1891 Biography - Lenfroy Burguieres

LENFROY BURGUIERES, BALDWIN. -- Lenfroy Burguieres was born in Louisiana, April 27, 1852. He is the son of E. D. and M. M. (Verret) Burguieres natives of France and Louisiana, respectively. Our subject was reared in Terrebonne parish, where he entered a private school at the age of twelve years, and remained until he had attained his majority, when he engaged in merchandising, which, however, he abandoned later and turned his attention to planting. From Terrebonne parish he removed to St. Mary, and is still a resident of this place. By energy and industry Mr. Burguieres has achieved the highest success. His plantation consists of four hundred and fifty acres of fine land, three hundred of them being under cultivation. He raises principally corn and cane. That his plantation products might be more remunerative our subject erected a fine sugar house, which manufactures syrup and sugar. He was for seventeen months recorder of Terrebonne parish. He married, December 30, 1885, Elodie Bonin, a native of this parish, born August 5, 1843.

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