David W. Pipes, Jr., Orleans, then Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ David W. Pipes, Jr., of Houma, Louisiana, part owner and associate manager of the estate of H. C. Minor, with home at Southdown plantation, was educated for the law and practiced for several years in New Orleans, but for the last decade, his time has been given to business pertaining to his planting interests. The Pipes family have been permanently identified with planting interests in the Mississippi valley for a number of generations. The great great-grandfather of David W. Pipes, Jr., was John Pipes, one of the first settlers of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had a son Windsor Pipes, born there. This son came South and spent most of his life in Adams County, Mississippi, where he was a cotton planter. He died near Natchez. His wife was a Miss O'Hara. Their son David Pipes, was born in Adams County, Mississippi in 1790, and in 1815 moved to East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and bought the Beech Grove plantation, where he built his home and where he carried on extensive interests as a cotton grower until his death in 1874. His wife was Mrs. Amanda Montgomery (Dunn) Collins, a native of East Feliciana Parish. David W. Pipes, Sr., who is a retired planter living in New Orleans, was born at Beech Grove plantation February 20, 1845, was reared there, attended Oakland College in Mississippi, and was still a boy in years when he enlisted and served as a Confederate soldier, as a member of the famous Washington Artillery of New Orleans. He was in service during the last two years of the war, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Gettysburg, Petersburg and other campaigns. Following the war he returned to Beech Grove plantation, and still owns that fine property. His home was at Clinton, until 1908, since which year he has lived in New Orleans. In addition to owning and operating Beech Grove plantation, which is situated eight miles north of Clinton, he is president of and general manager of the Morehouse Planting Co. This company owns cotton plantations situated in Morehouse Parish near Oak Ridge. Mr. Pipes also owns the Doss plantation, fifteen miles north of Monroe. He is one of the leading cotton growers of Louisiana. He has likewise been prominent In public affairs, having been elected and having served as a member of the constitutional convention of 1898. He was for several terms a member of the Louisiana State Senate, representing the East Feliciana Parish, and was very active in the anti-lottery fight. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. David W. Pipes, Sr., married Miss Ella Norwood, who was born in East Feliciana Parish and died there, the mother of four children; Henry A., who graduated from West Point Military Academy, and died while a lieutenant in the United States army; Mary, who died in East Feliciana Parish, wife of Robert Y. Mills, a cotton planter there; Windsor, a cotton planter who owns a plantation in Morehouse Parish, and is also manager of the Doss plantation; and Amanda, wife of E. Greene Davis, president of the bank of Covington, Louisiana. David W. Pipes, Sr., married in 1885 Miss Anna Key Fort, who was born in West Feliciana Parish in 1863. Of the children of this marriage, David W., is the oldest; Sarah Randolph lives at New Orleans; William Fort is connected with the Chambers Agency at New Orleans, and Randolph, the youngest, who now lives in Sarasota. Florida. David W. Pipes. Jr., was born at New Orleans, August 6, 1886, and was liber ally educated, attending private and public schools at Clinton, the Chamberlain-Hunt Academy at Port Gibson, Mississippi, and Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1906. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He also studied law at Washington and Lee, and in 1908 was admitted to the Virginia bar and was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1909, and in 1910 graduated with the LL. B. degree from the law school of Tulane University. He is a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Mr. Pipes practiced law in New Orleans three years, but in 1913 became associate manager of the estate of H. C. Minor, and since then his home has been at the Southdown plantation, a mile west of Houma. The estate conducts sugar planting on an extensive scale, and owns and operates a Southdown sugar refinery. Mr. Pipes is also secretary of the Chambers Advertising Agency at New Orleans. He is a democrat, a member of the Episcopal Church and the Boston Club at New Orleans. Mr. Pipes is a director in several companies identified with Louisiana sugar planting interests. He is also vice president of the American Sugar Cane League, an association of domestic sugar producers. He has been very active in urging the adoption of modern scientific a gricultural methods and has been particularly interested in the introduction and study of new varieties of sugar cane. Recently the United States Department of Agriculture established a sugar cane experimental station at Southdown. On November 2, 1910, at New Orleans, he married Miss Mary Louise Minor, daughter of the late Henry C. Minor, who was one of the owners and manager of the Southdown plantation and conspicuous among the sugar growers of Louisiana for many years. Mrs. Pipes finished her education in Newcomb College at New Orleans. To their marriage have been born six children: David W., III, deceased Henry Minor and John Butler, Nan Tost, students in the Lorton School at Houma, Louisiana; Katherine Minor and Mary Minor. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 8-9, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.