Nathan B. Tycer, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
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Nathan B. Tycer.  Aside from any prestige that may be his through his connection with one of 
the old and honored families of Tangipahoa Parish, Nathan B. Tycer has gained the good will 
and respect of the community of Hammond as a member of the law firm of Rownd, Hungate & 
Tycer.  While he has not been a member of the bar for any considerable period, his career 
having been interrupted by the World war, he has already shown his ability in handling 
matters entrusted to his care.

Mr. Tycer was born at Hammond, September 13, 1896, and is a son of Robert M. and Mary 
(Bankston) Tycer.  His grandfather, Robert Tycer, was born in Maryland, and in young manhood 
moved to Tangipahoa Parish, where he became extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits 
and continued therein until his death in 1854.  He married a Miss Baker, who was born in 
Louisiana and died the same year as her husband.  Robert M. Tycer, father of Nathan B., who is 
still a resident of Hammond, was born August 6, 1854, in Tangipahoa Parish, where he was 
reared, educated and married, and where he engaged in farming extensively until 1923, when 
he retired from that occupation.  He still remains active, however, being interested in large 
deals as a timber estimator, work which he has followed for a number of years.  He is a 
democrat in his political affiliation and a member of the Woodmen of the World.  Mr. Tycer 
took for his first wife Miss Fannie Stevens, who was born, spent her life, and died in 
Tangipahoa Parish, and they had three children:  Walter,. a logging contractor of Holden, 
Livingston Parish, Louisiana ;  Henry L., a farmer of Tangipahoa Parish ; and Virena, the wife 
of Aaron B. Day, a building contractor of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.  After the death of his 
first wife Mr. Tycer married Miss Mary Bankston, who was born in 1864, in Tangipahoa Parish, 
and they have had the following children: Florence N., who resides with her parents;  Charles 
S., residing on the home farm, a veteran of the World war as a member of the Marine Corps, at 
Paris Island, Virginia, who was in the service eighteen months and was a coach on the rifle 
range;  Lillian C., who died in Tangipahoa Parish at the age of thirty years, as the wife of 
William H. McCain, now a timber estimator and buyer of Florida;  J. Morris, engaged in farming 
in Tangipahoa Parish, who during the World war was engaged in special service at Washington, 
District of Columbia;  R. Eleanor and Flora P., who reside with their parents;  Nathan B.; and  
Gladys M., a teacher in the Natalbany Public School.

After attending public and private schools in his native parish, Nathan B. Tycer pursued a 
course at St. Paul's College, Covington, Louisiana, next graduated from St. Stanislaus College, 
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as a member of the class of 1917, degree of Bachelor of Science, 
and then entered Tulane University, New Orleans, where he studied law for one year.  Finally 
he graduated from Loyola University, New Orleans, class of 1922, with the degree of Bachelor 
of Laws.  He is a member of Tulane Chapter of the Delta Sigma Phi Greek letter fraternity.  In 
the meanwhile, early in 1918, Mr. Tycer volunteered for service in the United States navy and 
was sent to the Algiers Naval Station, near New Orleans, whence he was transferred aboard 
the United States Ship Venago in the coal transport service.  He served creditably as a seaman 
until receiving his honorable discharge in December, 1919 at which the he came back to 
Hammond and resumed his educational training.  He was admitted to the bar June 10, 1922, 
and since then has had a general civil and criminal law practice as a member of the firm of 
Rownd, Hungate & Tycer.

Mr. Tycer is a democrat in his political tendencies.  His religious connection is with the First 
Baptist Church of Hammond, and he belongs also to Livingston Lodge No. 160, Free and 
Accepted Masons, and the Hammond Chamber of Commerce.  He is unmarried.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 378, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The American 
Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.