BINNINGS, C. P., Jr., Lafourche Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. C. P. BINNINGS, JR., BALDWIN.--C. P. Binnings, Jr., was born in Thibodeaux, Louisiana, 1856. He is the son of C. P. and S. A. (Lawless) Binnings. C. P. Binnings, Sr., was a native of London and his wife of Kentucky. He was a painter, and died in 1872; his widow is living and resides in Thibodeaux. C. P. Binnings, Jr., received a common school education when quiet young, and at the age of thirteen years he entered business on his own account by learning sugar refining, and continued in this until 1878, when he engaged in planting in Iberville parish, where he remained for about four years. He then took charge of Capt. Nolan's plantation on Bayou Lafourche, where he remained for about a year and a half. Afterward he engaged in steamboating, and gave his attention to this in the summer and during the winter months boiled sugar. In September, 1886, be took charge of the Des Lignes and Saule plantations, where he now resides. That year they made four hundred and fifty-one thousand pounds of sugar, and in 1890, on the same property, made three million seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds of sugar. Mr. Binnings was married, April, 1890, to Mrs. Lily B. Hampton (nee Sharp), a native of Ascension parish. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 363. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company. |
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