Judge Alfred Hennen

Alfred Hennen, son of John Hennen, a surgeon in the Continental Army, was born in Maryland in 1786. Alfred graduated from Yale and came to New Orleans in 1808 to practice law. He was a distinguished civil lawyer, a prominent Presbyterian, a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Louisiana (later Tulane), and a director of the old Bank of Louisiana. He purchased a home in St. Tammany Parish in 1817 called The Retreat.

Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court

Alfred Hennen was born on the 17th of October, 1786, in Elkridge, a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. He was the elder son of Dr. James Hennen; who was the son of a doctor in Castlebar, County Mayo, in North- western Ireland, and the brother of Dr. John Hennen, the author of a well-known treatise on the Principles of Military Surgery.

His father settled in 1795 in Nashville, Tennessee, where the son received the rudiments of his classical edu- cation, at the first grammar school ever established in that part of the State. He was then indentured to a merchant in Philadelphia, but showed himself so bent on study that in 1801 his father placed him in the school of Robert Rogers (Brown Univ. 1775), of Newport, Rhode Island, and in 1803 he entered the Sophomore Class at Yale. He was already a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was intending to enter the ministry.

He won the Berkeley Scholarship at graduation, and remained in residence for two years, — at the same time studying law under Judge Charles Chauncey.

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