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Title	Edward J. Gay arms permit, 1864 April 27
Subject	Gay, Edward J. (Edward James), 1816-1889. Firearms--Law and legislation--Louisiana--Iberville Parish. Iberville Parish (La.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
Description	An arms permit given to Edward Gay by the provost marshal allows him to have a shotgun and revolver for three months for self defense and hunting.
Author	Cox, Mark.
Date	1864-04-27
Year of item	1864
Format	permit (2 p.),
Repository	Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections (http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special).
Repository Collection Name	Edward J. Gay and Family Papers, Mss. 1295
Repository Collection Guide	http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/1295ejg.pdf
Rights	Physical rights are retained by the LSU Libraries. Copyright has expired and the item is therefore in the public domain. Permission to reproduce this image must be requested through the Special Collections Division, Louisiana State University Libraries.
Digital Collection	Civil War: Context & Conflict
Language	en
Topic(s)	federal protection
Cite as	Edward J. Gay and Family Papers, Mss. 1295, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.
Biographical Note	Edward J. Gay was born to Sophia Mitchell Gay (1793-1869) and John Henderson Gay (1787-1878) in Liberty, Bedford County, Va. The family moved west to Illinois then settled in St. Louis, Mo., where they resided on Union Avenue. In 1834, Edward J. Gay graduated from Augusta College in Kentucky and entered the family mercantile business in St. Louis. He then joined the St. Louis factor firm Glasgow and Gay, which he later left to form his own wholesale grocery business, Edward J. Gay and Company. He operated that business until the outbreak of the Civil War. Gay married Lavinia Hynes of Nashville in that city in 1840 . It was his marriage to Lavinia Hynes that brought Gay to Louisiana, for she was the daughter of Anne Erwin Hynes and Andrew Hynes, a Nashville merchant who acquired an interest in his father-in-law's plantation, Home, located in Iberville Parish near Plaquemine, in 1836. When Andrew Hynes died in 1849, he owned one of the largest sugar plantations in Iberville Parish and 223 slaves valued at $86,000. Gay, acting as administrator of the Hynes estate, took over the management of Home Plantation. About 1856, after having purchased the interests of the other, Gay built a new residence at Home and changed the name of the plantation to St. Louis During the Civil War, Edward J. Gay and family remained for the most part at their Louisiana plantation, and he continued to engage in the purchase and sale of sugar and cotton. After the war, Gay expanded his financial interests through the purchase of a partnership in the William Edwards and Company, a New Orleans factor house, and the acquisition of additional plantations by sales and foreclosures of mortgages.
Call Number or Shelving Location	Y:16
Box	46
Folder	453
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Digital Collection	LSU Libraries Civil War Collection - ASERL Unpublished Collection

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