CARVER, H. W., Assumption Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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H. W. CARVER, CROWLEY.--Hiram W. Carver, clerk of the police jury,
Acadia parish, was born in Assumption parish, May, 4, 1862.  He is the
oldest of a family of ten children born to Hiram H. and Emma (Bourg)
Carver, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of Assumption
parish, Louisiana.  Hiram H.  Carver removed to Louisiana when
twenty-one years of age.  He was a graduate of a Virginia college.  He
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in that State.  After
removing to Louisiana he located in Assumption parish, where he served
as district attorney for a time.  Later he was made parish judge,
which office he held for several years.  Mr. Carver served during the
whole of the war in a Louisiana regiment of cavalry.  He was a
commissioned officer.  He is now a resident of Lafourche parish,
Louisiana.  The mother of our subject is deceased.

The subject of this sketch attended school at Napoleonville,
Louisiana.  At the age of sixteen years he left school and began
active life for himself.  He first engaged in the mercantile business
in Iberville parish.  In 1886 Mr.  Carver came to this place and
opened a general store, and in 1887 formed a partnership with
J. Frankel, with whom he is at present associated.  His business is
flourishing, and this year (1890) will amount to fifty thousand
dollars.  Both are active business men, and have great. hopes for the
future prospects of this country.  They deal extensively in rice, and
do the largest business in that line in this place.  Mr. Carver was
one of the first councilmen 0£ the town of Crowley, and was
afterward elected mayor.  In 1887 he was elected clerk of the police
jury, of which position he is the present incumbent.  He married, in
1885, Miss Josephine Sigur, of Iberville parish. To them three
children have been born : James A., Emma A. and Leon E.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p.  260.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.