Daniel Joseph Landry, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Daniel Joseph Landry.  In naming the prominent citizens who have 
attained success in their various lines of endeavor in Calcasieu Parish, 
especial mention should be given Daniel Joseph Landry, president of 
the Lake Charles Railway Light and Water Works Company, the Lake 
Charles Gas Company, the City Delivery Company and the Lake 
Charles Realty Company.  A resident of Lake Charles since 1880, he 
has been one of the leading factors in the development of the 
community, not only as a business man but as a public-spirited citizen.

Mr. Landry was born November 29, 1862, in West Baton Rouge 
Parish, Louisiana, and is a son of Dr. Joseph Alfred and Aloysia 
(Leveque) Landry.  His father, a native of the same parish, received his 
early education at Bardstown, Kentucky, following which he pursued 
his medical studies at Tulane University and was duly graduated 
therefrom.  During the remainder of his life he continued in the practice 
of his calling, his death occurring in 1870.  Daniel Joseph Landry 
received his education in the parochial and public schools in Brusly, 
West Baton Rouge Parish, and at the age of eighteen years, in 1880, 
located at Lake Charles, where he entered the employ of Perkins & 
Muller, operators of a large sawmill at Westlake, Calcasieu Parish.  He 
remained with them in various departments for ten years, and in 1890, 
in company with his brother, Joseph A. Landry, T. J. Bird and Paul O. 
Moss, engaged in the ice business, which was the forerunner of the 
present public utilities system of Lake Charles.  Subsequently these 
same men built the railway system, the gas company and the water 
works system.  Mr. Landry was vice president of the Lake Charles 
Railway, Light and Water Works Company, the Lake Charles Gas 
Company, the City Delivery Company (retail ice and wholesale and 
retail coal), and the Lake Charles Realty Company, until the death of 
hus brother, Joseph A., August 8, 1923, at which time he succeeded his 
brother in the presidency of these concerns.  Each of these companies 
had small beginnings and each grew and prospered under able 
management and the cooperation of all the officials connected with 
them, combined with rendering the best of service to Customers.  This 
latter policy has been greatly appreciated by the people of Lake Charles 
and the surrounding community, and their appreciation has taken the 
form of continued and added patronage.  Mr. Landry has few interests 
aside from his business and his home.  Aside from his operations in the 
former held he cares little for anything save his home, his family and 
his garden, however, as a good citizen he has been a generous 
contributor to every worthy civic enterprise, and during the World war 
was a member of the Calcasieu Parish Council of Defense.  His 
religious connection is with the Catholic Church.

On January 3, 1887, at Lake Charles, Mr. Landry was united in 
marriage with Miss Irene Eva Lyons; who was born at Plaquemine 
Brul‚, St. Landry Parish, a daughter of Joseph J. and Evalina 
(DeVillier) Lyons, natives of St. Landry.  Mr. Lyons was a deputy 
sheriff, constable, and member of the police force, and active in 
democratic politics at Lake Charles for years.  During the war between 
the states he had fought as a soldier of the Confederacy.  Both he and 
Mrs. Lyons are deceased.  Twelve children, eight of whom are living, 
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Landry:  Mary Iris, the wife of M. D. 
Marshall, proprietor of a brokerage business at Lake Charles, who has 
three children, Daniel J., Laura Frances and Irene; Edith, who is 
unmarried and resides with her parents; Ethel, the wife of George 
Herbert, of Lake Charles, who has one son, George; Gladys, the wife of 
H. V. Delabratoune, Jr., cashier of the Southern Pacific Railway 
Company at Lake Charles, who has one daughter, Ruth; Maude, the 
wife of R. L. Pennington, in Greenville, South Carolina, who has one 
child, Azalie; Cyril Jefferson, a private of "A" Troop, Sixth United 
States Cavalry, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Benson Hubert and Aloysia, 
at home.

NOTE:  The sketch is accompanied by a black and white 
photograph/drawing of the subject.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 369-370, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.