Biography-Eskridge Everett Keebler; Washington Co., TN., then Richland Parish, Louisiana as presented inA History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 249, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 
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 Eskridge Everett Keebler, a Louisiana educator and superintendent 
of schools for Richland Parish, has had a successful career in his 
chosen vocation, both in this state and elsewhere.  He has been 
superintendent of schools for Richland Parish twelve years.  The 
entire school system of the parish is under his supervision, and 
during his administration it has been thoroughly reorganized. Four 
brick high schools have been erected at Rayville, Delhi; Start and 
at Mangham.

Mr. Keebler was born near Jonesboro in Washington County, Tennessee, 
April 16, 1878.  He is of Pioneer stock of the Keeblers and the related 
family of Taylors, also the Carters were identified with the original 
Watauga settlement in East Tennessee.  A later generation of the Taylor 
family supplied the famous governors, Bob and Alf Taylor.  Mr. Keebler 
s parents were Henry C. and Sarah J. (Pollard) Keebler.  His father was 
a farmer and country merchant in Washington County, but now lives in 
Chattanooga, aged sixty-nine.  He is a Royal Arch Mason and a Methodist.  
The mother died in 1910 When forty-eight years of age.  There were ten 
children:  Four daughters and six sons, all of whom acquired liberal 
educational advantages.

Eskridge Everett Keebler attended the grade schools of Jonesboro, 
and his first teaching was done in a rural school in a mountain district 
of East Tennessee.  For one year he was a student in the Carson-Newman College, 
a famous educational institution of East Tennessee.  For two years he was in 
the Peabody Normal College at Nashville and following that attended the 
University of Tennessee at Knoxville.  He attended the University of Tennessee 
through eight summer sessions.

His experience as a school man subsequent to the first term in a rural mountain 
school included a year as principal of the Oliver Springs School, three years as 
a teacher in Roane College at Wheat, Tennessee, one year as principal of the 
Princeton School in Dallas County, Arkansas, and from there he came to Louisiana.  
In this state he was for four years principal of the Farmerville School and during 
one summer was a teacher in the Demonstration High School at the Louisiana State 
University.  For a year he was principal of a grammar school in Tampa, Florida, but 
then returned to Louisiana and after a year as principal of the Rayville Schools, 
was chosen parish superintendent, the office he has held since 1912.

Mr. Keebler married in 1911 Miss Olive Baughman of Farmersville, Louisiana.  
She acquired part of her education in the Ward-Belmont Seminary for Girls at 
Nashville, Tennessee.  Mr. and Mrs. Keebler's three children are Thelma, Jefferson S. 
and Fay.  Mrs. Keebler is a member of the Baptist Church while he is a Presbyterian 
and a Royal Arch Mason.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 249, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.