CHEVIS, William C., Vermilion then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
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WILLIAM C. CHEVIS, RAYNE.--William C. Chevis was born in Vermilion parish,
Louisiana, February 8, 1862.  Dr. John W. Chevis, the father of William C.,
was a native of Virginia, born 1822.  He removed to Louisiana in 1850, where
he became a successful sugar planter before the war.  The mother of our
subject, Martha Hayes, was born in what is now Acadia parish, Louisiana, in
1832.

The subject is the third of a family of seven children, three brothers and
four sisters.  He received his preparatory education in the public schools of
Acadia parish, and later pursued a course of study at the University of
Kentucky, at Lexington, from which institution he graduated in 1884.  After
leaving school he was for some time engaged as book-keeper, and later as a
school teacher.  Subsequently he became editor of the Acadia Sentinel, one of
the first papers published in Acadia parish.  In 1889, he was appointed by
Gov. Nicholls assessor of Acadia parish, which position he still holds.  He
was the special correspondent of the "New Delta," at Baton Rouge, during the
legislative session of 1890, in which capacity he enjoyed the distinction of
representing at the State capitol the only anti-lottery daily published in New
Orleans.  Mr. Chevis is a gentleman of more than ordinary ability, and the
future holds much in store for him.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 257. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.

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