Biography of 	MAGINNIS, Charles Benjamin, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller June 1998

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Maginnis, Charles Benjamin, well-known sugar factor, of New Orleans, is 
the son of Charles Benjamin and Susan Kar (Bush) Maginnis, and was born 
in the city of New Orleans, Nov. 14, 1885.  Charles B. Maginnis, Sr., was 
born at Ocean Springs, Miss., where the family had a summer residence in 
addition to their New Orleans residence.  The principal business of 
Mr. Maginnis was that of a sugar planter, but he was also interested in 
other industrial enterprises, notable among which may be named the 
Lafayette Warehouse Co., the Maginnis cotton mills, Maginnis oil soap 
works, A. A. Maginnis Land Co., Ltd., Planters Fertilizer & Manufacturing 
Co., Maginnis Land and Improvement Co.  Susan Kar Bush was born on Laurel 
Valley plantation near Thibodaux, and was the daughter of Cot. Louis Bush.
Charles B. Maginnis, Jr., passed the first 9 years of his life in New 
Orleans, where he attended a private school.  From 9 to 20 years of age 
his time was spent partly on the plantation and partly in traveling about 
the country.  At the latter age he went to an academy at Worcester, Mass.,
where he remained 2 years.  He then went to work for Le Bourgeois & Bush,
sugar brokers, with which firm he was connected about 1 year, and then 
went into business for himself under the firm name of Maginnis Bros. & 
Drewes, as sugar factors.  In this they have been successful.  
Mr. Maginnis has formed a corporation known as the West India Sugar Co. 
to import Cuban blackstrap molasses.  He is connected with the Lafayette 
warehouse in New Orleans, the American Land and Securities Co., the 
Sunrise Oil and Development Co., and is interested in several other 
enterprises.  He is a member of the Boston, Pickwick, Stratford, Country, 
New Orleans Lawn Tennis, Audubon Golf, Young Men's Gymnastic, Delta Duck, 
City Park Gun, and the Audubon Polo clubs, besides most of the carnival 
organizations.

Source: Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, 
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), 
pp. 547-548.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by 
Century Historical Association.