M. Julien Poydras, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by Mike Miller 

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M. Julien Poydras, an educated Frenchman, settled first in Pointe Coupee 
Parish, La., where he entered largely into planting and merchandising, 
becoming very wealthy, being at one time the owner of 3,700 slaves. 
He was territorial representative in congress, and being a man of high 
intellectual power, he was interested in the political affairs of this 
section and was a warm patron of education. By will he emancipated 
all his slaves and made large bequests to the city of New Orleans, 
and to West Baton Rouge gave $30,000 for the support of 
indigent females. He gave the same amount and for the same purpose 
to Pointe Coupee Parish and a like sum for the founding of a college 
or academy. Poydras academy is the offspring of this 
legacy, and Poydras asylum was also founded by him.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 494. 
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.