| Summary: | This collection consists primarily of papers related to the business operations of the plantations belonging to Andrew McCollam and his sons, Edmund and Alexander. Andrew McCollam, fl. 1836-1872, was a deputy surveyor, sugar planter and member of the Louisiana Secession Convention of 1861. He was based primarily in Terrebonne Parish, La. McCollam married Ellen Elleonori and lived first in Donaldsonville, and later on the family plantation, Ellendale, named after his wife, and located outside Houma in Terrebonne Parish. The McCollams also operated other plantations. The McCollams had six sons and one daughter. Sons Edmund and Alexander became prosperous Terrebonne Parish sugar growers, running the Ellendale and Argyle plantations respectively.
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