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Julia Josephine Marr
Cornelius McCarthy O'Donovan
Gustave A. Breaux
Research By Lucinda M. Miller Kolba Deitman
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NAME: Julia Josephine MARR
BORN: February 1842 in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada
FATHER: Joseph MARR
MOTHER: Catherine Julia LOWE
MARRIED: (1) 1862; (2) December 24, 1874
DIED: March 19, 1919 in Washington DC
BURIED: Lafayette, Louisiana
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SPOUSE 1: Cornelius McCarthy O'DONOVAN
BORN: About 1832 in Ireland
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DIED: 1872 in Texas
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SPOUSE 2: Gustave A. BREAUX
BORN: December 28, 1828 in Vermilionville, Louisiana
FATHER: Aurelien BREAUX
MOTHER: Modeste BERNARD
DIED: February 24, 1910 at Oakbourne Plantation, near Lafayette
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NOTES:
"Gustave A. Breaux, attorney, politician. Born, Vermilionville (present-day Lafayette), La., December 28, 1828. Son of Aurelien Breaux and Modeste Bernard. Education: Norwich University in Vermont, graduated 1847; Harvard University Law School, graduated 1851. Served as clerk of Louisiana senate for one year. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1852; became partner of Judge Charles Fenner in the firm of Fenner and Breaux, which later became Breaux, Fenner and Hall. Civil War service: colonel, Thirtieth Louisiana Infantry Regiment, March 1, 1862; dropped, February 1863; enrolling officer at Lake Charles, 1864-1865. After war, involved in sugar production in Lafayette Parish. Elected state senator in 1878 and again in 1884. Member, constitutional convention, 1879. Married (1) Emilie Locke (1836-1872), daughter of Samuel Locke and Emilina Guesdon, July 1, 1856. Married (2) Josephine Marr, December 24, 1874. Children: Modeste Emelina (1857-1933); Samuel Locke; and Gustave Arvilien, Jr. (b. 1869). Member, Louisiana Educational Society, Louisiana Bar Association; president, New Orleans Jockey Club. Died, Oakbourne Plantation, near Lafayette, February 24, 1910."
Glenn R. Conrad (ed.), "A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography," 2 vols. (Lafayette: Louisiana Historical Association, 1988), Vol. I, p. 105.
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