BIENVENU, R. J., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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R. J. BIENVENU, ST. MARTINVILLE.-- Mr. Bienvenu was born in St. Martinville,
March 4, 1863.  He is the son of Alphonse and Angelina Bienvenu, both natives
of St. Martin parish.  Alphonse Bienvenu was for many years deputy sheriff of
the parish.  He is now retired from active life and is spending his declining
days amongst his children.  The mother died September 22, 1890.

The subject of our sketch was reared and educated in St. Martinville.  His
education was rather limited, as he entered, at the age of fourteen, a
mercantile store, where he remained for nine years, at the expiration of which
time he opened a mercantile business for himself, in which he was engaged for
two years.  He was for several years employed as agent for the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company at Eola and Cheneyville.  He is now traveling agent
for the Singer Sewing Machine Company in this section.

In 1883 he married Miss Gabrille Ratier, of St. Martin parish.  Mrs. Bienvenu
is a highly accomplished and educated lady.  She attended school at the
convent at Grand Coteau, Sacred Heart, of St. James and New Orleans, and
completed her education at Maryville and at Natchitoches, Louisiana, in a
school of the same faith.  Mr. and Mrs. Bienvenu are the parents of four
children, one son and three daughters, viz.:  Bernadette,  Sydney,  Helen, 
Angelina (died in infancy).  Mr. Bienvenu and family are Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
311-312.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.