PAINCHAUD, Edward F., Montreal, CAN., then Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Half way between Donaldsonville and Napoleonville is Etienza plantation,
which comprises 400 acres of fine land fronting on Bayou Lafourche, and on
this plantation Dr. Edward F. Painchaud has been engaged in planting for
many years.  He is a descendant from the family that has been prominent in
the medical and clerical profession for the past seventy-five years.  He
was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1823, and in the land of his nativity he
received his education.  When quite young he entered the St. Ann college,
founded by his uncle, L'abbe Painchaud, and finished his classical course
at the seminary of Montreal.  Later he studied medicine with his cousin Dr.
Jean Landry, who was then house-surgeon of Quebec Marine hospital, his
uncle, Dr. Joseph Painchaud, being one of the visiting physicians.  The
same Dr. Landry was afterward professor of anatomy and lately professor of
surgery at the Laval university, Quebec.  Dr. Painchaud also attended the
Montreal General hospital and the University McGill college, from which he
graduated in medicine on the 5th of May, 1848.   He came from Canada in
1850 and located in Assumption parish, La., where he has since, in addition
to following the calling of a planter, practiced his profession, at which
he has been remarkable successful.  He has entered many homes in his
professional capacity and has done much to alleviate the pains and ailments
to which the human body is heir.  On his plantation he makes a specialty of
sugar planting and has been quite an extensive manufacturer of that
article.  He has always been noted for his honesty, generosity and public
spirit, and his career has been such as to win the respect and admiration
of all who know him.  He has always been a democrat in his political views,
and during the Civil war he was a strong Southern sympathizer, was
commissioned surgeon-major and was in service on the Bayou Lafourche.  His
father, Capt. Alexis Painchaud, was a native of Canada, a seaman for many
years, and a ship owner.  He made many voyages from Montreal to Liverpool,
but finally passed from life in the land of his birth.  The family of Dr.
Edward F. Painchaud were originally from France.  His great-grandfather,
Francis Painchaud, immigrated to the Province of Quebec in 1754.  He was
from Vains Department of Manche, where he was born in 1721, and a
certificate which he brought from his country is still in the hands of a
grandson, Dr. Charles F. Painchaud, of Varennes, Province of Quebec.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 296-297.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.