1891 Biography - Mrs. William P. Kemper

MRS. WILLIAM P. KEMPER, GLENCOE. – Mrs. William P. Kemper is a native of Maine, born November 8, 1835. She is the daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Rogers, both natives of New York. Mrs. William P. Kemper was reared by Stephen Young, of Gardiner, Maine. She received the best educational advantages and came south, locating in Louisiana in 1856. In 1858 she was married to William P. Kemper, who was a native of Louisiana, born June 26, 1826, and the son of William P. Kemper, Sr., and Eliza Hulick, the former a native of Louisiana and the latter of New Jersey. William P. Kemper and wife became the parents of eight children, viz: Stephen Y., who died October 1, 1859; Eliza B., William B., Kate G., Mary J., James P., Walter Y., Charles D. William P. Kemper was one of the most highly respected and prominent citizens of the State. He died very suddenly at his home, Glencoe plantation, on Wednesday, November 26, 1890. Mr. Kemper had been for many years the only planter in St. Mary parish who owned after the war the same plantation on which he resided before that period. Mrs. Kemper owns two plantations, Glencoe and Patagonia; the former consists of one thousand three hundred and twenty-six acres of land, eight hundred and forty of which are under cultivation in sugar cane and corn. The cane yields twenty-seven tons per acre and the corn fifteen barrels. In Glencoe sugar house there is a three-roller sugar mill and refinery which cost about twenty thousand dollars, with a capacity for a hundred and fifty tons of sugar cane per day. They manufacture three grades of sugar. Patagonia plantation is used as a stock farm.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, page 371.