Bios:  Green Lyle Talbot, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
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Green Lyle Talbot, a doctor of dental surgery, is a native of Louisiana, has
practiced his profession for twelve years, and is a specialist in surgical
dentistry.  He is one of the esteemed citizens of De Ridder.

Doctor Talbot was born on a farm at Summerfield, in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana,
February 2, 1888, son of Milton Arthur and Emma Teresa (Ledbetter) Talbot.  His
mother, a native of Claiborne Parish, was a sister of Benjamin F. Ledbetter, the
first United States surveyor general of the port of New Orleans.  Milton Anthony
Talbot, a native of Mississippi, was a farmer and merchant at Summerfield and
later located at Bernice, in Union Parish.  Where he established M. A. Talbot &
Sons, general merchants; also had banking and farming interests there, and for
sixteen years was president of the parish school board, and for an equal length
of the was mayor of Bernice.  He is a Baptist.

Green Lyle Talbot was the fifth in a family of ten children.  His early
education was acquired at Bernice, and from 1907 to 1909 he was a student at the
Louisiana State University, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.
He graduated with the degree Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Atlanta Dental
College in 1911.  He is a member of the Psi Omega dental fraternity.  He also
had a special course in chemistry in the Georgia Institute of Technology
at Atlanta, and in 1912 returned to his native state and practiced two years at
Fullerton, and from 1914 to 1915 at Leesville.  He then moved out to Matadore,
Motley County, Texas, where he continued the work of his profession for some
four years.  Since March, 1919, his home has been at De Ridder.  Every year he
has taken special post-graduate courses in some institution, including the
Northwestern University at Chicago.  He has a well deserved reputation for the
skillful work he has done.  He has a complete X-ray equipment for diagnosis and
makes a specialty of conductive anaesthesia and exodontia.  He is a member of
the District, Louisiana State and National Dental Society.

Doctor Talbot has manifested much interest in the welfare and improvement of his
home town, particularly in those matters that lend beauty and attractiveness to
the community.  In 1924 he was honored by election as president of the De Ridder
Rotary Club.  He is exalted ruler of De Ridder Lodge No. 1333, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks; is a member of De Ridder Lodge No. 271, Free and
Accepted Masons, and has taken fourteen degrees in the Scottish Rite
Consistory at Lake Charles, his favorite recreation is fishing.

Doctor Talbot married at Fullerton, Louisiana, February 18, 1914, Miss Olive
Magee, who was born and reared at Lake Charles, daughter of Edward Magee, a
carpenter and cabinetmaker now living retired at De Ridder.  Doctor and Mrs.
Talbot have one daughter, Gretchen Lyle.

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A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 283, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.

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