VEAZIE, Edward P., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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EDWARD P. VEAZIE, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Veazie, one of the oldest members of
the Opelousas bar, was born in St. Landry parish in 1850.  He is the son
of Philip Veazie and Anne C. Foley.  Philip Veazie was born in Portland,
Maine, and was by occupation a ship builder.  He came south early in
life, and settled in Louisiana, where he married in 1848.  He was a
victim of the gold fever of '48, and in the year 1849 went to San
Francisco, leaving his family in Opelousas.  There he died in the latter
part of 1850.

E. P. Veazie was reared in St. Landry parish by Judge G. E. Hudspeth,
and was educated in the University of Louisiana.  On beginning active
business life he first worked for a period of two years in the district
clerk's office.  He then studied law under his foster father at Baton
Rouge, and was admitted to the bar in 1874.  Up to 1879 he was justice
of the peace, when he began a regular practice.  He does the largest
criminal practice at the bar of Opelousas at this time.

Mr. Veazie is united in marriage with Miss Corinne Hebrard.  They are
the parents of two children--Annie and  Ailene.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 84-87.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.