DARBY, E. H., Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
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E. H. DARBY, PATOUTVILLE.--Ernest H. Darby was born May 15, 1858, in
Iberia parish.  He is the son of Viel and Elodie (De Blanc) Darby, both
of whom are natives of Iberia parish.

Mr. Darby was reared in Iberia parish, and received a primary education
in its schools.  He was subsequently in Jefferson College, St. James
parish for a period of five years.  Upon leaving college, he engaged as
clerk in a general mercantile store, where he remained for one year.  By
an accident in a saw-mill, he was deprived of the use of his left hand,
and he resumed teaching in which he was engaged for four years at
different places in Iberia parish.  He subsequently formed a partnership
with H. Patout, and they conducted a large mercantile business at
Patoutville for about thirty years at which time our subject bought the
interest of his partner, and has since been sole proprietor of the
business, in which he has been eminently successful.  Mr. Darby married,
in 1888, Miss Blanche Delahoussaye, daughter of Pelitier Delahoussaye
and Emma Mestayer.  Mr. Darby has served as member of the parish school
board, and is now post-master at Patoutville, which position he has held
for eight years.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 105.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.