Neville Levy

Neville Levy
Born	1892 New Orleans, USA
Died	April 13, 1974(1974-04-13) New Orleans
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Caucasian
Alma mater	Tulane University
Occupation	military
Known for	founding Equitable Equipment Company
Religion	Jewish
Spouse(s)	Helen Adler
Children	David Suzanne Betty Nan

Neville Levy (1892, New Orleans – April 13, 1974) was an American captain of the Navy.

Biography

Levy graduated from Tulane University in 1913 with a degree in mechanical and electrical engineering, He joined the army in 1917, where he served during World War I in the United States Army Air Corps and the Navy. He attended the Naval Submarine School at Annapolis in 1918. In 1921 he founded the Equitable Equipment Company, a shipbuilding firm. He received a commission in the Naval Reserve in 1921, where he served until 1941.

He served as Assistant District Personnel Officer for the Eighth Naval District from 1941 to 1946. He was Chairman of the Mississippi River Bridge Authority from 1950 to 1958. The Greater New Orleans Bridge was built under his oversight.

He served on the Board of Directors of New Orleans Public Library, the Navy League of the United States, International House Hotel, the Salvation Army, the U.S. Public Service Hospital, and Hotel Dieu. He was a member of the Audubon Park Commission.^[1]

Personal life

He was the son of Emmanuel Levy, born in Duppigheim, and Selma Heidenheim, in a French Alsatian Jewish family.^[2] He was the father of David Pokorny Levy,^[3] who was assigned to the USS Miami (CL-89) during World War II. He was the grandfather of Veronica Levy Obermayer, anchor and reporter at KAMR-TV in Amarillo, Texas,^[4] and Adele Obermayer, who married the economist David Malpass.

Awards

1957: Times-Picayune Loving Cup

Articles

Life magazine, Vol. 41, n° 3 , 16 July 1956, P. 37
The Second Battle of New Orleans: A History of the Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway Controversy, by Richard O. Baumbach, Jr., William E. Borah

Bibliography

Address made by Captain Neville Levy to the ladies of Le Petit Salon, by Neville Levy, 1953
Transactions - The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Volume 82, 1975
History of the Southern Yacht Club, by Scheib, Flora K., 1986
The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities and Sights, by Alan M. Tigay, 1994
Frenchmen Desire Good Children And Other Streets Of New Orleans, by John Churchill Chase, 1997
The Jewish Community of New Orleans, by Irwin Lachoff, 2005
Mayor Victor H. Schiro: New Orleans in Transition, 1961–1970, by Edward F. Haas, 2014

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