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Dr. Lumm spent the early years of his life on a farm in DeKalb county, Missouri, where he was early taught the value of industry and honesty as the true means of success. After an excellent training in Lewis College in Glasgow, Missouri, he began teaching school, and during his four years in that profession he also pursued the study of medicine. Later entering North Western Medical College in St. Joseph, Missouri, he graduated from that institution in 1891, and many years after- ward, in 1905, completed the course in the Chicago Hospital College. Since coming to Oklahoma he has built up a large and repre- sentative patronage and is also the proprietor of a drug store in Stroud, in which he carries
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a large and well selected line of drugs of all kinds, as well as the many other articles found in a first class store of its kind. He is not only a successful physician and surgeon, but is courteous and genial with all and has therefore won the public esteem as well as the public confidence.
Dr. Lumm married in Guthrie, Oklahoma, in 1893, Lena Tourneur, from Quincy, Illi- nois. Her father, Louis Tourneur, was a Union soldier during the Civil war. The doc- tor belongs to the county and state medical societies and is the local surgeon for the Frisco Railroad. He is a stanch Republican in his political affiliations, and is a member of the fraternal order of Odd Fellows and of the Presbyterian church.
DR. J. J. EVANS is one of the oldest physi- cians and surgeons of Stroud, for he came here the same year in which the town was or- ganized, in 1898, and has ever since continued as one of its most successful medical practi- tioners. He was born in Barboursville, Knox county, Kentucky, December 14, 1872, and is a son of the Rev. J. F. Evans, for many years a minister in the Baptist church, a faithful and efficient laborer in the cause of Christian- ity. He is now living in Lincoln county, Ok- lahoma, near Kendrick, at the age of sixty- seven years. He was a brave and loyal Union soldier during the Civil war, a member of the Forty-ninth Kentucky Infantry, of which he served as sergeant of Company K. He mar- ried a Miss Westerfield, also from Barbours- ville, Kentucky, but her father, J. C. Wester- field was, originally from Tennessee.
Dr. J. J. Evans was one of the six children in this family, four sons and two daughters, and one of his sisters, Miss Cora Evans, is a teacher in Lincoln county. After his gradua- tion from the public schools at the age of seventeen years he began the study of medi- cine in the University of Louisville, in which he graduated with the class of 1894, and he had the distinction of being the youngest of his class. Shortly after his graduation he located for practice at Norwich, Kingman county, Kansas, and from there in 1898 he came to Oklahoma.
Dr. Evans married at the age of twenty- two years, in Conway Springs, Kansas, Lula B. Nunn, of that place, a daughter of J. A. Nunn, now of Santa Ana, California. Mrs. Evans is the associate grand matron of the Eastern Star of Oklahoma. The doctor is a past master in Masonry belonging to Stroud
Lodge No. 48, and the Royal Arch Masons and Knights Templar. He is now serving the fourth term as master of his home lodge and is high priest of Chandler Chapter No. 51, R. A. M. of Chandler. He is a charter mem- ber and was the first chancellor commander of Stroud Lodge No. 26, of the Knights of Pythias of Stroud and also belongs to the or- der of Odd Fellows. Dr. Evans is a member of the state and county medical societies and has been a member of the U. S. Board of Pen- sion Examining Surgeons for the past nine years. In church faith he is a Presbyterian.
DR. J. F. BILBY, one of the most successful practicing physicians of Stroud as well as in Lincoln county, was born in Shelby county, Indiana, October 31, 1840, the year made memorable by the campaign of General Har- rison for the presidency of the United States. He is a member of an old and well known family who had much to do with the making of the history of both New Jersey and Indi- ana, and his father, Amos O. Bilby, was a cousin of the well known John S. Bilby, the Missouri cattle king and millionaire land owner. The grandfather was Peter Bilby, born in New Jersey and one of the honored, early pioneers of the Hoosier state, noted for his industry, courage and honesty. The mother of the doctor was before marriage a Miss M. Hoagland, from Kentucky, a daugh- ter of John Hoagland, a member of the Ken- tucky Sharp Shooters under General Jackson and of French descent. Amos O. Bilby and his wife were earnest and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and their deaths occurred respectively at the ages of seventy-six and sixty-two years.
