Champaigne, J. U.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 318. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.

Mr. Champagne, a merchant of Breaux Bridge, is a native of Louisiana, born September 27, 1863. He is the son of O. and Pilama (Thibodeaux) Champagne, both of whom are natives of Lafourche parish, Louisiana.
J. U. Champagne it one of a family of eight children, seven of whom are living. He was reared and educated in Lafourche parish. He began business at the age of nineteen as a clerk in the mercantile establishment of F. M. Seymour, of Abbeville, where he remained for two years, when he removed to St. Martin parish, and engaged in merchandise at Breaux Bridge. He began business on a capital of $250 in a rented building. He has been very successful in his business undertakings, and now carries a stock of $3000 worth of goods, and does an annual business of from $15,000 to $18,000. He owns his own business property, having a good two-story building, eighteen by sixty feet. Mr. Champagne is a thorough-going, energetic business man.

He was married, May 18, 1890, to Miss Hebert, daughter of A. Hebert, of St. Martin parish. Mr. Champagne and wife are members of the Breaux Bridge Dramatic Association, and he of the Breaux Bridge brass band.