J. V. RICHARD 
               LAKE CHARLES, CALCASIEU PAR., LA.


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 184.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


J. V. RICHARD, LAKE CHARLES.-Joseph V. Richard was born in St. Landry parish,
March 13, 1845.  He is the son of J. B. V. and Genevieve (Zerinque) Richard,
natives of St. Landry parish.  J. B. V. Richard was a large planter of
St. Landry parish. He died in 1871, at the age of sixty-four years; his widow
still survives him and is a resident of Opelousas. The Richard family have
resided in St. Landry parish for generations.
The subject of this sketch is one of a family of six children. He received
attending school at that place at the break  his education in Opelousas and was
ing out of the war. In the first of the struggle he enlisted in Company K,
Twenty-eighth Louisiana Infantry, and served until the war closed. Enlisting as
a private he was promoted, and at the close of the war he was second lieutenant.
After the war he engaged as a salesman in a mercantile establishment at  
Opelousas, where he remained until 1883, when he came to Lake Charles and was
for a short while engaged as a salesman in a mercantile house in this place,
when he opened a business of his own and has conducted it with success since
that time.
He was married in 1866 to Miss Alice Hollier, of St. Landry parish. She died in
1879, having become the mother of six children, three sons and three daughters.
In 1881 Mr. Richard married again, Miss Aurelia Hollier, a sister of his
former wife. Mr. Richard is a member of the K. of H., and is one of the trustees
of the lodge.