Biographies: Edgar N. Jackson, 1935, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 16, 1935 Winn Parish Enterprise

History of Former Citizen Presented in La. Leader

Edgar Jackson, Member Winn School Board Now on L.S.U. Staff

The Enterprise prints below an article appearing in the May issue of The
Louisiana Leader, the monthly bulletin published by the Louisiana State
University:

The American saga of success is reflected in the story of Edgar N. Jackson,
business manager of the University and one of the staff who come into daily
contact with many of the student body.

For Mr. Jackson began his business career as a student, working on weekends
and in vacations and in true Horatio Alger style became the owner of the firm
which in his student days had employed his as delivery boy.  Further, when the
emergency of war came he gave good service as recognized in rank accorded,
and, in subsequent times of peace, became a leading citizen of his community,
interested in its civic and professional life and contributing to its progress
and development.

In more specific detail, Mr. Jackson, as the young Edgar N. Jackson, graduate
of the Winnfield High School, student at the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute,
spent his summers in accepted collegiate style, working with a view to
September, college, and more spending money.  He was employed by the J. M.
Hyde Grocery Company in Winnfield.

Three years of a college commercial course concluded in 1913, he decided that
he would like to enter the business world without further study and accepted
the offer of the Hyde Company to take a regular position.  He was a member of
the firm from 1914 until 1932 and was owner of it from 1932 until shortly
before he came to the University as business manager in 1933.

There was one intermission in his business routine during this time and that
was for war service.  When the United States declared war in April, 1917, he
enlisted and was sent to Camp Beauregard.  Though he was anxious to see
service in France, his business experience was recognized and he was detailed
to the quartermaster's staff, where for 13 months he had charge of all
purchasing for the base hospital at the camp.  His wish to go to France was so
great, however, that he finally asked for a transfer, which was granted and he
was in training at Camp Pike, Ark., had lieutenant's commission and was to be
stationed in California when the signing of the Armistice brought an end to
the war.

He was a member of the Winn Parish School Board for a number of years and knew
practically every child in the parish.  "There might have been a dozen I
didn't known by first name," he says.  He has always enjoyed work with young
people and students and "believes" in youth.  Of the L.S.U. students, he
recently remarked, "If we had handpicked the South, we couldn't have got
better."

His hobby is sports as indicated in the fact that he was director of athletics
of the Winnfield High School for seven years.  During this time the school
lost only six football games and turned out many of the best athletes of its
history.

Mr. Jackson married Mildred Looney of Ruston, for a number of years a member
of the Winnfield High School staff.  They have three children, Jena, popular
student in the University High School, Mary Alice, and Jack Tom.