Biography of 	TUPPER, Allen, Charleston, S. C., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller July 1998

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Tupper, Allen, son of Tristram Tupper, was born in Charleston, S. C., June 5,
In  1862, during the bombardment of Charleston, the family moved to 
Williamston, S. C., and 1866 moved to New Orleans, where the young son Allen 
spent his youth.  He attended a private school and then the university high 
school established by George C. Prevot and Mr. Venables.  He left school in 
1876, at the age of 15, and in 1877 went to work in New Orleans for the Atlantic 
Coast Line R. R.  The same year he became a member of Co. K, 2nd regiment 
Louisiana state militia, of which Euclid Borland was colonel.  He was also a 
member of Nicholls Rifles, C. M. Whitney, captain, attached to Crescent 
regiment, Col. Vaudry in command.  Mr. Tupper held various positions up to 
1880 when he became bookkeeper and cashier for J. O. Terry & Sons, in the lumber 
and sawmill business.  He remained in this position until 1884, and in 1885 went 
with the Barber Asphalt Paving Co.  In 1886, he became a member of the firm of 
Tupper Bros., with offices at 713 Union street.  In 1901, Mr. Tupper succeeded 
to this business under the name of Allen Tupper.  He remained at 713 Union 
street until 1909, when be purchased the property and moved to 625-27 S. Peters 
street, where the business is still carried on.  During the anti-lottery fight 
of 1892-94 he was vice-president from the 4th precinct, 11 the ward, of the 
Anti-Lottery League, and took an active part in the campaign under the 
leadership of Gov. Francis T. Nicholls and Gov. Foster.  Having shown some 
interest in the mechanical and agricultural education of the negroes, Gov. 
Foster appointed him on the board of the Southern university, on which he served 
with Mr. J. H. O'Connor, Hon. Frank L. Richardson and others for 6 years, 
declining reappointment under Gov. Heard.  Mr. Tupper is a member of the 
Association of Commerce, the Board of Trade, the Contractors & Dealers' 
Exchange, and for several terms on the board of directors  of the latter 
organization.  He is a member of the Boston club, the Country club and has been 
a member of the Pickwick club, the Louisiana club, the Chess, Checkers & Whist 
club, the Audubon Golf club and the Young Men's Democratic club.  He belongs to 
the Good Government League.  In politics, he is a democrat with independent 
tendencies.  In Dec., 1895, Mr. Tupper married Mary Whitmel, daughter of Dr. W. 
H. Ballard, a retired physician and planter of Ascension parish.  They have no 
children.

Source: Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, 
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 675-676.  
Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical 
Association.