Frédéric Henri Duperier

Frédéric Duperier's son, Dr. Alfred Duperier, became one of the parish's best-known figures. He drove a doctor's buggy through the yellow fever epidemics of 1853 and 1867, helped bury victims, and was reportedly the only doctor in the area to survive the outbreak. A Whig before the war, he stayed loyal to the Union, supported Abraham Lincoln and helped found the Republican Party in New Iberia. He also survived the Last Island hurricane, floating two days on an armoire with Emma Millie, later his wife. He died of pneumonia on March 23, 1904.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — steps away
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 8.3 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.4 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 8.7 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.

More markers nearby

• Becoming New Iberia — steps away
• Félicité — steps away
• New Iberia / La Nouvelle-Ibérie — steps away
• Saint Peter's College — steps away