LESSEPS, Auguste, Jr., Plaquemines then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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AUGUSTE LESSEPS, JR., CYPREMORT.--Auguste Lesseps is a native of Plaquemine
parish, born in 1855.  He is the son of Auguste and Carmen  (Ribas) Lesseps,
the former a native of New Orleans, the latter of Spain.  They were married in
New Orleans, where they now reside.  Mr. Lesseps, Sr., was for forty years a
sugar planter in Plaquemine parish, and was for a number of years treasurer of
that parish.  During the war he was a Union man, but took no active part in
the contest.  He is a cousin of DeLesseps of Panama canal fame.

Our subject was educated in Mississippi, at Trinity High School, Pass
Christian, where he remained four years.  After leaving school he engaged in
sugar planting, at the age of seventeen years.  He went to Plaquemine parish,
remaining there eight years, when he removed to St. Landry, at which place he
resided one year.  Then he returned to Plaquemine, and lived there for a
period of three years.  He married, in 1882, Miss Augusta Story, a native of
St. Bernard parish, and daughter of Clement and Amelia (Lesseps) Story.  She
was reared and educated in New Orleans.  Auguste Lesseps removed from
Plaquemine to St. Charles, where he remained a year, when he returned to
Plaquemine and there lived two years, after which he removed to Avoyelles,
staying there two years, when he located in St. Mary parish in December, 1889.
There he took charge of a plantation. He is the father of four children:
Hamilton,  Marguerite,  Edgar and an infant.  Our subject and family are
members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
372-373.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.