DEBAILLON, Louis, M. D.; St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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LOUIS DEBAILLON, M.D., VILLE PLATTE.--Dr. Louis Debaillon is a retired
physician of Ville Platte.  He is a native of St. Landry parish, born October
4, 1840.  His father, G. M. Debaillon, was a native of France, born in Paris
in 1783.  He removed to Louisiana and located in St. Landry parish when a
young man, where he became a leading citizen.  He represented St. Landry
parish in the Legislature for a number of terms.  Before he came to America he
had served in the French Navy.  He became one of the most extensive and
wealthy planters of St. Landry parish before his death, in 1838.  The mother
of Dr. Debaillon died in 1834.

Dr. L. Debaillon is the oldest of a family of nine children.  He was for five
years a student of Emmetsburg College, Maryland, and subsequently pursued a
course of medicine in the Medical College of Paris, from which institution he
received his degree.  He began his professional career in St. Landry parish,
in 1836, and was engaged in active practice until 1889, when, feeling the
weight of his years, he retired from his professional duties.

Dr. Debaillon was married in 1838, to Miss Amy Toledano, a native of
Louisiana, born in New Orleans, 1822.  They became the parents of twelve
children, eight sons and four daughters.

The doctor has prospered financially, and owns considerable property in St.
Landry parish.

The subject's maternal grandfather, Fontenot, was one of the first settlers of
St. Landry parish, and the only man at that time who spoke English.  He also
spoke the Indian language fluently.

Mrs. Dr. Debaillon died in this parish in 1857.  She was a member of the
Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 34.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.