SKIPPER, J. T., Erath County, TX., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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J. T. SKIPPER, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Skipper, cashier of the First National
bank of Opelousas, was born in Stephenville, Erath county, Texas.  He
attended school at Grandberry, Texas, and subsequently entered the
employment of the Wolf City Bank, Wolf City, Texas, and afterward was
engaged with the National Exchange Bank, Dallas, Texas.  His close
attention to business soon rendered him highly efficient in all
departments of the banking business, and opened to him places of
preferment above older employés of the bank.  But Mr. Skipper was not
satisfied to remain as an employe; consequently, in looking around for
an opening, and the necessities for a bank at Opelousas being patent, he
came here and successfully centered the attention of the leading
business men upon the question, and the result of his efforts was the
organization of the First National Bank of Opelousas, with a capital
stock of $50,000.  Of this institution Mr. Alphonse Levy is President
and S. Joseph Wilson, Vice President.  The bank is in the most
flourishing condition and supplies a long felt want to the business men
in Opelousas.  Mr. Skipper understands all the intricacies of the
banking business, and the people of Opelousas could have secured no one
who would have been more fitted for the position he occupies.  Although
of an intensely business predilection, Mr. Skipper enjoys the pleasures
of the social circle and is one of the leaders in Opelousas society.  He
is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 73.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.