HEWETT,  A.  P.
                           Welsh, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 161.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

A.P. Hewett, Welsh - A.P. Hewett, planter, was born in Ohio, November, 1839.  He
is the son of Charles and Philoxana (Parker) Hewett, natives of New York.. They
reared a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters: Ira C.,
deceased: Charles C., Coryden, A.P. , subject   of this sketch; William H. H.,
deceased; Sally J., deceased, and Clarissa, deceased, Charles Hewett,
with his familym removed from NewYork to Ohio at an early day, where he engaged
in farming. 
Thence he removed to Wisconsin, in 1843, where he died in 1860.  The mother of
our subject died in 1862.

The subject of this sketch received his schooling in Ohio and Wisconsin.  He
enlisted in the United  States army in 1861, Third Wisconsin Infantry, under
Col. Hamilton, and was assigned to service in Virginia and Maryland.  He only
served for one year, being discharged owin to disability.  Mr.
Hewett, when young, learned the trade of carpenter and wheelwright , which
occupation he followed in Minnesota nad Wisconsin.  After the war he located in
Howard county, Ohio, where he continued to work at his trade for a number of
years.  He came to Calcasieu parish, Louisiana, in 1887, and engaged in farming. 
His farm consists of four hundred acres of land, seventy-five of
which are under cultication and well improved.  He raises a variety of products,
principally rice and corn.  Mr. Hewett is a member both of the Masonic and Odd
Fellows fraternities.  He was married in Madison, Wisconsin, to Miss Kate
Knowlton, of New York.  To them have been born seven children, three sons and
four daughters: Frank, Ada (deceased), Edith, wife of John White,
of Minnesota: Nettie A., Charles, Lulu(deceased) and Harry (deceased).