Girard,  Percy Michel;  biography;  Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by:  Edward Crow Girard




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Percy Michel Girard was born on 14 Sept.1859 in Lafayette, Louisiana,
the second child of Michel Eloi and Maxim (Crow) Girard.  He attended
Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana, and graduated from Tulane
Medical School as an MD in 1882.  He established his practice at his
home on 1122 Lafayette Street, which is now the Lafayette Museum.  He
was known as "Dr. Percy" to the community, and was active in cane and 
cotton farming.  He married Leila Beatrice Singleton in Lafayette on
21 Oct. 1893, and had five children.  Their "plantation house" is now
the "Cafe' Vermilionville" on Pinhook Road.  Dr. Percy died 11 Dec.1944
from kidney failure at his Lafayette St. home, and is buried at the
Lafayette Protestant Cemetery.


Sources:  Lafayette Daily Advertiser, 21 Oct.1893, and obituary; 
        Tulane Med. School archival records.