He got his higher education at National Normal School in Lebanon, Ohio, graduating with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1884.
He went into partnership with Judge John H. Cottrell in 1894, which lasted until Keaton was appointed to the Territorial Supreme Court in September, 1896.
[2] On March 22, 1898, President William McKinley appointed a fellow Republican H. F. Burwell of Oklahoma City to succeed Judge Keaton.
[1] On March 22, 1898, President McKinley appointed H. F. Burwell of Oklahoma City to succeed Judge Keaton.
She was a native Texan, and the daughter of William Davenport, who had served the Confederate States of America as Consul to Mexico.
[1] Judge Keaton died of a heart ailment at the age of 84, on April 4, 1946, at Wesley Hospital in Oklahoma City.
[3] An obituary characterized him as "...a stickler for legal ethics, a crusader for governmental reforms and economy in all branches of government."