MAILLARD, Pierre, Switzerland then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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PIERRE MAILLARD, CYPREMORT.--Pierre Maillard was born February 4, 1841.  He is
a native of Switzerland, and is the son of Pierre and Mary Maillard, the
former a native of Switzerland, who is still living and a resident of his
native country, and the latter a native of France, born 1805 and died 1886.
They were the parents or eight children, three of whom are living, viz:  Kate
Louisa,  Francois Xavier and the subject of this sketch,  Pierre, Jr.

Pierre Maillard was reared and educated in Switzerland.  He came to America in
1855, locating at New Orleans, where he was taken sick with the yellow fever.
After having recovered he went to St. Mary parish and lived with his uncle
until 1859.  At this period he went to Louisville, Ky., and there engaged in
keeping a restaurant, and remained there until 1861, when he joined the
Federal army, in which he served until 1864 in the First Kentucky Regiment of
Volunteers.  He was discharged at Covington, Ky., at the close of the war.  He
then went to Cincinnati, and thence to Memphis, Tenn., where he engaged as
general laborer, and remained there until 1882, during which time he engaged
in tool repairing for himself.  He came to St. Mary parish, where he engaged
with his uncle as a clerk for three years, and then in copartnership with
Nicholas Cerl, opening a mercantile store and operating a plantation, and this
business they are pursuing with success.  Our subject was married in 1865, at
Memphis, Tenn., to Miss Mary King, a native of Dublin, Ireland.    She died in
1875, and he married two years later Miss Annie Hotter, a native of Memphis,
Tenn., and of German extraction.  Her brother, Henry Hotter, is secretary of
the Cotton Exchange at Memphis, and one of the youngest men in the United
States acting in that capacity.  Mr. Maillard has no children of his own, but
he having made a trip to Europe in 1886, adopted a girl, a native of
Switzerland, Mary Louisa.  When she came to Louisiana she was only able to
speak French, but she has now mastered English, French and German.  She was
born in 1878.  In politics Mr. Maillard is an active Republican.  He is a
member of the Masonic Lodge of New Iberia.  He and family are members of the
Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
376-377.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.