Allen Tupper 1 2
- Born: 5 Jun 1861, New Orleans, Orleans, LA 1 2
- Marriage (1): Mary Whitmel in Dec 1895 in New Orleans, Orleans, LA 1
- Died: 16 Jan 1931, New Orleans, Orleans, LA at age 69 2
- Buried: New Orleans: Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, Orleans, LA 2
FamilySearch ID: L6Q2-DYS.
Noted events in his life were:
1. Book: History of New Orleans: biography of Allen Tupper, 1922. 3
Allen Tupper has for many years been prominently identified with construction enterprise throughout Louisiana, formerly as a member of the firm Tupper Brothers and later in business under his own name.
Mr. Tupper, a son of Tristram Tupper, a veteran New Orleans business man whose career is reviewed elsewhere, was born at Charleston, South Carolina, June 5, 1861, and was an infant when his mother and other members of the family moved to Williamston, South Carolina, to be away from the war front. He was five years of age when brought to New Orleans, where he attended private school and the University High School. In 1876, at the age of fifteen, he left school and following year entered the New Orleans office of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. From 1880 to 1884 he was a bookkepper and cashier for J. O. Terry & Sons in the lumber and sawmill business. In 1885 he became associated with the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, and that gave the permanent direction to his business career, as a contractor for paving and other important construction work. The firm of Tupper Brothers was organized in 1886, and in 1901 Mr. Tupper succeeded to the business under his individual name.
Mr. Tupper has been associated closely with the civic and social program of his home city and state. When he was sixteen he joined Company K of the Second Regiment of Louisiana State Militia, and later was a member of the Nicholls Rifles of the Crescent Regiment. He was vice president from the Fourth Precinct, Eleventh Ward, of the Anti-Lottery League during the fight to suppress lotteries from 1892 to 1894, and was one of the local citizens most active in that campaign. He has long been a member of the Association of Commerce, the Board of Trade, the Contractors & Dealers Exchange and his interests in the practical education of the negro race led to his appointment by Governor Foster as a member of the Board of Southern University. He served on that board for six years, finally declining reappointment. He is a member of the Good Government League, is an independent democrat in politics, is a member of the Boston Club, the Yacht Club and Round Table Club, and has been a member of the Pickwick Club, Louisiana Club, Chess, Checkers and Whist Club, County Club and Audubon Golf Club, having resigned from the latter.
Allen married Mary Whitmel in Dec 1895 in New Orleans, Orleans, LA.1
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