GUIDRY, Albert, St. Landry then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
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ALBERT GUIDRY, CARENCRO.--Albert Guidry was born in St. Landry parish, April
22, 1844.  He is the son of Alexander and Azelia (Breaux) Guidry.  Alexander
Guidry was born in Lafayette parish.  He was reared and educated principally
in St. Landry.  He was, before the war, a merchant at Washington, Louisiana,
and later was engaged in planting.  During the war he served in the Eighteenth
Louisiana Infantry, C. S. A., and participated in the battles of Shiloh,
Pittsburg Landing, Bisland, Pleasant Hill and Mansfield.  From a wound which
he received at Shiloh, he was disabled and rendered unfit for service for a
considerable length of time.  He is now a resident of St. Landry parish.  The
mother of our subject is the daughter of A. Breaux, from whom Breaux Bridge,
St. Martin parish, takes its name.  Mr. Guidry died in 1846, when Albert was
but a boy.

The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood days in his native parish and was
educated principally at St. Charles College, Grand Coteau. At the age of
seventeen he left college and joined the Confederate army, Second Louisiana
Cavalry, in which he served until the close of the war.  Just before the
battle of Mansfield, he was taken prisoner and sent to New Orleans, where he
was confined for some time.  Since the war he has been engaged in planting. 
He now owns a considerable amount of land in this and the adjoining parishes.

Mr. Guidry was appointed a member of the police jury in 1873, and served in
this capacity for fourteen consecutive years, eight of which he has been
president.  He has been a member of the Legislature from St. Landry parish
since 1884.  His services in that body have been eminently satisfactory to his
constituents, and he enjoys the confidence of those he represents.  Since
April, 1890, Mr. Guidry has conducted a mercantile business in Carencro.  He
was married, in 1860, to Miss Alice Savoie, of St. Landry parish.  To this
union eight children have been born, five sons and three daughters.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p.
230. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.