Frank Godchaux Sr.
Frank Godchaux | |
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Born |
Abbeville, Louisiana | November 29, 1879
Died | July 3, 1965 85) | (aged
Occupation | President of Louisiana Rice Milling Company |
College football career | |
Vanderbilt Commodores | |
Position | Quarterback |
Class | 1901 |
Career history | |
College |
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Frank Area Godchaux Sr. (November 29, 1879 – July 3, 1965) was a president of the Louisiana Rice Milling Company, a $10,000,000 corporation.[1][2] He was a letterman and quarterback for the Vanderbilt Commodores on the 1899 team,[3] transferring from LSU in 1897.[4][5] He and his son Frank Godchaux Jr were the first father-son Vandy lettermen. Godchaux Sr. was the only child of pioneering merchant Gustave Godchaux, whose parents came from France to Louisiana.[6]
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References
- ↑ http://www.crowleypostsignal.com/louisiana-state-rice-milling-company
- ↑ "Claitor's Law Books and Publishing Division".
- ↑ Order, Kappa Alpha (1921). "Godchaux Honored by Vanderbilt". The Kappa Alpha Journal. 38 (1): 58.
- ↑ cf. Kathy Rivers. "Godchaux Family". Archived from the original on 2014-10-25.
- ↑ Bigelow, Poultney; Worman, James Henry; Worman, Ben James; Whitney, Caspar; Britt, Albert (1914). "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing. 64: 320–331.
- ↑ Becnel, Thomas A (2001). "Reviewed work: Grist for the Mill: An Entrepreneurial History of Louisiana State Rice Milling Company, 1911-1965, River Brand Rice Milling Company, 1946-1965, and Riviana Foods, 1965-1999, John Robert Moore". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 42 (4): 495–497. JSTOR 4233804.
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