LATREYTE, E., FR., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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E. LATREYTE, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Latreyte is a native of France, born December
26,1844.  He is a son of Peter and Marguerite (Lagrave) Latreyte, both of whom
were natives of France.  His father was a merchant.

The subject of our sketch grew to manhood and received his education in
France.  In 1861 he removed to New Orleans, where he was for eighteen years
engaged as a clerk in a dry goods store.  He began a commission business in
1878, in which, however, he only continued until 188o, when he removed to
Opelousas and embarked in a general mercantile business.  That he has been
amply successful in his business career is demonstrated in the fact that he
began business on a capital of about four thousand dollars and now carries a
stock of about ten thousand dollars, and does a very large business; also
operates about one thousand acres of land, and owns over two thousand acres.
He is one of the chief stock holders in the First National Bank of Opelousas.
He is also a member and stock holder in St. Landry Home Association.

Mr. Latreyte married, in 1874, Miss Maria Anglade, of New Orleans.  He has
four children, all daughters.  Mr. Latreyte and his family are all devout
Catholics.  Few men in Opelousas have been more successful or done more for
the general advancement of the place than Mr. Latretye.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 56.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.