Jung, J. Charles

Submitted by Mike Miller

Jung, J. Charles.--In the coal business in the city of New Orleans since the year 1895. Is a son of L. A. and Azelie (d'Hébécourt) Jung, and was born in the year 1869 at New Orleans, La., where he lived from infancy to the present. His earlier education was obtained at a private school, conducted by Mrs. Vatinel afterward entering the public schools. When the course of instruction had been completed at the latter, in 1883, he matriculated at Louisiana state university, in which institution he remained a student during 3 years. Following the completion of his studies, he entered business in the service of his uncle, L. E. Jung, continuing in this connection until the year 1895, when he became associated with his father in the coal business, their enterprise prospering and continually growing unto the present time under the same management. Mr. Jung is a member, respectively of the Chess, Checkers & Whist club, and the Stratford club.

In 1893, Mr. Jung was married at New Orleans to Miss Rita Buisson, a daughter of A. Buisson and niece of Judge Th. Buisson. To Mr. and Mrs. Jung 8 children, as follows, have been born: Inez, Emily, Rita, Lydia, Mildred, Odette, J. Charles, Jr:, and Solange. Rita and Lydia are deceased. The other children reside at the parental home. It cannot be doubted that Mr. Jung's years of experience as a coal merchant in the same locality, the city of New Orleans, this experience now embracing a period near 20 years, has placed him in a position of preëminence in that line of trade and enables him to afford his patrons advantages well-nigh impossible to one less experienced. He has witnessed many and varied changes affecting the coal supply and facilities for handling the great needs of the city in his field of activity, and naturally has become a leading authority on all matters affecting the supply, the methods of handling and distribution, and the fluctuating prices of coal of various grades. Mr. Jung has long been intimately associated with the commercial and industrial life of the city, and is widely and generally known through-out its varied circles, taking an active interest in all things that vitally concern the welfare of the people among whom he lives and conducts a firmly-established commercial enterprise.

Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 226-227. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.