Person:Edward McIlhenny (1)

Avery Island, Iberia Parish, Louisiana, 1910 census:^[6]

McIlhenny, Edward Head 28 yrs (marr. 10 yrs) b. Louisiana (parents, b Maryland/Louisiana) Manager (Tabasco Factory)

      Mary Wife 26 yrs (3 children, 3 living) b. Louisiana (parents, b. Louisiana)

      Rosemary Dau 9 yrs b. Louisiana (parents, b. Louisiana)

      Pauline Dau 8 yrs b. Louisiana (parents, b. Louisiana)

      Leila Dau 6 yrs b. Louisiana (parents, b. Louisiana)

[+ 3 servants]

Avery Island, Iberia Parish, Louisiana, 1920 census:^[7]

McIlhenny, Edward A. Head 47 yrs b. Louisiana (parents, b. Louisiana) Farmer (General Farm)

      Mary M. Wife 45 yrs b. Louisiana (parents, b. Maryland/Kentucky)

Iberia Parish, Louisiana, 1930 census:^[8]

McIlhenny, E. A. Head 58 yrs (marr. at 28 yrs) b. Louisiana (parents, b. Maryland/Louisiana) Manufacturer (Tabasco)

      Mary M. Wife 54 yrs (marr. at 25 yrs) b. Louisiana (parents, b. Maryland/Kentucky) "None"

Iberia Parish, Louisiana, 1940 census:^[9]

McIlhenny, E. A. Head 68 yrs (Coll-3) b. Louisiana 1935: Same house *President (Pepper Factory)

      Mary M. Wife 65 yrs (Coll-4) b. Louisiana 1935: Same house

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Find A Grave.

   Edward A. McIlhenny

2. ↑ Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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3. ↑ Hunting For Bears, comp. Louisiana Marriages, 1718-1925.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Louisiana, United States. Louisiana Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 United States. Social Security Administration. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2015).
6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Iberia, Louisiana, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 21, p. 16A, dwelling/family 1/1.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Iberia, Louisiana, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 22, p. 21A, dwelling/family 633/633.
8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 Iberia, Louisiana, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 20, p. 16A, dwelling/family 2/5 [i.e., 2/2].
9. ↑ ^9.0 9.1 Iberia, Louisiana, United States. 1940 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 23-20, p. 14A, #249.
10.   Brasseaux, Carl A.; James D. Wilson; Glenn R. (Glenn Russell) Conrad; and Center for Louisiana Studies. A Dictionary of Louisiana biography. (New Orleans, Louisiana: Louisiana Hist. Assn., c1988).

    MCILHENNY, Edward Avery, explorer, naturalist, author, planter, businessman. Born, March 29, 1872; son of Edmund McIlhenny and Mary Eliza Avery. Education: Wynbam’s Institute, Alton, Ill., 1885-1887; Holbrook, Ossining, N.Y., 1887-1890; and Lehigh University, 1890-1892. In school, McIlhenny developed remarkably varied interests in natural science to which he devoted his life, and for which he became internationally famous. His extensive travels commenced when he left Lehigh to join Robert Edwin Peary’s expedition to northern Greenland in 1892. From 1897 to 1899, McIlhenny headed an expedition to gather ornithological specimens at Point Barrow, where his group rescued 105 men, including novelist Jack London, wrecked on Sea Horse Shoal. His interest in the Arctic region resulted in his publication of a dictionary of Eskimo dialects. McIlhenny’s father owned the Avery Island salt mines and Tobasco Sauce plant, located eight miles from New Iberia, over which Edward is said to have ruled as a manorial lord upon inheriting title to the estate. The salt mine, pepper plantation, and sauce factory, employed more than seven hundred at the time of his death. At Avery Island, in a paternalistic manner, McIlhenny personally tended even to the medical needs of the workers; he also collected flora and fauna from throughout the world to cultivate and conserve with scientific distinction. He is credited with preserving from extinction indigenous wildlife, notably the heron and egret through ingenious construction of bamboo nests. Avery Island thus developed as an exotic botanical garden with an Oriental emphasis and a wildlife refuge of international reputation. Meanwhile McIlhenny became a nationally prominent figure in conservation movements, supporting movements of President Theodore Roosevelt and Gov. Newton C. Blanchard (q.v.) to establish state conservation commissions in 1907. Named federal game warden; and was a life member of the Museum of Natural History. In cooperation with the Russell Sage Foundation, he contributed to the establishment of vast areas of the state’s southwestern gulf coastal marsh as a wildlife refuge. McIlhenny’s many published writings reflect the diversity of his interest; most notably, Autobiography of an Egret (New York, 1939); Life History of an Alligator (Boston, 1935); and Befo’ De War Spirituals (Boston, 1933), the last reflecting his interest in Negro music and folklore. He wrote extensively on other wildlife species and conservation methodology. In addition, he was an expert and innovative photographer; his negative and photographic collection relating to flora and fauna reportedly was one of the largest private collections in the world at the time of his death. In 1900 McIlhenny married Mary Matthews of New Orleans. Children: Rosemary, Pauline, and Lelia. Died, Avery Island, August 8, 1949; interred in the family cemetery. M.J.S.
    
    Sources: Rosemary Eckard Bernard, “Ned and the Egret: A Biography of the Youth of Edward Avery McIlhenny” (M.A. thesis, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1969); Saturday Review, January 15, 1966; New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item, February 27, 1983; Who’s Who in America, 1936-1937; obituary, Times-Picayune, August 9, 1949; Papers, Special Collections Division, Louisiana State University.

11. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957. (Washington, D. C.: National Archives and Records Administration).

    S.S. Campania, departed Livepool, 28 Nov 1903, arrived New York, 5 Dec 1903.
    
    Line 5: McIlhenny, Edward A. Age 31 yrs, manufacturer, American citizen