Joseph V. LeSage        1890         Grant Parish
Submitted to USGENWEB By: Kay Thompson - Brown

Source: Biographical and historical memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
          Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company 1890



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Joseph V LeSage, druggist, Colfax, La.

Holding the leading place among the druggists of Colfax is the above mentioned
gentleman. The business he now conducts was established by him five years ago
and he has built it up to an enviable position by upright and honorable
dealing also by keeping nothing but the best and most reliable goods.

Mr. LeSage was born in Louisiana on September 22, 1853 and is the son of
Andrie and Marion (Rancebeau) LeSage, natives, respectively of Louisiana and
Kentucky. The father was a printer by trade and followed this for twenty years
of longer. He was a member of the Catholic Church and was noted for his deeds
of charity. During the war he went to Corinth, Miss, after that battle and
there nursed the sick and wounded. He died in Louisiana in 1875 when forty-
five years of age and his wife died in Florida, whither she had gone for her
health. They had two sons in the Confederate Army, Andrie, the eldest being
sergeant-major and serving east of the Mississippi River.

The grandfather, Andrie LeSage was a native of France and came to Louisiana as
a surveyor. He located on a place near New Orleans and died while on a
surveying trip when but fifty years of age.

Joseph V LeSage was the fifth of eight children born to his parents. He
received a good practical education in the schools near home and when fourteen
years of age started out to fight life's battle for himself.

In 1885 he came to Colfax and embarked in the drug business which he has since
carried on. While at home he was deputy sheriff for a number of years.

In 1877 he was married to Miss Olitia Carnahan and to them they have been born
four children: Andrie, Charles A, Louis C, and J.V. Jr.

Mr. LeSage is with the Democratic party. He and wife are members of the
Catholic Church.