Biography of 	CAMBON, Henry, 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. 499-500.  Edited
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

Cambon, Henry, well-known business man and popular citizen of New Orleans,
was born at New Orleans, La., April 18, 1862; son of Sylvester J., Sr., and
Mary (O'Sullivan) Cambon, the former of whom was a native of Paris, France,
and the latter of Dublin, Ireland.  Sylvester J. Cambon, Sr., the father,
came to America and located at New Orleans when yet a young man, embarking
in business as an importer.  Later he became, in association with his
business partner, one of the largest wholesale merchants of the Crescent
City, and was interested in banking, as well as having various other
important connections and associations in the city and throughout the
adjacent territory.  He remained in active management of these interests
during a period of about 30 years and then removed to the country to assume
personal supervision of his large interests in sugar planting.  His death
occurred a few years later as a result of exposure to which he subjected
himself in paying off his employes [sic] at a time when he was too ill to
have done so, he made a large gift to the French government at the time of
the Franco-German war, and was in turn designated by the French republic
for signal honors.  He was one of the most interesting figures of Louisiana
life during the past generation, and is elsewhere specifically referred to
in this work, which article the reader should examine.  (See Sylvester J.
Cambon, Sr.).  In the course of his very complete education, Henry Cambon,
the subject of this sketch, attended Romain's private school at New
Orleans, where he was a classmate of the late distinguished Prof. Alceé
Fortier of the faculty of Tulane university.  Upon his graduation from this
school Henry Cambon entered Spring Hill college, conducted by the Jesuit
order at Mobile, Ala., and in this institution was a classmate,
respectively, of John Wogan, Charles and George Theard, George Sarpy, and
others from New Orleans, who have since become distinguished in various
lines of endeavor.  He remained a student of this latter institution during
a period of 6 years, and upon completion of the courses of study undertaken
during that time, entered Yale college, where his studies were interrupted
and terminated by the untimely death of his father as above related, and he
was obliged to return home to assume the management of the father's large
estate.  He removed the family from Union plantation to Grand Caillou
plantation, in Terrebonne parish, the better to direct the operations of
the sugar-planting interests of the estate.  From thence he went to Iberia
parish, remaining 5 years on Grand Côte plantation, better known as Week's
island; then removed to St. John the Baptist parish, on the Union and San
Francisco plantations, until 1909.  In 1908 his family returned to New
Orleans, and have remained resident in the latter city since that date.
Mr. Cambon is a member of the Catholic church, and is affiliated with the
republican party, in the activities of which he has at all times taken an
especially lively interest and prominent part in discharging the
obligations of citizenship.  June 5, 1885, Mr. Cambon was married to Miss
Ernestine Millet, a daughter of Adelard and Josephine (Bacas) Millet, of
St. John the Baptist parish.  To their union 6 children have been born,
namely:  Sylvester,  Rita,  Etienne,  Dominique,  Raoul and  Lucy.
Sylvester, the first-born, died of diphtheria when 2 years old.