GUILBEAU, Alphonse C., St. Martin then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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A. C. GUILBEAU, CARENCRO.--Alphonse C. Guilbeau, mayor of Carencro, was born
in St. Martin parish, November 29, 1859.  He is the son of Alphonse I. and
Ophelia (Dugas) Guilbeau, natives of St. Martin parish.  Mr. Guilbeau is a
resident of Carencro, Louisiana.  The mother of our subject died in 1864.

The subject of this sketch is the third of a family of fourteen children,
eight of whom are now living.  He received his primary education in the
schools of his locality, and later entered St. Charles College, Grand Coteau. 
From 1874 to 1884, he was engaged in photography in Lafayette and the
adjoining parishes.  In 1881 he began a mercantile business at Carencro, to
which he added, in 1887, a large gin house.  G. H. Guilbeau was associated
with him in his mercantile business.  Mr. Guilbeau has either served as
councilman or mayor ever since the town of Carencro was incorporated.  He was
married, in 1882, to Miss Armide Lague, of New Iberia.  They are the parents
of four children, viz.:  Delpher,  Deirie,  Siedly,  Mabel.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 229. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.