ELAM, Charles Wheaton, attorney, politician. Born, Mansfield, La., March 18, 1866; son of Mary Elizabeth Stewart and Joseph Barton Elam, Sr. (q.v.). Education: local schools; Louisiana State University, graduated 1887. Practiced, DeSoto, Sabine and Red River parishes. Married, March 18, 1891, Lucy Belle Burden, daughter of John Charles and Emma Gertrude Barbee Burden of Baton Rouge. Children: Charles Wheaton (b. 1892), Daniel (b. 1898), Emma Gertrude (b. 1900). Served one term Louisiana house of representatives, 1892-1893. Member, Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors, 1904-1910; active in establishment of LSU Law School. Member, 1909 state constitutional convention; delegate, 1912 Democratic National Convention; state counsel for Kansas City Southern Railway. Mason; vestryman, Christ Memorial Episcopal Church. Died, Mansfield, September 5, 1917; interred Mansfield Cemetery. C.P.C. Sources: Alcée Fortier, Louisiana, III (1909); Mansfield Enterprise, obituary, September 7, 1917; Elam family papers.
ELAM, Charles Wheaton, attorney, politician. Born, Mansfield, La., March 18, 1866; son of Mary Elizabeth Stewart and Joseph Barton Elam, Sr. (q.v.). Education: local schools; Louisiana State University, graduated 1887. Practiced, DeSoto, Sabine and Red River parishes. Married, March 18, 1891, Lucy Belle Burden, daughter of John Charles and Emma Gertrude Barbee Burden of Baton Rouge. Children: Charles Wheaton (b. 1892), Daniel (b. 1898), Emma Gertrude (b. 1900). Served one term Louisiana house of representatives, 1892-1893. Member, Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors, 1904-1910; active in establishment of LSU Law School. Member, 1909 state constitutional convention; delegate, 1912 Democratic National Convention; state counsel for Kansas City Southern Railway. Mason; vestryman, Christ Memorial Episcopal Church. Died, Mansfield, September 5, 1917; interred Mansfield Cemetery. C.P.C. Sources: Alcée Fortier, Louisiana, III (1909); Mansfield Enterprise, obituary, September 7, 1917; Elam family papers.
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