Lloyd Garrett Porter, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Lloyd Garrett Porter. During the past thirteen years Lloyd Garrett Porter has been identified with educational matters at New Iberia, and since 1920 has acted in the capacity of superintendent of schools of Iberia Parish. His work has proven to be of a decidedly constructive and progressive character, and he has demonstrated himself as being possessed of the happy faculty of communicating to others his enthusiasm for energetic work in the educational field, Mr. Porter was born at Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, August 18, 1889, and is a son of Thomas F. and Wilhelmina (Dunckleman) Porter. His father, who resides at Natchitoches, was born in 1854, near Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He was reared in the vicinity of Natchitoches and Shreveport. He was married at the former place, where he became the owner and operator of a large piece of valuable property, and served for some years as assessor of his parish. He retired from his agricultural pursuits in 1912 and at the present the is serving as registrar of voters of his parish. He is a democrat has political views and a strong supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and as a fraternalist holds membership in the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Porter married Miss Wilhelmina Dunckleman, who was born in 1836, in Natchitoches Parish, and to this union there were born the following children: Thomas F., a district judge, residing at Lake Charles, Louisiana, who held the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army during the World war and saw eighteen months of service in France; Wilhelmina Laura, who died at the age of twenty-eight years at Baton Rouge, as the wife of Robert Holmes, of Dallas, Texas, a division engineer on the engineering staff of the Texas Pacific Railroad Company; Bettie L., unmarried, a teacher in the public schools of Shreveport; Lloyd Garrett, of this review; and Barbara, the wife of James W. Warren, of New Orleans, a specialist. Lloyd Garrett Porter attended the public schools of Natchitoches, where he graduated from the Louisiana State Normal College as a member of the class of 1911. In that year he located at New Iberia in the capacity of principal of a ward school and for eight years discharged the duties of his principalship faithfully. In 1920 the people of the community expressed their appreciation of his services and their confidence in his ability by electing him parish superintendent of schools, and at the end of his first term, in 1924, re-elected him to the same office for a term of four years. His offices are situated in the Masonic Building on Main Street. Under Mr. Porter's supervision there are thirty white and twenty-one colored schools, 104 white and twenty-five colored teachers, and 3,500 white and 1,800 colored scholars. In the discharge of his duties Mr. Porter has introduced progressive measures which have improved the system materially and have made the methods used more effective. He is also active as probation officer of Iberia Parish and is chairman of the Iberia Parish Chapter of the American Red Cross. In polities Mr. Porter is a democrat. He belongs to Iberia Lodge No. 39, Knights of Pythias, of which he is chancellor commander; New Iberia Lodge No. 554, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Louisiana State Teachers' Association. He owns a comfortable residence, situated on Duperier Avenue, New Iberia. On December 15, 1912, at New Iberia, Mr. Porter was united in marriage with Miss Henrietta Dauterieve, daughter of Phanor and Cora (Walet) Dauterieve, residents of New Iberia, where Mr. Dauterieve is a furniture merchant. Mrs. Porter is a graduate of the Louisiana State Normal School, and for one year prior to her marriage taught in the public school at Franklin. To Mr. and Mrs. Porter there have come five children: Mary, born in 1915; Barbara Elizabeth, born in 1916; Lloyd Garrett, Jr., born in 1918; Tom, born in 1920, and Henry, born in 1922. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 299, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.