DUSON, W. W., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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W. W. DUSON, CROWLEY.--W. W. Duson, the efficient business manager of the
Southwest Louisiana Land Company, was born in St. Landry parish, Louisiana,
October 5, 1853.  He is the son of Cornelius Duson, a history of whose life
appears in the sketch of Hon. C. C. Duson of St. Landry parish.

W. W. Duson was reared in this section of the State, and was educated in the
local schools of the day.  He began business life at the age of seventeen
years, as a clerk in the general mercantile store of James Webb at Plaquemine
Brulee.  He subsequently became a member of the firm of Freeman & Duson,
successors to James Webb.  When Acadia parish was founded, Mr. Duson retired
from this business and removed to Rayne.  In May, 1884, he removed to Crowley,
and assumed charge of the business of the Southwest Louisiana Land Company, in
which capacity he continues to act.  Since assuming management Mr. Duson has
bought and sold over 200,000 acres of land for the company.

The business of the land company has assumed enormous proportions and requires
much attention, but besides this Mr. Duson operates the largest rice
plantation west of the Mississippi River.  Mr. Duson is the founder of Acadia
College, the buildings of which he erected at a cost of $15,000.  He founded
and has since edited and published the "Acadia Signal" at Crowley.  He was
married January 2, 1879, to Miss M. McClelland.  They are the parents of one
living child, Mamie.  After the death of his first wife, Mr. Duson was married
to Miss Julia Clark, the daughter of a well known citizen of Acadia parish.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p.
261. Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf 
PublishingCompany.