BUSSEY,J. C., Clark County, IND., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section Date: 21 Oct 1998 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** J. C. BUSSEY, JEANERETTE.--J. C. Bussey is a native of Clark county, Indiana, born in 1858. He is the son of Dr. Harvey and Mary (Rader) Bussey, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Kentucky. Dr. H. Bussey, during his residence in Indiana, was a practising physician and merchant. He removed from Indiana to Iowa and was afterward located in different states, finally settling in Louisiana, about 1868, where he operated the plantation upon which J. C. Bussey now resides. He died December 21, 1880. J. C. Bussey is one of a family of nine children, six of whom are now living, viz.: Florence, wife of Dr. C. A. McGowen; John C., the subject of this sketch; Ellen, wife of H. B. Hughes; Mary, wife of E. R. Jackson; Jesse, Maud. J. C. Bussey received a limited education, and after his father's death took charge of the plantation, having prior to this time been field manager. His plantation consists of one thousand five hundred acres of land, located two miles northwest of Jeannerette. About seven hundred acres are under cultivation, the chief product being cane. Mr. Bussey gives employment to from sixteen to twenty men in the field and from about forty to fifty in the mill during the cane season. He employs about thirty men in making the crop. Mr. Bussey is a judicious manager, and probably to this more than anything else is attributed his success. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 98. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.