Ascension County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Duffel, Henry L. - 1821 - 1906
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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana; Chicago;
The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1892


DUFFEL , Henry L. - 

A plain, untarnished statement of the facts embraced in the life of JUDGE HENRY 
L. DUFFEL, a man well known to the people of Ascension parish, is all that we 
profess to be able to give in this history, and yet, upon examination of those 
facts, there will be found the career of one whose entire course through the 
world has been marked with great honesty and fidelity of purpose, as well as 
sincere and effective service to those whom he has been called upon to represent 
in different capacities. His birth occurred in Ascension parish July 27, 1821, 
and his schooldays were spent at St. Mary's college, in Perry county, Mo., 
Johnson college, D.C., and Lynchburg, Va., where he attended a private school 
under William Reed, who was a graduate of Princeton. Judge Duffel was married in 
the Old Dominion to Miss Dunnington in 1842. He was admitted to the bar three 
years later at New Orleans, passing his examination before the judges of the 
supreme court, and afterward practiced law in Ascension, St. James and 
Assumption parishes. He was first appointed judge of the Fourth Judicial 
district by Governor Nichols in 1878, and in 1884 he was elected to the Second 
Judicial district. That district was divided, and in 1888, he was re-elected 
judge, which position he holds at the present time. Of the six children born to 
Judge Duffel's marriage, two died in infancy, one, Alfred, died in the 
confederate army, Henry also served in the army, and is now living on the home 
plantation, "Woodstock," which consists of 500 acres. This was a sugar 
plantation until 1880, when Judge Duffel began to cultivate rice. His eldest 
daughter is a sister of charity at Los Angeles, Cal., and the youngest daughter 
is the wife of Dr. L.E. Duffel. Our subject was a member of the legislature in 
1866, served one term and then resigned. He has also held the position of parish 
recorder, justice of the peace and notary public. He is a member of the Catholic 
church. His father, Edward Duffel, was born in Philadelphia in 1786, and went 
with his parents to Virginia when young. He came to Louisiana, in 1816, and was 
holding the position at that time of surgeon in the United States navy, being 
stationed at the forts below New Orleans. He was judge of Ascension parish for 
eighteen years, or until 1845, when the constitution abolished that office. He 
died on his plantation in this parish in 1859. In 1810 he married Miss Celeste 
Landry, daughter of Joseph Landry, commander of the county of Acadia under the 
Spanish and French government. Our subject's grandfather, Edward Duffel, Sr., 
was in the Revolutionary war under General Washington, and died in Virginia. His 
father was a native of Londonderry, Ireland, and married a daughter of Richard 
Steel, who was private secretary for the two sons of William Penn.


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