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


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LOUIS C. GAUTHIER, ST. MARTINVILLE.--The subject of this sketch was born in
St. Martin parish in 1850.  He is the son of A. C. and Mary (Lebert) Gauthier. 
A. C. Gauthier was a native of New York, born in 1796 and died in 1878.  He
was an extensive planter and stock-raiser of St. Martin parish.

Louis Gauthier, as a boy, had good educational opportunities, and obtained a
good practical business education.  He began business in 1875 as a planter and
stock raiser, in which he has since continued with marked success.  He now own
a plantation of six hundred acres of land, five miles north of St.
Martinville.  He has on his place about $5000 worth of live stock.  His
plantation is chiefly cultivated in sugar, cane and cotton. Mr. Gauthier also
operates a cotton gin.  He was married in 1876 to Miss Mary Locker, a daughter
of Joseph and Leontine (Billeaud) Locker, natives of France.  Mr. and Mrs.
Gauthier are the parents of eight children, viz.: Leona, Angelina, Charles,
George, Francis, Henry, Lorenza, Amelia.  Mr. Gauthier's giving his children
the best educational advantages, having employed a teacher who gives them
instructions at their home.  Mr. Gauthier and family are Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
328-329.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.