VIDRINE, Alcin, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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ALCIN VIDRINE, WASHINGTON.--Mr. Vidrine is a native of St. Landry
parish, born October 21, 1845.  He is the son of Antoine and Josephine
(Ortego) Vidrine, natives of Louisiana, where they were married and
became the parents of sixteen children, nine of whom are living.

Alcin Vidrine was reared and received his education in St. Landry
parish.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Sixteenth Louisiana Regiment,
and was in many of the active engagements of the war.  At Glasgow,
Kentucky, he was taken prisoner, 1862.  Next year he was paroled, and
recaptured at Chickamauga and kept prisoner for twenty months, until
May, 1865.  After the war he was engaged in planting and merchandising,
which he continued for seven years.  Since 1882 he has given his
mercantile business his chief attention, though he owns a plantation of
about five hundred acres, which is cultivated by tenants.

Mr. Vidrine was married in St. Landry parish, in 1867, to Miss Mary E.
Thompson, a native of Louisiana, born in 1848.  Mr. Vidrine and wife are
members of the Catholic church.  He is a member of the Farmers'
Alliance.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 88.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.