GUILBEAU, Jas. L., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JAS. L. GUILBEAU, GRAND COTEAU.--Mr. Guilbeau is a successful planter living
near Grand Coteau.  He was born near this place on the 11h day of March, 1847.
He is the son of Lucien and E. (Mayer) Guilbeau, both of whom are natives of
Louisiana.  Lucien Guilbeau, in the earlier years of his life, was engaged in
mercantile pursuits, but later gave his attention to planting.  He died in
1850.  His wife survived him until 1869.

The subject of our sketch received a liberal education; and began business at
the age of eighteen years as a farmer.  He was married in 1869 to Mary L.
Smith, daughter of B. A. Smith.  They are the parents of eight children, viz:
Frank L.,  Edward J.,  Henry A.,  Leo,  Lucius B.,  Clothilda,  Nita.

Mr. Guilbeau owns three hundred and fifty acres of land, a good portion of
which is under cultivation.  The principal products are cotton and corn, and
some sugar cane.  He enlisted in the Confederate army, in 1864, under Col.
Thompson of the Home Guards.  He afterward joined the Twenty-eighth Louisiana
Infantry, and served there until the close of the war.  He was for a number of
years member of the town council of Grand Coteau.  He and his wife are members
of the Catholic church.   

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 45.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.