SAVANT, J. P., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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J. P. SAVANT, GARLAND.--Mr. Savant is an example of what an energetic
young man can accomplish.  He is a native of St. Landry parish,
Louisiana, and is yet a young man, being only in his twenty-second year. 
He is a son of Adolph and Mary (McDaniel) Savant, both natives of St.
Landry parish.  His father was a very successful planter and owned one
of the finest plantations of Bayou Boeuf, near Whiteville.  He lived a
quiet and unassuming life, devoting himself exclusively to his
plantation interests.  He died in 1882, at the at the of fifty-two
years.  Mrs. Savant is still living, in Avoyelles parish, near Eola. 
Young J. P. Savant was reared in his native parish and received  the
benefit of a thorough academic education.  He was reared on a
plantation, and began life at the age of sixteen years as a clerk in a
general mercantile establishment at Whiteville, in which he was engaged
for a period aggregating four years.  During this time he saved
sufficient money to begin business on a small scale for himself, and, in
1888, he began the mercantile business at Garland, and subsequently he
became a partner in a large mercantile house in Whiteville.  There are
few young men in this section who have accomplished more than Mr. Savant
at his age.  He has been abundantly successful in his business thus far,
and, accepting this as an index to his future, in addition to haying a
knowledge of his strict business habits, we may predict that the first
chapter in a continued story of success has but ended. 

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 78-79.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.