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PIERRE LEBRON, NEW IBERIA.--Mr. LeBron is a native of France, born 1835. 
He came to Louisiana in 1857.  He is the son of J. P. LeBron and Marie
Fages, both natives and lifetime residents of France.  They became the
parents of four children, two sons and two daughters, of whom our
subject was eldest.

Mr. LeBrun spent his school days in his native country, and began his
first active business life in Houma, Terrebonne parish, Louisiana, as a
merchant.  In 1870 he removed to New Iberia, and for two years traveled
and sold goods.  In 1872 he began a mercantile business at this place. 
He has prospered, and is doing a flourishing business.  He owns about
four hundred acres of land, all under cultivation, upon which he raises
cotton.  Mr. LeBron has never married.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 116.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.