NUGIER, John, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
                    Submitted by Mike Miller




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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 330.  Edited by Alc
e Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Nugier, John, district attorney, Abbeville, Vermilion parish, La., was born
Oct. 29, 1879; son of John and Mary C. (Moss) Nugier, the former of whom
was born in Pointe Coup e parish, La., in the year 1845, and died at
Abbeville, La., 1911. Mary C. (Moss) Nugier, the mother, was born in
Vermilion parish, La., 1850, and survives her husband at this time.  The
maternal grandparents, Robert P. Moss and Mary Stephens, were both natives
of Vermilion parish, La., the latter now deceased and the former now a
resident of Vermilion parish, at the age of 90 years.  The paternal
great-grandfather was a native of Alabama, but came to Louisiana and
located in Vermilion parish in the early part of the nineteenth century.
During all of his active lifetime John Nugier, the father, followed the
vocation of a merchant, at Centerville, La., during the earlier part of his
business career, and later at Abbeville up to the time of his death.  At
the beginning of the Civil war, April 1, 1861, he enlisted in the
Confederate service as a member of Company E, West Feliciana riflemen,
attached to the Fourth Louisiana volunteer infantry.  He participated in
the battle of Shiloh, under the command of Col. W. H. Allen, and served to
the close of the war.  John Nugier, the son, attended public school at
Perry's Bridge, La.  In 1892 he entered Chaddock's literary college, at
Quincy, Ill., and graduated from that institution in 1896.  In the
following year he entered the Gem City business college, Quincy, Ill., and
graduated in July, 1897, with the degree of Master of Accounts.  Following
this he took the shorthand and typewriting course at the same institution,
graduating Dec. 25, 1897.  He then returned home and during some time
afterward was employed as clerk on a packet line, after which he entered
the service of the Federal government as U. S. inspector of river and
harbor improvements in Mississippi and Louisiana.  During the time he was
engaged in this work he employed his spare time in the study of law.  In
1900 he entered the law school of Tulane university and graduated with the
degree of LL. B. in the class of 1901.  Immediately thereafter he opened
offices at Abbeville and there began the practice of law, to which he has
since devoted his abilities.  In 1904 he was elected district attorney of
Vermilion parish, and during his succeeding term discharged the duties of
the office in a manner so satisfactory to his constituents that they re
lected him to succeed himself, and have since re lected him to his third
term as district attorney, his present term expiring in the year 1916.  At
the last election he received a largely increased vote.  Mr. Nugier has
voted the democratic ticket from the time of casting his first ballot.  He
is a member of the Woodmen of the World and of the Woodmen 's Circle.  In
1902 Mr. Nugier was married to Miss Marie Elmire Montayne.