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- Extract from BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF LOUISIANA, in two volumes, The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1892, pages 435-436
Atwood Violett married a daughter of William Quentell, and they have one child, a daughter. William Quentell, was one of the most prominent merchants in the Liverpool cotton trade for many years. Mignonette Violett married Charles S. Whelen of Philadelphia. The other two daughters and son are unmarried, Mr. Violett was but a boy when the circumstances of the war forced his parents to seek shelter within the confederate lines. On their arrival at Mobile he was placed at school, but early in 1864, when just seventeen, he joined Pelham's battalion, composed of boys between the age of fifteen and eighteen, and though mustered into the regular confederate service, the battalion was retained in service at Mobile and the forts in the bay. He was eight months at both. on account of his age, bis father was able to procure his transfer to the Military University at Tuscaloosa, Ala., the cadets being mostly youths, but at the same time in the state guard, and liable to military duty. They were twice ordered out—once to defend a threatened attack on Mobile in December, 1864, and again in April, 1865, when they engaged a brigade of Wilson's cavalry, whose division made a raid through central Alabama, destroying the powder factories and depots of supplies of the confederate government. After a sharp fight, during which a number of the cadets were wounded, a retreat was ordered to Marion, Ala., sixty-five miles distant. It was there learned the confederacy was in its last throes, as a few days subsequently proved to be the case, all of which is now a matter of history. He was paroled on May 20, 1865, at Jackson, Miss., by order of Major General Canby. on returning to New Orleans his father gave him the choice of a position in his office, or a collegiate course, and he accepted the former. After the death of his father in 1868, he became his successor, and continued a member of the firm of Violett, Black & Co., until 1871, when be withdrew and formed a copartliership under name of McGebee, Snowden & Violett. They continued in existence until 1878, when business misfortunes overtook them. After this he represented in New Orleans one of the leading firms of the New York Cotton Exchange at that time, Messrs Fielding and Gwynn, but in December, 1879, be again embarked in business for his own account, under the name of Glenny & Violett. They built up a very large and lucrative business and became most prominently identified with the cotton trade. This firm dissolved on the 1st of October, 1890, and on the same day the present firm of Atwood Violett & co. came into existence. This firm is known throughout the South, where it has a very large constituency, and by reason of its high commercial standing, not only in New Orleans but in the leading cotton markets everywhere, and by the influence of its views and opinions, abroad as well as in America, they have taken a most leading position, in fact, no firm stands higher in that respect anywhere in cotton circles.
Lived in New York City
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1847 - 1932 (85 years)
