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Etienne Joseph Caire, I, (September 17, 1868 – July 16, 1955), was a businessman, pharmacist, planter, and banker from Edgard in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, who was the Republican nominee for Governor of Louisiana in 1928. ==Background and E. J. Caire & Co.== Etienne Joseph (E. J.) Caire was the son of Jean Baptiste Caire (1823-1879) and the former Felicie Burcard (1841-1911). He attended the former Jefferson College in Convent,〔 a census designated place and the seat of government of St. James Parish, Louisiana. In his working career, he operated the E. J. Caire & Company store, a business begun by his father in downtown Edgard. The store was originally known as "Caire's Landing," the name given by Jean Caire, an immigrant who journeyed to Louisiana from France in 1842. Jean Caire (aged 55) died when his son Etienne was only ten years old. The business was a multi-purpose general store, a pharmacy, a dry goods store, and a hardware store, before it was turned into an early department store. For a time, the store was the pay station for area sugar cane farmers. The brick structure, built in 1850, became a store in 1860. A wooden structure was later added, and the brick building became a warehouse. The store obtained business locally and from patrons riding on passing riverboats. After many changes in venue, it closed in the middle 1970s.〔 In 2001, the buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places. Surviving Caire family members would like to convert the two buildings into a museum. The former store is located on a stretch of River Road in Edgard that also contains the St. John the Baptist Parish Courthouse and the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, of which Caire was a trustee and active in the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. He was a grand knight of the Catholic men's organization, the Knights of Columbus. In 1922, he established the Jesuit retreat program for Catholic laymen called Manresa and located in Convent, Louisiana. In 1929, Pope Pius XI declared Caire a Knight of St. Gregory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Caire, Etienne J. )〕 In addition to the store, E. J. Caire was one of his state's leading sugar cane planters and frequently assumed ownership of failing plantations.〔 He was president of the Bank of St. John and the Bank of Ascension, as well as a director of the former Hibernia National Bank in New Orleans.〔 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「Etienne J. Caire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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