CASTEX, Jean, FR., then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
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JEAN CASTEX, MERMENTEAU.--Jean Castex, a prosperous merchant, was born in
France, March 18, 1836.  He is the son of Andres Castex and Sturline de
Captdeville, both natives of France.  Andres Castex was a tanner by
occupation.  He married in France, and to their union were born four children,
the subject of this sketch being the oldest of the three now living.  Andres
Castex died in France in 1843.  His wife died December 26, 1890.  Jean Castex,
the subject of this sketch, emigrated from France to Louisiana in 1854.  He
landed in New Orleans June 3 of that year, and from there he went to
Lafayette, where he engaged in carpentering, and afterward conducted a bakery. 
After about two years he moved to Acadia parish, where he now resides.  In
1859 he opened a mercantile business where he now resides, and his business
has grown until he now carries a stock of about four thousand dollars' worth
of goods.  He also owns twenty-five hundred acres of land, a portion of which
he cultivates in cotton and rice.  The place is well improved, and has on it a
steam cotton gin, which was erected in 1860.  Mr. Castex was appointed
post-master at Mermenteau in 1867, and was reappointed in 1890, and is the
present efficient post-master of the place.  He is united in marriage with
Miss Alice Landry, a native of Louisiana.  They are the parents of four
children, viz.:  Jean, Jr.,  Alice,  Rosedale and  Rose.  The subject is a
member of the school board, and is active in his efforts to improve the public
school system of this parish.  As a business man he is abundantly successful.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
259-260.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.

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