Dymond, John, Jr.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Dymond, John Jr., attorney-at-law, New Orleans, was born in the city of New York, July 24, 1867; the child of Sen. John and Nancy Elizabeth (Cassidy) Dymond. His early life was spent in the city of his birth, but he has resided permanently in the South, since 1878. He attained the degree of bachelor of arts from Tulane university of Louisiana in 1888 and the degree of bachelor of laws from the same university in 1890, and has since been following his profession of law. Nov. 16, 1893, he was married to Nita A. Shakespeare, daughter of the late Joseph A. Shakespeare, ex-mayor of New Orleans. Mr. Dymond has never held any political position. He was, however, the attorney of the oyster commission of Louisiana, a department of the state government, for 2 years. Owing to his previous connection with the oyster industry and his studies of it while attorney of the state commission, he became a recognized authority on the subject and wrote a treatise entitled, ''The Oyster in Louisiana," which was published some years ago. In 1898 Mr. Dymond organized the alumni association of Tulane university of Louisiana, in which the alumni of the various colleges of the university were for the first time coordinated into one solid working body, and he served as president of that organization for several years. He was the organizer of a feature called ''Tulane Night," a number of years ago, which function has been repeated each year, thus bringing together at the Tulane theatre in New Orleans, the alumni, faculty and students of Louisiana's great university. Mr. Dymond, for a number of years, has been one of the administrators of the Tulane educational fund, which controls the various colleges making up the Tulane university of Louisiana.

Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 720-721. Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit. D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.