PATOUT, H., Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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H. PATOUT, PATOUTVILLE.--Mr. Patout was born in Iberia parish, September 4,
1855.  He is the son of Hippolyte and Mary A. (Schwing) Patout, both of whom
are natives of Louisiana.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a plantation in Iberia parish, and
received his primary education in the neighboring schools.  He afterward
pursued a three years' course of study in Holy Cross College, at New Iberia. 
After leaving school he assisted his father in managing his plantation in this
parish until his father's death in 1884, when he assumed control of the
plantation, to the operation of which he has since given his attention.  The
place is a valuable one, containing seventeen hundred and fifty acres, one
thousand of which are under cultivation.  Mr. Patout has given his chief
attention to sugar culture.  His sugar mill is an extensive one, and was
erected at a cost of not less than thirty thousand dollars.  Mr. Patout is one
of the wide-awake business men of this section.  He married, in 1877, Miss
Clelie Romero, daughter of Devesin Romero, of Iberia parish.  Seven children
have been born to them, four sons and three daughters,  Lydia,  Ory,  Annie, 
Bessie,  Eunice,  Sebastian and  Oswell.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 126. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.