Terrebonne County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Burguieres, Jules Martial April 17, 1850 - October 1, 1899
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Jules Martial Burguieres, late a resident of New Orleans and for many years 
identified with the sugar producing interests of Louisiana, was born in 
Terrebonne parish, La., April 17, 1850, and died in the city of New Orleans on 
Oct. 1, 1899. His father, Eugene Denis Burguieres, was a native of Paris, 
France, where he studied law and began the practice of that profession. While 
still a young man he came over to the United States and located in Terrebonne 
parish, La., where he continued to practice law. At the outbreak of the Civil 
war he was in ill health, which prevented him from taking up arms in behalf of 
the Southern cause, and his death occurred shortly after the close of that 
historic conflict. In 1836 he married Miss Marie M. Verret, a native of 
Terrebonne parish, and to this union were born three sons and four daughters, 
viz.: Ernest Denis, Jules Marial, Leufroy, Pauline, Camila, Annette and 
Marguerite. Jules M. Burguieres, the immediate subject of this review, was 
educated in the private and public schools of his native parish, chiefly in the 
town of Houma. He was too young to enter military service during the Civil war, 
and at the age of sixteen years he began his business career in the office of 
the clerk of the court at Houma under the well known Henry Newell, one of 
Terrebonne's most honored citizens. Young Burguieres remained in the clerk's, 
recorder's, and sheriff's offices of Terrebonne parish until 1874, when he 
leased a plantation near Chacahoula, Terrebonne parish, and embarked in the 
sugar-cane industry. Disastrous floods played havoc in that year and his entire 
crop was destroyed. The next year he and his brother, Ernest Denis, purchased a 
plantation on the Bayou Cypremort, in the parish of St. Mary. Upon the death of 
his brother he continued in the business alone, and it was on the banks of the 
Bayou Cypremort that he laid the foundation of his vast sugar interests. His 
estate there is still operated under the name of the "The J. M. Burguieres 
Company, Limited." In 1893 Mr. Burguieres removed to New Orleans, where he 
formed a partnership with J. B. Levert, under the firm name of Levert, 
Burguieres, & Co., Limited, which firm engaged extensively in the sugar 
factorage business. At the time of his death Mr. Burguieres was a director in a 
number of sugar concerns and was president of the First National bank of 
Franklin. During the reconstruction era he belonged to the Democratic party, but 
later in life his convictions led him to become a Republican, and he remained a 
member of that party to the end of his days. However, his active participation 
in political affairs was chiefly local, pertaining to the government and 
administration of St. Mary parish. In his religious views he was a Roman 
Catholic and was a strict attendant at church every Sunday. Mr. Burguieres was 
not particularly a club man, but at the time of his death he belonged to one or 
two secret carnival organizations. He was twice married. On April 21, 1873, he 
married Miss Corinne Marie Patout, daughter of Isidore and Alida (Bonvillain) 
Patout, children of Simeon Patout, who left France in the early '20s and came to 
Louisiana. To Mr. Burgieres's first marriage were born ten children, two of whom 
died in infancy. Those living are Denis Philip, Joseph Eugene, Louise Marie, 
Florence Clothilde, Jules Martial, Ernest Aloysius, Henry Isidore and Charles 
Patout. The mother of these children died on Feb. 28, 1890, and in April, 1891, 
Mr. Burguieres married Ida Laperle Broussard, a distant cousin of his first wife 
in the paternal line, and this marriage was blessed by one daughter--Inez 
Ernestine. The life of Jules M. Burguieres presents an example worthy of the 
highest emulation. Starting in business at an early age as a poor boy, whose 
family was in the same condition as that of so many other Southern families 
after the Civil war, he won by the exercise of his good judgment and industry a 
place among the foremost businessmen of his state. His success was due to his 
power of development. Year by year his sugar estate grew in importance as he 
cleared the forest and brought new lands under cultivation, and throughout his 
entire career he preserved a spotless reputation for integrity and a due regard 
for the rights and opinions of his fellow-men. Progressive and public spirited, 
he stood at all times ready to aid any movement for the uplifting of humanity, 
or for the advancement of the material interests of the community in which his 
lot might be cast. He lies buried in his family tomb in the midst of his 
property at Cypremort, where before his coming was a wilderness.

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From "Louisiana; comprising sketches of parishes, towns, events, institutions, and 
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