U. B. Dugas, Assumption Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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The estate which U. B. Dugas is now cultivating and which is called
Sweet Home plantation, embraces 1,100 acre, of fine land situated
eight miles below Donaldsonville on the La Fourche bayou in Assumption
parish.  It is admirably adapted for sugar planting, and in his
sugar-houses he allows not a year to pass without making material
improvements in the way of machinery, etc.  He is fully alive to his
own interests, but to this end does not neglect the interests of his
community, parish or state, and is with good reason considered one of
the useful citizens of this section.  Besides the one half interest he
owns in Sweet Home plantation he is the owner of Amelise and Nottoway
plantations in Iberville parish, D. P.  Landry being a joint owner of
the latter as well as of Sweet Home plantation.  Mr. Dugas was born in
this parish August 20, 1850, to Eloi F. Dugas, who was also born in
this parish and here died in 1879 over fifty years of age, having been
the owner of Amelise plantation.  He was remarkably successful in his
planting operations and always displayed those sterling principles
characteristic of those of Louisiana birth, of which industry and wise
and judicious management were among the chief.  He represented this
parish in. the state legislature in. 1874-75 and was re-elected in
1886, serving in all four years, during which time his record as an
able and intelligent legislator was well known.  His father was also
born in this parish, from which it may be inferred that the family was
among the pioneers of this section. He was of French descent, but his
immediate ancestors were Acadians.  U. B. Dugas is the fifth of nine
children and in his youth received his education in Spring Hill, Ala.,
and Grand Coteau, La., taking a thorough commercial course.  In 1870
he and Joseph E. La Blanc became associated in. the management of
Amelise plantation, continuing until 1873, when Mr. Dugas opened a
general mercantile store at Assumption which he conducted with success
until 1878, when he purchased Sweet Home plantation, where he is now
living.  Miss Dilia Vives, daughter of Numa Vives of this parish,
became his wife October 9, 1872, and to their marriage one son and two
daughters have been given.  Their home is noted for the atmosphere of
culture and refinement which surrounds it and esteem and respect is
accorded them by the citizens of the section in which they live, in no
small measure.  Mr. Dugas is a democrat politically.

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