Biography of 	Fourchy, Paul Francois Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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The father of Paul Louis Fourchy, attorney, New Orleans, La., Paul Francois
Fourchy, is one of the prominent citizens of Louisiana, is a lawyer of ability,
and has been president of the Merchant's Mutual Insurance company of New Orleans
for the past twenty-eight years.  Paul Louis Fourchy `was born in the city of
New Orleans on September 7, 1861, and was educated in the Jesuit college of that
city, afterward entering the University of Louisiana from which he graduated in
1882.  He began the study of law in the office of Rouse & Grant of New Orleans
and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Louisiana in March, 1884,
after which in the same month he was admitted to the bar in the state of
Mississippi.  He was admitted to practice in the United States supreme court May
13, 1889.  He is also a notary.  Mr. Fourchy practices in all the civil and
federal branches of the law.  He is a member of the New Orleans Law association,
is a democrat, and a member of the Catholic church.  He is superintendent of the
Orleans Levee board for the Bayou St. John.  He is a member of the Crescent
Democratic club and is first vice-president of the New Orleans City Park
Improvement association, also treasurer of the Crescent Rowing club.  He is
third vice-president of the Public Belt Railroad association, is a member of the
Chess, Checker and Whist club and is one of its founders.  He is a member of the
French Democratic association, of the Commercial club, and is attorney for the
Merchant's Insurance company of New Orleans, has always made a specialty of
cases against monopolies, etc., and has brought many to terms.  Mr. Fourchy
selected as his companion in life Miss Euphemie Morel of New Orleans and their
nuptials were celebrated on February 24, 1886.  They have one son who is now two
years old, and a daughter six months old.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 422.  Published
by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.