SCHLESINGER, J. A., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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J. A. SCHLESINGER, BREAUX BRIDGE --Mr. Schlesinger is a native of St. Martin
parish, born January 29, 1852.  He is the son of Edward and Adveline
Schlesinger, the former a native of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, born 1809,
the latter a native of St. Martin parish, born 1822.  Edward Schlesinger was a
school teacher in Louisiana and Texas for many years; he now resides in New
Orleans.

The subject of this sketch received his early education in New Orleans.  At
the age of seventeen years he accepted a position in the custom house, where
he remained for a period of seven years.  Since that time he has taught school
in the parishes of Orleans, Vermilion, St. Tammany and St. Martin.  He
married, June 14, 1873, Miss Agatha Navarro.  To this union were born four
children, three of whom are now living, viz:  Edward Albert,  Frank T., 
Charles Louis.  In January, 1886, he married Miss Mathilde Palonabo, of
Vermilion parish.  They are the parents of two. children, viz: Frederic and
Charles.  In 1867, Mr. Schlesinger was appointed United States cotton weigher,
which position he held for eighteen months.  In 1870-71 he held the position
of deputy collector and inspector of customs at Calcasieu parish.  During the
year 1872 he served as deputy coroner.  In 1877 he was appointed justice of
the peace of Plaquemine parish, and in 1881 was post-master at Pilot Town in
the same parish.  Since that time he has been teaching school.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
347-348.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.