HALBERT, Xavier, FR., then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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XAVIER HALBERT, BALDWIN.--Xavier Halbert a native of France, was born February
20, 1833.  He is the son of John Pierre and Mary (Herve) Halbert, both natives
of France.  Xavier Halbert was one of a family of four children, two sons and
two daughters, born to this union, viz:  John, born 1827;  Xavier, the subject
of this sketch;  Philomene, born 1835, and  Emile, born 1837.

Xavier Halbert was reared in France, where he received a liberal education.
At the age of twenty years he came to New Orleans, where he remained for a
short while, removing to St. Charles parish, Louisiana, where he engaged in
coopering, in which he was employed for two years.  From there he went to St.
John the Baptist parish and for two years conducted a bakery.  At the
expiration of this time he located in St. James parish, where he continued to
conduct a bakery business for twelve years.  Later he ran a freight boat
between New Orleans and Cincinnati, Ohio, for a year, when he came to
Charington, Louisiana, and engaged in merchandising, and continued his
business at this place for nineteen years, since which time he has conducted a
flourishing mercantile business at Baldwin.  He carries a stock of seven
thousand dollars and his annual business amounts to about twelve thousand
dollars.  Mr. Halbert was married in Lafourche parish, August 30, 1875, to
Miss Rosine Cascarine, daughter of Charles F. DeZanche, a native of France and
for many years a resident of New Orleans.  Mr. and Mrs. Halbert are the
parents of three sons and three daughters, viz:  Mary Emilie,  Heloise Anne,
Xavier Charles,  Emile,  Eugenie Elodie,  Andrew G.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
369-370.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.