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GEBELIN-WALSH-HYNES-FRENZEL FAMILY PAPERS Mss. 4983 Inventory Compiled by Tara Laver Mark E. Martin Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library Louisiana State University Libraries Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University 2008 Revised 2018 GEBELIN-WALSH-HYNES-FRENZEL FAMILY PAPERS Mss. 4983 1860-2009 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CONTENTS OF INVENTORY SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................................ 3 BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE .............................................................................................................. 4 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE ........................................................................................................................... 7 LIST OF SERIES AND SUBSERIES .................................................................................................................... 8 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 9 INDEX TERMS .................................................................................................................................................... 13 CONTAINER LIST .............................................................................................................................................. 15 APPENDIX: FILES ON DISC PROVIDED BY DONOR, 2/28/2009 ................................................................ 20 Use of manuscript materials. If you wish to examine items in the manuscript group, please place a request via the Special Collections Request System. Consult the Container List for location information. Photocopying. Should you wish to request photocopies, please consult a staff member. Do not remove items to be photocopied. The existing order and arrangement of unbound materials must be maintained. Reproductions must be made from surrogates (microfilm, digital scan, photocopy of original held by LSU Libraries), when available. Publication. Readers assume full responsibility for compliance with laws regarding copyright, literary property rights, and libel. Proper acknowledgement of LLMVC materials must be made in any resulting writing or publications. The correct form of citation for this manuscript group is given on the summary page. Copies of scholarly publications based on research in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections are welcomed. Page 2 of 34 GEBELIN-WALSH-HYNES-FRENZEL FAMILY PAPERS Mss. 4983 1860-2009 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SUMMARY Size. 2.5 linear feet; approximately 490 physical items, 500 digital files Geographic Locations. Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Tennessee; Ellsworth, Maine; Cyprus; Israel; Egypt Inclusive Dates. 1860-2009 Bulk Dates. 1900-1970 Languages. English Summary. This collection of photographs and a few textual materials provides a largely visual record of the allied Gebelin, Walsh, Hynes, and Frenzel families. Beginning in the 1860s and continuing through the 1980s, portraits and informal photographs document the lives of family members and family friends and acquaintances. A few images, beginning in 1900 and continuing until the 1960s, record three family homes in Baton Rouge. The bulk of the material documents the life and times of Elizabeth Gertrude Gebelin Hynes (Feb. 20, 1911-Feb. 9, 1982) including her childhood, marriage, travels, family events, and social life in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Access Restrictions. No restrictions on access. Reproduction Note. No aspect of the donation will be used commercially without express written permission of one of the donors during their lifetime or for 50 years from the date of donation, whichever is shorter. It is the responsibility of the donors to provide current contact information. If a donor cannot be reached after a good faith effort, which the Libraries will document, the LSU Libraries may allow the use. Donation of digital scans described in the finding aid does not preclude any use the donors may wish to make of their own files of the same scans or of the originals represented by the scans but retained by the donors. However, the LSU Libraries may, for the purposes of providing access to and administering and use of the collection, treat scans of images not donated as it would if the originals were owned by the Libraries. The scans of the Fonville photographs of the servers and the quartet from Elizabeth Gebelin and Jimmy Hynes’s wedding may be viewed but not reproduced or published for 20 years after the date of this agreement. Copyright. Copyright of the materials created by the donors or their parents and not in the public domain is retained by the