HUMBLE, John H., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************

JOHN H. HUMBLE, WASHINGTON.--Mr. Humble was born in St. Landry parish,
Louisiana, in the year 1857.  He is the son of Henderson Humble and Eliza J.
Biles, both of whom are natives of Louisiana.  His father devoted his whole
life to planting.  He died in 1886 at the age of sixty years.  Our subject's
grandfather Humble was a native of Germany, and located in Louisiana when a
young man.  Young John H. Humble had fair educational facilities as a boy,
receiving the benefit of private tutorage, and later completing his education
at Franklin College, Opelousas.  He chose the same vocation that his father
followed--planting, and is now the manager of an extensive sugar plantation
near this place.  He expects to manufacture from the products of this
plantation this year not less than one million pounds of yellow clarified
sugar.  Mr. Humble is one of the successful, whole-souled business men who
have made Washington what it is.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
49-50.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.