Ascension-Assumption-Orleans County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Kock, James Pescatore September 1, 1915
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, September 11, 1915, Image 1

JAMES P. KOCK. - Lamented Planter Conspicuous in Development of Sugar 
Industry. - The following merited tribute to the late James P. Kock is 
quoted from the last issue of the Louisiana Planter:

"It comes as a shock to the sugar planters of Louisiana to learn as they 
have of the death of James P. Kock, the well and widely known owner of the 
Belle Alliance plantation on Bayou Lafourche in Assumption parish, a few 
miles below Donaldsonville. Mr. Kock died on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1915, at 
the age of 62 years. With him there passes the last of that trio of 
Ascension sugar planters who came on the scene as young men directly after 
the civil war and who were conspicuous in the development of the new sugar 
industry of Louisiana, aiding in every possible way in bringing it up to its 
present high standard. Those men we would name as Mr. James P. Kock, Hon. 
Henry McCall and Col. Richard McCall. While Mr. Kock's property lay within 
the parish of Assumption, just across the line from the parish of Ascension, 
he was largely identified with Ascension men in the work they were doing and 
with which work they placed the parish of Ascension in the lead as then the 
most progressive sugar parish in the state.

"We have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Kock throughout his entire career 
as a sugar planter of more than forty years. As a very young man he joined 
with his brother Edouard in the development of the Belle Alliance plantation 
and with great ability, with sturdy persistence and indomitable energy he 
pushed his work along in such a way that his methods of cane culture and of 
sugar manufacture were carefully studied and imitated by the other planters 
of the state, of whom the writer was one.

"Some of Mr. Kock's experiments in the development of the sugar industry 
were not realized as final successes for causes that lay beyond his control. 
The notable Drost and Shultze method of manufacturing white sugar was 
introduced into Louisiana by Mr. Kock on his Belle Alliance plantation and 
by Hon. Henry McCall on his Evan Hall plantation. It was found, however, 
that in Louisiana work at that time, now some thirty years ago, the process 
as practiced here did not result in an industrial, economic success.

"Mr. Kock was not aggressive in his relations to other people, but as one of 
the most genial men inable with those with whom he was intimate. His 
residence on Belle Alliance was a model plantation home, and reminiscences 
show us now Mr. Kock presiding at his own table, surrounded by his charming 
family of wife, sons and daughters. He was a gentleman of high culture and 
commanded the respect of all who knew him, and had large influence in his 
community generally and throughout the state in sugar circles especially. He 
joined in every movement that was organized for the improvement of the sugar 
planters of his native state. He joined in the organization of the Louisiana 
Sugar Planters' Association, in the organization of the Louisiana Scientific 
Agricultural Association, which created the Louisiana sugar experiment 
station, now located at Audubon Park; he joined in the creation of this 
journal and was a most earnest advocate all the time and everywhere of the 
interests of the sugar planters of Louisiana.

"Mr. Kock's death will be sincerely deplored by all of those who knew him. 
We can ill spare such men. They are the born leaders of any community in 
which they live and their lives become the guides of others and without such 
men our industry in Louisiana would never have reached the advanced position 
it now occupies in the sugar world. We join with the thousands of friends of 
Mr. Kock in offering our sincere sympathy to his bereaved family."


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