Leopold Caspari
Leopold Caspari was a Frenchborn businessman and politician from Natchitoches, Louisiana. In 1884, in his role as state representative, he pushed for the establishment of Northwestern State University.
Caspari was born in Lauterbourg in northeastern France, to David Caspari and the former Charlotte Baruch . He was a young apprentice in a dry goods store. In 1849 at the age of nineteen, five years after the death of his mother, and a year following the Revolution of 1848, Caspari emigrated to the United States. He first settled as a merchant in Cloutierville in Natchitoches Parish south of the city of Natchitoches, where he lived after 1858. He served in the Confederate States of America Army as a member of Pelican Rangers No.at the rank of second lieutenant. By the end of the Civil War, he had been promoted to the rank of captain.
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