MAHON, James C., British West Indies then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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JAMES C. MAHON, FOSTER.--James C. Mahon is a native of the British West
Indies, born 1845.  He is the son of William E. and Christian (Clarke) Mahon,
natives of Ireland and Scotland, respectively.  They were married in
Barbadoes, British West Indies, where each emigrated when young.  William
Mahon was a planter, and followed that business all his life.  He died in
1869.  His widow survives him and is still a resident of Barbadoes.  She is
the mother of eight children, seven of whom are living, James Mahon being the
only one in America.

James C. Mahon received his early education in Barbados and subsequently in
England.  After having completed his literary studies in England he returned
to Barbadoes and engaged in a dry goods business, and after one year's
experience in that line became a planter, in which business he continued for
seven years, when he emigrated to the United States, locating in Illinois, and
began farming.  This did not suit his tastes; so he entered an insurance
business in which he remained until 1872, when he removed to St. Mary parish,
Louisiana, where he engaged in sugar planting for four years.  From '8o to '86
he served as manager of a plantation and then purchased South Bend plantation
on Bayou Sal‚, consisting of three thousand six hundred and sixty acres, eight
hundred of which is arable land, five hundred swamp and two thousand and sixty
sea marsh.  On this extensive tract of land he has been engaged in sugar
making and stock raising.  He has over five hundred head of cattle and makes a
ton and a half of cane per acre.  He has an efficient sugar mill, with a
capacity of one hundred and fifty tons in twenty four hours, which he intends
increasing to a greater capacity.  Mr. Mahon married in 1876 Miss Florence
Hudson, a native of this parish.  She is the daughter of Benjamin Hudson, a
prominent planter and a descendant of one of the early families of St. Mary
parish.  Mr. and Mrs. Mahon are the parents of three children, two daughters
and one son, viz:  Anna,  Beatrice,  Hubert.  Mr. Mahon is a charter member of
the K. of P. Lodge of St. Mary No. 44, of Franklin.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 376.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.