Ascension County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Blanchard, Pierre Adolph - 1844 - 
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source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana; Chicago;
The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1892


BLANCHARD, Pierre Adolph - Donaldsonville, La., who has long been noted as a 
thrifty and successful planter, was born in Assumption parish, August 1, 1844, 
and is the son of Pierre and Eliza S. (Harbet) Blanchard, both of whom were 
natives of the same parish. The father has also followed planting and now 
resides in this parish. Pierre Adolph Blanchard received an ordinary education, 
and in 1862 he enlisted in the confederate army, Company A, Eighteenth Louisiana 
infantry, and belonged to the brigade commanded by General Morton. He was in the 
battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, and his command was disbanded at 
Natchitoches, La., in May, 1865, after having been in service three years. 
During that time Mr. Blanchard learned the carpenter's trade, but has not 
followed that to any great extent, his principal occupation being planting. He 
was married April 27, 1869, to Miss Olivia Daigle, of Assumption parish, and 
their union has been blessed by the birth of nine children - four sons and five 
daughters. Mr. Blanchard is now manager of H. Daigle plantation, which lies on 
the right bank of La Fourche bayou, and consists of 1,180 acres, 540 acres 
fronting and 640 acres back of the bayou, and six miles from Donaldsonville. Mr. 
Blanchard conducts a large open kettle process of sugar making with evident 
success. For a few years previous to planting he was engaged in merchandising 
but preferred the life of a planter. He has always been deeply interested in 
politics and advocates the cause of the democratic party.


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