BROUSSARD, N., Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
Section
Date: 21 Oct 1998



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N. BROUSSARD, LOREAUVILLE.--N. Broussard was born in Iberia parish,
1840.  His father, Lucine Broussard, was engaged in " swamping."  He
owned large tracts of timber land in this section.  He died in 1888. 
His widow, Elise DeBlanc, still survives him and now resides with her
son, our subject.

N. Broussard received a public school education in the French language. 
At the age of twenty he took charge of his father's sugar plantation,
which he continued to operate until 1882, since which time he has given
his chief attention to cotton raising.  He has a good plantation,
consisting of four hundred and eighty acres.  He also operates a large
gin house on his plantation.  Mr. Broussard has never married.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 94-95.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.