MARTIN, James F., ENG., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
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JAMES F. MARTIN, NEW IBERIA --James F. Martin was born in Ramsbottom,
Lancashire, England, April 30, 1823.  He came to the United States in
1836, and to Louisiana in 1854.  For twenty-one years he was engaged in
sugar culture in Cuba and Louisiana.  In 1880 he entered into
partnership with Mr. Henry Childs, and they were the establishers of the
first central sugar factory in Louisiana.  In this they were engaged for
nine years, when Mr. Martin purchased Mr. Childs' interest, and
continued the business on his own account.  The "Vida" refinery is
located at Fausse Point, on the Teche, about one mile south of
Loreauville, on some of the richest sugar lands of Louisiana.  Among the
patrons of the refinery are over thirty small planters.  The "Vida"
receives syrup and raw juice from several neighboring mills.  The
capacity of the refinery is about sixty thousand pounds of sugar per
day.

Mr. Martin was married, in 1872, to Miss Sarah J. White, of New Orleans,
the issue of said marriage being a son and a daughter,  Robert A. and 
Vida O.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 122.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.