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Biography [ edit ]
He was born free on December 28, 1810, to a mixed-race , francophone family. His mother, Modeste Foucher, was a mistress of Barthelemy Lafon , though Thomy's father was Pierre Larande.
He started out selling cakes to workers, opened a small store, was a school teacher for a time, and became successful at money lending and real estate investment. He was an opponent of slavery and supported racial integration in schools.
He is mostly known for his large donations to the Institute Catholique , the Louisiana Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans , and other charities for both blacks and whites . In his will, he left funds to local charities and to the Charity Hospital , Lafon Old Folks Home , Straight University , and the Sisters of the Holy Family , an order of African-American nuns founded in New Orleans.[1] [2] Tribune American Civil War .[citation needed
The Thomy Lafon school was called "the best Negro schoolhouse in Louisiana," but it was burned down by a white mob during the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 .[3]
Lafon never married, and died on December 22, 1893. He is interred at the Saint Louis Cemetery No. 3 .[1] [4]
Bust of Thomy Lafon (at left)
References [ edit ]
^ Hair, William Ivy (1986). Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 LSU Press . pp. 177–178. ISBN 0-8071-1348-4 . Retrieved 2009-05-19 .
^ Creolegen
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