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SOUVENIR CENTENNIAL EDITION, HANCOCK COUNTY EAGLE
August, 1958
OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES OFTHE PAST
3SA.TON J. BOWERS —^ Attorney who served in the state legislature and as United States Congressman.
BICHARD- MENDES—postmaster, and for many years city audi-ditor and secretary.
J,. A. deMONTLUZIN— native ox France, who established a private boys’ school here and started the first pharmacy on the Gulf Coast.
JOHiN OSOINACH — merchant, bank president, and owner of the Osoinach Opera House, which brought music and ly-eeum programs to the town for years.
CAJPT. JOHN V. TOULME—-hotel owner and many times mayor of Bay St. Louis.
BBS. ROGER deMONTLUZIN, EDGAR MANAR, A. A. KEStGO-SEEN, VON GOHREN, AND HAMPTON S. LEWIS—a few ®f the physicians and surgeons who devoted their lives to the
service of the people of this community.
W. A. McDONALD—merchant and real estate man who helped the town through extensive building projects and business promotions.
JOHN A. BREATH—Justice of the Peace of Beat Five for many years, and for over thirty years manager of the Peoples Building and Loan Association.
HUGO HOFFMAN—'influential holder of the office of Circuit and Chancery Cleric of Hancock County for many years.
W. W. STOCKSTILL, looal attorney and superintendent of Education of Hancock County; also holder of county and city offices for many years.
JOSEPH CAZENEUVE — several times sheriff and tax-collector for Hancock County, and later cashier of the Hancock County
Bank.
GEORGE R. REA — progressive business and civic leader, banker, president of Peoples, Building and Loan Association; Also National Secretary of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity for many years.
CHARLES G. MOREAU—newspaper publisher, for many years the only newspaper in Hancock County. Untiring in his efforts to assist in the development of this section of the State.
JOSEPH O. MAUFFRAY — merchant, banker, insurance man, public spirited citizen.
HORATIO S. WESTON—president of his own lumber company with national and international connections; president for many years, of the Hancock County Board of Supervisors; president of the Lamar Life Insurance Company, of Jackson, Hancock Bank, Bay St.
Interior View of the J. A. Dillard .People's Store Popular in the
Nineties
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-------------------------------The People’s Store was one of
Louis and responsible for much the most popular retail grocery es-of the progress of Hancock tablishments at the Bay. The pro-County; also president of the prietor Was John A. Dillard. This
grocery had a fine trade, which included shipments throughout the County and along the L&N Railroad as far as D’unbar; delivery wagons were also operated for the accommodation of the local trade; besides the store building was a warehouse in the rear for reserve stock and heavy staples.
The building was located at the corner of Good Children (now known as Sycamore St.) and Third Streets.
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MILDRED RAMOND, Agent
Bay Hotel Corporation, which operated the Hotel Weston, now the Hotel Reed.
WALTER J. GEX, SR.—attorney and banker known throughout the state of Mississippi and the South; one of the organizers of the Merchants Bank & Trust Company.
GEORGE E. PITCHER—sales representative and public-minded citizen; ardent booster of our community, during his extensive travels, as the best place to live.
MRS. ABIGAIL BOURGEOIS—a woman of unbounded energy and compassion, who devoted her life to the needy, wherever and whenever occasion arose; she was awarded a Rotary Club silver cup for her untiring efforts in the cause of charity; started the first Cancer Drive here; cooked the meals for the first hospital in her own kitchen; fed hungry people by the hundreds during the depression days; and performed other deeds of pure goodness too numerous to mention here.
REV. HENRY LeD'UC — became pastor of Our Lady of the Gulf Church on November 17, 1859, and remained here until his death (in France, where he had gone on a visit) in 1897. Father LeDuc was ,the instigator of many improvements in the parish during his thirty-eight years here.
MOTHER CLAIRE — for many years beloved Superior and teacher at St. Joseph Academy here.
LOUIS SPOTORNO — for many years business and civic leader; one-time member of the city council and one of the organizers of the Merchants Bank and Trust Company.
REV. BROTHER PETER, S. C.— several times president of St. Stanislaus, also serving as teacher for many years; a man with a dynamic personality,, beloved by all who knew him:
ROBERT C. ENGMAN — business man and real estate dealer; active in every civic endeavor