DUPUIS, Victor E., FR., then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** VICTOR E. DUPUIS, CARENCRO.--Victor E. Dupuis, a successful sugar planter and manufacturer, lives a mile north of Carencro. He removed to the place of his present residence twenty-two years ago, from New Orleans. In 1882 he erected a sugar house, and since that time has given his chief attention to the manufacture and cultivation of sugar. Mr. Dupuis was born in Havre, France, June 13, 1831. He is the son of Francois and Arthemise (Armant) Dupuis. Francois Dupuis was born in Havre, France, February 28, 1796, and removed to Natchitoches, Louisiana, in 1822. There he married the mother of our subject, and returned with his wife to France, in 1829. In 1840 he returned to Louisiana, and this time located in New Orleans, where he died in 1863, at the age of sixty-seven years. While in New Orleans he conducted a vermicelli and macaroni factory. The mother of our subject died in 1866, at the age of fifty-two years. Both were members of the Catholic church. They became the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the second child. Victor E. Dupuis received his education in New Orleans, and was engaged with his father in business until 1864, when he became engaged in engineering in New Orleans. After removing to Carencro, until 1882 he was engaged in farming. Mr. Dupuis was married, in 1858, to Miss Celeste Magnon, of New Orleans. They are the parents of seven living children, five sons and two daughters, viz.: Victoria, widow of E. V. Guidray; Edmond, Charles, Mathilde, wife of Harry Barrenger, a painter in Houma, La; George, Leonie and Sidney. Mr. Dupuis is president of the Farmers' Union at Carencro. He and family are members of the Catholic church. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp. 218-219. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.