SATTERFIELD, W. E., N. C., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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W. E. SATTERFIELD, NEW IBERIA.--W. E. Satterfield, an extensive planter and
merchant of New Iberia, is a native of North Carolina, born in Edenton, 1851. 
He is the son of G. B. and Mary A. (Reddick) Satterfield, both of whom are
natives of the "Old North State."  G. B. Satterfield was a lawyer and
merchant.  He removed to Louisiana in 1854, where he engaged in agriculture. 
He had accumulated quite a fortune before the war, but like many other
Southern planters lost nearly the whole of it.  He died in 1878.  Mrs.
Satterfield died in 1858.

The subject of this sketch began life as chief clerk in a large country store
in Pointe Coupée parish. In this he was engaged from 1867 to 1871; after which
he took a commercial course in Jefferson College, on the completion of which
he resumed his duties in the same establishment.  In 1874 he was made junior
member of the firm with which he was engaged, and assumed the active control
of the business.  In 1881 he removed to New Iberia and purchased a plantation
about one mile from the city.  His plantation is one of the finest in Iberia
parish.  There are few more practical, successful planters than Mr.
Satterfield.  He also conducts a large mercantile business in New Iberia, and
is largely interested in town property.  He is a stock holder in the New
Iberia National Bank, and the cashier and a large stock holder in the People's
National Bank at New Iberia.

Mr. Satterfield is a self-made man Whatever he has accomplished has been
entirely through his own efforts.  The first position he held, in compliance
with his own request, he was on trial, with the understanding that if his
services were not perfectly satisfactory he was to receive no remuneration for
them.

He is united in marriage with Miss Eloise Francisa de Generes, of Avoyelles
parish.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
130-131.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.