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'''Alvan Henry Lafargue, Sr.''', [[M.D.]] (October 14, 1883 &ndash; 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 west of [[Lake Charles]] in [[Calcasieu Parish in the southwestern portion of his state.<ref name=lahist/>​

'''Alvan Henry Lafargue, Sr.''', [[M.D.]] (October 14, 1883 &ndash; 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 west of [[Lake Charles]] in [[Calcasieu Parish in the southwestern portion of his state.<ref name=lahist/>​

==Background==​

==Background==

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Lafargue was born in Marksville, the seat of government of Aoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Alvan&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=23639492&df=all&|title=Dr. Alvan H. Lafargue (with gravestone photograph)|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 10, 2015}}</ref> 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<ref name=archives/> what became  ''The Marksville Weekly News,'' the oldest continuously operating newspaper in Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/la/avoyelles/|title=Newspapers of Avoyelles|publisher=angelfire.com|accessdate=February 17, 2011}}</ref>  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.<ref name=archives/> When Annie died, Adolphe married her sister, Emma (1870-1961), who died in New Orleans long forty-four years after the passing of her husband in 1917.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73384092|title=Judge Adolphe Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 19, 2015}}</ref>​

Lafargue was born in Marksville, the seat of government of Aoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Alvan&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=23639492&df=all&|title=Dr. Alvan H. Lafargue (with gravestone photograph)|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December 10, 2015}}</ref> 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<ref name=archives/> what became  ''The Marksville Weekly News,'' the oldest continuously operating newspaper in Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/la/avoyelles/|title=Newspapers of Avoyelles|publisher=angelfire.com|accessdate=February 17, 2011}}</ref>  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.<ref name=archives/> When Annie died, Adolphe married her sister, Emma (1870-1961), who died in New Orleans long forty-four years after the passing of her husband in 1917.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73384092|title=Judge Adolphe Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 19, 2015}}</ref>​