Background
PORTERFIELD, Lewis Broughton was born on October 30, 1879 in Greenville, Alabama. Son of James Richard and Flora McFadyen (Cowart) Porterfield.
PORTERFIELD, Lewis Broughton was born on October 30, 1879 in Greenville, Alabama. Son of James Richard and Flora McFadyen (Cowart) Porterfield.
United States Naval Academy.; Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
Recruiting Inspector, New Orleans, 1915, Bureau of Navigation, Washington, District of Columbia, ] 916-17. 1919-1922, 1925-1927. Naval War College, 1924, Receiving Ship, San Francisco, 1929.
Commanded United States Ship Albatross, 15, United States Ship Venetia, 1917-1918, United States Ship Wheeling, 1918, United States Ship Castine, 1918-1919, United States Ship Henderson, 1925, Destroyer Squadron 11 Battle Fleet, 1927-1929. Commissioned Ensign, 1904. Lieut, (Junior Grade), 1907.
Lieutenant, 1907; Lieutenant Coindr., 1915. Commander, 1919; Captain, 1925.
Spouse Maud Paxton Starke, August 5, 1908, Monteagle, Tennessee.