Louis Jean-Baptiste Mestier (1883-1954) was born at New Orleans on September 3, 1883. Although handicapped from a childhood bout with polio, he matriculated to Tulane University and graduated from its engineering school as a sugar chemist in 1906.
As a sugar chemist, Louis worked primarily in the Caribbean particularly at St. Kitts and Barbados. He was responsible for his brothers, Edmund and Archie, and cousin, Eugene W. Illing Jr. (1895-1978), to find work as sugar chemists, also in the West Indies.(Beryl Girot Reviere-June 1998 and The Daily Herald, September 3, 1954, p. 7)
Louis J.B. Mestier married Thelma Regan (1894-1978), the daughter of Timothy V. Reagan (1863-1910) and Georgia G. Hyatt (1866-1930+) at New Orleans in October 1915. The Regan family lived on Carondelet and later Perrier Street in the Crescent City.
Louis and Thelma R. Mestier were the parents of: Lt. Colonel Louis J.B. Mestier Jr. (1916-1994) married Myrtle Holt (1921-1986) and Jonnie Fay Hempstead Johnson (1936-1989+); Lucille Nanon Mestier Morgan (1918-1988) married William Harrison Morgan Jr. (b. 1910) of Nashville, Tennessee; and Enid Joan Mestier (1933–1990) married Reginald Wayne Richards (b. 1931).
As a sugar chemist, Louis worked primarily in the Caribbean particularly at St. Kitts and Barbados. He was responsible for his brothers, Edmund and Archie, and cousin, Eugene W. Illing Jr. (1895-1978), to find work as sugar chemists, also in the West Indies.(Beryl Girot Reviere-June 1998 and The Daily Herald, September 3, 1954, p. 7)
Louis J.B. Mestier married Thelma Regan (1894-1978), the daughter of Timothy V. Reagan (1863-1910) and Georgia G. Hyatt (1866-1930+) at New Orleans in October 1915. The Regan family lived on Carondelet and later Perrier Street in the Crescent City.
Louis and Thelma R. Mestier were the parents of: Lt. Colonel Louis J.B. Mestier Jr. (1916-1994) married Myrtle Holt (1921-1986) and Jonnie Fay Hempstead Johnson (1936-1989+); Lucille Nanon Mestier Morgan (1918-1988) married William Harrison Morgan Jr. (b. 1910) of Nashville, Tennessee; and Enid Joan Mestier (1933–1990) married Reginald Wayne Richards (b. 1931).
Louis Jean-Baptiste Mestier (1883-1954) was born at New Orleans on September 3, 1883. Although handicapped from a childhood bout with polio, he matriculated to Tulane University and graduated from its engineering school as a sugar chemist in 1906.
As a sugar chemist, Louis worked primarily in the Caribbean particularly at St. Kitts and Barbados. He was responsible for his brothers, Edmund and Archie, and cousin, Eugene W. Illing Jr. (1895-1978), to find work as sugar chemists, also in the West Indies.(Beryl Girot Reviere-June 1998 and The Daily Herald, September 3, 1954, p. 7)
Louis J.B. Mestier married Thelma Regan (1894-1978), the daughter of Timothy V. Reagan (1863-1910) and Georgia G. Hyatt (1866-1930+) at New Orleans in October 1915. The Regan family lived on Carondelet and later Perrier Street in the Crescent City.
Louis and Thelma R. Mestier were the parents of: Lt. Colonel Louis J.B. Mestier Jr. (1916-1994) married Myrtle Holt (1921-1986) and Jonnie Fay Hempstead Johnson (1936-1989+); Lucille Nanon Mestier Morgan (1918-1988) married William Harrison Morgan Jr. (b. 1910) of Nashville, Tennessee; and Enid Joan Mestier (1933–1990) married Reginald Wayne Richards (b. 1931).
As a sugar chemist, Louis worked primarily in the Caribbean particularly at St. Kitts and Barbados. He was responsible for his brothers, Edmund and Archie, and cousin, Eugene W. Illing Jr. (1895-1978), to find work as sugar chemists, also in the West Indies.(Beryl Girot Reviere-June 1998 and The Daily Herald, September 3, 1954, p. 7)
Louis J.B. Mestier married Thelma Regan (1894-1978), the daughter of Timothy V. Reagan (1863-1910) and Georgia G. Hyatt (1866-1930+) at New Orleans in October 1915. The Regan family lived on Carondelet and later Perrier Street in the Crescent City.
Louis and Thelma R. Mestier were the parents of: Lt. Colonel Louis J.B. Mestier Jr. (1916-1994) married Myrtle Holt (1921-1986) and Jonnie Fay Hempstead Johnson (1936-1989+); Lucille Nanon Mestier Morgan (1918-1988) married William Harrison Morgan Jr. (b. 1910) of Nashville, Tennessee; and Enid Joan Mestier (1933–1990) married Reginald Wayne Richards (b. 1931).
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