Ed Leloup was the secretary of The American Union and Telegraph Company of Louisiana, secretary in 1883.
Telegraph Commission, House of Representatives, Report No. 2004 47th Congress, 2d Session, 1880, published in University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons: American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899 https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4508&context=indianserialset
This dataset discusses the progress of telegraph lines, poles and other infrastructure ca, 1883. within its broader report on American Indians and Alaskan Natives.