Laurent Millaudon
Laurent Millaudon may refer to: * Benjamin Laurent Millaudon (1786–1868), New Orleans businessman * Laurent Millaudon (steamboat), ''Laurent Millaudon'', an 1856 steamship eventually involved in the American Civil War {{dab ...
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Benjamin Laurent Millaudon
Benjamin Laurent Millaudon (1786–1868) was an wealthy merchant, real-estate investor, and railroad developer of early 19th-century New Orleans. Described as a "self-made tycoon", he had emigrated to the United States from Avignon, France around 1802. In additional to his mercantile investments, he owned huge and lucrative sugar plantations worked by hundreds of slaves. Biography The Historic New Orleans Collection holds documents from Millaudon's life and career, including the Benjamin–Millaudon Papers (90-21-L), which relate to business between Millaudon and future Confederate cabinet officer Judah P. Benjamin, and the Millaudon and Gardanne Family Papers (2015.0073), which relate to two of his children, Philippe Millaudon (1823–1855), and Jeanne Henriette Millaudon Gardanne (1821–1902), and to Millaudon's legal ownership of 490 people who were enslaved to sugar work at Millaudon Plantation, which was "located in the vicinity of present-day Marrero on the West Bank ...
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