East Baton Rouge-Orleans County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Farrell, Robert July 1, 1878 - 

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Author: Henry E Chambers

Robert E. Farrell is a veteran of the New Orleans cotton market, though a 
comparatively young man in years.  He has spent nearly thirty years of his life 
with the same firm of cotton brokers at 843 Union Street.

Mr. Farrell was born at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 1, 1878, son of William H. 
and Mary (Morris) Farrell, his father a native of Ireland, and his mother of 
New Orleans, where she is still living.  William H. Farrell was a contractor 
and builder, and died when his son Robert E. was six years of age.  His widowed 
mother then removed to New Orleans where her son attended public schools and 
the Soulé Business College.  He was only sixteen when he went to work in a 
railroad office, and two years later at the age of eighteen became an employe 
of a cotton firm.  With that firm he learned all the details of the cotton 
brokerage business and in a few years had reached the position of a partnership 
and has since been one of the active men in this organization.  Mr. Farrell has 
been a popular and resolute Citizen of New Orleans and for five years was 
president of the Young Men's Gymnastic Club.

On September 8, 1897, he married Miss Fannie Newman Young, who was born in 
Mississippi.  They are the parents of three sons and four daughters:  Miss 
Frances M.,  Robert W.,  William Mason,  Charles Fernand,  Maud Dorothy,  Mary 
Elizabeth and  Margaret Dixie, the oldest being twenty-three and the youngest 
eight years of age.  The son, Robert W. is a graduate of the Gulf Coast 
Military Academy at Gulfport, Mississippi, and is now associated with his 
father in the cotton business.  The two other sons, William Mason and Charles 
F., are members of the class of 1925 in the Gulf Coast Military Academy and 
have made splendid records in that institution; Charles being captain of 
Company B, on the sixth highest offices in the battalion, while his brother is 
captain of Company A. Charles was captain of the football team in 1924, and was 
elected president of the senior class.  Mr. Robert E. Farrell is a director in 
the Canal Commercial Bank & Trust Company at New Orleans.

Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 11, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by 
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 



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