HITTER, Jno. Alfred, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JNO. ALFRED HITTER, ST. MARTINVILLE.--The subject of this sketch was born in
St. Martinville, November 4, 1848.  His father, Sebastian Hitter, is a native
of France. His ancestors were prominent in the French Revolution.  He came to
America in 1848. While on the journey across the ocean, cholera broke out
among the passengers, and of the twenty-eight sufferers from this dreadful
disease he was the only survivor.  Shortly after his arrival in New Orleans he
removed to St. Martin parish, where he now resides.  Louise (Geiger) Hitter,
the mother of our subject, was also a native of France, and removed to
Louisiana when a child.

John A. Hitter was reared in St. Martin parish, and received his chief
education at St. Martinville.  At the age of sixteen years he accepted the
position of salesman in a mercantile establishment in New Orleans, in which
capacity he served four years, when he returned to St. Martinville and entered
a mercantile business on his own account, in which he was engaged until 1882. 
In this, however, he was not successful, and he retired from business,
embarking in other pursuits, which were attended with better success.  He soon
accumulated sufficient capital to put up a manufacturing and repairing
establishment, where he manufactures and repairs buggies, harness, etc.

On the 22d of September, 1873, he married Miss Marie Broussard, of St. Martin
parish.  To them have been born six children:  Josephine,  Joseph,  Louise, 
Celonine,  Alphonse and  Beatrice.  Mr. Hitter and wife are members of the
Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 336. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.