LEVY, Alphonse, FR., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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ALPHONSE LEVY, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Levy is one of the most progressive and
successful business men of Opelousas.  He is a native of France, and came to
America at an early age.  After a short stay elsewhere, he located permanently
in Opelousas.  He served as a clerk in a general mercantile establishment
until 1877, with the exception of one year, during which period he kept a
country store.  In 1877 he became a partner in a mercantile business with
Julian Meyers; of which firm he is still a member.  This firm is one of the
largest business houses in the State.  They, with a few other extensive houses
in the South, support a bureau in New York City, through which they purchase
all their goods at greatly reduced rates.   The business of Julian Meyers &
Co. is greatly on the increase and they will do a business of over $200,000
this year.  They carry from fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars' worth of
stock; occupy two floors of a large building with their mercantile business,
proper, besides numerous implement and carriage warehouse rooms; also have a
large shipping depot from which they ship more cotton and rice than any other
firm in St. Landry parish.  Recognizing the necessity of a healthy Southern
emigration, Mr. Levy became connected with the Southwestern Louisiana Land
Company, of which he was elected president.  It is due to this company and its
enterprising members that hundreds of home seekers have located in
Southwestern Louisiana.  Mr. Levy is also president and one of the chief stock
holders of the First National Bank of Opelousas.  In fact, he has become
identified with nearly every move that has advanced the interest of St. Landry
and adjoining parishes.  He is yet a young man, popular in social circles, a
member of the Opelousas Social Club, and is also a member of the Masonic Lodge
of this place.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 55.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.