MOUTON, Orther C., St. Landry then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JUDGE ORTHER C. MOUTON, LAFAYETTE.--Judge Orther C. Mouton was born in St.
Landry parish, October 5, 1858.  He is the son of Charles H. and C. (Dupre')
Mouton, both natives of Louisiana.  Charles H. Mouton was reared here and
received his education in St. Charles College, Grand Coteau.  He is now a
practising [sic] attorney at St. Martinsville.  During the war he was district
judge, and he afterward acted as district attorney.  The mother of our subject
died in 1865.  The Mouton family is of direct Acadian-French ancestry, the
great-grandfather of Orther C. having removed from Acadia to Louisiana.

Judge Orther C. Mouton was reared in his native parish.  What education he
possesses he has chiefly acquired by private study.  He never attended
college, owing to the financial circumstances of his father after the war.  At
the age of eighteen years, Judge Mouton entered (he law office of Judge
Debaillon, of Lafayette, where he pursued the study of the profession he has
adopted.  He was admitted to the practice before the Supreme Court at
Opelousas.  Upon his admission to the bar, Judge Mouton located in Lafayette,
where he has since practised his profession.  In the spring of 1890 he was
elected district judge, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Debaillon, made
vacant by his resignation.  Judge Mouton married, in 1886, Miss Ella Martin,
of Lafayette.  He and wife are members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
241-242.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.