LAFLEUR, Dorsin P., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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DORSIN P. LEFLEUR, CHATAIGNIER.--Dorsin P. Lafleur is a successful planter and
merchant living in the seventh ward of St. Landry parish.  He is a native of
Louisiana, horn August 27, 1853.  He is the son of John P. and Delphine
(Rosas) Lafleur, both natives of Louisiana.  John P. Lafleur was a planter and
merchant and for a number of years a member of the police jury.  He died in
1886, at the mature age of eighty-six years.  His wife died in 1858.  Both
were members of the Catholic church.

Dorsin P. Lafleur was reared on his father's plantation in this parish and
received a good business education in the neighboring schools.  He was
married, in 1869, to Miss Amelia Miller, and they became the parents of eight
children, viz:  Dorville,  Joseph D.,  John P.,  Dorestant,  Dorsina, wife of
Oliver Lafleur;  Dolvina, wife of Laurent Aadoin [sic],  Doremus (deceased),
Dora.

Mr. Lafleur began merchandising in 1853, and since that time has continued in
the business.  He also operates a steam power grist mill and cotton gin.  He
owns six hundred acres of land in the seventh ward, about two hundred of which
are under cultivation.

His wife died in 1884.  The family are all Catholics.  Mr. Lafleur is one of
the most prominent citizens of St. Landry parish.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 59.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.