BLOCK, M., FR., then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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M. BLOCK is a thrifty merchant of Franklin, Louisiana.  He is the son of Isaac
and Fannie (Tugenheim) Block.

Isaac Block was born in France, 1793, and never came to America.  He was by
occupation a merchant.  Fannie Block was born in France, 1793.

Our subject received a fair elementary education in France, and after having
left school and served as a clerk in mercantile business for a short period,
he came to America, 1848.  He landed at New Orleans and soon  located in
Franklin.  His first experience here was as a clerk in a gents' furnishing
goods store.  He quit this business and went on the road as a peddler till
1856.  He then opened business for himself at Berwick City, where he remained
till the breaking out of the war, when he removed to New Orleans and remained
till the war closed, when he removed to Franklin and opened business for
himself, and in this still remains and has been highly successful.

He was married in 1871 to Miss Annette Levy.  Eight children were born to this
marriage--six sons and two daughters.  His wife is a native of France, but
came to this country at the age of fourteen years.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p.364 .
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.