana.  Admitted to the bar in 1888, he took his first cases as an attorney 
at Barksville, and in 1889 moved to Alexandria, where he formed a partnership 
with Judge James Andrews.  Upon the elevation of Judge Andrews to the bench he 
became a partner of Fred Cook, now a prominent Standard Oil official at New 
York City.  His next partnership was with Norman A. Scott, and the firm still 
Hakenyos & Scott, with offices in the Guaranty Bank Building at Alexandria.  In 
1918 Mr. John A. Hunter was admitted to the firm and the firm name came 
Hakenyos, Hunter & Scott.  Mr. Hunter retired from the firm in 1924.

Mr. Hakenyos married in 1893 Miss Emma J. Hyams, a native of Rapides Parish, 
and member of a distinguished Louisiana family.  She is a granddaughter of 
Governor Thomas Overton Moore, who as a young man located in Rapides Parish and 
became a planter, and in 1859 was nominated and elected governor of Louisiana, 
serving throughout the period of the war between the states until the state 
government was supplanted by the military rule of the North.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Hakenyos have one daughter, Miss Madeline.  They are members of the Catholic 
Church, and he has been active in democratic politics.  His chief service, 
however, has been rendered through his work as an attorney and banker.  As an 
attorney he has represented a number of corporations, and he is vice president 
of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company of Alexandria, and served as active vice 
president during the seven years this bank was the First National Bank.


Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 257, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by 
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 


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