ROBIN, Joseph N., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JOS. N. ROBIN, LEONVILLE.--Joseph N. Robin, merchant and planter, living
on the Bayou Teche, Leonville, was born near where he now resides, May
14, 1843.  His parents, Francois and Eleonore (Stelley) Robin, are both
natives of St. Landry.  Francois Robin is still living and resides with
his son, our subject, being nearly eighty years of age.  He was before
the war a merchant of Grand Coteau, since which time he has been engaged
in planting interests on the Bayou Teche where he owns a tract of seven
thousand acres of land, as fine a piece of land as can be found in this
section.  He has served on the police jury, represented his parish in
the legislature, and held other important positions of trust.  The
family are members of the Catholic church.

The subject of our sketch is the third of a family of six children.  He
received his education in St. Charles College, Grand Coteau.  At the
breaking out of hostilities he was in the second class, and at this time
he left college and enlisted in the Confederate States service.  After
the war he gave his attention to planting.  In 1870 he opened a
mercantile establishment near where he now does business.  Five years
later he removed his business to his present location, where he has
built up an extensive business, amounting at the present time to from
twelve to fifteen thousand dollars annually.   He  owns a magnificent
plantation consisting of twenty-seven hundred and fifty acres.  He has
served as post-master at Leonville for four years.  In 1868 he married
Miss Alzire Saizan of this parish.  There have been born to them eight
children, seven of whom are still living, viz.:  Arthur,  Amelia, 
Octavian,  Louis,  Numa,  Oscar,  Charles,  Maria, and  Aleda,
(deceased).

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 71.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.