Claiborne Dugas, Assumption Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Claiborne Dugas, Napoleonville, La., clerk of the district court of
Assumption parish, was born in the state of Louisiana, October 9,
1848, and is the son of E. F. and Armelise (Landry) Dugas.  He was
reared on a plantation and received excellent training in the manner
of conducting a large agricultural business.  His tastes were not,
however, suited to this form of employment, and he engaged in
mercantile trade.  In 1886 he was appointed clerk of the district
court, and in the following year he was elected to the office, having
held it continuously since that time.  He is well fitted to conduct
the business arising in this connection, is courteous and obliging,
and an official who is a credit to the parish and the large and
enthusiastic constituency which supports him.  Mr. Dugas was married
in 1867 to Miss Lea Landry, and there were born to them six
children--three sons and three daughters; the eldest daughter is now
married.  The mother died in 1882, and two years later Mr.  Dugas
married Miss Lea Triche; they are the parents of four children-one son
and three daughters; two of the daughters are deceased.  The family
are members of the Roman Catholic church.  Mrs. Dupe, the mother of
the subject of this notice, is very extensively engaged in the raising
and manufacture of sugar.  Last season her plantation produced 1,100
hogsheads.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 390.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.