LANDRY, J.A.
                     West Lake Charles. LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 166.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

J.A. Landry, West Lake Charles - J. A. Landry, of the firm of J.A. Landry & Co.,
was born in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jul 17,1859.  He is the son of J.A.
Landry and Alousia (Leveque) Landry, both natives of West Baton Rouge.  J.A.
Landry, Sr., was a practising physician.  He received his education at
Bardstown, Kentucky, and pursued a medical course a Tulane University.  Upon the
completion of his course he began the practice of his profession in West
Baton Rouge parish, in which he continued until the time of his death in 1870. 
Our subject's mother now resides in West Lake Charles.

J.A. Landry was the second of a family of six children.  He received his
education in West Baton Rouge and began life as a planter.  I 1877-78 he
conducted a drug business in partnership with Dr. J.C. Munday, and from this
time until 1880 he was employed in a general mercantile business. 
In 1881 he became business manager for the firm of Perkins & Miller, and has
since occupied this position.  In February 1890, in conjunction with others, of
whom mention has been made in another part of this work, he began the erection
of an ice factory in Lake Charles.  Mr. Landry is a progressive business man,
and under his management the business in which he has embarked will
no doubt flourish.  In 1885 Mr. Landry was united in marriage with Miss W.E.
Stanton, of Lake Charles.  Both he and wife are members of the Catholic church.