WARD, Perley P., E. Feliciana then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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PERLEY POORE WARD, ST. MARTINVILLE.--Prominent among the rising,
thorough-going, business young men of St. Martin parish is the subject of this
sketch.  Mr. Ward is a native of Louisiana.  He was born in East Feliciana,
November 29, 1856.  His father, Frederic W. Ward, was a native of New York,
born in Dutchess county, near the city of Poughkeepsie, about the year 1814. 
He removed to Louisiana in 1846.  Here he spent the remainder of his days.  By
occupation he was a merchant tailor.  He prospered in his vocation, and at the
breaking out of the Civil War he had accumulated considerable property; but by
the war he lost it all.  He died August 15, 1876.  Our subject's mother was a
native of Germany, though reared and educated in America.  She died in 186o.

The subject is one of six children.  He at an early age, being thrown upon his
own resources, entered the printing office of the Clinton Patriot-Democrat,
where he remained for three years.  His health failing he removed to Amite,
Miss., where he engaged in agricultural pursuits and school teaching
alternately for a period of four years.  February, 1866, he removed to Iberia
parish, Louisiana, where he engaged in the timber business.  Subsequently he
located in St. Martinsville, where he still conducts his timber interests.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 352. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.