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XAVIER HALBERT, BALDWIN. -- Xavier Halbert a native of France, was born February
20, 1833. He is the son of John Pierre and Mary (Herve) Halbert, both natives of
France. Xavier Halbert was one of a family of four children, two sons and two
daughters, born to this union, viz.: John, born 1827; Xavier, the subject of
this sketch; Philomene, born 1835, and Emile, born 1837.
Xavier Halbert
was reared in France, where he received a liberal education. At the age of
twenty years he came to New Orleans, where he remained for a short while,
removing to St. Charles parish, Louisiana, where he engaged in coopering, in
which he was employed for two years. From there he went to St. John the Baptist
parish and for two years conducted a bakery. At the expiration of this time he
located in St. James parish, where he continued to conduct a bakery business for
twelve years. Later he ran a freight boat between New Orleans and Cincinnati,
Ohio, for a year, when he came to Charington, Louisiana, and engaged in
merchandising, and continued his business at this place for nineteen years,
since which time he has conducted a flourishing mercantile business at Baldwin.
He carries a stock of seven thousand dollars and his annual business amounts to
about twelve thousand dollars. Mr. Halbert was married in Lafourche parish,
August 30, 1875, to Miss Rosine Cascarine, daughter of Charles F. DeZanche, a
native of France and for many years a resident of New Orleans. Mr. and Mrs.
Halbert are the parents of three sons and three daughters, viz.: Mary Emilie,
Heloise Anne, Xavier Charles, Emile, Eugenie Elodie, Andrew G.
Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, pages 369-370.
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