GAUTHIER, C. M., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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C. M. GAUTHIER, ST. MARTINVILLE.--Mr. Gauthier was born in St. Martin parish
in 1830.  He is the son of Charles and Marselite (Cormier) Gauthier, natives
of France and St. Martinville, Louisiana, respectively.  Charles Gauthier died
in 1878.  His wife died in 1844.

At the age of seventeen C. M. Gauthier began life for himself as a farmer, and
to this he has given his chief attention since that time.  He is also quite an
extensive stock raiser.  Mr. Gauthier has a fine plantation in this parish of
about twelve hundred acres, on which he cultivates principally sugar and corn. 
He is considered one of the most successful planters of this section.

Mr. Gauthier was married in 1859 to Miss Alice Andrus, a native of Calcasieu
parish, and daughter of Hiram Andrus, of Louisiana.  To this union have been
born six children.  Mr. Gauthier and family are members of the Catholic church
of St. Martinsville.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 329. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.