Marking the beginning of the commercial seafood processing industry on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, “Lopez, Elmer, and Company” was...

L. Lopez and Company was founded by Lazaro Lopez, one of the pioneers of the Mississippi Gulf Coast seafood industry, and his...

Lee Paul Gutierrez was born in 1903 to Henry J. and Rose Venus Gutierrez. He married Katherine Evelyn Slay in 1924 and reared four sons,...

Born in Biloxi in 1934, Frank Gutierrez was the youngest of four sons born to Lee Paul Gutierrez, Sr. and Katherine Slay Gutierrez....

Born in Biloxi in 1930, Ramon Gutierrez was the third son of Lee Paul Gutierrez and Katherine Slay Gutierrez. A graduate of Notre Dame...

Born in 1928, Henry Gutierrez was the second of four sons born to Lee Paul Gutierrez, Sr. and Katherine Slay Gutierrez. He would live his...

Dr. James E. Alexander was born in Alexanderia, Louisiana in 1932 to John D. and Leona Alexander. Having lost both parents by the age of...

Lee Paul Gutierrez, Jr. was born in Biloxi in 1927. He was the eldest of four sons born to Lee Paul Gutierrez and Katherine Slay...

Mateo Martinolich was born in 1861 at Lussinpiccolo, Croatia, to Francisco Stanislaus ‘Frank' and Maria Martinolich. The couple, with...

Peter Tony Kuljis was born in Biloxi, in 1916, to Luka Kuljis and Tadica Pitalo Kuljis. In his early years, he worked alongside his...

Biloxi native, Paul Bodin, was born and raised on Point Cadet. His career in the maritime and seafood industry began at the young age of...

Ralph Horn was born in Bayou La Batre, AL in 1921. He married Leila Clark in 1939 and began working that same year for his...

Lionel Adam Eleuterius was born in Biloxi in 1907 to Fred and Maude Bosarge Eleuterius. He was one of ten children, four of whom would...

With a humble beginning of a roadside meat market stand in 1925, Byrd’s Grocery and Meat Market became a mainstay for the maritime and...

Zoé Broussard Demet was born June 22, 1912, in Youngsville, Louisiana, to Alceé and Aurelia Trahan Broussard. She was the second of...

Noah Demet was born December 2, 1905, in Maurice, Vermillion Parish, Louisiana, to Jean and Regina Broussard Demet. He was the third of...

Born in Aviles, Asturias Province, Spain in 1850, Lazaro Lopez left his homeland for Cuba at the age of 13. He immigrated to the United...

Ivan Skrnich, who was known as “John”, immigrated to the United States from Milna, on the Island of Brac, in the Austrian/Hungarian...

The son of Willis and Dora Fayard Powell, Joseph was born in the St. Martin community of North Biloxi in 1935. With his father working...

Godfred Hennig was born in 1881 in Friedland, Germany and immigrated to the United States arriving in Gulfport in 1903 where he began...