SYLVESTER, (Capt.) E. W., Waldo County, ME., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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CAPT. E. W. SYLVESTER, PALMETTO.--Capt. E. W. Sylvester was born in
Waldo county, Maine, in 1839.  He is the son of Daniel W. and Lydia
Sylvester, who were both natives of Maine.  Daniel W. Sylvester was a
millwright by occupation; he died in 1888, at the age of seventy-six 
years.  His mother died when Capt. E. W. Sylvester was an infant.  He
was the only child, and had the best educational advantages.  At the age
of fifteen, on account of ill health, he left school, went to Europe,
and for several years followed a seaman's life.

At the breaking out of the war he entered the Sixth Maine Infantry, and
was in active service during the whole war.  He entered as a private,
but was afterward promoted.  His field of operation was wholly in
Virginia.  He was wounded several times.

After the war he operated a canning factory in Portland, Maine, until
coming South in 1867, when he located where he now resides.  Here he
purchased about one thousand acres of land, upon which cotton and sugar
are cultivated.  He has taken quite an interest in raising a fine grade
of stock, and has now the finest stock to be found in this Section of
the country.  In the overflow of 1882 he lost heavily from loss of stock
and otherwise.

Capt. Sylvester was married, in 1858, to Miss Mary Simpson, of Kennebec
county, Maine.  Their family is composed of five children, three sons
and two daughters.  The Captain and his wife are members of the
Unitarian church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 76-77.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.