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Biographical Sketches - Page 4
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Philander E. Coles
May 2, 1903
P. E. Coles was born March 27, 1852, in Nelson county, Tenn., but moved with his father’s family at an early age to Logan county, Ky., where on Dec. 10, 1873, he married Mary A. Sawyer. Remaining in Kentucky until 1892, the Coles came with their children to Southwest Louisiana. Their two sons, Stokes and Victor Coles, are prominent farmers in Vermilion parish. Their daughter Cora married Walter Fleshman. Three children remain with them, Ada, Ruth and Fred.
For several years after coming to Louisiana, Mr. Coles engaged in planting rice, which he still continues to do on a small scale. He and his son-in-law, W. H. Fleshman, are proprietors of the livery stable at Estherwood, he having moved here five years ago.
Mrs. Coles was appointed postmistress in 1898, which position she has filled most efficiently. She is ably assisted by her daughter, Miss Ada Coles.
Mr. Coles still owns his farm in the Blue Grass State, but says that although he only came South to benefit his wife’s health, he expects to live and die in the land of his adoption.
Charles H. Cowan
July 11, 1903
The Signal takes great pleasure in printing the picture and a short biography of its popular correspondent at Midland, C. H. Cowan.
There is perhaps no better known resident of western Acadia parish than Mr. Cowan for the reason that he has played a prominent part in its upbuilding and rapid development. Mr. Cowan is a native of Illinois, having been born at Rockford, May 2, 1865. In 1887 he was married to Miss Nellie E. Griffiths. He left his native state for Louisiana one year after his marriage and located in the same town of Jennings, in Calcasieu parish. Mr. Cowan came to Louisiana with no money and for several years worked at the carpenter’s trade and conducted a bakery at Jennings. In 1892 he moved to Acadia parish and purchased 100 acres of rice land and after a first years success, added 660 more acres to his original land holdings. He was one of the incorporators of the Midland Development Co. which aided so materially in settling that section of the parish. Mr. Cowan is now the president of the Midland Rice Mill. He is also owner of the large up-to-date Midland hotel and the proprietor of a first-class livery stable.
Mr. Cowan is the father of four bright children – Ralph, Roslyn, Robin and Dorothy, the latter two twins.
The year the Signal offered a prize to the correspondent in Southwest Louisiana giving the best service, Mr. Cowan easily carried away the honors. He is very popular with all who know him and is a business man of more than ordinary ability.
Charles L. Crippen
October 27, 1894
The subject of our sketch came to Crowley in October of 1887 and shortly thereafter entered the employ of W. W. Duson & Bro. Possessed of exceptional business tact and judgment, points which his employers were not slow in recognizing, his advancement to a position of importance and trust soon followed. For the past three years he has occupied the responsible position of office manager of the extensive real estate and farming interests of his employers.
With every public enterprise established and every public improvement of importance made in or around Crowley during the past six years Mr. Crippen has been closely identified; and in justice be it said that it is due to his indomitable spirit and untiring labors that many of our most important improvements have been made possible. He was councilman one term.
Chas. L. Crippen was born in the town of Burke, Franklin county, New York, August 17, 1858. His early life was spent on his father’s farm where he attended school until eighteen years of age, at which time his parents removed to Spring Valley, Minn. Here he engaged as a clerk in a grocery, but after one year gave up his position to again enter school. After one year at the Spring Valley Academy he removed to Edgerton, Minn. He was appointed postmaster at this place under Cleveland’s first administration, which office he held at the time of moving to Crowley in 1887.
Emile Daboval, Jr.
October 27, 1894
Emile Daboval, Jr. was born in 1858 in the City of New Orleans. He is the eldest son of Emile Daboval, a prominent merchant in that city since 1856, and of Angela de Lesseps, both of two of the oldest and highly connected families of la Belle France. He was educated at Jefferson College, and after graduating entered mercantile life, becoming associated with his father in the rice milling business in 1878. Mr. Daboval married Miss Lydia Deynoodt, daughter of the late Joseph Deynoodt, ex-Belgian consul and native of Ghent, Belgium, and Miss Solidelle Le Gardeur de Tilly. The issues of this marriage are six children, three boys and three girls.
In 1890 Mr. Daboval bought an interest in the Acadia Rice Milling Co. of Rayne and since that time has become a prominent factor in the industrial development of Southwestern Louisiana. Mr. Daboval is a typical gentleman of the old school. His suavity of manners, his integrity have won him a host of friends. Politically he is a Democrat and has held at different times official positions, being at present a member of the Board of Aldermen of Rayne.
Edward Daigle
April 18, 1903
One of the influential men of Acadia parish of the younger generation is Edward Daigle, the junior member of the reliable old Church Point firm of J. E. Daigle & Son. It means something in Southwest Louisiana to start in business with the prestige of an honored name, but it means more to make an honored name for yourself in business circles.
Edward Daigle, who was born at Church Point May 22, 1873, began his business career with the advantage of being a Daigle, which means in Acadia and St. Landry parlance “good man.” He has been in business in Church Point twelve years and has not changed the significance of his family name.
Mr. Daigle clerked for Edgar Barousse three years before entering into partnership with his father, J. E. Daigle, and on October 24, 1895, married a daughter of Mr. Barousse, Miss Eve Barousse. He has three children; Edward Everett, Lionie Myrtle, and Bonita.
Mr. Daigle is a member of the town council of Church Point, vice-president of the local bank and president and manager of the cotton ginning company. For several years the firm of J. E. Daigle & Son owned a cotton gin, and in 1902 they consolidated with Hon. Homer Barousse, who also owned a gin. The new company built a large fine plant and now operate one of the best cotton gins in this section.
Daigle & Son own about 900 acres of the best cotton and corn land in the vicinity of Church Point, besides operating a large general merchandise store.
