MOUTON, Jules J., Lafayette then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JULES J. MOUTON, CADE.--Mr. Mouton was born in Lafayette parish in 1857.  He
is the son of Eraste and Corinne Mouton, natives of Lafayette and St. Landry
parishes, respectively.  Eraste Mouton was an attorney of Lafayette parish,
and served for a period as judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District, embracing
the parishes of Lafayette, Vermilion and Calcasieu.  He also edited for a time
a newspaper in Lafayette.  He was one of the most prominent men of the place. 
During the Civil War he served as captain of his company.

The subject of this sketch received a liberal education, and early in life
engaged in a mercantile business, and lately has undertaken planting.  He was
married in T884 to Widow F. Oliver, a native of St. Martin parish.  They are
the parents of four living children, viz:  Alice,  Anna,  Pauline and  Daniel.

Mr. and Mrs. Mouton are communicants of the Catholic church of St.
Martinville.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
342-343.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.