Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Daspit, Joseph Oscar - August 15, 1905 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary K. Creamer marykcreamer@yahoo.com March 16, 2019, 11:50 pm source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, August 19, 1905, Image 5 DEATH OF JOSEPH O. DASPIT. This community was greatly shocked by the report of the death by yellow fever of Mr. J. O. Daspit, the brilliant young lawyer of New Orleans who was practicing his profession in the office of Clegg & Quintero. Mr. Daspit was the son of our planter citizen of Iberia Parish, Mr. Oscar Daspit, owning and operating the beautiful "Interlachen" plantation some three miles from this city. He was a young man of great promise and had many brilliant qualities, was the valedictorian of his law class, an unusually bright one of Tulane. Little did his sorrowing mother and sister think it the last time they would see him as they bade him good bye at the S. P. depot New Orleans, bound for their plantation home in this Parish, but ten days ago. But such is life, especially when the yellow scourge is in our fair land. To the sorrowing family and grieved ones we offer our sincere sympathy and condolence. source: The Weekly Iberia. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, August 19, 1905, Image 1 J. O. Daspit. - N. O. States, Aug. 15. The Louisiana bar has lost one of the brightest, most popular and ablest of its younger generation of practitioners, through the death of Joseph O. Daspit, which occured this morning at 7:30 o'clock at his place of residence No 3424 St. Charles avenue. The news will come as a sad surprise to his many friends, and particularly his brother lawyers, young and old, for little more than one week ago he was on the streets and in the courts in apparently perfect health and the fact that he was ill was not very generally known. With characteristic fortitude and calm determination he battled with the malady, and with equally characteristic manhood he met the inevitable with the calmness which marks true manhood. Mr. Daspit was born in Houma, in Terrebonne parish, La., thirty four years ago and had his earlier education there. Coming to New Orleans in 1888 he entered Tulane High School and being naturally bright, ambitious, and studious, made rapid progress in his studies, finally graduating from Tulane University with the degree of A. B. in 1893. Proving himself an orator of rare ability for one of his years, he was elected valedictorian of his class. He then began reading law in the offices of Clegg & Quintero and finally took up the study in the law department of Tulane University from which he graduated with the highest honors in 1895, again being chosen valedictorian of his class. Immediately upon receiving his diploma he took up the practice of law in the offices of Clegg & Quintero and soon earned for himself a most enviable reputation as a practitioner, coming to be looked upon by his associate lawyers, young and old, as one of the ablest. By Judge Jehn Clegg, who perhaps knew him best, he was held in highest esteem as much because of his high integrity and general merits as a man as because of his exceptional ability. There survive him his mother, father, three sisters and three brothers, all of whom are resident in New Iberia, none of them being with him at the time of his illness. Mr. Ivy Kittridge, the well known young attorney, who was a friend of the deceased, a school and college chum paid him high tribute this morning. He was one of God's noblemen, unostentatious, a devoted son and brother and a staunch friend, a man of the highest integrity. His death has occasioned sincere sorrow to the many who were proud to call him friend. Mr. Daspit was a victim of yellow fever. The funeral will take place this afternoon. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/iberia/obits/d/daspit7764gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb