Thomas Heneage Mandell; England, then Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
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Thomas Heneage Mandell is a civil engineer, widely known over 
Southwestern Louisiana for his expert work in drainage and road 
building projects, and has had an extensive practice in his profession 
with headquarters at Lake Charles for over twenty years.

Mr. Mandell is a native of England and represents a family of 
distinguished scholars and ministers of the Church of England.  His 
great-grandfather, William Mandell, was a clergyman and at one time 
dean of Oxford University. a great uncle, Mandell Creighton, was 
bishop of London, his grandfather, John Mandell, was a clergyman, and 
his own father, John Heneage Mandell, received the Master of Arts and 
Bachelor of Divinity degree from Oxford University, was curate at 
Goole, Yorkshire, and for over forty years vicar of Haydon Bridge 
Parish in Northumberland.  He finally retired and died in 1917, at the 
age of eighty-four.  He was made a member of the Masonic fraternity at 
Oxford at the same time as the late King Edward VII.  Rev. John H. 
Mandell married Mary E. Weddahl, a native of Hull who died in 1923 
at the age of seventy-nine.  Rev. John H. Mandell was a native of 
Denbeigh.

Their son, Thomas Heneage Mandell, was born at Hull, England, July 
9, 1877, and acquired a liberal education according to the best English 
standards and traditions.  In 1895 he received the degree Bachelor of 
Science from Durham University.  During the next four years he was 
employed in engineering work that took him over England, France, 
Belgium and Spain.  In 1902 he came to Lake Charles, Louisiana, as 
civil engineer in the service of the North American Land & Timber 
Company.  He was with that corporation three years, but since 1905 has 
engaged in private practice and much of his work has been as a 
consulting engineer.  From 1910 to 1914 he was city engineer of Lake 
Charles at a time when that city was undertaking its most important 
public improvement.  He has been the engineer of a number of projects 
for the building of good roads in Vermilion, Jefferson Davis, Cameron 
and Allen parishes, and has served on such drainage projects as Lake 
Charles Drainage District No. 1, Sulphur Drainage District No. 3, 
Thornwell Drainage District No. 3, the Broadmoor No. 1, and Keystone 
No. 2 in the vicinity of Lake Arthur.

Mr. Mandell is a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd 
Protestant Episcopal. He married at take Charles June 22, 1905, Miss 
Susie Robertson Bradley.  Her father, James Earl Bradley, was in early 
life a journalist, a contemporary of the late Watterson, and was 
employed on what is now C Louisville Courier-Journal.  He served as a 
Confederate soldier and for many years was a minister of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, holding pastorates in Louisiana and also in the far 
West in Oregon and in his later years was pastor of the First Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Lake Charles.  He died in 1885 and his wife, 
Annie Thomas, a native of New Orleans, died in 1913.  Mr. Mandell 
lost his first wife by death March 24, 1918. Subsequently he married 
Mrs. Lula Douglass Cochran of New Orleans.  His three children by his 
first marriage are:  Mary Elizabeth,  Cuthbert Bradley and  Edith Hilda.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 269, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.