ALPHA, Oscar L., St. Mary then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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OSCAR L. ALPHA, LAFAYETTE.--Oscar L. Alpha, editor and publisher of the Attakapas
Vindicator, Lafayette, and of the Arcadia Sentinel, of Rayne, Louisiana, was born in St. Mary
parish, October, 1857. He learned the trade of typographical artist in Franklin, where for three
years he edited and published the St. Mary Herald.  Disposing of his interest at that place he
established the Attakapas Vindicator, the first copy of which appeared on March 27, 1890.  The
Vindicator is a weekly newspaper, democratic in politics and progressive in its views.  February
16, 1890, Mr. Alpha purchased the Acadia Sentinel, which he edits and publishes at Rayne.  Mr.
Alpha has an excellently equipped office at Lafayette, which is well patronized.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 201.  Edited by
William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.