Louis Victor Marye, Rapides Parish Louisiana
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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

     LOUIS VICTOR MARYE was born in Fairfax County, Va., April 7, 1836, a son
of Auguste and Octavia (De Generes) Marye, the former of whom was a banker
by occupation, and a son of Pierre Auguste Marye, a native of Rouen,
France, and a refugee from San Domingo at the time of insurrection.  After
coming to the United States he settled in Baltimore, Md., where he reared a
family of two sons and one daughter, by his second wife, Miss Renaud De
Chateaudun, who also refugeed from San Domingo during the Revolution of
1790.  Auguste Marye grew to maturity in Baltimore, and after reaching
manhood, came south, as far as Virginia, where he married and reared a
family.  He then left his adopted State, and located in New Orleans, where
he occupied a position as clerk in a bank, but subsequently came up Red
River, and in 1840 located in Avoyelles Parish, where he established a
bank, and where he passed the rest of his life, dying in 1846, in full
communion with the faith of the Roman Catholic Church, the religion of his
forefathers.  He left a family of five sons and two daughters, of whom four
sons and a daughter survive, their homes now being in Rapides Parish.
Auguste (the son deceased, died at Corinth, as a soldier of the
Confederacy), and Constance (the daughter who is dead, was the wife of B.
P. Abat, a merchant, of New Orleans).  The children that are living are:
Angelica (wife of Dr. R. L. Luckett), Edward Vincent, Armand De Brues,
Octave Charles and Louis Victor.  The latter was reared and educated in the
city of New Orleans, his knowledge of books being acquired in the Jesuit
College, after which he entered mercantile life, as a clerk in New Orleans,
and when about twenty-four years of age, became a cotton factor.  He was
married in January, 1861, to Miss Zepherine De Generes, a daughter of Henry
and Nora (Dulany) DeGeneres, by whom he has three sons and six daughters:
Henry F., Louis V., Jr., Zulime, Lena, May, Lelia, Alice, Zepherine and
George.  January 10, 1886, Mrs. Marye was called to her long home, having
been an earnest member of St. Francis Xavier Church at Alexandria, La., for
many years prior to her death.  She is now sleeping her last sleep in
Rapides Cemetery.  In 1872 Mr. Marye came to Red River, and engaged in
business in Alexandria, as notary public and insurance agent, and has been
successfully occupied with these callings ever since.  He assisted in
organizing the Alexandria Compress Company, and also organized the bank at
this place, serving as its cashier for the first twelve months.  He has
been a leading spirit in bringing railroads to the town, and has aided in
many other ways in the advancement and development of his adopted city and
parish.  He has latterly given some attention to real estate, and gives
every promise of becoming wealthy in that calling, for he is a keen and
practical business man, and an excellent financier.  He has held the office
of justice of the peace, and has always been a member of the Roman Catholic
Church.  He, like nearly all the members of his family, possesses an
excellent constitution, and is dark complexioned, these being
characteristics of his French ancestors.  They are also decidedly musical
in taste.