DUCHAMP, E. A., NJ., then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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E. A. DUCHAMP, ST. MARTINVILLE.--The subject of this sketch is a native of New
Jersey; born in Morris county in 1837.  He is the son of G. B. and Emily
(Sandoz) Duchamp.  G. B. Duchamp is a native of the West Indies; born on the
Island of Martinique.  He removed to Morris county, New Jersey in 1830.  After
remaining here thirteen years, he returned to the home of his youth on a visit
in 1846, remaining about four years.  After his arrival in the United States
he removed to New Orleans.  Our subject's mother was a native of New York;
born, 1809; died, 1848.

The subject of our sketch removed to St. Martin parish in 1853, where he began
the operation of the plantation where he now resides, three miles west of St.
Martinsville.  This plantation consists of about one thousand five hundred
acres of as fine land as there is in the parish.  He also owns a large
plantation in Iberia parish of more than three thousand acres.  He has been
very successful in his agricultural pursuits.

Mr. Duchamp married, in 1860, Miss Emily Sandoz, daughter of David and Claire
C. (Labbé) Sandoz.  Mrs. Duchamp's father was a native of Switzerland; her
mother, of St. Martin parish, Louisiana.  Mr. Duchamp and family are
Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
321-322.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.