Henry D. Dardenne, Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Situated in the midst of one of the most fertile portions of Iberville parish, the plantation
which Henry D. Dardenne owns and occupies, Crescent plantation, five miles below Plaquemine,
La., is conceded to be among the beet in this vicinity, and this is saying not a little, for on
every hand may be seen superior places, whose ownership indicate, thrift and prosperity.  This
plantation is the birthplace of Mr. Dardenne, who was born September 18, 1852.  His father,
John A. Dardenne, and his grandfather, John L Dardenne, were also natives of the Creole state.
This family is of French descent.  John L. Dardenne established the Crescent plantation, and
John A. was born there and there passed his entire life, his death occurring October, 1883, at
the age of sixty-three.  He was a graduate of the Baltimore university and was a member of the
police jury for many years, being chairman of that honorable body most of the time.  He had
intended studying law, but the death of his father threw the management of Crescent plantation
on his shoulders and he became a life-long planter.  His wife, the mother of our subject, is
still living and resides on the plantation.  Henry D. Dardenne attended Georgetown college, D.
C., and then returned to the plantation in Iberville parish, at his father's death, and assumed
the management of the same.  He has served four years as a member of the police jury from Ward
8, and takes an active interest in politics, working for success of democracy.  Socially Mr.
Dardenne is a Knight of Pythias.  He stands well with all who know him and is a genial,
pleasant gentleman.  He was married February 23, 1881, to Miss Noema Marix; who died in 1886.
To them was born one daughter.  In 1889 Mr. Dardenne married Miss Harriet Jacobs, who bore him
a son and a daughter.  The Dardenne family is an old and much honored one.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 369.  Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.