Drolla, Charles P.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Charles P. Drolla, attorney. Integrity, intelligence and system are characteristics which will
advance the interests of any manor any profession, and will tend to the prosperity to which all
aspire. Mr. Drolla's professional life has been characterized by shrewdness, ability and an
earnest desire to further the interests of his client., and as a natural result his time is
fully taken up by his profession. He was born in West Baton Rouge, La., August 17,1862, to
Francois and Ann (Kavanaugh) Drolla, natives respectively of Alsace, France, and New York. In
1855 the father came to America to seek his fortune, prior to that time having been a member of
the French army. Upon the opening of the Rebellion he joined the confederate force.,
supporting the principles of secession until the war closed. He is now a resident of New
Orleans, but his wife has been numbered with the dead since 1866. She was a daughter of Daniel
Kavanaugh, a native of the isle of Erin. In a private institution of New Orleans, Charles P.
Drolla obtained a practical education, and at the age of seventeen he took up the vocation of a
teacher as a temporary pursuit, and followed it about five years. During his spare moments he
was not idle, but improved his time and opportunities by taking a course in the law department
of the University of Louisiana, graduating May 23, 1885. His legal preceptor was Henry Denis,
Esq., of New Orleans, who thoroughly drilled him in legal lore, and he is now one of the
leading members of the Louisiana bar. He is careful in the preparation of his cases and is
considered a careful and accurate adviser and an earnest and conscientious advocate. He is a
member of the New Orleans Law association; is a member of the police board of the city, and
politically is a democrat. He was married March 6, 1886, and is the father of a son and
daughter.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 383. Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.