Interviewer(s): A. Gardner. New Iberia, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Minos Breaux was recommended to me by Father Fred Reynolds, a friend of Barbara Davis with whom I had a long discussion upon my arrival in New Iberia. He's a very nice man and is willing to meet with us again anytime.

Minos was born on Jefferson Island and spent his teenage years working in the salt mines before serving in WWII. He continued working in the salt mines upon his return and then began building sugar mills, an occupation he maintained to the present. In the late 1960s, Minos began working in the oilfield in a variety of capacities. He started as a pipefitter, and his longest stint was as a supervisor in a fabrication yard. Most of his work consisted of engineering and construction, the very skills he used in building the various sugar mills over the years.