ST. MARTIN, J. E., Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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J. E. St. Martin, of Ascension parish, La., was born in Donaldsonville, of
that parish, in 1839, and there received an ordinary education.  He began
for himself as an assistant to his brother in the mercantile business, but
in May, 1861, he enlisted in the confederate army under Capt. Francis T.
Nicholls (now governor), and served four years in Virginia, first as
orderly sergeant, until 1863, and then as first lieutenant.  He was in all
the engagements from Manassas to Appomattox, fifty-two in all, and never
received a wound.  His company, K, of the Eighth Louisiana volunteers, was
composed of 114 men and of these only twelve returned home, very few of the
survivors escaping without wounds.  Mr. St. Martin's brother, Capt. Victor
St. Martin, of the same company and regiment, was killed at Gettysburg.
After returning home our subject began merchandising in Donaldsonville,
continued this for three years and then for fifteen years was engaged as
paymaster and manager of a plantation store owned by McCall, Bros.  He
subsequently purchased the Arlington plantation, consisting of 300 acres,
and now owns the adjoining Pelico plantation, of 600 acres.  He has a sugar
house on the latter plantation and made 800,000 pounds of sugar in 1891.
In 1889 Mr. St. Martin was appointed on Governor Nicholls' staff and still
holds that position with the rank of colonel.  He was married in 1876 to
Miss Bugol, of Ascension parish, daughter of E. Bugol, who was a large
sugar planter all his life.  His daughter still owns the old homestead.
Colonel St. Martin's father.  Dr. Joseph St. Martin, was born in France in
1792, and at the age of twenty he was assistant surgeon in the French army,
serving under Napoleon I. throughout his career.  He was appointed surgeon
of the Sixth Louisiana regiment in November, 1826.  Having come to
Louisiana in 1816, his death occurred in 1859, at the town of
Donaldsonville, where he first located and practiced medicine.  He married
here and reared three sons, J. E. (our subject) being the youngest and the
only one now living.  The latter is director of the public schools, and,
like his ancestors, is a member of the Catholic church.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 408-409.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.

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