BERCIER, A. J., D. D. S.; St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
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A. J. BERCIER, D. D. S., OPELOUSAS.--A. J. Bercier, D. D. S., is a native of
Louisiana, born October, 1858.  He is the son of Eugene and Louisa (King)
Bercier, both natives of Louisiana.  His father was engaged principally in
steamboating during his life.  He died in 1858, at the age of thirty-six
years.

Dr. Bercier's paternal grandparents both came from France, and his maternal
from Germany.  The Doctor was reared in St. Landry parish, Louisiana.  He
received his education in the private schools of Opelousas, which, owing to
having been deprived of his father at the age of fifteen months, necessitating
his remaining with his widowed mother until he was fifteen years of age, was
quite limited; though Dr. Bercier is an educated man, from his association
with others and private study.

In 1881 he entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and graduated with
second honor in 1883.  He located in. the practise [sic] of his profession in
Opelousas, and has been successful in building up a good practise.  He
married, in 1884, Miss Eleonor Hardy, the accomplished daughter of Pliney
Hardy, a native of Louisiana.  Mr. Hardy was a scholar and refined gentleman,
a graduate of Grand Coteau College; also a graduate of a law school.  Shortly
after being admitted to the bar he was elected District Attorney.  At the age
of twenty-five years he was elected Secretary of the State, and refused a
second term, preferring to live among his friends.  He died at the age of
thirty-six years in 1858.

Professionally, Dr. Bercier has few superiors, and, socially, he is one of the
most jovial and entertaining of gentlemen.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 7.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.