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"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" (Message 28853): 

>I am properly horrified by the Hurricane Katrina destruction, pray 
>for the people, donated to the Red Cross, etc, but what I want to 
>say here is:

>Why is there a St Tammany Parish? Who is St Tammany?


"K": 

>From the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate:

Q. "Ask the Advocate" had a list of parishes named for church 
parishes, including many with saints' names. But St. Tammany wasn't 
in the list. Who was St. Tammany?
 
A."Saint" Tammany wasn't a Catholic saint at all. "Tammany"
derives 
from the name of a Delaware Indian chief, Tamanend, according to 
research by Claire D'Artois Leeper, who wrote a series of newspaper 
columns on "Louisiana Places." The columns were published in the 
Sunday Advocate in the 1960s and '70s.

In her June 18, 1961, column, Leeper wrote that Tammany's name 
appears as one of the signers of a deed to William Penn in 1683 for 
lands not far north of Philadelphia.

One of Leeper's sources was the Handbook of American Indians
North 
of Mexico, which included an account by a missionary named 
Heckewelder. The missionary said the chief was famous among both the 
Indians and the white settlers. During the American Revolution, 
admirers dubbed him the "Patron Saint of America."

Heckewelder said Tammany means "affable."

The legendary chief is the same fellow for whom Tammany Hall in New 
York is named.

St. Tammany Parish is one of the Florida Parishes. The area was part 
of West Florida and, like Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla., was 
under British rule for a time. The Florida Parishes were settled 
primarily by Anglo-Saxons, who were mainly Protestants. That sets 
these parishes apart from the rest of south Louisiana, which has a 
French and Spanish, and therefore, Roman Catholic, heritage.