1891 Biography - Auguste Lesseps, Jr.

AUGUSTE LESSEPS, JR., CYPREMORT. -- Auguste Lesseps is a native of Plaquemine parish, born in 1855. He is the son of Auguste and Carmen (Ribas) Lesseps, the former a native of New Orleans, the latter of Spain. They were married in New Orleans, where they now reside. Mr. Lesseps, Sr., was for forty years a sugar planter in Plaquemine parish, and was for a number of years treasurer of that parish. During the war he was a Union man, but took no active part in the contest. He is a cousin of DeLesseps of Panama canal fame.

Our subject was educated in Mississippi, at Trinity High School, Pass Christian, where he remained four years. After leaving school he engaged in sugar planting, at the age of seventeen years. He went to Plaquemine parish, remaining there eight years, when he removed to St. Landry, at which place he resided one year. Then he returned to Plaquemine, and lived there for a period of three years. He married, in 1882, Miss Augusta Story, a native of St. Bernard parish, and daughter of Clement and Amelia (Lesseps) Story. She was reared and educated in New Orleans. Auguste Lesseps removed from Plaquemine to St. Charles, where he remained a year, when he returned to Plaquemine and there lived two years, after which he removed to Avoyelles, staying there two years, when he located in St. Mary parish in December, 1889. There he took charge of a plantation. He is the father of four children: Hamilton, Marguerite, Edgar and an infant. Our subject and family are members of the Catholic church.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, pages 372-373.