Lloyd Dulany Addison
| Lloyd Dulany Addison | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 4, 1799 Oxon Hill Manor |
| January 11, 1861 (aged 61)January 11, 1861 (aged 61) | |
| Resting place | Springhill Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | Cotton Merchant |
| Known for | Founder of The Pickwick Club and the Mistick Krewe of Comus |
Lloyd Dulany Addison (February 4, 1799 – January 11, 1861) was a merchant, cotton broker, and member of the Addisons of Oxon Hill Manor.
History
He was born at the colonial seat of the Addisons, Oxon Hill Manor. Raised and educated by his father, Rev. Walter Dulany Addison, Oxon Hill was used as a school during Lloyd's youth; unfortunately, his father was an incapable manager of the Addison's plantation and found it necessary to partition and sell lots to raise capital and pay debts. Lloyd married Anne Maria Sands of Maryland, thereafter moved west to Louisville, Kentucky, and later to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Along with Mount Airy, Belair, Mount Vernon, Stratford Hall, Mount Clare, Whitehall, and Carlisle House, Oxon Hill Manor was one of the great mansions of the Colonial era. The Addison Plantation, as it is sometimes called, was a large agricultural plantation acquired by John Addison in 1687; the site was the estate of successive generations of the Addison family.[1]
Family
His father was the Rev. Walter Dulany Addison of Oxon Hill Manor, who served as Chaplain of the U.S. Senate and was the officiant at George Washington's funeral. His mother was Elizabeth Young Hesselius. His siblings were: Edmund Brice Addison, Edward G. Addison, Augustus Edward Addison, Mary Young Addison; step-brother of William Meade Addison and Francis Key Addison.
Descended from the Maryland Tidewater Gentry, he was nephew to the Platers, Taskers, Lloyds of Wye House, and Ogles of Belair, and through them, cousins of the Tayloes of Mount Airy, the Lees of Stratford Hall, Washingtons of Mount Vernon, and the Carters of Corotoman.[2]
He married Anne Maria Sands of Maryland, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and had children. Hortense Addison Batre, a daughter, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, September 12, 1834. She married Alfred Batre of Mobile, son of Adolphe Batre, Mayor of Mobile, Alabama (1830). Alfred bought the Georgia Cottage for his young bride before selling it in 1857 to Augusta Jane Evans. Hortense founded the Colonial Dames of Alabama in 1898, when she was 64, and served as president until she was 80.[3]
The Pickwick Club & the Mystick Krewe of Comus
In December 1856, six Anglo-American[4] New Orleans businessmen gathered at a club room above the now-defunct Gem Restaurant in New Orleans' French Quarter to organize a secret society to observe Mardi Gras in a less crude fashion.[5] The inspiration for the name came from John Milton's Lord of Misrule in his masque Comus. Part of the inspiration for the parade was a Mobile, Alabama, Carnival mystic society, with annual parades, called the Cowbellion de Rakin Society (from 1830),[6].
Founding members: Samuel Manning Todd, a drygoods merchant from Utica, New York, who arrived in New Orleans by way of Mobile, Alabama, like most of the rest;[7][8] Frank Shaw, Jr., commission merchant; Lloyd Dulany Addison, partner Bullitt, Miller & Co. merchants and cotton factors; Dr. John H. Pope, credited with naming the group,[9] and Joseph Ellison, owned Pope, Ellison & Co., commission merchants—Pope was also a pharmacist owning Pope's Drugstore at the corner of Jackson and Prytania where this small coterie initially organized; William Ellison, partner of firm Starke & Ellison, Cotton Brokers.[10]
The new group acquired the costumes, floats, flambeaux, and even theme—their very name, Comus—from the 1856 Cowbellion parade (Milton's “Paradise Lost”). There are also indications that Striker's Independent Society from Mobile, Alabama, were involved, and they went en masse to the first Comus event.
Death
Buried in Mobile, Alabama, next to predeceased grandchildren, Lloyd Dulany Addison's headstone reads, "a resident of New Orleans, son of the reverend Walter Dulany Addison and Elizabeth Hesselius his wife. Born 1799 at Oxon Hill Manor House, Maryland. Died at Spring Hill June 11, 1861. Buried at his request beside his grandchildren."[11]
References
- ↑ One Hundred Years Ago; or, the Life and Times of Rev. Walter Dulany Addison, by Elizabeth Hesselius Murray (his granddaughter), 1895
- ↑ http://genealogytrails.com/mary/annearundel/colonialfamilies_Addison.html
- ↑ http://nscda.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AL_Our_Founding_Mothers.pdf
- ↑ All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival by Reid Mitchell. Harvard University Press:1995. ISBN 0-674-01622-X Search this book on
. pg 21
- ↑ Arthur B. LaCour, New Orleans Masquerade: Chronicles of Carnival (Pelican Publishing 1952)
- ↑ "Carnival/Mobile Mardi Gras Timeline" (list of events), The Museum of Mobile, 2002, webpage:MoM-timeline(events at 1850).
- ↑ Wicked Mobile, Brendan Kirby, Arcadia Publishing, Nov 9, 2015
- ↑ All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival, Reid Mitchell, Harvard University Press, Jun 30, 2009, pg. 211
- ↑ https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/mardi_gras/article_886810cc-e9ab-11e6-9682-83abfeb3e9d8.html
- ↑ https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/mardi_gras/article_886810cc-e9ab-11e6-9682-83abfeb3e9d8.html
- ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/mobile/cemeteries/springhill.txt
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