Guilbault, Albert

Submitted by Mike Miller

Guilbault, Albert, son of Alfred Guilbault and Adeline Paquette. Alfred Guilbault, his father, was born 45 miles outside of Montreal, Canada, on Aug. 2, 1836, the issue of Amable Guilbault and Catherine Telliea. Alfred Guilbault came to New Orleans from Montreal in 1866, on his way stopping in Chicago Ill. for 9 months. His mother, Adeline Paquette, was born of Pierre Paquette and Marie Pourier, at Keesville, Essex county, N. Y., on June 6, 1844. Her parents were born in Canada. Mrs. Guilbault came to New Orleans with her parents about 1860. Alfred has long been identified with the car-building industry of the city of New Orleans. Albert Guilbault is one of 7 living children, 4 daughters and 3 sons, born to his parents. He passed his childhood and youth in the city and there attended the public schools, but withdrew from school while yet in the 6th grade to begin work as an office boy. Later the lad attended night school, and forging his own way to better conditions and circumstances, matriculated in the law school of Tulane university, from which he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in the class of 1900. When 14 years of age he became an office boy in a law office, and from that time has virtually been identified with the legal profession, growing up in the calling, so to speak, in which he has, through determination, energy and native ability, attained a well-merited reputation as an earnest and conscientious counselor, learned and untiring in his loyalty to his clients, and deeply appreciative of his obligations as a citizen. Mr. Guilbault is fully sustaining the usual record and reputation of self-educated men and steadily moving step by step to higher and broader fields of usefulness.

He is affiliated with the Democratic party and in 1912 was elected a member of the Louisiana legislature. He is a member of the Catholic church and of the Knights of Columbus. In 1903 Hon. Albert Guilbault was married to Miss Marie Strack of New Orleans. Five children, as follows, have been born to their union: Albert C., John D., Walter S., Marie C. and Catherine C. Guilbault.

Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 187. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.