Difference between revisions of "Hugh Maxwell Wallis"
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| birth_place=Kent County, [[Maryland]], USA | | birth_place=Kent County, [[Maryland]], USA | ||
| death_place=Covington, St. Tammany Parish, [[Louisiana]] | | death_place=Covington, St. Tammany Parish, [[Louisiana]] | ||
| − | | death_date=December 23, 1903 (aged 75) | + | | death_date=December 23, 1903 (aged 75)<br> |
'''Resting place''':<br> | '''Resting place''':<br> | ||
Magnolia Cemetery in Houma | Magnolia Cemetery in Houma | ||
Revision as of 17:18, April 23, 2020
| Hugh Maxwell Wallis
(Physician, publisher, and mayor | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 12, 1836 Kent County, Maryland, USA |
| Died | December 23, 1903 (aged 75) Resting place: |
| Political Party | Republican |
| Spouse | Mary Howard Price (married 1860)
Twelve children: |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
Hugh Maxwell Wallis (November 12, 1836 – December 23, 1903) was a physician, newspaper publisher, and politician from Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana, sixty miles west of New Orleans.
Wallis was born in Kent County, Maryland, the son of Hugh Wallis and the former Hannah Brooks Wright. He was educated at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1860. That same year, he married the former Mary Howard Price, a native of Natchez, Mississippi, and a daughter of Dr. Isaac Mitchell Price and the former Louise C. Howard. The couple had twelve children, one of whom died at the age of one year.[1]
Dr. Wallis located his practice in Houma in 1861. A Republican, he was from 1878 to 1882 a post-Reconstruction mayor of Houma. He founded and published The Terrebonne Times, a Republican-oriented journal. An Episcopalian, he died in Covington in St. Tammany Parish at the age of sixty-seven and is interred at Magnolia Cemetery in Houma.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wallis, Hugh Maxwell. A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography: Louisiana Historical Association. Retrieved on April 23, 2020.