1891 Biography - G. G. Zenor

G. G. ZENOR, PATTERSON. – G. G. Zenor is a native of Adams county, Mississippi, born October 18, 1833. He is the son of M. and S. M. (Waller) Zenor, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Louisiana. They removed to Concordia parish, Louisiana, when G. G. Zenor was a child. He received his finishing education in the High School of Natchez, Mississippi, after which he assisted his father in planting until 1868. He then removed to St. Mary parish and engaged in sugar planting on his own account, and has become one of the most successful sugar growers of the State. He has seventeen hundred acres of land under cultivation, two-thirds of which is in cane and the rest in corn. He has a five-roller mill, made by the Reading Iron Works, of Pennsylvania, which is the same mill that was on exhibition at the Exposition at New Orleans. He can grind four hundred toils of cane in twenty-four hours, and has one vacuum pan with a capacity for fifteen thousand pounds of white clarified sugar, or eighteen thousand pounds of yellow sugar at a strike, which requires about four hours. He operates the centrifugal process has four Winston and six German centrifugals. Mr. Zenor was married in St. Mary parish, in 1855, to Miss Lucretia Robbins, a native of this parish. They are the parents of seven children, viz: Webb, Sallie, Inez (deceased), Millie, Lulu, Oscar, George.

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Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, page 388.

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