Eubank, Dillard Price; Winchester, Clark Cty., KY; now Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************
 Eubank, Dillard Price, notary public, and of D. P. Eubank Realty Co., 507-8
Commercial National Bank building, Shreveport, La., was born at Winchester,
Clark county, Ky., Feb. 21, 1877, son of W. Z. and Miriam (Weaver) Eubank, the
former of whom is a native of the locality in which the son was born and still
resides at Winchester, Ky.  The paternal grandfather, Achilles Eubank, also
was born in Clark county, Ky., where his ancestors settled on coming from
Virginia.  The mother was a native of Clark county, Ky., and a daughter of
John Weaver, of Irish ancestry.  She died when the son, Dillard Price Eubank,
was about 2 years old.  Three sons were born to the parents, being, in order
of birth,  Achilles,  Dillard Price, and  Ambrose E.  The first and third sons
are both practicing physicians of Kansas City, Mo.   Dillard Price Eubank
passed his boyhood and youth at the town of Winchester, wherein he was born,
and there attended the public schools, later attended Kentucky Wesleyan
college.  On attaining his 21st year he went to Kansas City, Mo., and became
connected with the Devoe & Reynolds Paint Co., which connection was continued
until the year 1904, at which time he became associated with the Davidson &
Wall Paper Co., of the same city, and remained with this house about 2 years. 
March 20, 1907, he located at Shreveport, La., and became secretary and
treasurer of the Caddo Abstract Co., remaining incumbent of this important
position until the early part of the year 1910, when he resigned to accept the
office of deputy clerk of the district court, criminal division, at
Shreveport.  In June 1911, he retired from this office to enter the real
estate business as head of the firm of the D. P. Eubank Realty Co., and to
this business he has since devoted his undivided attention, handling all kinds
of real estate, oil lands, and leases.  Mr. Eubank is president of the
Shreveport Real Estate exchange, and is a stockholder and director in the Bank
of Vivian, La.  In 1910 Mr. Eubank was married to Miss Mabel Williams, a
daughter of Capt. W. H. Williams, of Shreveport.  Capt. Williams is a native
of Wales.  Mr. and Mrs. Eubank have 3 children,  Letitia,  Virginia, and 
William R.   Mr. Eubank is affiliated with the Baptist church and the Masonic
fraternity, being a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.  He is
also a member of the I. O. O. F., all of his memberships being in the city of
Shreveport.

Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 158. 
Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.