CARY, W. H., St. Mary then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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W. H. CARY, MERMENTEAU.--W. H. Cary, in partnership with J. J. Bibbins,
operates one of the largest rice plantations in Louisiana.  The product of
their plantation in 1889 was thirty-five hundred barrels of rice.  The
plantation consists of four hundred and fifty acres of land, one hundred and
fifty of which are under cultivation.  Mr. Cary is a native of Louisiana, born
in St. Mary parish in 1843.  He is the son of J. B. and Eleanor (Gordy) Cary.
J. B. Cary was a native of New York. He removed to Louisiana early in life,
where he worked at the carpenter trade.  He married our subject's mother in
St. Mary parish, and they were the parents of eight children, of whom W. H. is
the third in order of birth.  Only three of the family are living, viz.:  W.
H., R. E. and  J. B.  The father died in 1855, and the mother in 1887.  Both
were members of the Presbyterian church.

Mr. Cary is an enterprising young business man, and has made a good start in
life.  His farm is a model one and well improved; he has on it a small orange
grove, besides other fruit trees.  His partner, Mr. Bibbins, is a young man of
high standing in business and social circles.  He was born in Ohio, in 1854,
and is the son of J. J. and Mary (Fish) Bibbins, of New York.  J. J. is the
second of a family of three children born to them.  He removed to Louisiana in
1870, and owns one hundred and sixty acres of land at this place, which he has
since well improved.  By trade he is a carpenter, but devotes most of his time
to planting.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
254-257.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.