DUCLOS, Louis A., FR., then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
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LOUIS ALPHONSE DUCLOS, RAYNE.--Louis Alphonse Duclos, postmaster and druggist,
was born in France, February 16, 1851.  His parents, Michael and Susanne
Duclos, were both natives of France.

After having followed a full course of studies, both in literature and
chemistry, at Bordeaux, and at the " Lycée Imperial Bonaparte,'' Paris,
France, the subject of this sketch came to the United States in 1865, and
opened a drug store in 1866, at Labadieville, Louisiana, where he married Miss
Evelina Gebelin, a member of one of the oldest and most influential families
of that place.  To their marriage two children have been born, Alphonse J.
Duclos, a graduate of Soulés College, of New Orleans, and a registered
pharmacist of Louisiana, and Noemie Duclos, now a pupil of Mt. Carmel Convent,
Lafayette, Louisiana. 

In 1883 Mr. Duclos came to Rayne, as a clerk for M. P. Young & Co., then the
only druggist of this place. The fact that in 1886 he was appointed
postmaster, which office he has kept under different administrations to the
general satisfaction of the public; and also the fact that from a simple
clerk, Mr. Duclos has become the proprietor of one of the finest. and most
prosperous drug stores in Southwest Louisiana, are witnesses to his popularity
and business capacity.  Mr. Duclos and family are members of the Catholic
church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 261. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.

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