Franklin-East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Turner, Clarence
September 28, 1890 -
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Author: Henry E Chambers
Clarence Blanchard Turner, supervisor of city schools at Baton Rouge, has spent
over ten years in educational work in his native state. He was born at Fort
Necessity, in Franklin Parish, September 28, 1890. The Turner ancestors were
of French Huguenot stock, and their first American settlement was in the
Carolinas. The grandfather was Thomas Turner, a native of Pennsylvania, who
when a young man came to Louisiana, practiced as a physician and surgeon in the
Confederate army and lived out his life at Fort Necessity. He married Mary
Whatley, who was born in that section of Louisiana and is still living there.
Their son, Thomas C. Turner, was born at Fort Necessity in 1867, was a farmer
in that locality, and died there January 8, 1908. He was serving as a member
of the police jury when he died. He was a democrat, and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the Woodmen of the World. His wife was Florence
Rose Desha, who was born at Fort Necessity in 1869, and still occupies the
homestead farm there. Of her six children Clarence B. is the oldest; Maude is
the wife of Albert J. Reynolds, a physician and surgeon at Fort Necessity;
Nina married Nuttall Dailey, a farmer at Extension, Louisiana; Paul and
Charles are farmers at Fort Necessity; and Florence is a teacher of Latin in
the high school at Pineville, Louisiana.
Clarence Blanchard Turner attended public schools at Fort Necessity, graduated
from the Winnsboro High School in 1907, and then entered the preparatory
department of Louisiana State University. In 1908 he was enrolled in the
university proper, and, taking the classical course, graduated with Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1912. He served as senior captain of the Corp Cadets of the
university in 1912 and became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
After graduating he remained a year in post-graduate study, being awarded his
Master of Arts degree in 1913. During that year he was an assistant in the
department of mathematics at the university.
Mr. Turner was principal of the high school at Vidalie, Louisiana, from 1913 to
1916, was principal of the Glenmora High School in Rapides Parish from 1916 to
1919, and from 1919 to 1923 was assistant superintendent and supervisor of
schools in Rapides Parish. In 1923 he returned to Baton Rouge supervisor of
city schools, having eleven schools, one hundred and ten teachers and a
scholarship enrollment of thirty-six hundred. His offices are in the Court
House.
Mr. Turner is a democrat, a member of the Episcopal Church, and is affiliated
with Concordia Lodge No. 303 of the Masonic Order at Vidalie, and belongs to
the Kiwanis Club at Baton Rouge. He married, September 9. 1913, Miss Vivian
Blackman, at Alexandria, Louisiana, the home of her parents, David H. and
Hattie (Wells) Blackman, her father being a planter. Mrs. Turner graduated
from the Louisiana State Normal School at Natchitoches, Louisiana, with the
class of 1912, and was a high school teacher for three years before her
marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have two daughters: Gwendolyn and Florence.
Mrs. Turner is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 200-201, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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