GUIDRY, H. D., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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H. D. GUIDRY, M. D., LAFAYETTE.--Dr. H. D. Guidry.  Practising [sic] physician
and planter, is a native of Lafayette parish, born 1846.  He is the son of
Alexander and Carmelite (Broussard) Guidry.  Both parents were natives of
Lafayette parish, where his father became a successful planter.  Alexander
Guidry died in 1862, and his wife in 1848.  Both were members of the Catholic
church.

Dr. Guidry received his chief literary education at St. Charles College, Grand
Coteau.  He attended the medical college of the University of Virginia in
1864-65, and subsequently pursued his medical studies in the University of
Louisiana at New Orleans, from which institution he graduated in 1871.  Dr.
Guidry was a soldier in the late war, in the Seventh Louisiana Cavalry.  Upon
the completion of his studies he began the practice of his profession where he
now resides.  He represented Lafayette parish in the House of Representatives
in 1879, and has served for six years as parish coroner.  The Doctor owns and
resides on the old home place of Colonel Mouton.  The plantation is a good
one, and under his management it is made to yield a handsome income.

Dr. Guidry was married, in 1859, to Miss M. Mouton, daughter of the late
Ex-Governor Mouton.  To this union eleven children have been born, ten of whom
are now living. 

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 228. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.