COLGIN, George T., AL., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller <mike_m@deq.la.state.us>

Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
Section
Date: 21 Oct 1998

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GEORGE T. COLGIN, BURKE STATION.--George T. Colgin is a native of
Alabama, born in 1852.  He is the son of George J. and Caroline E.
(Taylor) Colgin.  George J. Colgin was a native of Virginia, born 1820,
died 1882.  Caroline Taylor Colgin was a native of Alabama, born 1834. 
She now resides in New Iberia.

The subject of this sketch received a fair education and began farming
in 1872.  He owns four hundred and seventy acres of land in Iberia
parish, which he cultivates chiefly in cotton.  By able management and
industry the plantation yields Mr. Colgin a good in come.  He was
married in 1875 to Miss Celina M. Segura, a native of Iberia parish,
born 1856.  She is the daughter of Raphael and Celina (Bonin) Segura. 
They are the parents of eight children, viz:  Gearge R.,  Edward D., 
Celina V., John R.,  James T.,  Celia Madison,  Dolores.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 101.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.