Louis J. Hakenyos, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Louis J. Hakenyos is a native son of Louisiana, and since 1888 
has been a prominent member of the bar.  His reputation as a 
lawyer has been made chiefly at Alexandria, where he is also 
well known as a banker and a man of affairs.

He was born in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, December 8, 1866, 
son of Francis and Sophia (Walkling) Hakenyos.  His parents were 
natives of Germany, were married after coming to Louisiana, and 
his father spent the rest of his career in the saddle and hardware 
business at Marksville.  He was a democrat and a Catholic in 
religion, while his wife was a Lutheran.

Louis S. Hakenyos, only child of his parents, was liberally 
educated, attending St. Vincent's College at Cape Girardeau, 
Missouri, and he studied law under Judge A.. V. Coco, who recently 
retired from office is attorney general of Louisiana.  Admitted 
to the bar in 1888, he took his first cases as an attorney at 
Barksville, and in 1889 moved to Alexandria, where he formed a 
partnership with Judge James Andrews.  Upon the elevation of 
Judge Andrews to the bench he became a partner of Fred Cook, 
now a prominent Standard Oil official at New York City.  His 
next partnership was with Norman A. Scott, and the firm still 
Hakenyos & Scott, with offices in the Guaranty Bank Building at 
Alexandria.  In 1918 Mr. John A. Hunter was admitted to the firm 
and the firm name came Hakenyos, Hunter & Scott.  Mr. Hunter 
retired from the firm in 1924.

Mr. Hakenyos married in 1893 Miss Emma J. Hyams, a native of 
Rapides Parish, and member of a distinguished Louisiana family.  
She is a granddaughter of Governor Thomas Overton Moore, who 
as a young man located in Rapides Parish and became a planter, 
and in 1859 was nominated and elected governor of Louisiana, 
serving throughout the period of the war between the states 
until the state government was supplanted by the military rule 
of the North.  Mr. and Mrs. Hakenyos have one daughter, Miss 
Madeline.  They are members of the Catholic Church, and he has 
been active in democratic politics.  His chief service, however, 
has been rendered through his work as an attorney and banker.  
As an attorney he has represented a number of corporations, 
and he is vice president of the Guaranty Bank and Trust 
Company of Alexandria, and served as active vice president 
during the seven years this bank was the First National Bank.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 257, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and 
New York, 1925.