Jean Étienne de Boré

Background

Jean Étienne de Boré was born on December, 27, 1741 to French colonists in Kaskaskia, Illinois Country, then under French control as part of La Louisiane.

Education

He was educated in France, and served for ten years as a member of the king's household troops.

Career

He returned to America and settled on a plantation near New Orleans, where he first planted sugarcane in 1794 and the following year discovered a successful method for manufacturing sugar by granulating the syrup. He thus is credited with being the father of the Louisiana sugar industry. In 1800, when Louisiana was transferred to France, BoréBore was made mayor of New Orleans, serving into the American period. He died on his plantation near New Orleans on February 2, 1820.

Achievements

• His innovation made sugar cane profitable as a commodity crop and planters began to cultivate it in quantity.

Connections

He married Marie Marguerite d'Estréhan, from one of the most prominent French families of colonial Louisiana. Her father Jean Baptiste d'Estrehan was the Royal Treasurer of French Louisiana and worked from Paris.

Wife:

Marie Marguerite d'Estréhan