Waldo Lafayette Long.  Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Frances Ball Turner, Dec. 1997

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From the History of Louisiana by Chambers, pub. 1925
Vol. II, pg. 174

WALDO LAFAYETTE LONG.  In many of the important progressive movements of
the day it is the young man who marches to the front, and no less so has it
been realized that his spirit and energy are needed in the field of business
when his educational training and natural ability qualify him for positions
of responsibility.  An example is found in Waldo Lafayette Long, of
Hammond, Louisiana, who is district manager of the Cumberland Telephone &
Telegraph Company.

Waldo Lafayette Long is a native of Mississippi born at Tupelo, October 7,
1900, second born and only son in his parent's family of three children.
His father, Theodore Long, was born in Tippah County, Mississippi, April
30, 1866, and is a son of Lafayette Long, who was born in South Carolina,
in 1826.  The grandfather was once an extensive planter near Guntown,
Mississippi, where his death occurred in 1914.  He was a veteran of the war
between the states, having served with valor in the Confederate army under
General Forrest.  Theodore Long grew up in his native county, moving then
to Terrill, Texas, where his marriage took place to Margaret Zethenia Law,
who was born December 19, 1871, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  All three of
their children survive, two daughters and one son:  Margaret Zethenia, wife
of Glenn McCullough, a druggist at Tupelo; Waldo Lafayette; and Mary Edna,
residing at home.  A short time after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Long
established their permanent home at Tupelo, Mississippi, where he is
heavily interested as a stock dealer, shipping cattle all over the United
States and to Cuba.  In politics he has always been a democrat and from
youth a member of the Christian Church.

Waldo L. Long attended the public schools of Tupelo and was graduated from
the high school in the class of 1915, then, in view of entering college,
took and completed a two-year preparatory course in the Freed Hardeman
Preparatory School at Henderson, Tennessee, following which he entered the
University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, where he remained two years.  In
1919 he rounded out a period of close student application by a year's
course in the Bowling Green (Kentucky) Business College, in 1920 being
graduated from the advanced accounting department with his degree of Master
of Accounts.  Immediately afterward he accepted a position with the
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company, as receiving teller at Jackson,
Mississippi, soon being transferred in the same capacity to Meridian, two
months later being made relief manager at Newton, Mississippi, and six
months afterward was transferred to Baton Rouge, as assistant cashier,
where he continued one and a half years.  On March 8, 1923, he was
appointed to his present responsible office, and has since been identified
with the interests of Hammond.  He is a member of Livingston Lodge No. 160,
Free and Accepted Masons, is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce, secretary and treasurer of the Rotary Club; and a
member of the Board of Governors of the Hammond Country Club; and a member
of the Christian Church.  He follows the example of his father and votes
with the democratic party.


Frances (Ball) Turner
Vancouver, WA