ST. GERMAIN, R. N., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ R. N. ST. GERMAIN, BREAUX BRIDGE.--The subject of this sketch was born in St. Martin parish, 1851. He is the son of Chas. P. and Aurelie (Gauthier) St. Germain, the former a native of France, born 1814; the latter of St. Martin parish, born 1833. Chas. P. St. Germain was a merchant in St. Martinsville, where he had removed when young. He was engaged in business at this place for thirty-five years prior to the time of his death, in 1878. His widow still survives him. R. N. St. Germain is one of a family of three children, all of whom are living. He was educated in St. Martinsville, and began business life at the age of seventeen as a clerk in his father's store. Here he remained for two years, when he took charge of his father's sugar plantation, and continued to control it for about five years. December 9, 1873, he married Miss Corinne Ledoux, daughter of August and Annis (Begnaud) Ledoux, of this parish. After retiring from his sugar industry, Mr. St. Germain was on the road for about a year as commercial tourist. After the death of his father, 1878, he took charge of his mercantile business, in which he continued till 1883, since which time he has been a cotton planter. He has also in charge of a cotton gin, and will gin this season (1890-9I) about one thousand bales. He has a good plantation of about one hundred and forty acres. In 1888 Mr. St. Germain was appointed police juror from the fourth ward of St. Martin parish arid now serves in that capacity. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 347. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.