BOSWORTH, Millard, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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MILLARD BOSWORTH, CYPREMORT --Millard Bosworth was born in New Orleans in
1850.  His father, A. W. Bosworth, was a native of Maine, and his mother,
Matilda Weir, was of English extraction, and was born in the West Indies.  A.
W. Bosworth was an ice manufacturer for a number of years.  He served during
the entire Civil War, starting out as a major of the Crescent Regiment; he was
promoted to colonel, and, upon the death of General Mouton, was placed at the
head of that command.  He served as alderman in New Orleans both before and
after the war.  He was vice president of the Mutual National Bank, of New
Orleans.  He died October 9, 1886, his widow surviving him two years.

Millard Bosworth is the second son of a family of five children:  C. H.,
Millard,  the subject,  W. S.,  Emily, and  Anna B.   C. S. Bosworth occupies
a position in the post-office in New Orleans.  Millard Bosworth in his boyhood
attended schools in New Orleans, and afterward was sent to college at Belle
View, Virginia.  Upon leaving college he was engaged as clerk, afterward
entering the ice business.  He married in 1875 Miss Lucy Moore,  of New
Orleans.  In 1876 Mr. Bosworth disposed of his ice business and became
interested in sugar planting, purchasing Matilda plantation, which consists of
seventeen hundred acres of land lying along the west bank of the Teche.  Over
one thousand of the seventeen hundred acres are susceptible of cultivation.
He grows chiefly sugar cane.  The soil on his place is very fertile and yields
an average of three thousand pounds of sugar per acre.  Mr. Bosworth's
refinery is operated on the central system, and has a capacity of fifty
thousand pounds of sugar per day.  It uses the products of over forty
different plantations.  The refinery is equipped with large vacuum pans and
first-class machinery through out.  The products of this refinery are classed
as high as those of any other of the State.  In his refinery as well as on his
plantation, Mr. Bosworth is his own manager, and to this fact is due, no
doubt, the superior results of his enterprises.  Mr. Bosworth is not a
politician in the sense that he desires public office.  He was appointed
police juror of the first ward in 1882, and has held the position ever since.
He is a member of the American Legion of Honor, a mutual benevolent
association.  He is the father of eight children, five sons and three
daughters-Rachal W.,  Millard M.,  Nannie M.,  Mary W., Albert S.,  Abel W.,
Charles A.,  Lawrence S.            

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
363-364.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.