GUILBEAU, (Prof.) A. L., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
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PROF. A. L. GUILBEAU, CARENCRO.--Professor A. L. Guilbeau, a resident of Ward
6, is a native of Lafayette parish, born August 3, 1839.  He is the son of
Placide F. and Julie (Cormier) Guilbeau, natives of St. Landry and Lafayette
parishes, respectively.  His father was a planter and stock raiser, which
occupation he followed all his life.  During the war of 1812 he served as a
private.  He was married in St. Landry parish in 1817, and became the father
of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, of whom four sons and one
daughter are now living, viz.:  Valery,  Alphonse,  Honore,  Adolph,  Edmonia,
wife of Dr. A. F. Broussard, and the subject of this sketch.  Mr. Guilbeau
died October 31, 1865, his wife surviving him till December, 1882.  Both were
members of the Catholic church.

The subject of this sketch received his education at St. Charles College and
at Cape Girardeau, Missouri.  He was married, in 1861, to Miss Alzina Bernard,
a native of Louisiana.  They are the parents of fifteen children, eight sons
and seven daughters, nine of whom are now living, six sons and three
daughters, viz.;  Edouard,  Elia, wife of Alcée Broussard,  Macenas,  Eugenia,
wife of Robert Cormier;  Placide,  Alfred,  Gaston,  Nita,  Edgard.  The
others died in infancy.  Professor Guilbeau served in the late war, enlisting
in 1862 in the Confederate States service, Company E, Twenty-sixth Louisiana
Infantry, in which, in 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant.  He was in
the battle of Chickisaw and the siege of Vicksburg, which lasted forty-eight
days.  He was taken prisoner at the last named place, and was confined in
prison for nine months.  After being released he returned to Louisiana and
reëntered the service under General Thomas, serving until the close of the
war, when he returned home and engaged in farming and teaching school.  He
owns one hundred and eighty arpents of land, situated near Carencro, upon
which he raises corn and cotton.  He and family are Catholic.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
228-229.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.