CROWSON, E. G., KY., then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ E. G. CROWSON, ST. MARTINVILLE --Mr. Crowson is a native of Kentucky. He is the Son of Hucal and Nancy (Morris) Crowson, natives of North Carolina. The father of our subject was a large land holder in Kentucky, where he had removed early in life. E. G. Crowson received his early education in Kentucky, and began business for himself at the age of seventeen years. Since living in St. Martin parish he has been engaged in conducting a mercantile and lumber business. He has a good plantation of about two hundred and twenty-five acres in St. Martin parish. Mr. Crowson has been married twice, first in 1855, and a second time, in 1864, to Miss Gabrille Lafountian, daughter of Jules and Amelia (Tenneson) Lafountian. Mr. Crowson is one of St. Martin's successful business men. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 318. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.