Biography of 	WALDO, James E., West Chesterfield, NH., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller July 1998

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Waldo, James Elliot, lawyer, educator, and ante-bellum merchant; son of 
Shubael and Rebecca (Crosby) Waldo; 6th in direct descent from 
Cornelius Waldo, the New England pioneer; born July 11, 1805, near West 
Chesterfield, N. H.; died at New Orleans, La., Dec. 4, 1891.  Went to 
New York in 1824 and admitted to New York bar after studying under 
William Paxton Hallet; removed to Cincinnati, where his brother, Rev. 
Josiah Waldo, had established the first religious journal in the West, 
''The Sentinel and Star of the West,'' which is still published; 
studied law under Judge Thomas Corwin and admitted to Ohio bar; built 
the steamboat "Antelope" and navigated her in the Pittsburg-Cincinnati 
trade in 1828 came to New Orleans and became professor of English in 
the college of Prof. Francis M. Guyol; in 1831 removed to Meredosia, 
Ill., in which vicinity he and his brother, Daniel Waldo, had purchased 
vast tracts of land with the intention of settling it with New England 
immigrants; Pres. Tyler having named him to office in Louisiana, he 
returned to New Orleans to live, and in 1849 became a member of the 
ante-bellum firm of Miller, Harris & Waldo shortly after the 
reconstruction period he retired from business entirely and spent his 
declining years in the exercise of his scholarly attainments; his name 
was identified with almost every commercial and civic movement in 
Louisiana for over 50 years, and his sympathies were thoroughly 
assimilated with the South and the state of his adoption; married 
Eveline Almira Cobb, who died in 1835, leaving 1 child, James Curtis 
Waldo; married Araminta Fowle; children,  John Fowle,  Crosby Waldo and  
Caroline A. Waldo.


Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, 
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 
584-585.  Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century 
Historical Association.