Gerald P. Greig, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Gerald P. Greig is a banker, a voting man of thorough and competent
experience, and is cashier and active head of the Baldwin Bank, one
of the strong financial institutions of St. Mary's Parish.

Mr. Gieig was born in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, January 31,
1890, son of George Greig, a resident of Arnaudville in St. Landry
Parish.

George Geig was born in St. Martin Parish, in 1849, was reared and
married there, and engaged in planting, but since 1898 has been a
resident of Arnaudville, where he is a lumber merchant and private
banker.  He has served two terms as mayor of Arnaudville, also one
term as a member of the police jury of St. Landry Parish, is a
democrat, a member of the Catholic Church, the Knights of
Columbus and the Catholic Knights of America.  George Greig has
been three times married.  By his first wife he has two living children:
Ludovic, a lumber dealer at St. Martinville, and Miss Louise, at home
with her father.  His second and third wives were sisters, Corinne and
Cora Thomas.  By his second marriage the children are:  Reginald A.,
connected with the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana at Baton
Rouge; Morington G., a lumber dealer at Ville Platte, Louisiana; and
Gerald P.  The mother of these children died in 1894.

Gerald P. Greig was educated in public and private schools in St.
Martin and St. Landry Parishes, and for two years attended St.
Stanislaus College at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where he completed
a commercial course.  His experience its banking began at an early
age. In 1906 he was made assistant cashier of the Bank of
Arnaudville, and in 1911 organized and became cashier of the
Vermilion State Bank at Delcambre, serving as cashier until 1920,
and is still a director.  Then he came to the Bank of Baldwin as
cashier, and when that institution was absorbed by the Baldwin Bank
in 1921 he remained as cashier and executive officer.  The old Bank
of Baldwin was opened for business in 1905, and was absorbed by
the Baldwin Bank in 1921.  Its officers are: George T. Veeder,
president; Adolph Parro, vice president; G. P. Greig, cashier; and
Miss M. L. Parr, assistant cashier.  The tank has a capital stock of
$23,000, surplus and profits of $27,000 and resources of
approximately $250,000.

Mr. Greig ~since 1923 has been a member of the City Council of
Baldwin.  He is a democrat, a Catholic, and a member of Franklin
Council No. 1420, Knights of Columbus, of Franklin Lodge No.
1387, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Arnaudville
Camp, Woodmen of the World.

He married at Arnaudville, April .19, 1911, Miss Azelia Morrogh,
daughter of Frank and Cordelia (Thibodeaux) Morrogh, residents of
Arnaudville.  Her father is clerk for a large lumber and sugar
corporation.  Mr. and Mrs. Greig have three children: Marjorie,
attending public school at Baldwin; Geraldine, and Ramona.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 385, by Henry E. Chambers. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and
New York, 1925.