VEEDER, Alcide, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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ALCIDE VEEDER, CHARENTON.--Alcide Veeder was born in St. Mary parish in 1851.
He is the son of John and Felician (Ward) Veeder.  John Veeder was a native of
New York, and came to St. Mary parish when young.  He was a bricklayer by
occupation.  He died in 1854.  Felician Veeder is a native of St. Mary parish.
She married a second time, Frederick Wolford. 

Alcide Veeder is the only living member of a family of three children.  He
received his education in the public and private schools of his neighborhood,
and has been working on his own account since sixteen years of age as a
planter and cooper.  His plantation consists of one hundred acres, and lies on
the east side of the Teche, three-fourths of a mile above Charenton.  Its
principal products are sugar cane and rice.  His carpenter shop is located on
his plantation and gives employment to four men.  In January, 1890, our
subject entered into partnership with Hubert Delaye, in a general mercantile
business, carrying an average stock of about five thousand dollars.  He
married, in 1871, Anna Minderman, a native of St. Mary parish, born in 1852,
and daughter of Leander Minderman.  They are the parents of seven children:
John,  Ida,  Winifred,  George,  Ella,  Lena and  Aimie.  Mr. Veeder and
family are members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 387.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.