CRABITES, Pierre, attorney, jurist, author, lecturer. Born, New Orleans, February 17, 1877; son of Pierre Crabitès and Martha Patton.
Education: local schools; College Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, A.M., 1895; Tulane University, LL.B., 1898; Loyola University, New Orleans, LL.D., 1918; graduate study University of Paris.
Married Charlotte Berlin of Chattanooga, Tenn., daughter of Dr. Henry Berlin. Child: Henry Berlin Crabitès. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1900; practiced law in New Orleans, 1900-1911; American judge, Mixed Tribunal, Cairo, Egypt, 1911-1936 (rendered decision between Howard Carter, the English archaeologist, discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb and the Egyptian Department of Public Works.)
Special lecturer Louisiana State University Law School. Appointed American national commissioner under provisions of Egypto-American Arbitration Treaty of 1929, in 1939. Special assistant to U. S. minister, Cairo, Egypt, 1942-1943; special assistant to U. S. minister, Baghdad, Iraq, 1943.
Awarded: Order of Ismail (Grand Officer) Egypt.
Translator: Armenia and the Armenians from the Earliest Times Until the Great War (1914), 1920.
Author: Gordon, the Sudan and Slavery (1933); Ismail, the Maligned Khedive (1933); Who Rules France? (1933); The Winning of the Sudan (1934); Benes, Statesman of Central Europe (1935); Clement VII and Henry VIII (1936); Unhappy Spain (1937); Victoria's Guardian Angel: A Study of Baron Stockmar (1937); Americans in the Egyptian Army (1938); The Spoilation of Suez (1940).
Contributed many articles to publications of learned societies.
Member: Catholic church. Died, Iraq, October 10, 1943; interred English Christian Cemetery, Baghdad, Iraq. B.R.O.
Sources: Baton Rouge States-Item, December 11, 1943; obituary, New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 11, 1943; obituary, New York Times, October 11, 1943; Who Was Who in America, 1943-1950, (1950).
Education: local schools; College Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, A.M., 1895; Tulane University, LL.B., 1898; Loyola University, New Orleans, LL.D., 1918; graduate study University of Paris.
Married Charlotte Berlin of Chattanooga, Tenn., daughter of Dr. Henry Berlin. Child: Henry Berlin Crabitès. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1900; practiced law in New Orleans, 1900-1911; American judge, Mixed Tribunal, Cairo, Egypt, 1911-1936 (rendered decision between Howard Carter, the English archaeologist, discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb and the Egyptian Department of Public Works.)
Special lecturer Louisiana State University Law School. Appointed American national commissioner under provisions of Egypto-American Arbitration Treaty of 1929, in 1939. Special assistant to U. S. minister, Cairo, Egypt, 1942-1943; special assistant to U. S. minister, Baghdad, Iraq, 1943.
Awarded: Order of Ismail (Grand Officer) Egypt.
Translator: Armenia and the Armenians from the Earliest Times Until the Great War (1914), 1920.
Author: Gordon, the Sudan and Slavery (1933); Ismail, the Maligned Khedive (1933); Who Rules France? (1933); The Winning of the Sudan (1934); Benes, Statesman of Central Europe (1935); Clement VII and Henry VIII (1936); Unhappy Spain (1937); Victoria's Guardian Angel: A Study of Baron Stockmar (1937); Americans in the Egyptian Army (1938); The Spoilation of Suez (1940).
Contributed many articles to publications of learned societies.
Member: Catholic church. Died, Iraq, October 10, 1943; interred English Christian Cemetery, Baghdad, Iraq. B.R.O.
Sources: Baton Rouge States-Item, December 11, 1943; obituary, New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 11, 1943; obituary, New York Times, October 11, 1943; Who Was Who in America, 1943-1950, (1950).
CRABITES, Pierre, attorney, jurist, author, lecturer. Born, New Orleans, February 17, 1877; son of Pierre Crabitès and Martha Patton.
Education: local schools; College Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, A.M., 1895; Tulane University, LL.B., 1898; Loyola University, New Orleans, LL.D., 1918; graduate study University of Paris.
Married Charlotte Berlin of Chattanooga, Tenn., daughter of Dr. Henry Berlin. Child: Henry Berlin Crabitès. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1900; practiced law in New Orleans, 1900-1911; American judge, Mixed Tribunal, Cairo, Egypt, 1911-1936 (rendered decision between Howard Carter, the English archaeologist, discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb and the Egyptian Department of Public Works.)
Special lecturer Louisiana State University Law School. Appointed American national commissioner under provisions of Egypto-American Arbitration Treaty of 1929, in 1939. Special assistant to U. S. minister, Cairo, Egypt, 1942-1943; special assistant to U. S. minister, Baghdad, Iraq, 1943.
Awarded: Order of Ismail (Grand Officer) Egypt.
Translator: Armenia and the Armenians from the Earliest Times Until the Great War (1914), 1920.
Author: Gordon, the Sudan and Slavery (1933); Ismail, the Maligned Khedive (1933); Who Rules France? (1933); The Winning of the Sudan (1934); Benes, Statesman of Central Europe (1935); Clement VII and Henry VIII (1936); Unhappy Spain (1937); Victoria's Guardian Angel: A Study of Baron Stockmar (1937); Americans in the Egyptian Army (1938); The Spoilation of Suez (1940).
Contributed many articles to publications of learned societies.
Member: Catholic church. Died, Iraq, October 10, 1943; interred English Christian Cemetery, Baghdad, Iraq. B.R.O.
Sources: Baton Rouge States-Item, December 11, 1943; obituary, New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 11, 1943; obituary, New York Times, October 11, 1943; Who Was Who in America, 1943-1950, (1950).
Education: local schools; College Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, A.M., 1895; Tulane University, LL.B., 1898; Loyola University, New Orleans, LL.D., 1918; graduate study University of Paris.
Married Charlotte Berlin of Chattanooga, Tenn., daughter of Dr. Henry Berlin. Child: Henry Berlin Crabitès. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1900; practiced law in New Orleans, 1900-1911; American judge, Mixed Tribunal, Cairo, Egypt, 1911-1936 (rendered decision between Howard Carter, the English archaeologist, discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb and the Egyptian Department of Public Works.)
Special lecturer Louisiana State University Law School. Appointed American national commissioner under provisions of Egypto-American Arbitration Treaty of 1929, in 1939. Special assistant to U. S. minister, Cairo, Egypt, 1942-1943; special assistant to U. S. minister, Baghdad, Iraq, 1943.
Awarded: Order of Ismail (Grand Officer) Egypt.
Translator: Armenia and the Armenians from the Earliest Times Until the Great War (1914), 1920.
Author: Gordon, the Sudan and Slavery (1933); Ismail, the Maligned Khedive (1933); Who Rules France? (1933); The Winning of the Sudan (1934); Benes, Statesman of Central Europe (1935); Clement VII and Henry VIII (1936); Unhappy Spain (1937); Victoria's Guardian Angel: A Study of Baron Stockmar (1937); Americans in the Egyptian Army (1938); The Spoilation of Suez (1940).
Contributed many articles to publications of learned societies.
Member: Catholic church. Died, Iraq, October 10, 1943; interred English Christian Cemetery, Baghdad, Iraq. B.R.O.
Sources: Baton Rouge States-Item, December 11, 1943; obituary, New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 11, 1943; obituary, New York Times, October 11, 1943; Who Was Who in America, 1943-1950, (1950).
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