Theodore Daigle
June 13, 1903
The subject of this sketch, Theodore Daigle, is a son of J. E. Daigle the present head of the Daigle family in Church Point. He was born in Church Point March 7, 1875, and is therefore now a trifle over twenty-eight years of age.
After receiving a good public school education in the schools of his native town young Daigle entered the employ of his father as a clerk in the latter’s store. He subsequently clerked for R. David, and this laid the foundation of a good business training.
About six years ago Mr. Daigle started a business for himself in Church Point. He now owns a first-class saloon in Church Point and is senior partner in the firm of Daigle & Richard of Iota.
Mr. Daigle was married August 10, 1897, to Miss Rosalie Richard and is the father of three children: Lena, Virginie, and Theodore Roosevelt. He is a highly respected citizen of Church Point and is regarded as a rising young man.
Henry I. Daughenbaugh
October 31, 1903
If all the citizens of Acadia parish were as public spirited as Henry I. Daughenbaugh of Iota, the parish would be one in a class of its own.
Mr. Daughenbaugh is one of the fathers of Iota. He established a general merchandise business there when the town was yet to be built and has never missed an opportunity to put in some good work for the thriving rice center when an occasion arose. He is looked upon as one of the leading citizens of that part of the parish.
Mr. Daughenbaugh is not a native of Louisiana, having been born in Freeport, Ill., on Nov. 14, 1866. In the year 1895 he was married to Miss Philomene Miller, of Iota. Five children have been born to them.
It was in the year1884 that he moved South, locating at Jennings. He worked on a farm with his father until he had reached his majority. Leaving the farm he clerked several years in a Jennings store and finally located where the town of Iota stands in 1892. The general merchandise business he established in Iota that year he still manages. Mr. Daughenbaugh also conducted a store at Cartville in this parish at one time.
Mr., Daughenbaugh is one of the candidates for the office of police juror from his ward, and it is needless to say that if he is elected he will serve his constituents to their best interests.
Hubert J. David
May 16, 1903
One of the most progressive citizens of the lively town of Church Point is Hubert J. David, a member of the general merchandise firm of David & Breaux.
Mr. David was born at Church Point Jan. 16, 1872, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. In 1887, at the age of fifteen, he entered the store of Hon. Homer Barousse as a clerk and obtained an excellent business training in this capacity. He remained in the employ of Senator Barousse seven years, at the end of which time he formed a partnership with Albert Breaux and engaged in business on his own account. The firm of David & Breaux has been successful and has established an enviable reputation for fair dealing.
Mr. David has two full terms as mayor of Church Point and one-half of a third term, he having been selected to fill out an unexpired term.
He was married Dec. 16, 1896 to Miss Helena Franques and is the father of two interesting children, Editha and Edna.
Mr. David is regarded as of Church Point’s most substantial and reliable citizens and is very popular among his fellow townsmen.
Fred Dehm
May 23, 1903
The blacksmith who is a skilled mechanic has exceptional opportunities in the rice belt for the display of his abilities. Not only does he have the same class of work that is done by the blacksmiths in other farming communities, but he is called on to do a great deal of the class of work that in older sections of the country goes to the machine shops and the large repair establishments. A blacksmith with a good knowledge of machinery therefore is always in demand at al seasons of the year.
Such a mechanic is Fred Dehm of Morse, who learned his trade nearly twenty years ago and has worked at it steadily since.
Mr. Dehm was born in Woodford Co., Ill., in March 1886, but moved with his parents at an early age to Missouri, where he acquired an excellent common school education in the schools of that state. In 1879 he moved to Nebraska, where he was married to Miss Jessie V. Yatti, in November 1894.
Mr. and Mrs. Dehm have three children: Chester E., Harry R., and Roy F.
In 1901 Mr. Dehm moved to Gueydan, where he worked at his trade about a year. In April 1902, he opened a shop in Morse, where he is doing a flourishing business. He is regarded by the people of Morse as an excellent mechanic and a progressive and public-spirited citizen.
Rev. W. Winans Drake
October 27, 1894
Rev. W. Winans Drake was born in Jefferson county, Miss., June 19, 1871. He graduated from the Centenary College at Jackson, La., at the early age of seventeen and entered immediately into the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, his father and grandfathers having been ministers in the same church. During 1889 he labored in Tangipahoa parish, La., and in 1890 in Yazoo county, Miss. In 1891 he left the regular ministry to attend a course in theology in the Biblical department of Vanderbilt University. He reentered the pastorate in 1893 and was sent by the Louisiana conference to Crowley where he has served he church for the two years past.
Although yet quite a young man Rev. Drake is an earnest and hard worker and his labors here have been fruitful of good results. From a small congregation when he first came here his church is now filled with attentive listeners, the large congregations including many who have no direct connection with the church, but come to listen to the deep and earnest expositions of the truth as they are given in the eloquent and convincing language of the pastor.
Louis Alphonse Duclos
October 27, 1894
L. A. Duclos came to Rayne in 1883 and accepted a position with M. P. Young & Co., then the only druggists in the town. Two years thereafter he established himself in the drug business, now having one of the most extensive and best appointed drug stores in Southwest Louisiana. Mr. Duclos was born in France in 1841 and followed a full course of studies, both in literature and in chemistry, at the “Lycee Imperial Bonaparte” at Bordeaux, coming to the United States when twenty-four years of age. Prior to locating here he opened and successfully conducted a drug store at Labadieville in this State.
Mr. Duclos was appointed postmaster of Rayne in 1886 and still holds that office. He has traveled extensively in the United States and has visited England and many of the European countries, as well as Africa, and resided two years each in Rome and Madrid. A man of his prominence must of necessity be credited with good judgment, and during his extensive travels he has seen much of the world.