Jean Loupot

Occupation

mason

Origin

Ardennes, France

Sources

Santerre, Foster, DMN 1906, Sandell, DMN 1903

Positions

• consultative commission, Société de Réunion — 1857-02-03 (named) [cordillot] withdrew at the first meeting, wanting his shares repaid in cash
• in Mexico, freighting cotton, four years, civilian — 1861 – 1865 (informal) [lewis1892] his 1892 sketch; Cordillot has him at Kaufman County in 1857 and back in Dallas 1869
• Alderman, replacing Jones, City of Dallas — 1868-11-26 (appointed) [sandell IV; brown1892] 'Jones resigned, and John Loupot was substituted' (brown1892)

From the register of positions.

Family tree

Surname appears in the Santerre family tree.

Biography

Jean Loupot


Name
  Canonical: Jean Loupot
  Also: John Loupot (DMN 1906, Sandell); "le petit Loupot" (Cordillot);
    Lupot (Sandell). Sandell suspects "Frances, Jean and John" are one man
    -- they are two: Jean (this notice) and his uncle Francois.

Birth: February 1835, in the Ardennes, France
Death: October 7, 1904, Dallas (DMN obituary of October 8)
Burial: unknown

Origin: Ardennes; a mason's son, apprenticed in the trade, then at 16 in
  the grocery business at Sedan

Family
  Uncle: Francois Loupot ("le grand Loupot"), who travelled with him
  Married at Dallas, 1869
  Max Loupot (d. December 24, 1953) and the Loupot who built 175 houses on
    the colony site in 1962 are descendants (TIMELINE afterlife layer)

Occupation at colony: shepherd, then farmer. Santerre's list: mason.
Occupation in Dallas: baker, saloon-keeper, then masonry contractor;
  finally gardening and dairying

Ship / arrival: left Antwerp with his uncle November 11, 1855; New Orleans
  31 days later; at once to Galveston. With no transport they set out for
  Reunion on foot, turned back, found a barge to Newport, and walked the
  remaining 150 miles. Francois fell ill and stopped at Palestine; Jean,
  with no English, reached Reunion February 24, 1856.

Colony role
  - February 3, 1857: named to the consultative commission supporting
    Bureau, but withdrew at its first meeting, wanting his shares repaid
    in full in cash
  - The same year, four months' work in Kaufman County

Post-colony
  - 1869: back in Dallas, married; baker, saloon-keeper, masonry
    contractor; keen on politics; freemason and Odd Fellow for many years
  - 1875: built a two-storey stone house on land a little west of the old
    colony and turned to gardening and dairying. Sandell: sixty acres west
    of the colony, a vegetable garden and dairy.

Land
  1858 receivership: "J. Loupot" among the eight stockholding colonists
  who took land at $4 an acre. Sandell: sixty acres west of the colony.
  Deed scans for the Loupots are in doc/deeds/colonists/ (about eleven
  files), not yet in deeds.py.

Sources
  Cordillot, "Loupot Jean (dit 'le petit Loupot')," Au Texas (2003)
  Sandell, colonist directory; ch. IV (the 1868 council)
  Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas (1955), colonist list
  DMN obituaries (kagay)
  TIMELINE.md: 1858.??, 1868.09.??

Notes
  Loupot walked the last 150 miles to the colony, refused its paper, took
  its land, and his family was still building on that ground a century
  later. Sandell has "John Loupot" eventually filling Boll's seat on the
  1868 military council -- the same man.

Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County (1892), pp. 395-396
  His own sketch ("John Loupot"): born February 1836 (Cordillot: 1835)
  to Nicholas Loupot, mason, and Adaline Gilet; commercial college;
  sailed November 11, 1855 from Antwerp via Liverpool, 31 days to New
  Orleans; steamer to Galveston, Houston, back to Galveston and three
  weeks up the Trinity; from Newport on foot 150 miles, two days at a
  time without food, his uncle left at Palestine, the last 100 miles
  alone with $1.50, swimming the swollen streams with his clothes tied to
  his back with a grapevine; February 24, 1856, with fifteen cents. Sheep
  the first week, a year farming with the colony, four months in Kaufman
  County, then the farm "which belonged to his uncle." During the Civil
  War in Mexico four years, freighting cotton -- not in Cordillot.
  Married October 4, 1869 Rosina Getzer, Swiss, who came in 1867 at
  sixteen; four years in Dallas keeping a bar and bakery and building,
  among other things the Odd Fellows' Hall (1872); 1875 to the present
  farm, 160 acres, gardening and dairying; children Rosina, John, Ema,
  Maxime, Emile; I.O.O.F.; independent in politics. His uncle Francis
  "returned to France in 1869" (Cordillot: 1859).
  doc/text/books/1800/lewis_memorial_dallas_county_1892/excerpts.md

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