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Schexnayder
Schexnayder () is a German surname, probably deriving from an occupational name for a maker of jackets and jerkins. The family name came to Louisiana with immigrant families and is well established there and has spread to other states. United States The first Schexnayder to settle in Louisiana, Henry Albert Schexnayder, arrived in the 1720s and settled in what was called the "German Coast" (now St. Charles Parish). Hanno Deiler lists 27 spellings of the Schexnayder surname found in official documents. Notable individuals with the surname include: *Anthony Schexnayder (born 1968), 4-year Letterman for UCLA varsity football team * Calvin Schexnayder (born 1969), American arena football player *Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder (1923–2020), American newspaper editor and politician *Clay Schexnayder (born 1969), Louisiana politician *Maurice Schexnayder (1895–1981), American Roman Catholic prelate * Irving "Boo" Schexnayder (born 1961), Noted coach and athletic consultant Arrival in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Schexnayder
Maurice Schexnayder (August 13, 1895 – January 23, 1981) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana from 1956 to 1972. Biography Early life Maurice Schexnayder was born on August 13, 1895, in Wallace, Louisiana, to Adam and Jeanne Marie (née Dutreix) Schexnayder. After attending schools in Wallace and New Orleans, he entered St. Joseph College Seminary near Covington in 1916. He then attended St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, before furthering his studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Priesthood Schexnayder was ordained to the priesthood in Rome on April 12, 1925. Following his return to Louisiana, he served as a curate at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Plaquemine. In 1929, he was appointed chaplain of the Newman Club at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Schexnayder also served as state chaplain of the Knights of Columbus (1932–1944) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Schexnayder
Clay John Schexnayder (; born February 25, 1969) is an American businessman and politician from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, currently serving as Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Schexnayder succeeded John LaBruzzo in the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2012. Early life and education Schexnayder is the son of Perry P. Schexnayder and the former Dorothy Ann Demars (1937–2009). In 1989, Schexnayder graduated from French Settlement High School. Two years later, he graduated from the Allen Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, where he studied basic automotive mechanics. Career A former race car driver, he participated in competition in the circuit encompassing Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas circuit. He was formerly employed by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. Since 1998, he has operated Car Craft Automotive in Sorrento, Louisiana. He was a former part-time sheriff's deputy in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. In his legislative campaign, Schexnayder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Schexnayder
Calvin "Shakes" Schexnayder (; born November 11, 1969) is a former American football wide receiver in the Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football at Washington State. Schexnayder played for the Arizona Rattlers, Tampa Bay Storm, San Jose SaberCats. Early life Schexnayder attended Bullard High School in Fresno, California. College career Fresno City College Upon his graduation in 1988, Schexnayder enrolled at Fresno City College, where he played football for the Rams during the 1988 and 1989 football seasons. Washington State Schexnayder attended Washington State University on a football scholarship, where he played the 1991 and 1992 seasons with the Cougars. During the 1992 Copper Bowl, he had 4 catches for 43-yards in the Cougars' 31-28 win over Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder
Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder (December 25, 1923 – December 11, 2020) was an American journalist and politician who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 74th district from 1985 to 1999. In 2019 she was inducted into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame. Together with her late husband, Melvin J. Schexnayder, she owned and published the ''Dumas Clarion'' weekly newspaper in Dumas, Arkansas from 1954 to 1998. Schexnayder died on December 11, 2020, in Little Rock, Arkansas (The Little Rock, The "Little Rock") , government_type = council-manager government, Council-manager , leader_title = List of mayors of Little Rock, Arkansas, Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_ ... at the age of 96. References 1923 births 2020 deaths People from Dumas, Arkansas People from Tillar, Arkansas Editors of Arkansas newspapers Democratic Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives Women state legislators in Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Coast
The German Coast (French: ''Côte des Allemands'', Spanish: ''Costa Alemana'', German: ''Deutsche Küste'') was a region of early Louisiana settlement located above New Orleans, and on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Specifically, from east (or south) to west (or north), in St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. James parishes of present-day Acadiana. It was largely settled by German immigrants and the four settlements of Augsburg, Hoffen, Karlstein, and Marienthal were located along this "coast". Early settlements As early as 1718, John Law and the Company of the Indies began recruiting French settlers to settle Louisiana (New France), though not specifically to what would become the German Coast. The early French settlers were not suited or prepared for the harsh conditions in Louisiana. In 1719, Jean-Pierre Pury, a director at the Company of the Indies, proposed recruiting Germans and German-speaking Swiss farmers to Louisiana and that same year with a twen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iberville Parish
