1891 Biography - Jules Martial Burguieres

J. M. BURGUIERES, LOUISA. – Jules Martial Burguieres was born April 17, 1850, in Terrebonne parish, Louisiana. He is the son of Eugene Dennis Burguieres and Marie M. Verret. Eugene D. Burguieres was born in Paris, France, and removed to Louisiana early in life, where he married in 1836. To his union three sons and four daughters were born: Ernest Dennis, Pauline Camila, Jacqueline Annette, Marquerite Annette, Jules M. and Lenfroy, all of whom were reared in Terrebonne parish. Jules M. Burguieres attended private and public schools in Terrebonne parish, principally in Houma, and received a good business education. At the age of sixteen years he began work in the Clerk's office under the well known Herry Newell, one of Terrebonne's most honored citizens. Young Burguieres continued work in the clerk's, recorder's, and sheriff's offices of Terrebonne parish until the year 1874, when he leased a plantation near Chacahoula, in Terrebonne parish, and embarked in planting. His crop was destroyed by the overflow of that year, and he suffered a loss of $3,000. The same year he bought a half interest in a plantation on Bayou Cypremort, which a few years afterward he sold, and purchased Cypremort plantation for $90,000, upon which he spent a large amount of money and made substantial improvements, among which was the erecting of a refinery, and five-roller sugar mill of large capacity. In June, 1889, he bought Scally place, now known as Florence plantation. This plantation is one of the finest in the State, and its soil is of inexhaustible fertility. It was purchased at a cost of $80,900. The combined sugar capacity of Cypremort and Florence plantations amounted in 1890 to 3,300,000 pounds. Mr. Burguieres is the possessor of a comfortable fortune, which he has amassed by his own unaided efforts, not having inherited a dollar of property, and constantly having to help others less fortunate than himself in their business undertakings. Mr. Burguieres in the summer of 1890 employed the J. M. Ware Well Company to sink an artesian well on Cypremort plantation, which has proved an entire success. Our subject was married April 21, 1873, to Miss Marie Corinne Patout. They are the parents of eight living children, six sons and two daughters: J. P. Dennis, Joseph E., Marie Louise, Florence Clothilde, Jules M., Jr., Ernest I., Henry S. and Charles Patout Burguieres.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, pages 360-361.