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Ferdinand de Montluzin [Ferdinand Viallier de Montluzin du Sauzay]
ca. 1848 or 1849-?
Bom in Luneville in the French province of Lorraine, Ferdinand de Montluzin was the eldest of the six children of Ludovic Adrien de Montluzin and Reine Helluy.
When Ludovic, an idealistic political liberal, emigrated in 1854 from Napoleon Ill?s France, Ferdinand-then a child aged approximately six?accompanied his father, traveling by sailing ship in a three-month crossing to Louisiana. They settled in the town of Convent in St. James Parish, Louisiana, where Ludovic secured a position teaching chemistry at Jefferson College, a boys? school, and established a home. A year later, Ludovic?s wife Reine and younger children Alfred and Jeanne joined them.
After the family moved to New Orleans, where Ludovic became headmaster of his own school, Ferdinand studied engineering. He married Amelia Robert and had two sons, Roche Eugene Edgar de Montluzin, I, and Albert de Montluzin. While still a young man, he went to Panama to join Ferdinand de Lesseps and his French company of engineers in their arduous and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to complete the building of the Panama Canal. Ferdinand never saw his family again, for, while in Panama, he contracted malaria and died, one of the many victims of that tremendous undertaking.
[Account prepared by Emily Hosmer de Montluzin and Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, June 2013]