donors during their lifetimes. Related Collections. None. Citation Gebelin-Walsh-Hynes-Frenzel Family Papers, Mss. 4983, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. Stack Location(s) 92:69-71; OS:G; AA (CD-storage); MSS.MF:G Page 3 of 34 GEBELIN-WALSH-HYNES-FRENZEL FAMILY PAPERS Mss. 4983 1860-2009 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE The Gebelin, Walsh, Hynes, and Frenzel families have a long history in Baton Rouge, La.1 The families’ alliance begins with the marriage of Elizabeth Ellen “Lizzie” Walsh (11/27/1874-4/21/1955) and Joseph Gebelin (2/3/1853-3/3/1953). The couple married on October 31, 1900, at St. Joseph Church in Baton Rouge. Joseph Gebelin was the son of Jean Baptiste Gebelin and Marguerite Morel, natives of France who married in Marseilles in 1850. Their other children included Augustine, who married Jean Baptiste Tessier; Baptistine, who married Fortune Jaubert; Pauline, who married Achille E. Bougere; and Joseph’s half-sister Nora, the daughter of Jean Baptiste Gebelin and Honora or Honoré Quilter. Nora Gebelin married Achilee E. Bougere’s brother, Clarence. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Walsh Gebelin was the daughter of Catherine Mulvihill and Thomas Walsh, who married in Baton Rouge in 1858. Elizabeth and her identical twin sister Gertrude “Gertie” Agnes (11/27/1874-9/29/1963) were the youngest of their ten children and graduated from St. Joseph Academy in Baton Rouge. Gertrude Agnes married William E. Salisbury at St. Joseph Church in Baton Rouge in 1905. The children and grandchildren of Elizabeth and Gertrude would remain close cousins. Other siblings of Elizabeth Walsh included Annie Maria, Mamie, and Katie. Joseph Gebelin was an active and engaged member in Baton Rouge business, political, civic, and social activities. In the political arena he served as Louisiana’s Assistant Secretary of State under Will A. Strong (1877-1884) and Oscar Arroyo (1884-1888), President of the East Baton Rouge Police Jury, and represented the First Ward on the Baton Rouge City Council from 1901 to 1908. In the business community, he served as President and Treasurer of Provident Bank and Loan Association; Cashier, Vice-President, President, and Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Baton Rouge; President of Home Savings and Loan; a member of the Board of Directors of Saint James Bank; on the first Board of Directors of City National Bank; Treasurer of Ewing Motion Picture Company; and held “lease ownership” of the ferry John J. Brown with Francis Phillips between 1881 and 1886. Gebelin’s civic activities included service as Treasurer of the Istrouma Council of Boy Scouts for twenty-five years; a member of the Volunteer Fire Department, Jackson Four Division; a member of the Board of Trustees for St. Joseph Church for more than fifty years; and a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce. In the social arena he was a charter and lifetime member of the Baton Rouge Council of the Knights of Columbus, a founding and charter member of the Baton Rouge Country Club, and played in the Independent Cornet Band. Joseph and Elizabeth Walsh Gebelin raised two girls, Claire Beatrice (b. 1/7/1904), who married Seid Waddell Hendrix in 1927, and Elizabeth Gertrude Gebelin (2/20/1911-2/9/1982). The family resided at 219 Saint Phillip Street and, after 1912, 201 Saint Phillip Street, in downtown Baton Rouge. Elizabeth Gebelin graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1927 and went on to attend the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, La., and then the Academy of the Sacred Heart (Clifton) in Cincinnati, Ohio, from which she graduated. While in Cincinnati, she also took courses at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, earned a certificate from the National School of Interior Decoration (1930), and studied drama under a Mrs. Powell, the mother of actor Tyrone Powell. Elizabeth returned to Baton Rouge and earned an M.A. in Speech from Louisiana State University. Her thesis was entitled Prevalent Errors of Speech among the Children in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Means of Their Correction (1932). Elizabeth Gebelin also actively participated in the productions of the LSU School of Music and Dramatic Arts, and she was also inducted into Kappa Delta sorority. At some point between her return to Baton Rouge and her wedding in 1940 Elizabeth and her cousin Juliette Amiss 1 The Gebelin family was also allied with the Bougere, Jaubert, Tessier, and Reynaud families, the Walshes with the Salisbury and Amiss families, the Hyneses with the Lea family, and the Frenzels with the Becker family. Page 4 of 34 GEBELIN-WALSH-HYNES-FRENZEL FAMILY PAPERS Mss. 4983 1860-2009 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS organized the Spinsters, a social