Iberville Parish (french: Paroisse d'Iberville) is a List of parishes in Louisiana, parish located south of Baton Rouge in the U.S. state of Louisiana, formed in 1807. The parish seat is Plaquemine, Louisiana, Plaquemine. At the 2010 U.S. census, the population was 33,387, and 30,241 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History The parish is named for Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, who founded the French Louisiana (New France), colony of Louisiana. A few archeological efforts have been made in the Parish, mainly to excavate the Mound#North American archaeology, Native American burial mounds that have been identified there. The first expedition, led by Clarence B. Moore, was an attempt at collecting data from a couple of the sites, and it set the groundwork for later projects. Moore was mainly interested in the skeletal remains of the previous inhabitants, rather than excavating for Material culture, archeological items. Archeologists are especially interested in these sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans, with a population of roughly 383,000 people. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th century Louisiana French, Dominican Creole, Spanish, French Canadian, Acadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving "Boo" Schexnayder
Irving may refer to: People *Irving (name), including a list of people with the name Fictional characters * Irving, the main character's love interest in Cathy (comic strip) * Lloyd Irving, the main protagonist in the ''Tales of Symphonia'' video game Places Canada * Irving Nature Park, a park in Saint John, N.B. United States *Irving, California, former name of Irvington, California *Irving, Illinois *Irving, Iowa *Irving (Duluth), Minnesota *Irving, New York *Irving, Texas *Irving, Wisconsin, a town **Irving (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois * Irving Township, Montgomery County, Illinois * Irving Township, Michigan * Irving Township, Minnesota * Lake Irving, a lake in Minnesota Companies * Irving Group of Companies, Canadian conglomerate based in Saint John, New Brunswick, controlled by the Irving family, including: ** J. D. Irving, a conglomerate with holdings in forestry, pulp and paper, tissue, newsprint, building suppl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgard, Louisiana
Edgard is a census-designated place (CDP) in, and the county seat, parish seat of, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,637 at the 2000 United States Census, 2000 census and 1,948 in 2020. It is part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans–Metairie, Louisiana, Metairie–Kenner, Louisiana, Kenner New Orleans metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Edgard is part of the German Coast of Louisiana. History One of the parish's first communities and a social haunt of the privateer Jean Lafitte, Edgard has been the County seat, parish seat since 1848. Originally named St. John the Baptist for the Catholic church at its heart, Edgard was renamed in 1850 for its postmaster, Edgar Perret. Edgard's first St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (1772) was destroyed by the Poché Levee breach, Crévasse in 1821. Another church was soon erected. In 1918 fire gutted the building. Parishioners gav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana State Museum
The Louisiana State Museum (LSM), founded in New Orleans in 1906, is a statewide system of National Historic Landmarks and modern structures across Louisiana, housing thousands of artifacts and works of art reflecting Louisiana's legacy of historic events and cultural diversity. Overview The Louisiana State Museum system has its beginnings in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 at St. Louis, Missouri. A large number of pertinent artifacts were gathered to be displayed at Louisiana's exhibition at this fair. After the Exposition, it was decided that this collection should be stored, expanded, and displayed. The Louisiana State Museum was established in 1906 to fulfill this role. The Presbytere and the Cabildo buildings, located on either side of the St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square, were some of the first properties that the Louisiana State Museum was lodged in. The Louisiana State Museum now has thirteen properties around the state: historic structures, museums open t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vacherie, Louisiana
Vacherie is an unincorporated community in St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area . The name of the place derives from the French word for ''cowshed''. On the SW side of the community is the WZRH/KVDU-Tower, a guyed mast noted as the tallest tower in the state of Louisiana. The best known location in the community is the Oak Alley Plantation. There are several other historic plantations in the area: Laura, Desire, St. Joseph, and Felicity. The last two were combined in 1890. Vacherie was used as a filming location for the TV series ''True Detective''. Census-designated places * Vacherie is split into two census-designated places, North Vacherie and South Vacherie, by the United States Census Bureau. As of the 2000 census, North Vacherie had a population of 2,462 and South Vacherie had a population of 3,543. Education St. James Parish Public Schools operates public schools. St. James High School is located in Vache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