Dr. J. F. Bilby, one of the eight children in this family, four sons and four daughters, grew to years of maturity in the state of Iowa, receiving a good educational training in the schools of Mount Pugh and Keokuk, that state. He was but seven years of age when his father's family moved from Indiana to Iowa. He began the study of medicine under his brother, Dr. P. M. Bilby, of Eldon, Iowa, at Floris, that state. After gaining a funda- mental knowledge of the principles of medi- cine under his brother's able instructions he entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons at Keokuk, Iowa, and was graduated with its class of 1886 and later he completed a course at St. Joseph Medical College, St. Joseph, Missouri. With this excellent train- ing to serve as the foundation for his future
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life work, Dr. Bilby located for practice in Appanoose county, Iowa, and from there came to Oklahoma in 1896 and cast in his lot with the early residents of Iconium. This country was then new and wild, with but little evidences of civilization, and the doc- tor has since performed his full share in the wonderful work of transformation which took place. The same year from Guthrie he came to Stroud, and is now one of this city's most successful and best known physicians and sur- geons.
During his residence in Appanoose county, Iowa, he was married to Manerva, a daughter of J. C. Quigby, but she was called from this life January 8, 1870, in Wapello county, Iowa, when but twenty-nine years of age, leaving two children: W. S. Bilby, a well known at- torney in Knoxville, Iowa, and G. N. Bilby, a prominent physician in Alva, Oklahoma. The younger son was a member of the first state convention held in Oklahoma, and that body had the honor of writing the constitu- tion for the new state. Dr. J. F. Bilby was subsequently married to Anne Ewing, from Troy, Davis county, Iowa, a daughter of Joseph E. Ewing, from Tennessee. By this union four children have been born. Rev. W. E. Bilby, of Stroud; Rev. John Lee Bilby, from the Drew Theological College of New Jersey and now a minister in Brooklyn, New York; Ora, of Lovilia, Iowa ; and Etta Bilby. of Edmond, Oklahoma. The family are ac- tive in the church work of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, in which the doctor has been a steward and Sabbath school teach- er and superintendent. He is a member of the fraternal order of Odd Fellows and the Lincoln county and State Medical societies. The doctor is still well preserved and in active practice.
C. E. WILcox. The name of C. E. Wilcox stands at the head of the public officials of Carney, of which he is now serving as mayor, and he is further honored by being one of the earliest pioneers of Lin- coln county and one of its foremost business men. It was in 1891 that he sought a home in the then new and undeveloped country of Oklahoma, and as a carpenter he erected many of the first buildings of the county and in many ways assisted materially in the up- building and advancement of this community. He is now the manager of the Glen Lumber Company, one of the large industrial institu- tions of Lincoln county.
Mr. Wilcox was born in DeKalb county, Illinois, near Sycamore, in 1859, a member of one of the first families to settle in that county. As early as 1846 his ancestors had emigrated, via the Lakes, to Chicago, and his paternal grandfather, Billings Wilcox, was numbered among the early pioneers of this western metropolis His father is yet living. having attained the age of seventy-seven years. His mother was before marriage Catherine Myers, and C. E. Wilcox was one of their eight children, seven sons and a daughter. The early years of his life were spent on an Illinois farm, and there he also learned the carpenter's trade after completing his public school training. As a lad of six- teen he went with his parents to Fremont county, Iowa, where they located near Sidney, and from there subsequently moved to Otoe county, Nebraska. The family were pioneers in both counties, and the lad watched the development of Otoe county from a frontier community to a region of prosperity, but finally he left Nebraska for Oklahoma in 1891 and has since been active in the advancement of his adopted state.
When he had reached the age of twenty- seven he was married to Anna Heacock, a daughter of Captain Ephraim Heacock, an officer in the Civil war. The five children of this union are Audrie, Beulah, Nellie, Mildred and Glenn. Mr. Wilcox is a prominent local worker in the interests of the Republican party, and has served as its delegate to con- ventions. He is also a Master Mason, a mem- ber of Lodge No. 107, and also of the Odd Fellows Lodge No. 138 and of the Woodmen of the World. Mrs. Wilcox is a member of the Christian church.
ROBERT W. MCGEE is the present postmas- ter of Carney in Lincoln county, receiving his appointment to that high official position on the 16th of April, 1906. He stands high in the councils of the Republican party of this district, and has been an energetic, efficient worker in its behalf. In his present respon- sible position he has made a splendid record for general efficiency, fidelity and promptness in the discharge of his manifold duties.
The residence of Mr. McGee in Oklahoma covers a period of eight years, and he is a native Ohioan, born in Dayton, Montgomery county, near the present site of the Soldiers' Home there, in July, 1859. His father. Lieutenant Thomas W. McGee, was a gallant officer during the Civil war, but his arduous
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military life so undermined his health that he never fully recovered after leaving the army, and he died at the age of forty-five years. At one time during his service he was quite severely wounded. His widow, before mar- riage Rebecca Shaffer, was born in Pennsyl- vania, a member of a Pennsylvania German family, and she died in Ohio at the age of sixty-two years. In their family were three sons and a daughter, namely. Robert W., whose name introduces this review; E. A., whose home is in Montezuma, Ohio, Albert T., of Minturn, Colorado; and Lillian F., the only daughter, of Bad Axe, Michigan. The parents were worthy church members, the father a member of the United Brethren de- nomination, and he gave his political support to the Republican party.
