ROGER, L. M., St. Martin then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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L. M. ROGER, ARNAUDVILLE.--L. M. Roger, a prominent merchant of St.
Landry parish, and a member of the firm Roger Bros., is a native of St.
Martin parish, Louisiana.  He is the son of Francois and M. (Thibodeaux)
Roger, natives of Louisiana.  He was born in 1843, and spent his school
days in St. Martin parish.  During the war, before the battle of Shiloh,
he joined the Orleans Guards Battalion and was subsequently transferred
to the Third Louisiana Infantry, in which he served until the regiment
disbanded.  He was in many of the active engagements in which his
department participated.  At Spanish Fort, near Mobile, he received a
flesh wound which disabled him until the time of the surrender.  On
coming home after the war he began a mercantile business as sub-manager
for U. A. Gilbeau, of this place, and was in his employ for some time. 
He was subsequently employed at Breaux Bridge, Abbeville, and there
became the partner of Joseph Plonsky in a mercantile business.  In 1875
he removed to St. Landry parish, where he engaged in mercantile
business, in partnership with his brother.  In July, 1885, he was
married to Miss D. A. Hinckley, of St. Landry parish.  He is a prominent
Mason.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 72.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.