KEMPER, (Mrs.) William P., ME., then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana



MRS. WILLIAM P. KEMPER, GLENCOE.--Mrs. William P. Kemper is a native of
Maine, born November 8, 1835.  She is the daughter of Michael and 
Elizabeth (Reynolds) Rogers, both natives of New York.  Mrs. William P. 
Kemper was reared by Stephen Young, of Gardiner, Maine.  She received the 
best educational advantages and came south, locating in Louisiana in 1856.  
In 1858 she was married to William P. Kemper, who was a native of 
Louisiana, born June 26, 1826, and the son of William P. Kemper, Sr., and 
Eliza Hulick, the former a native of Louisiana and the latter of New 
Jersey.  William P. Kemper and wife became the parents of eight children, 
viz:  Stephen Y., who died October 1, 1859;  Eliza B.,  William B.,  Kate 
G.,  Mary J.,  James P.,  Walter Y., Charles D.  William P. Kemper was one 
of the most highly respected and prominent citizens of the State.  He died 
very suddenly at his home, Glencoe plantation, on Wednesday, November 26, 
1890.  Mr. Kemper had been for many years the only planter in St. Mary 
parish who owned after the war the same plantation on which he resided 
before that period.  Mrs. Kemper owns two plantations, Glencoe and 
Patagonia; the former consists of one thousand three hundred and twenty-
six acres of land, eight hundred and forty of which are under cultivation 
in sugar cane and corn.  The cane yields twenty-seven tons per acre and 
the corn fifteen barrels.  In Glencoe sugar house there is a three-roller 
sugar mill and refinery which cost about twenty thousand dollars, with a 
capacity for a hundred and fifty tons of sugar cane per day.  They 
manufacture three grades of sugar.  Patagonia plantation is used as a 
stock farm.

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

Submitted by Mike Miller  <mike_m@deq.state.la.us>

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