DURIO, Adlin, St. Martin then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
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ADLIN DURIO, ARNAUDVILLE.--Adlin Durio is a native of St. Martin parish, born
November 12, 1838.  His parents, Alexander Durio and Adline (Chautin) Durio,
were natives of St. Landry and St. Martin parishes respectively.  Alexandria
Durio was a successful planter of St. Martin parish, was prominent in local
affairs and served as justice of the peace and member of the police jury for a
number of years.  He died in 1856, at the age of fifty-four years.  Mrs. Durio
died in 1855, at the age of thirty-five.  There were born to them six
children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second. 

Adlin Durio spent his school days in St. Martin and St. Landry parishes, and
received a good practical education.  Upon his father's death he gave his
attention to planting, making a specialty of cotton and corn.  In January of
1862 he enlisted in the Confederate service, and served as Lieutenant in
Company G, Yellow Jacket Battalion, which, two years later, was consolidated
with the Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry.  His regiment disbanded in Alexandria
at the close of the war.  Mr. Durio was in many active engagements, among
which were Pleasant Hill, Norwood Plantation and Mansfield.  At the last named
battle he received a gun shot wound in the right limb, from which he was
disabled for some time.  At the close of the war his capital consisted of a
Confederate uniform and three hundred dollars in old debts.  In 1866 he
commenced planting on Bayou Teche, in St. Martin's parish.  The first year his
crop was destroyed and he was compelled to sell his plantation. In 1868 he
commenced a mercantile business with a small stock of goods.  In this he was
more successful, and his efforts since that time have been attended with
abundant success.  His business amounts annually to more than $20,000.  Some
years after opening his mercantile business he bought a plantation in St.
Landry parish, to which he has since added until he now owns twenty-five
hundred acres of land on Bayou Teche.  In 1888 he was elected mayor of the
town of Arnaudville.  He has never aspired to political honor, but has always
taken a prominent part in political workings.  He was united in marriage, in
1866, with Miss Anis Guilbeau, of St. Martin's parish.  She died in 1881,
having become the mother of seven children, viz:  Dr. A. C. of this place;
Clara,  Emma,  Ida,  Marie,  Lucie Regenald,  Lucy.  In 1882 Mr. Durio was
married a second time, to Miss Lizzie L. Gilbeau, and to them have been born
four children:  Aldin, Jr.,  Carrie,  Anis and  Henry.  Mr. Durio and family
are members of the St. Joseph Catholic church of this place.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 33.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.