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Lafargue's brother, Walter Strong Lafargue (1879-1951) of Thibodaux,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Walter&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=91541057&df=all&|title=Walter Strong Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2015}}</ref> was first the assistant principal of Thibodaux College and thereafter the long-term superintendent of schools in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianacajun.com/msg/louisiana-cajun-forum-message-show.asp?id=24789&fid=202&tid=0|title=Genealogy search for Lafargues|publisher=louisianacajun.com|accessdate=February 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>[[Henry E. Chambers]], ''History of Louisiana,'' Vol. 1, 1925, pp 388-389.</ref>
Lafargue's brother, Walter Strong Lafargue (1879-1951) of Thibodaux,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lafargue&GSfn=Walter&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=91541057&df=all&|title=Walter Strong Lafargue|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 13, 2015}}</ref> was first the assistant principal of Thibodaux College and thereafter the long-term superintendent of schools in Lafourche Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianacajun.com/msg/louisiana-cajun-forum-message-show.asp?id=24789&fid=202&tid=0|title=Genealogy search for Lafargues|publisher=louisianacajun.com|accessdate=February 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>[[Henry E. Chambers]], ''History of Louisiana,'' Vol. 1, 1925, pp 388-389.</ref>
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|University of Tennessee Medical Center]], from which he graduated in 1910. He married the former Florestine Richard (pronounced REE SHARD) of Baldwin in St. Mary Parish, a daughter of Arthur Richard, a [[sugar]] planter, and the former Blanche Dumesnil. The couple had four children, Alvan, Jr. (1913–1994), Myron J. Lafargue (1914–1973), Irene L. Owens (1917–1969), and Prudence L. Burns (1924–2009).<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site29.php|title=Lafargue, Alvan Henry|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography,'' publication of the Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=December 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>''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.</ref>
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|University of Tennessee Medical Center]], from which he graduated in 1910. He married the former Florestine Richard (pronounced REE SHARD) of Baldwin in St. Mary Parish, a daughter of Arthur Richard, a [[sugar]] planter, and the former Blanche Dumesnil. The couple had four children, Alvan, Jr. (1913–1994), Myron J. Lafargue (1914–1973), Irene L. Owens (1917–1969), and Prudence L. Burns (1924–2009).<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site29.php|title=Lafargue, Alvan Henry|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography,'' publication of the Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=December 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>''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.</ref>
A Lafargue nephew, Malcolm Lafargue, a son of Edwin Louis Lafargue, was from 1941 to 1950 the U.S. attorney for the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana,e based in [[Shreveport]]. Dr. Lafargue and his nephew died six weeks apart in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103311402|title=M. E. Lafargue, Former [U.S.] Attorney, Dies – Succumbs in Sleep Here at Age 54; Services Saturday|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|date=March 28, 1963|pages=1-A, 4-A|accessdate=February 10, 2015}}</ref>
A Lafargue nephew, Malcolm Lafargue, a 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103311402|title=M. E. Lafargue, Former [U.S.] Attorney, Dies – Succumbs in Sleep Here at Age 54; Services Saturday|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|date=March 28, 1963|pages=1-A, 4-A|accessdate=February 10, 2015}}</ref>
==Medical practice==
==Medical practice==
Lafargue practiced medicine in Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish, Baldwin and Franklin in St. Mary Parish, and, finally, Sulphur, to which he located in 1915.<ref name=lahist/> The Lafargue family was among the first to settle in Sulphur. The Lafargues spoke [[France|French]] but did not pass on the language to their children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sulphurdailynews.com/article/20081012/NEWS/310129987|title=Meet Your Neighbors: Prudence LaFarge Burns|publisher=''The Sulphur Daily News''|date=October 12, 2008|author=Susan LaFarge Kyle|accessdate=February 13, 2015}}</ref>
Lafargue practiced medicine in Cheneyville in south Rapides Parish, Baldwin and Franklin in St. Mary Parish, and, finally, Sulphur, to which he located in 1915.<ref name=lahist/> The Lafargue family was among the first to settle in Sulphur. The Lafargues spoke [[France|French]] but did not pass on the language to their children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sulphurdailynews.com/article/20081012/NEWS/310129987|title=Meet Your Neighbors: Prudence LaFarge Burns|publisher=''The Sulphur Daily News''|date=October 12, 2008|author=Susan LaFarge Kyle|accessdate=February 13, 2015; no longer on-line}}</ref>
In Baldwin, as the physician for a sawmill, Lafargue treated accident victims and often performed operations and amputations with [[whisky]] as the only available [[anesthesia]].<ref name=doctors/> Lafargue opened his office in the Paragon Drug Store in Sulphur. He covered an area of some twenty-five miles by horseback, buggy, and later, a Model T [[Ford]].<ref name=doctors/>
In Baldwin, as the physician for a sawmill, Lafargue treated accident victims and often performed operations and amputations with [[whisky]] as the only available [[anesthesia]].<ref name=doctors/> Lafargue opened his office in the Paragon Drug Store in Sulphur. He covered an area of some twenty-five miles by horseback, buggy, and later, a Model T [[Ford]].<ref name=doctors/>