MONNOT, A. L., Assumption then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
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A. L. MONNOT, JEANNERETTE.--A. L. Monnot is a native of Assumption parish,
Louisiana, born 1842.  He is the son of Dr. Charles and Josephine Bourgeois
Monnot, natives of France and Assumption parish, Louisiana, respectively.

A. L. Monnot attended college at Bardstown, Kentucky, and from there went to
France to complete his studies in the Lycee, after which he went to Strasburg,
where he studied medicine.  On the breaking out of the civil war he returned
home, and at the age of twenty entered the Confederate army, enlisting in
Company H, Second Louisiana Cavalry.  He participated in all the engagements
in Louisiana.  Shortly after his return home, in 1865, he married Miss
Heloise, daughter of William F. Hudson, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this
work.  In October, 1865, Mr. Monnot engaged in merchandising in Jeannerette,
succeeding his father-in-law in the business.  He began business on a capital
of three thousand dollars, and has steadily increased his business until it
reached its present proportions.  In 1877 he engaged in sugar planting,
continuing, however, to conduct his mercantile business.  In 1883 he erected
the Vaufrey Refinery in Jeannerette.  Meeting with reverses in business he was
compelled, in 1884, to ask for an extension by his creditors of $110,000. 
Three years later he had liquidated the amount, principal and interest.  Mr.
Monnot has steadily improved his place, his expenditure for improvements alone
in 1887  amounting to fifty-five thousand dollars.  Vaufrey Refinery is an
extensive one, with a capacity for manufacturing six hundred tons of cane per
twenty-four hours, or one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of sugar per day.

Mr. Monnot is active in local affairs, and has for seven years been a member
of the police jury, and for four years has been the president.  He has for six
years, been a member of the school board, and was for some time a member of
the town council of Jeannerette.  He is now a member of the board of
commissioners of the Grand Marais levee district, appointed by Governor
Nicholls.  He was for several years post-master of Jeannerette.

Mr. Monnot and wife are the parents of two children, a son, Charles L., and a
daughter, Louise M. 

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
124-125.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.