Biography of 	WALDO, Benjamin T., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller July 1998

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Waldo, Benjamin Taylor, lawyer, son of James Curtis and Mararet Mary
(Woods) Waldo; born at New Orleans, La., Dec. 19, 1872; LL. B. Tulane
university, 1892; alumni orator, 1897; as member of citizens committee 
and chairman of sub-committee took conspicuous part in successful 
effort to control yellow fever epidemic of 1905; organized the New 
Orleans Poll Tax association in 1907, and as its first president, 
inaugurated and conducted the campaign which raised the electorate of 
the city of New Orleans from 35,000 to above 52,000, consequently 
increasing the public school fund proportionately; has been counsel in 
much notable litigation; represented the state of Louisiana in the case 
of State vs. Snyder, in which the constitutionality and legality of the 
pure food and drug act was upheld by the supreme court; represented the 
state of Louisiana in the suit of State vs. Susslin, in which the 
paramount power of the state board of health in all health and hygienic 
matters was vindicated and maintained; represented the state in 
quarantine station transfer cases, under which the state was paid 
$100,000 intact for the lower Mississippi quarantine station; of 
counsel for the defense in case of State of Louisiana vs. Carondelet 
Canal & Navigation Co., in which the state sought to take away from the 
company, without compensation, the famous Carondelet Canal, the Old 
Basin and the Bayou St. John; married Edna Trist, daughter of Nicholas 
Philip Trist and Marie Tureaud Trist; children,  Miss Burdette Trist 
Terrett-Waldo, Benjamin T. Waldo, Jr., and  Ednard Trist Waldo.


Source: Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, 
Institutions,and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3),
p. 586.  Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century 
Historical Association.