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| LOTTIE MCDONALD
Lottie McDonald ran a catering business in New Orleans. She was born Lottie Andrews in New Orleans in 1873 and, in 1898 married John William Alden McDonald, a music teacher who had arrived in the United States two years earlier from Belize, British Honduras. The 1910 federal census shows the McDonalds living in a house they owned at 2107 Delachaise Street with four young children. John’s occupation is given as “music teacher” and Lottie’s as “cook.” In later years, John worked for New Orleans Gas Light Company at Union Station. He died in 1918. |
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By 1914, Mrs. McDonald had opened a catering business out of her home on Delachaise Street. She continued to operate the business at least through the 1930s. The 1920, 1930 and 1940 censuses show her living at 4800 Chestnut Street, where she died on November 3, 1943.
(Woods Directory: Being a Colored Cusiness, Professional and Trades Directory, 1914) |