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Alvan Henry Lafargue, Sr., M.D. (October 14, 1883 – February 11, 1963), was a Louisiana physician for fifty years and a politician and civic leader. He was one of the early settlers and the mayor from 1926 to 1938 of Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish in the southwestern portion of his state.〔 ==Background== Lafargue was born on October 14, 1883 in Marksville in Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr. Alvan H. Lafargue (with gravestone photograph) )〕 He was from a prominent family originally from the Pyrenees Mountains of France. His father, Adolphe Jolna Lafargue (1855-1917), received his education at the former Jefferson College in Convent in St. James Parish in South Louisiana and then studied law at what became Tulane University in New Orleans. He returned to Marksville and published and edited〔 what became ''The Marksville Weekly News'', the oldest continuously operating newspaper in Louisiana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Newspapers of Avoyelles )〕 In 1878, he married Annie Winn Irion (1860-1889), the daughter of U. S. Representative Alfred Briggs Irion of Evergreen in Avoyelles Parish. In addition to Alvan Lafargue, the couple had three other sons, Walter Strong, Edwin Louis, and Sidney Eustis.〔 When Annie died, Adolphe married her sister, Emma (1870-1961), who died in New Orleans long after her husband's death in 1917.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Judge Adolphe Lafargue )〕 Considered an excellent orator, Adolphe Lafargue was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1896. In 1899, Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr., named him to fill an unexpired term as judge of the state 10th Judicial District. In 1912, he was elected judge of the 14th District, a position that he held until shortly before his death.〔 Alvan Lafargue's grandfather, Pierre-Adolphe Lafargue (1818-1869), was an educator who served as the school superintendent for Avoyelles Parish and founded Marksville High School. He was a mayor of Marksville. He started the newspaper then named ''The Pelican'' and later ''The Marksville Villager''. Lafargue's father, Judge Lafargue, continued to publish the newspaper as the ''Marksville Weekly News''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Early Calcasieu Doctors )〕 Lafargue's brother, Walter Strong Lafargue (1879-1951) of Thibodaux,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Walter Strong Lafargue )〕 was first the assistant principal of Thibodaux College and thereafter the long-term superintendent of schools in Lafourche Parish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Genealogy search for Lafargues )〕 Lafargue was educated in the Avoyelles Parish schools, Louisiana State University, the Tulane University Medical School, and the Memphis Hospital Medical School, since the University of Tennessee Medical Center, from which he graduated in 1910. He married the former Florestine Richard of Baldwin in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, daughter of Arthur Richard, a sugar planter, and the former Blanche Dumesnil. The couple had four children, Alvan, Jr. (1913–1994),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 Myron J. Lafargue (1914–1973), Irene L. Owens (1917–1969), and Prudence L. Burns (1924–2009).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lafargue, Alvan Henry )〕〔''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' uses Erbon W. Wise (a Sulphur author), ''Brimstone! The History of Sulphur, Louisiana ''(1981) and the Lafargue family papers as the basis of its sketch of Dr. Lafargue.〕 A Lafargue nephew, Malcolm Lafargue, son of Edwin Louis Lafargue, was from 1941 to 1950 the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport. Dr. Lafargue and his nephew died six weeks apart in 1963. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alvan Lafargue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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