GAUTHIER,   A. M. 
                          Jennings, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 152.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

A.M. Gauthier, Jennings. - A.M. Gauthier, planter was born and reared in St.
Martin parish, Louisiana.  He is the son of Charles and Marcelite (Cormier)
Gauthier.  Charles Gauthier is a native of New York, but removed with his
parents to New Orleans when ten years of age.  He became a prosperous planter in
St. Martin parish, where he died, at the age of eighty-four years,
in 1878.  The mother of our subject was a native of Louisiana.  She died in
1844. 

The subject of this sketch, at the age of sixteen years, in 1861, enlisted in
the Confederate States service, New Orleans Defenders, and was in active
service.  He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Baton Rouge, siege of Port
Hudson and Mansfield.  At Port Hudson he was taken prisoner and was confined for
nine months, after which he returned home.  It was not long before
he returned to St. Martin parish, and in December, 1865, he married Miss Mary T.
Andrus, daughter of Hiram and Lazeme (Guisry) Andrus, natives of Louisana.  Mr.
Gauthier removed, in 1869, to Calcasieu parish, where he purchased land , and he
has given his chief attention since to planting.  He has a good farm at this
place of eight hundred acres, one hundred and fifty of which
he culrivates, principally in rice.    He and his wife are the parents of ten
children, seven of whom are now living: Orelien, Aurelia, Angeline, Cornelius,
Valerie, Overton and Edward B.   Mr. and Mrs. Gauthier are members of the
Catholic church.