Terrebonne County Louisiana Archives News.....Fifty Years Ago No. 44 April 17, 1897
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The Thibodaux Sentinel April 17, 1897
At the April election in 1847 for members of the town council there were sixty 
votes cast resulting in the election of Louis Bush mayor, with Hebert Aucoin, 
Absolom Kees, Paul D. Terrebonne, C.F. Hawley, James Scudday and John C. Beatty 
trustees.

At its organization, E.W. Blake was elected clerk, J.A. LeBlanc, Treasurer, G. 
Whitemore, collector, wharfinger, constable and assessor. The mayor was 
authorized to purchase paving bricks at not more than $12.00 per 1000. The mayor 
was directed to petition the Legislature “to grant the town the privilege of 
forming within the limits a separate school district which school is to be under 
the immediate management and supervision of the town council.”

This was the preliminary step towards the erection and organization of the Guion 
Academy.

A digest of the ordinances of the Town Council previously adopted was approved 
and printed in French and English. The assessor was directed to make a roll of 
all the children within the limits of the corporation between the ages of 4 and 
15 years. 

Evariste Maronge was employed corporation laborer at the rate of $500 per year.

One fact concerning this town council and its assistants is that all are dead 
except Maronge who still remains with us respected and esteemed by everybody.

Of this council there were several whose names never appear in that body again. 
Hebert Aucoin was a well known citizen who owned the property on the East side 
of Focus Street between Main and Thibodaux. C.F. Hawley was proprietor in whole 
or in part of the foundry property now owned by Lawrence Keefe. He removed to 
the West soon after. He was an uncle of the Roundtree family residing in 
Terrebonne Parish. Absalom Kees was a prominent citizen, who subsequently 
purchased a home near Lockport, and was supposed to have drowned in Lake Fields 
many years ago. 

James A. Scudday was a leading physician of Thibodaux, and a prominent, 
energetic citizen of this Parish. He died in 1864.

John C. Beatty was a prominent lawyer and popular citizen who was drowned in the 
Last Island storm of August 10, 1856.

George Whitemore removed from Thibodaux about that date. 

This council, judging from the record, did nothing out of the usual retinue of 
that body. The town was small at that date, and the revenues insufficient to 
accomplish a great deal. Inaugurated steps, however, that resulted in the 
institution of the Guion Academy free school is sufficient to cause it to be 
remembered with gratitude by the hundreds of citizens of Thibodaux who received 
an education within its walls.


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