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Eugene R. Cazedessus has found in his native city of Baton Rouge ample scope and
opportunity for worthy achievement, and he is here a prominent figure in banking
circles, as the first vice president of the Bank of Baton Rouge.
In the
capital city of Louisiana Eugene Cazedessus was born April 21, 1872, a son of
Romain Cazedessus, whose death occurred at Baton Rouge on the 12th of May, 1896.
Romain Cazedessus was born at Gantes, France, on the 25th of February, 1835, was
reared and educated in his native land, and was an ambitious youth of eighteen
years when he came to the United States and established his residence in Baton
Rouge. Prior to coming to America, he had served and received excellent military
training in the French army. He was a member of the Catholic Church, as is also
his widow, Mrs. Annie Mary (Ritsch) Cazedessus, who still maintains her home in
Baton Rouge, and his unqualified political support was given to the democratic
party. Mrs. Cazedessus was born in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio. July 17, 1852.
Of the children the eldest is Anthony F., who is engaged in the real estate
business in Baton Rouge; Eugene, of this sketch, is the next younger; Miss
Eugenie remains with her widowed mother and is now with the State Highway
Commission of Louisiana; Annie is the wife of Vs alter G. Smith, a traveling
commercial salesman, and they maintain their home in Baton Rouge; and Duchien I.
is trust officer of the Bank of Baton Rouge.
Eugene R. Cazedessus was
afforded the advantages of the admirable Baton Rouge educational institution
known as Magruder's Collegiate Institute besides which he attended other private
schools. At the age of fifteen years lit initiated his association with the
practical affairs of life, and he was variously employed until 1892, when he
became an employe in the Bank of Baton Rouge. His advancement came as the result
of fidelity, close application, study and efficiency, and he served in turn as
individual bookkeeper, general bookkeeper, teller, assistant cashier and
cashier, while the final advancement gained by him came in 1918, when he was
elected to his present office, that of first vice president, a position in which
he continues his active executive service with this substantial and
representative financial institution of the capital city. Here he is president
of the Bridge City Realty Company and the Zadok Realty Company, and the broad
scope of his interests is further signified in his holding the office of
president of the Louisiana Central Land Company, the Cleon Land Department
Company, the Triumph Realty Corporation, the Caz-Perk Realty Company and The
Richland Company, as well as by his being secretary of the Provident Building
and Loan Association and the Triad Company. He is liberal and progressive as a
citizen, and takes (led) interest in all that makes for the advancement of his
native city and state. Mr. Cazedessus has extensive real estate' holdings in
Baton Rouge and vicinity, including his pleasant home place at 513 Church
Street.
Mr. Cazedessus is a stalwart in the ranks of the democratic
party, and while he has manifested no office-seeking proclivities. He was one of
the influential delegates of the Louisiana State Constitutional Convention of
1921. He and his wife are communicants of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. He is a
past grand knight of Baton Rouge Council No. 969, Knights of Columbus, and past
exalted ruler of Baton Rouge Lodge No. 490, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, besides which he served three terms as Louisiana district deputy of the
Elks. He has served as secretary, vice president and president of the Louisiana
Bankers' Association and is a member of the legislative committee of the
American Bankers' Association. He is a loyal supporter of the progressive
policies of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a valued member,
and he is an active member also of the Baton Rouge Golf and Country Club.
Mr. Cazedessus was a loyal and liberal worker in connection with local
patriotic activities in the World war period, as is evident when it is noted
that he was chairman of the local committees in charge of the first and the see
nd Red Cross drives, chairman of the United War Work campaign, chairman of the
Jewish war drive, chairman of the local war fund campaign of the Knights of
Columbus, and chairman of two of the East Baton Rouge Parish Liberty Bond drives
in support of the government War loans.
On the 9th of September, 1908, at
Baton Rouge. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cazedessus and Miss Elvira
Craft, daughter of George B. and Fidelia (Merritt) Craft, the father having been
a Prominent merchant and having died in the City of New Orleans, and the widowed
mother being now a resident of Baton Rouge. Mrs. Cazedessus received excellent
educational advantages, including those of Mayo College at Baton Rouge, and she
is a popular figure in the representative social life of the capital city. Mr.
and Mrs. Cazedessus have two children, Camile Erwin, born June 22, 1909, and
Eugene Romain, born April 7, 1916.
Mr. Cazedessus is a member of the
municipal board of dock commissioners of Baton Rouge, and is chairman of the
advisory board of Our Lady of Baton Rouge Sanitarium. He is president of East a
Baton Rouge Parish board of election supervisors, a position to which he was
appointed by Governor R. G. Pleasant and in which he has continued under
administration of Governor John M. Parker.
Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, pages 108-109.
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