GIROUARD, J. O., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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J. O. GIROUARD, LAFAYETTE.--J. O. Girouard is a native of Louisiana, born
1839.  He received a common school education in the public schools of his
locality.  Since embarking in business he has chiefly been engaged in
planting.  He was a soldier in the civil war, having enlisted in 1861, and
served as a private in the Seventh Louisiana Cavalry for three years.

Mr. Girouard was married, in 1860, to Miss Cecil Brogue.  They are the parents
of ten children, three sons and seven daughters.  Mrs. Girouard is a native of
Louisiana, but was reared and educated in Galveston, Texas.  Mr. Girouard is
giving his children the best educational advantages the schools of this
section afford.  He owns five hundred acres of land where he resides, which he
cultivates in cotton.  Through his judicious management it yields a good
income.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 231. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.