Joseph Holliday DuPuy, Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Joseph Holliday DuPuy was born on July 31, 1889, at Plaquemine, the
judicial center of Iberville Parish, Louisiana, where within a radius of
twenty miles his family has lived for more than two hundred years.  He is a
son of Joseph Adolphe and Henrietta (Holliday) DuPuy, both likewise natives
of that parish, where the former was born July 27, 1854, and where the
latter was born in the year 1833.  Joseph A. DuPuy passed his entire life
in Iberville Parish, where he was reared on the home plantation of his
parents, and he was a young man when he established his residence at
Plaquemine, where he was a leading merchant for the long period of forty
years and where his death occurred July 19, 1921, his widow still
maintaining her home in that attractive little city.  Mr. DuPuy was a
staunch democrat and was a communicant of the Catholic Church.

After attending St. John's parochial school at Plaquemine, Joseph Holliday
DuPuy entered Jefferson College, at Convent, Louisiana, and in this
institution he was graduated in 1907, with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts.  Thereafter he took postgraduate work in Tulane University, the
University of Virginia and the University of Louisiana, in each of which he
specialized in education, economics and sociology.  At the University of
Louisiana he became affiliated with the Gamma Chapter of the Kappa Sigma
fraternity.  After leaving college Mr. DuPuy engaged in educational work,
and he served for five years as high school principal prior to his election
to the office of superintendent of the public schools of the Parish of St.
John the Baptist, where he thus served in the period of 1911-14.  In the
latter year he became professor of education and economics at the Louisiana
Polytechnic Institute at Ruston.  Less than a month after the nation
entered the World war he volunteered for service, in May, 1917, he was sent
to the Officers' Training Camp at Le~ Springs, Texas, where he won his
commission as first lieutenant of infantry, and was assigned to Company A,
Three Hundred and Forty-sixth Infantry Regiment, Eighty-seventh Division,
then stationed at Camp Pike, Arkansas.  With this organization he sailed
for overseas service August 23, 1918, and after arriving in France was with
his regiment in the training area on the Loire River until after the
armistice, when he was assigned to duty as divisional school officer, Base
Section No. 1, with headquarters at St. Nazaire, on the 24th of February,
1919.  In this connection he organized post and technical schools for the
American soldiers, and he continued his service under this assignment until
he sailed for his native land.  He landed in the port of New York City July
1, 1919, and at Camp Pike, Arkansas, he received his honorable discharge on
the 24th of that month.  Within a short time thereafter Mr. DuPuy
established his present real estate, mortgage and insurance business in
Baton Rouge, where his office is now located.

In May, 1922, was organized the first National Guard unit to be established
at Baton Rouge after the close of the World war, and in effecting its
organization Mr. DuPuy was the leader.  He was chosen the commanding
officer of the new organization, and continued the incumbent of this
position for eighteen months, when at his own request he was transferred to
the Officers' Reserve Corps, in which he holds a commission as captain of
Infantry.  In his home city Mr. DuPuy is an active member of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the American Legion, Nicholson Post No. 38, and
the Baton Rouge Golf and Country Club.

On the 12th of June, 1918, about two months prior to his embarking for
overseas service in the World war, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. DuPuy
and Miss Ruby Jarrell, at Little Rock, Arkansas, where her parents still
reside, the father, John T. Jarrell, being there engaged in the wholesale
grocery business.  Mrs. DuPuy was graduated from a college in the State of
Missouri.  Mr. and Mrs. DuPuy have two daughters,  Mary Lorraine and  Jeanne.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 106-107, by Henry E.
Chambers.  Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and
New York, 1925.