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GEORG’' E. OHR -- BILOXI AMAZING POTTER
"Daily Herald" Sept. 22, 1956 - "Know Your Coast" by Ray M. Thompson sponsored by Mississippi Gulf Coast Kotor Court Assn.,M. Jaoe3 Stevens, secretary, and copyrighted by Ray K. Thompson
THE BILOXI FAMILY FAMOUS FOR ITS FIRSTS
George E. Ohr’s twinkling eyes and unruly beard and hair were his trademarks — that is, in addition to the thousands of pieces of artistic pottery he lovingly and lavishly created for a quarter of a century.
There was originally George Ohr^ the grandfather, who came to Biloxi from Germany back when the only’Tiouse" on what is now Howard Avenue stood on the site of the Avenue Theatre. He was"Bi--loxl^T~TfFs't blacksmith gnd later, when the railroa'dTYhafT is now the L & N came through, he opened the first grocery store in what is now downtown Biloxi at the corner of Howard and Delauney.	_______________________
Leo Edgar Ohr, the grandson, now living at W09 Delauney. was Biloxi's first automobile-mechanic; built the Coast's first "j£itney" that ran b^tTyg^ff^BiToxi and Point—Cadetoperated_ the. fix.st.,aulomoliile _sight seeing trips in tile famous one cylinder Cadillac which was owned then by the Biloxi Machine Works and rented for $2.50 an hour along the beach with Leo, of course, as chauffeur; made the first automobile trip from the CoasiJtflJ^ksfeu|jgMXa^£Cor.d-rm»p£Jl3uJiOJirs.)--ancl operated the fastest povfer boat of £?i its dayx in the South around 1911.
However, the member of the Ohr clan which "Know Your Coast" will feature in this insertion was the son of Geor :*e .and the father—of—Leo.
He was George E. Ohr and Biloxians past fifty will remember' him well as the eccentric ownef~s*nd operator of the famous Art Pottery Just off Howard Avenue on Delauney.
People still talk about his trick cups and puzzle jugs that you had to hold a certain way or you'd spill the contents all over your chin --and the beautiful ceramie..inks_tafl(L...that was a faithful miniature of Beauvoir. It is said ^ffeTcTreated by hand 10,000 pieces of pottery, no two alike.	'	...
He got his clay from the Tcjhoutlrnfrmiffa -B.1.V-Pr——He vould float a barge up on the high tide to tfie spoT^wiTeTethe clay vas and bring it back full during high water and unload it on Back Bay about where the Biloxi Canning Company is row.
Newly married and having taught art pottery at Newcomb College in New Orleans, he started his famous Biloxi Pottery in the mid dig 1830s r-..-raised a family of ten children, and for twenty years both amazed‘~§'ffd' amused the Coast with his art ceramic creations.