Guerrin, J. A.

Submitted by Mike Miller

J. A. GUERRIN, ST. MARTINVILLE.--J. A. Guerrin was born in New Orleans, 1860. He is the son of A. and Amelia (Fonrugu) Guerrin. A. Guerrin was born in New Orleans 1822, and Amelia Guerrin was also born in New Orleans, 1845. They became patents of thirteen children, our subject being the youngest boy. A. Guerrin was a hatter by trade and lived in New Iberia. He was a Confederate soldier during the war and served first as a private and subsequently in the tin shop. He spent his school days in New Iberia. He worked in his father's tin shop till he was twenty-four years old, when he married Miss Eva Bonin, of St. Martin parish. She is the daughter of A. Bonin, a large planter in St. Martin parish, who died of yellow fever in 1867.

J. A. Guerrin is father of three children, all of whom are now living. Mr. Guerrin is now proprietor of a hotel in St. Martinville.

Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 328. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.