Hon. Honore Dugas, Assumption Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Hon. Honore Dugas.  This worthy gentleman belongs to a prominent old
creole family that has long been known throughout Assumption parish,
the male members of which have been successful planters and honorable
gentlemen for many generations back, many being professional men also.
Mr. Dugas is a member of the mercantile firm of Dugas & Le Blanc, but
the most of his attention is given to his extensive landed interests.
He is the owner of Armelise plantation, comprising 420 arpents, but he
controls 1,300 arpents, a large portion of which is high land.  In
addition to this valuable property he owns Westfield plantation,
comprising 3,500 arpents adjoining the town of Paincourtville, but
this was formerly the old Augustine plantation, owned by Augustine
Pugh, around which clusters many historic memories.  Mr. Dugas has
sugar houses on both his plantations and manufactures a large amount
of sugar yearly.  In 1880 or 1881 he began merchandising in
partnership with Mr. Le Blanc, and in this branch of business has met
with well-deserved success, for he is the soul of honesty in his
business transactions and spares no pains to please his patrons.  He
is a native of the parish, born February 22, 1844, and is a son of
E. F. X. Dugas, who was also born in this parish, the latter's father
being likewise a native Louisianian.  His name was John Baptiste
Dugas, and as a planter was successful as his son, E. F. X. Dugas.
The latter died February 12, 1879, being over fifty years of age at
the time of his death.  After the war he was elected a member of the
state legislature from Assumption parish, in which body he did
distinguished service.  Hon. Honore Dugas spent his schooldays in
Assumption parish and Bardstown, Ky., but left the latter place to
enter the confederate army in. 1861, becoming a member of the
Twenty-eighth Louisiana infantry, Company H, with which he served
until the close of the war, being in the siege of Vicksburg.  He was
in the quartermaster's department of the trans-Mississippi department
and during the service had some very narrow escapes, being at one time
very nearly torn to pieces by a bursting shell.  After the war he
commenced planting with the above mentioned results.  In 1886 he was
married to Miss Alphonsine Jumonville, of this parish, their union
resulting in the birth of one son and six daughters.  The family, are
members of the Catholic church.  Mr.  Dugas was appointed a member of
the police jury in 1888 and has made a very efficient officer.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), pp. 389-390.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.