Duvigneaud, Joseph

Submitted by Mike Miller

Joseph Duvigneaud, attorney, New Orleans, La. This prominent lawyer is a son of Judge Louis Duvigneaud, who was born in Cuba and who came to New Orleans with his parents when but three years of age. The latter became an eminent lawyer and was three times elected to the bench. He died June 20, 1890, aged eighty-three. His father, Pierre Duvigneaud, was a French Huguenot, his birth having occurred near Rochelle,, France, in 1757, and who came to America shortly after the Revolutionary war. He settled in Delaware and subsequently served under General Jackson in the war of 1812. The mother of our subject, Marie Therese Julia de Chaussend, was a native of the Creole state and died in 1866. Her father, Pierre de Chaussend, was a native of Paris, France, and came to America about 1817. Joseph Duvigneaud was born in New Orleans, October 7, 1831, and was educated in the University of Virginia.

After leaving that institution, or in 1853, he began teaching as a temporary pursuit and continued this two years, studying law at the same time with his father. From 1855 until the breaking out of the war he farmed. In 1863 he joined a battery of artillery from Pointe Coupee parish and served until near the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. He was captured at Mobile Bay, Fort Gaines, in August, 1864, and was held a prisoner in New Orleans until November of that year. After cessation of hostilities he resumed the study of law, and in June, 1866, he was admitted to the bar. He at once began practicing in New Orleans, and here he has since continued. He is a democrat in politics and held the office of police commissioner in 1866. He is a Catholic. He is worshipful master of Perseverance lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 4 at the present time, and is also a member of the K. of P. He has been twice married and has seven children, two of whom are sons.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 393. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.