SILLAN, Geo., Paris, FR., then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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GEO. SILLAN, ST. MARTINVILLE.--Mr. Sillan is of French nativity.  He was born
in Paris in 1860, and is the son of Emile Sillan, one of the pioneers of
Southwest Louisiana.  At the age of thirty-five Emile Sillan emigrated to
Louisiana and located in the parish of St. Mary, where for many years he was
engaged in the sugar industry.  He is now a resident of Baldwin, St. Mary
parish.  The subject's mother, Zeido (Sorrell) Sillan, is a native of St..
Mary parish, Louisiana, and is of French extraction.  She became the mother of
three children, two sons and one daughter.

The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in Paris, France.  His
early educational advantages were good.  He graduated from one of the best
schools of Paris.  He removed with his father to Louisiana at the age of
twenty-eight, and began the publication of the Reveille, a weekly Democratic
newspaper, at St. Martinville.  The paper is published in French, and has a
good local circulation.

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