MOUTON, A. H. , St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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A. H. MOUTON, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Mouton is a native of Louisiana, born January
27, 1856.  He is the son of C. H. and C. Celinine (Dupré) Mouton, the former a
native of Lafayette, Louisiana, born in 1825, and the latter of St. Landry
parish, born May 29, 1831, died December 17, 1864.  Mrs. Mouton is a daughter
of Lastie Dupré, a former prominent citizen of this parish.

Our subject is one of a family of eight children, of whom seven are now
living.  He was educated in Opelousas and New Orleans.  At the age of eighteen
years he began business for himself as a farmer on his plantation located near
Lafayette.  Here he continued to operate his plantation for a period of about
two years, when he removed to St. Landry parish and engaged in stock trading.
>From there he removed to Opelousas, where he remained two years, and in 1887
engaged in the mercantile business, at the same time operating a plantation,
upon which he raises cotton and rice.  He has a beautiful prairie farm near
Rougeau.  C H. Mouton, the father of our subject, was an officer in the
Confederate States service.  It is enough to say of our subject that he is one
of St. Landry's respected citizens and successful planters.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 62.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.