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Joseph Barton Elam, Jr. (view source)
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==Biography==
==Biography==
Elam was the son of the former Mary Elizabeth Stewart and [[Joseph Barton Elam Sr.]], a lawyer who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives, as Speaker of the House during the [[American Civil War]], and thereafter in the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.<ref>Henry E. Chambers, ''History of Louisiana, II '' (1925).</ref>
Elam was the son of the former Mary Elizabeth Stewart and Joseph Barton Elam Sr., a lawyer who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives, as Speaker of the House during the [[American Civil War]], and thereafter in the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.<ref>Henry E. Chambers, ''History of Louisiana, II '' (1925).</ref>
Elam graduated from the [[Episcopalian]]-affiliated private Sewanee University in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]]. He worked as a journalist in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], and [[Oklahoma]], before he returned to Mansfield, where he studied law privately and organized the DeSoto Abstract Company. He founded the newspaper, the ''Mansfield Progress'', which merged with the ''Mansfield Enterprise,'' of which he became the editor. On June 25, 1912, he married the former Margaret Taylor, daughter of Johnetta Morgan and James Taylor of [[Nashville]], Tennessee and Cleburne, [[Texas]], respectively. Their children were Joseph Barton, III (born 1914), Johnetta (born 1915), Mary Stewart (born 1917), and Margaret Taylor (1919-1977).<ref name=bio/>
Elam graduated from the [[Episcopalian]]-affiliated private Sewanee University in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]]. He worked as a journalist in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], and [[Oklahoma]], before he returned to Mansfield, where he studied law privately and organized the DeSoto Abstract Company. He founded the newspaper, the ''Mansfield Progress'', which merged with the ''Mansfield Enterprise,'' of which he became the editor. On June 25, 1912, he married the former Margaret Taylor, daughter of Johnetta Morgan and James Taylor of [[Nashville]], Tennessee and Cleburne, [[Texas]], respectively. Their children were Joseph Barton, III (born 1914), Johnetta (born 1915), Mary Stewart (born 1917), and Margaret Taylor (1919-1977).<ref name=bio/>