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Eugene Wilton Frémaux | |
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 Eugene Wilton Fremaux, 1942 | |
| Born | August 24, 1887 |
| Died | March 14, 1969 (aged 81) Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana |
| Occupation | Businessman; Owner Brown Hide Company |
| Spouse(s) | Jessie May Bullard(m. 1911–1969) |
| Children | Wanda Frémaux Harris Wilton Frémaux |
Eugene Wilton Frémaux (August 24, 1887 – March 14, 1969. [1] was an Alexandria, Louisiana businessman and civic leader who in 1937 became the sole owner of Brown Hide Company. The company did an extensive business in green and salt hides which were shipped to tanners in various parts of the country. In 1942 he joined Alexandria Steam Laundry Company as its Secretary-Treasurer. [2]
Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes. Its neighboring city is Pineville. In 2010, the population was 47,723, an increase of 3 percent from the 2000 census.
Frémaux was born to Léon François Victor Frémaux (1847–1890) and the former Irène Marie Műrr (1851–1924) at Roberts Cove, just north of Rayne, in Acadia Parish, Louisiana. [1] He was the grandson of Léon Joseph Frémaux, a prominent Louisiana engineer and notable 19th-century artist.
Roberts Cove is an unincorporated community in Louisiana, United States.
On Thursday, September 6, 1911 he married the former Jessie May Bullard. [3] Their first child, Wanda Frémaux, was born on August 5, 1912 at Morse, southwest of Crowley, in Acadia Parish, Louisiana. [4] He moved the family to Alexandria, Louisiana in 1913. Their second child, Wilton Frémaux, was born on July 23, 1914 at 1530 Madison Street in Alexandria.
Morse is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 812 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Frémaux started work when he was seven years of age selling newspapers while attending school. His first real job was in an accounting position with Acadia Iron Works in Crowley, Louisiana where he was employed for two and a half years. He then worked for the Morse Rice Mill and then the White Swan Rice Mill Corporation at Gueydon before moving to Alexandria in 1913. He worked briefly for Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company of Louisiana, then became associated with L. A. Stafford Wholesale Grocer as an accountant for the Rapides grocery company. He filled the position of accountant and credit man for this company from 1913 until 1927. From 1915-1916 he successfully completed accounting courses from LaSalle Extension University's Department of Higher Accountancy. After his work at L. A. Stafford, he spent a year and a half with the Louisiana Public Utilities Company. In 1946 Louisiana Public Utilities Company eventually merged with Gulf Public Service Inc. In 1951 Gulf Public Service Inc. merged with Central Louisiana Electric Company, Inc., a company now known as CLECO Corporation. [5] Frémaux played an important part in the business life of Alexandria. In 1931 he took over the Brown Hide Company in partnership with L. G. Stafford and became the sole owner in 1937. In 1942 he joined Alexandria Steam Laundry Company as Secretary-Treasurer. [2] It was at this time that his son Wilton, the eventual sole owner of Alexandria Steam Laundry Company, served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. [6] Frémaux was also a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, The Elks, and The Knights of Columbus. [2]
The United States Army Air Forces, informally known as the Air Force,or United States Army Air Force, was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services. The AAF was a component of the United States Army, which in 1942 was divided functionally by executive order into three autonomous forces: the Army Ground Forces, the Services of Supply, and the Army Air Forces. Each of these forces had a commanding general who reported directly to the Army Chief of Staff.
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the explorer Christopher Columbus. Originally serving as a mutual benefit society to working-class and immigrant Catholics in the United States, it developed into a fraternal benefit society dedicated to providing charitable services, including war and disaster relief, actively defending Catholicism in various nations, and promoting Catholic education. The Knights also support the Catholic Church's positions on public policy issues, including various political causes, and are participants in the new evangelization. The current Supreme Knight is Carl A. Anderson.
He was survived by his wife of fifty-seven years, the former Jessie May Bullard; one sister, Emma Josephine Frémaux Gueno; a daughter, Wanda Frémaux Harris; a son, Wilton Frémaux; and six grandchildren, Eugene Wilton Frémaux II, Carol Ann Frémaux, Fredrick Warner Frémaux, Wanda Annette Harris Hatchett, Charlotte Lee Harris Zamjahn, and Homer Henry Harris III. He was preceded in death by four sisters, Léonie Sophie Irène Frémaux Medlenka (1871–1949), Irène Cornelia Frémaux Brown (1873–1957), Josephine Delphine Frémaux (1880–1881), and Celine Marie Frémaux McGinn (1886–1967); three brothers, George Augustus Frémaux (1878–1935), Joseph Oscar Frémaux (1881–1955), and Horace Charles Frémaux (1884–1911).
A Requiem Mass was offered for him in Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Alexandria. Interment was held at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana.