Biography of 	McCall, Henry G. Ascension, then Orleans, Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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Henry G. McCall, attorney in the Commercial Bank Building, has practiced law in leans 
since 1902.  He is a member of a Louisiana family.

He was born in Ascension Parish, July 4 of Henry and Lillie (Legendre) McCall, natives 
of Louisiana.  His father was a sugar planter, and enjoyed many honors in public life, 
being collector of customs at the Port of New Orleans, active in politics, serving in 
the state senate and after 1896 was affiliated with the republican party, and became a 
close friend and admirer of Colonel Roosevelt.  At one time he owned the Eben Hall
plantation, a property that had been granted by the Spanish government in 1789.

Henry G. McCall, second in a family of four children, was liberally educated, attending 
the University of Virginia and in 1902 graduated in law lane University.  Since then he 
has been engaged in  a busy general practice in New Orleans.  He is a Catholic and a 
member of the Chess, Checkers and Whist Club.  In 1904 he married Louise Ferrier, who 
was born in New Orleans. They have three children: Mary Louise, George F. and Katherine.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 32, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.