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ST. LANDRY PARISH BIOGRAPHIES
Kean, Robert
Garlick Hill The paternal ancestry
of Mr. Kean is thus traced: About 1790,
David Kean, of County Armagh, Ireland,
came to Virginia, and settled in Monroe
county. With him came his son, Andrew
Kean, who became a physician of Louisa
county, and whose son, John Vaughn Kean,
married Caroline M. Hill. They were the
parents of the subject of this sketch, who
was born in Caroline
county, Virginia, October 7,1828. His
first wife was Jane Nicholas, daughter of
Col. T. Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill,
Albemarle county, Virginia,born November
3, 1831, died August 28, 1868. The
children of this marriage were: Lancelot
Minor, born January 11, 1856, now
practicing law at Sioux City, Iowa; Pattie
Cary, born April 11. 1858, now the wife of
J. S. Morris, of Campbell county;
Jefferson Randolph, born June 28, 1860,
now surgeon. U. S. A.: and Robert G. H. At
the residence of Col. Nicholas Long, near
Weldon, North Carolina, Rev. Mr. Norwood
officiating, Mr. Kean married, on January
14, 1874, Adelaide Navarro de M. Prescott.
She was born in St. Landry
parish, Louisiana, November 5, 1844, the
daughter of William Marshall Prescott, who
was born in South Carolina, and who
married Evelina, daughter of Judge Moore,
of Louisiana. The children of Mr. Kean's
second marriage are four, born: Evelina
Moore, June 28,1875; William Marshall
Prescott, July 6, 1876; Caroline H.,
September 1, 1877; Otho Vaughn, April 5,
1881. Mr. Kean entered the Confederate
States Army as a private of Company G,
11th Virginia regiment, on April 21, 1861.
In February, 1862, he was commissioned
captain, and appointed A. A. G. assigned
to Gen. G. W. Randolph's brigade. On April
1, 1862, he was ordered to Richmond, and
commissioned by President Davis as chief
of the Bureau of War, which position he
filled until the close of the war. He was
graduated in law from the University
of Virginia in 1853, and holds the degrees
of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law from
that University. From the time of his
graduation to the present he has been in
practice, in Lynchburg, except for the
years given to military duty. [Virginia
and Virginians: eminent Virginians ...
History of Virginia from settlement of
Jamestown to close of the Civil War,
Volume 2 by Robert Alonzo Brock, Virgil
Anson Lewis, 1888 – Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
Lazaro, Ladislas, Physician and
Congressman, of Washington, La. was born
June 5, 1872, near Ville Platte, La. He
served two terms as a member of the
Louisiana State Senate; and since 1913 he
has been a member of Congress, his present
term ending in 1921. [Source:
Herringshaw's American blue-book of
biography: By Thomas William Herringshaw,
American Publishers' Assoc.; Publ. 1919;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea
Stawski Pack.]
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