BURGUIERES, Jules. M., Terrebonne then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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J. M. BURGUIERES, LOUISA.--Jules Martial Burguieres was born April 17, 1850,
in Terrebonne parish, Louisiana.  He is the son of Eugene Dennis Burguieres
and Marie M. Verret.  Eugene D. Burguieres was born in Paris, France, and
removed to Louisiana early in life, where he married in 1836.  To his union
three sons and four daughters were born:  Ernest Dennis,  Pauline Camila,
Jacqueline Annette,  Marquerite Annette,  Jules M. and  Lenfroy, all of whom
were reared in Terrebonne parish.  Jules M. Burguieres attended private and
public schools in Terrebonne parish, principally in Houma, and received a good
business education.  At the age of sixteen years he began work in the Clerk's
office under the well known Herry Newell, one of Terrebonne's most honored
citizens.  Young Burguieres continued work in the clerk's, recorder
's, and
sheriff's offices of Terrebonne parish until the year 1874, when he leased a
plantation near Chacahoula, in Terrebonne parish, and embarked in  planting.
His crop was destroyed by the overflow of that year, and he suffered a loss of
$3,000.  The same year he bought a half interest in a plantation on Bayou
Cypremort, which a few years afterward he sold, and purchased Cypremort
plantation for $90,000, upon which he spent a large amount of money and made
substantial improvements, among which was the erecting of a refinery, and
five-roller sugar mill of large capacity.  In June, 1889, he bought Scally
place, now known as Florence plantation.  This plantation is one of the finest
in the State, and its soil is of inexhaustible fertility.  It was purchased at
a cost of $80,900.  The combined sugar capacity of Cypremort and Florence
plantations amounted in 1890 to 3,300,000 pounds.  Mr. Burguieres is the
possessor of a comfortable fortune, which he has amassed by his own unaided
efforts, not having inherited a dollar of property, and constantly having to
help others less fortunate than himself in their business undertakings.  Mr.
Burguieres in the summer of 1890 employed the J. M. Ware Well Company to sink
an artesian well on Cypremort plantation, which has proved an entire success.
Our subject was married April 21, 1873, to Mis
s Marie Corinne Patout.  They
are the parents of eight living children, six sons and two daughters :  J. P
Dennis,  Joseph E.,  Marie Louise,  Florence Clothilde,  Jules M., Jr.,
Ernest I.,  Henry S. and  Charles Patout Burguieres.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
360-361.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.