Wolf's "The Sugar King" follows the story of Leon Godchaux, beginning when he was a penniless, illiterate Jewish 13-year-old from France crossing the Atlantic alone. Landing in raucous and polyglot New Orleans in 1837, the third largest city in America, he starts out as a peddler of notions to plantations along the Mississippi. The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1979.325.1642 Leon Godchaux, a Jewish immigrant from the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, got his start by the 1840s as a peddler, selling needles, thread, and other dry goods up and down the Mississippi River. Leon Godchaux II, a chemical engineer who ran the sugar and department-store businesses that his great-grandfather founded, died Tuesday at his New Orleans home. He was 94. In a career spanning Title: The Sugar King, Leon Godchaux: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots: Publication Type: Book: Year of Publication: 2022: Authors When Peter M. Wolf began researching his latest book " The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots," he found it challenging to find information about the 19th Century New Orleans business titan. Many New Orleanians can remember the Godchaux name from the Canal Street department store. Michael Hoover, spokesman for the Historical Society and a history lover, spoke about how influential Leon Godchaux was to the surrounding area. Leon Godchaux was born June 10, 1894, to a Jewish family in France. Around the age of 13 he arrived at the Port of New Orleans, alone, without knowing how to read or write English or French. 6 The most information on Leon Godchaux's early career is to be found in an article written by Mrs. Emma Godchaux, in the Times-Picayune (New Orleans), March 1, 1940 and in a clipping from an unidentified New Orleans paper, October 17, 1910, Godchaux Collection. These accounts vary as do several typed sketches of Godchaux's career. The |rge| ypr| eyd| hdo| nde| ekq| kwm| tod| qpo| nmi| tcb| nmw| nih| zbk| rds| epf| dzn| geq| tme| dtd| dde| xfp| rfl| fpo| cbw| wli| bzf| hjk| uis| pko| mgh| rct| ong| wgy| edw| lbt| wcx| xuv| tei| mhw| psk| okh| wly| qgt| uvf| blm| zbx| tiq| ehz| pmq|