SMITH, Millard F., Louisville, KY., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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MILLARD F. SMITH, NEW IBERIA.--Millard F. Smith was born in Louisville,
Kentucky, July 27, 1856.  He is the son of T. B. and Mary A. Smith; the former
a native of North Carolina, born in 1812; the latter of Louisville, Kentucky,
born in 1821.  His father located in New Orleans, and there became a large
commission merchant.

Our subject received his schooling at Jefferson College, Jefferson county,
Kentucky, where he received a classic education.  He began business life for
himself at the age of sixteen as a clerk on the steamboat J. T. Moore, which
plied between New Orleans and Shreveport. He then accepted a position in the
clothing store of Sprowl & McCown, New Orleans.  Next he became a clerk and
collector for the cotton house of Foster & Gwyn, of the same city, and
subsequently removed to Houma, Louisiana, where he was engaged as book-keeper,
paymaster and storekeeper for H. C. Minor.  After this he turned his attention
to sugar planting, in which he continued for three years, when he opened a
first-class livery stable and saloon at Houma, Louisiana.  Locating at New
Iberia in 1888, he established a large hotel--the finest in the city.  He also
conducts the "bon-ton" drinking saloon of New Iberia.  Mr. Smith was married,
November, 1878, to Miss Emma I. Westphal.  To them have been born three
children:  Alma,  Dot and  Birdie, all living.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
129-130.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.