Biography of 	ALLGEYER, Charles E Altkirch, Haut-Rhine, FR., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 482-483.  Edited
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

Allgeyer, Charles Emile, president of the corporation of Allgeyer & Co.,
cotton exporters, New Orleans, is a son of Mathew and Marie Louise
(Beuster) Allgeyer, and was born in 1847 at the town of Altkirch,
Department of Haut-Rhin, France.  Before the son had attained his tenth
year he was left an orphan, and was subsequently reared by relatives.  His
early education was obtained in public schools.  At the age of 20 years the
young man entered a commercial school that had recently been founded by
subscriptions from some successful merchants.  In this school he took a
full commercial course, and upon its completion entered the service of some
of the promoters of the school.  One of these firms, Siegfried Bros., of
Havre, was very well known in New Orleans.  This was a firm of cotton
merchants, and in 1871 they opened a branch of their business in New
Orleans, and Mr. Allgeyer came over to take charge of this branch.  The
business prospered under his management, and in the succeeding years the
firm name underwent various changes, until finally in the year 1912, it
became the Allgeyer Co., incorporated under the laws of the state of
Louisiana, with Charles Emile Allgeyer occupying the position of president
of the corporation, and doing a large business in the exportation of
cotton.  Mr. Allgeyer is a member, respectively, of the Boston and the
Pickwick clubs. Charles Emile Allgeyer was married to Miss Lisette
Delvaille, daughter of Aristide Delvaille, a successful stock broker of the
city of New Orleans.  To Mr. and Mrs. Allgeyer the following children have
been born, all of whom at this time are living under the parental roof:
Robert,  Louise,  Marcelle,  Ernest, and  Lucille.