William Robertson Boggs, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
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History of Louisiana by Chambers pub. 1925

Vol. III pg. 338

WILLIAM ROBERTSON BOGGS, vice-president and cashier of the Jefferson Trust
& Savings Bank, has been a factor in the banking affairs of Jefferson
Parish the last five years, and prior to that some of his early promotions
and success in the banking profession were made in New Orleans and in other
gulf coast cities.

Mr. Boggs was born at Long Beach, Mississippi, January 13, 1886, son of
Robert and Elizabeth (Inerarty) Boggs.  His mother, a native of Mobile,
Alabama, died in 1917, at the age of seventy-six.  Robert Boggs, who was
born at Augusta, Georgia, and died in 1921, at the age of eighty-seven, was
a Confederate soldier, being assigned to scouting duties with an Alabama
regiment.  His chief business was farming, and he followed it in Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi.  He was a devout member of the Episcopal Church.

William Robertson Boggs attended school at Long Beach and Gulfport,
Mississippi, and was sixteen years of age when he began training himself
for his life work and profession as an employe of the First National Bank
of Gulfport, Mississippi.  He entered its service as messenger, and was
general bookkeeper when he left in 1914 to go to New Orleans, where he
entered the general offices of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company.  Mr.
Boggs in 1917 helped organize and became cashier of the Bank of  Pass
Christian, Mississippi.  He was there during the World war period, and as a
banker and private citizen gave his services to the government for the
success of the various loan drives.  Mr.  Boggs in 1920 came to Gretna as
cashier and vice president of the Jefferson Trust & Savings Bank, which
operates three banks:  At Gretna, Kenner and Westwego.  Mr. Boggs was also
one of the organizers and is vice president of the Bank of Hahnville, and
is a director of the Bank of St. Rose and the Bank of St. Bernard.

His home is at Mecari Ridge.  He has given his best enthusiasm to banking,
and his diversion is usually takin in a fishing trip at Gulfport,
Mississippi.  In March, 1909, he married Miss Claire Hale who was born and
reared at Golfport.  Her father, Thomas Patrick Hale, now living retired at
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, was formerly vice president of the Gulf & Ship
Island Railroad.  Mr. and Mrs. Boggs have a family of six children:
William Robertson, Jr., Mary Elizabeth, Thomas Hale, Claire Hale, Robert
and Archibald.

Frances (Ball) Turner

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