TIRAN, Edward, France then Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Edward Tiran, senior member of the firm of Tiran Bros. & Co., is engaged in
general merchandising and planting at Darrow, La., the other members of the
firm being G. Martel and M. Tiran.  They have 400 acres of land under
cultivation three miles above Donaldsonville on the east side of the
Mississippi river.  Edward Tiran was born in France in 1850, and in the
land of his birth was educated at Bosser Alpa college.  At the early age of
sixteen years he came to the United States and located in St. John Baptist
parish, La., where he conducted a mercantile establishment for twenty
years, or until 1887, at which time he came to his present location.  Upon
coming to the United States he knew little of the English language, was
entirely without friends who could use their influence in aiding him
financially, but he fortunately possessed much energy and pluck, and
successfully made his own way in the accumulation of a competency.  He
afterward became associated in business with his uncle, J. B. Tiran, the
member of the present firm, M. Tiran, being his younger brother.  The
latter is now successfully conducting a store at the Convent in St. James
parish, in which business the subject of this sketch is also a partner.  T.
Martel is their brother-in-law.  He was born in France, and is now in his
native land on a visit.  Mr. Tiran has been remarkably successful in his
business enterprises, but owes his prosperity solely to his own exertions.
On their plantation they raise cane and corn, and in their mercantile
establishments keep a large and selected stock of general merchandise,
which is fully adequate to the demand.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 423.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.