1891 Biography - Pierre Maillard

PIERRE MAILLARD, CYPREMORT. -- Pierre Maillard was born February 4, 1841. He is a native of Switzerland, and is the son of Pierre and Mary Maillard, the former a native of Switzerland, who is still living and a resident of his native country, and the latter a native of France, born 1805 and died 1886. They were the parents or eight children, three of whom are living, viz.: Kate Louisa, Francois Xavier and the subject of this sketch, Pierre, Jr.

Pierre Maillard was reared and educated in Switzerland. He came to America in 1855, locating at New Orleans, where he was taken sick with the yellow fever. After having recovered he went to St. Mary parish and lived with his uncle until 1859. At this period he went to Louisville, Ky., and there engaged in keeping a restaurant, and remained there until 1861, when he joined the Federal army, in which he served until 1864 in the First Kentucky Regiment of Volunteers. He was discharged at Covington, Ky., at the close of the war. He then went to Cincinnati, and thence to Memphis, Tenn., where he engaged as general laborer, and remained there until 1882, during which time he engaged in tool repairing for himself. He came to St. Mary parish, where he engaged with his uncle as a clerk for three years, and then in copartnership with Nicholas Cerl, opening a mercantile store and operating a plantation, and this business they are pursuing with success. Our subject was married in 1865, at Memphis, Tenn., to Miss Mary King, a native of Dublin, Ireland. She died in 1875, and he married two years later Miss Annie Hotter, a native of Memphis, Tenn., and of German extraction. Her brother, Henry Hotter, is secretary of the Cotton Exchange at Memphis, and one of the youngest men in the United States acting in that capacity. Mr. Maillard has no children of his own, but he having made a trip to Europe in 1886, adopted a girl, a native of Switzerland, Mary Louisa. When she came to Louisiana she was only able to speak French, but she has now mastered English, French and German. She was born in 1878. In politics Mr. Maillard is an active Republican. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge of New Iberia. He 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 376-377.