Biography of 	Guilbault, Albert;  Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller February 1998

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Guilbault, Albert, son of Alfred Guilbault and Adeline Paquette.  
Alfred Guilbault, his father, was born 45 miles outside of Montreal, 
Canada, on Aug. 2, 1836, the issue of Amable Guilbault and Catherine 
Telliea.  Alfred Guilbault came to New Orleans from Montreal in 1866, 
on his way stopping in Chicago Ill. for 9 months.  His mother, Adeline 
Paquette, was born of Pierre Paquette and Marie Pourier, at Keesville, 
Essex county, N. Y., on June 6, 1844.  Her parents were born in Canada.  
Mrs. Guilbault came to New Orleans with her parents about 1860.  Alfred 
has long been identified with the car-building industry of the city of 
New Orleans.  Albert Guilbault is one of 7 living children, 4 daughters 
and 3 sons, born to his parents.  He passed his childhood and youth in 
the city and there attended the public schools, but withdrew from school 
while yet in the 6th grade to begin work as an office boy.  Later the lad 
attended night school, and forging his own way to better conditions and 
circumstances, matriculated in the law school of Tulane university, from 
which he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in the class of 1900.  When 
14 years of age he became an office boy in a law office, and from that 
time has virtually been identified with the legal profession, growing 
up in the calling, so to speak, in which he has, through determination, 
energy and native ability, attained a well-merited reputation as an 
earnest and conscientious counselor, learned and untiring in his 
loyalty to his clients, and deeply appreciative of his obligations 
as a citizen.  Mr. Guilbault is fully sustaining the usual record 
and reputation of self-educated men and steadily moving step by step 
to higher and broader fields of usefulness.  He is affiliated with 
the Democratic party and in 1912 was elected a member of the 
Louisiana legislature.  He is a member of the Catholic church and of 
the Knights of Columbus.  In 1903 Hon. Albert Guilbault was married 
to Miss Marie Strack of New Orleans.  Five children, as follows, have 
been born to their union:  Albert C.,  John D.,  Walter S.,  Marie C. 
and  Catherine C. Guilbault.

Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, 
Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic 
Form (volume 3), p. 187.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  
Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.