Biography of 	Cabell, Joseph B. Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller March 1998

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Cabell, Joseph B., was born in Henderson, Ky., May 3, 1862, and is a son of
Robert B. Cabell, a native of Virginia, who moved to Kentucky at an early
day and became a planter, owning several farms in Henderson county.  He
died when 66 years old.  Robert was a son of Joseph, also a native of
Virginia, who settled in Kentucky and was also a planter.  Joseph B.
Cabell, the subject of this sketch, is the youngest in a family of 9
children, 4 of whom are deceased, Mr. Cabell being the only son living.  He
was educated in the public schools of Henderson.  At 14 years of age, on
account of his father's death he was thrown on his own resources.  He was
clerk in the postoffice at Henderson; taught school; was employed by the L.
& N. R. R. as clerk in the freight office, and under Cleveland's first
administration was appointed railway postal clerk from Nashville to St.
Louis.  After about 6 months he became chief clerk of the railway mail
service at Louisville and in about 8 months was called to Washington, D.
C., and made assistant superintendent of the railway mail service of the
United States.  He held this position until Harrison was elected, when he
resigned.  He arranged for the interchange of mails with Mexico in 1888.
After his resignation from the railway mail service he became agent for the
Ohio Valley R. R., now the Illinois Central, at Henderson, and after about
1 year he went to Memphis, Tenn., as traveling agent for the Blue and
Canada Southern Fast Freight lines, remaining with them for 1 year and then
becoming agent for the Interstate Dispatch Fast Freight line, which
position he occupied for 5 years.  Following this for a period of 10 years
he was Southern freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio, Continental line
and Central States Dispatch at Memphis, having charge of all Southern
territory.  He came to New Orleans as traffic manager for the Mexican
American Steamship Co. and was later traffic manager and vice-president of
the Philadelphia & Gulf Steamship Co.  In 1907 he established a forwarding
agency in New Orleans, a business which grew rapidly into large proportions
and in 1911 he gave up his connections with other companies to devote his
entire time to his own increasing personal business.  He is permanently
located in New Orleans, having a fine home at 366 Walnut street.  In 1908
he married Miss Electra Boyle of Memphis, where she was born, reared and
educated.  He is a member of the Masonic order, Court of Honor, Scottish
Rite Mason, past potentate Shrine A. A. O. N. M. S., and also belongs to
the B. P. O. E., Hoo Hoos and Woodmen of the World.  He is a Democrat in
politics and belongs to the Boston club.  Mrs. Cabell is a member of the
Episcopal church.

Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 81.
Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.