Henry P. Dart, Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Henry P. Dart.  There are many member, of the New Orleans bar who,
combining deep reading and
actual practical experience with energy and industry, have established a
successful clientelle
at remarkably early ages.  With some young lawyers, this success is
adventitious, but the world
soon learns a man's record, and no family influence can keep the client if
the lawyer's
personal influence is wanting.  In the number who have conquered success we
place the subject
of this sketch. He was born in Plaquemines parish, La., February 5. 1858,
the ninth child of
the late Henry Dart and Mary Plauche', and quite early entered the law
office of Cotton & Levy
in New Orleans.  His life until 1879, when he was admitted to the bar, was
marked by a close
pursuit of general literary studies with those more strictly pertaining to
his profession, and
he was at all times self supporting.  He is now counsel of several
corporations, and has a
large general practice.  Politically he is a

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democrat, but takes little active part in political affairs.  In religion
he is a Protestant,
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church south.  He has filled
offices in many literary,
social and benevolent organizations, and still manifests an active interest
in them.  He
belongs to the New Orleans Law association and the American Bar
association.  He was married in
September, 1882, to Mary, eldest daughter of Hon. William F. Kernan of
Clinton, La., a lawyer
of eminence and erudition.  Essentially domestic in his habits, this union
has brought him much
happiness.  His father was an Englishman, who settled in New Orleans about
1835, and was
actively engaged for more than forty years in positions of trust and
prominence in every
description of public improvements.  He was collector of the (since
abolished) Port
Pontcha[r]train under appointments of Presidents Taylor and Fillmore, and
died in 1885.  He was
married in 1842 to the eldest daughter of Urban Plauche, who was major in
command of some of
the Louisiana troops at the battle of New Orleans in 1812.  She is still
living in New Orleans.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), pp. 369-370.
Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.