HABERT, F. R., St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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F. R. HABERT, FRANKLIN.--F. R. Habert is a native of St. Mary parish, born in
Franklin, 1857.  He is the son of Augustin and Adeline Habert, both natives of
France.  Augustin Habert became a merchant of Franklin, and died in France in
1871.  His widow survived him until 1883.  She was one of the pioneers of this
parish.

F. R. Habert is the only child of his parents now living.  He received his
early education in Franklin, and in 1864 he went with his parents to France,
where he remained until 1872.  During that time he attended college.  In 1873
he returned to France, and completed his studies in the Lyceum of Poitiers.
He then returned to his native State and engaged is merchandising.  In 1879 he
married Miss Sidonie DelaHoussaye, of St. Mary parish.  She is the daughter of
Arthur DelaHoussaye, a merchant of Franklin.  In 1880 he gave up his
mercantile business and engaged in planting.  His plantation, known as Central
Park, is located on the west bank of Bayou Teche, four miles from Franklin.
It consists of four hundred acres of land, two hundred of which he has put in
cultivation since he owned it.  He grows principally sugar cane and corn.  He
averages about three thousand pounds of sugar per acre, and uses a single mill
and open kettle process.  He raises eighteen barrels of corn per acre.  His
land is well improved, and all his buildings are first class.  He is the
father of six children, viz:  Ren‚,  Arthur,  Adeline,  Sidonie,  Edouard and
Lucie.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 368.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.