In his native city of Dayton, Robert W. McGee obtained an excellent educational training in his early life, and he also attended for a time the Otterbein College at Wester- ville, that state. It was in 1884 that he left his native state and went to Colorado, where he engaged in the cattle business, and in 1892 he located in Grand Junction that state, where he was employed in real estate operations, and from there he came to Oklahoma in 1901.
In Dayton, Ohio, when twenty-one years of age, Mr. McGee was married to Rosa E. Long, who died at De Beque, Colorado, at the age of thirty-two years, a member of the United Brethren church. In 1901, at Grand Junction, Colorado, Mr. McGee was married to Margaret A. Dinwiddie, who was born in Ohio. As above stated Mr. McGee is an ac- tive worker in the local ranks of the Repub- lican party, and has served as a delegate to its conventions. He is a member of the frater- nal order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife are members of the Christian church.
DR. W. A. PENDERGRAPH, a well - known and successful physician and surgeon in Car- ney, came to Oklahoma from Elkland, Mis- souri, in 1902. and has since been prominently identified with the professional life of Lincoln county. He is a graduate of the Central High School, Springfield, Missouri, class of 1886 and of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of St. Louis, Missouri, with the class of 1896, and having thus enjoyed the advan- tages of a superior professional training.
Dr. Pendergraph is a native son of Mis- souri, born in Polk county, January 9, 1861. The family had resided in that state for over sixty years and were well known and honored
residents there, and his father, C. J. Pender- graph, died there at the age of fifty-seven years. He was a Civil war soldier, a Union man and a member of a Missouri regiment, in which he served with bravery and ability. He voted afterward with the Republican party. His wife was before marriage Mary J. Barkley, also from Missouri, and a daugh- ter of David Barkley, who moved to that state from Tennessee and was one of the first to seek a residence in Polk county. The doc- tor was one of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters, and after receiving an excellent training in the public schools he be- came a successful and popular teacher and followed that profession for twelve years, in the meantime becoming the county superin- tendent of schools and serving in that office for two terms. But desiring to become a physi- cian and surgeon, he began the study of medi- cine under the preceptorship of Drs. Jones and Gatewood, well known medical practi- tioners of Buffalo, Missouri, and his superior training in their office enabled him later to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons of St. Louis, Missouri. He was Secretary for three years and then president of the U. S Pension Board at Marshfield, Missouri. He resigned this to identify himself with the in- terests of the west.
Dr. Pendergraph was married at the age of twenty-five to Louisa A. Powell, who was born and reared in Missouri and she too is a daughter of a Civil war soldier, Jerome Pow- ell. Dr. and Mrs. Pendergraph have four children, William G., C. J., Nellie A. and Mar- garet J. Both the doctor and his wife are members of the Christian church, in which he is serving as an elder. He is a Republican in his political affiliations, and is a member of the A. F. and A. M., I. O. O. F. and Modern Woodmen of America and of the County and State Medical societies. The cause of edu- cation, temperance and morality find in him a true and tried friend, and he is one of Car- ney's best citizens and most successful physi- cians and surgeons.
WV. H. FALLIS, one of the pioneer real es- tate dealers in Lincoln county, Oklahoma, do- ing an extensive business at the thriving town of Fallis, located at that point in 1891, when he made the "run" and secured a good claim, under the U. S. homestead rights. He was the first to act as postmaster there and had the name changed from Mission to Fallis and was the first postmaster at the place. He first
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came to Oklahoma in 1889 and stopped at Guthrie where he became a member of the first town council and held the office two terms.
To acquaint the reader with the earlier history of Mr. Fallis and his family connec- tion, it should be stated that he was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, December 22, 1838, a son of John Fallis who was a native of that state. His ancestors were from Eng- land. The mother was before marriage into the Fallis family, Miss Sarah Stratton, a na- tive of Kentucky and of a Scotch family of considerable note in Kentucky. The senior Fallis and his family moved to Indiana and later went to Missouri, settling in Gentry county. He died in Jackson county, Mis- souri, aged eighty-nine years. He was a sup- porter of the Democratic party and followed farming for an occupation. In his religious faith, he was a Universalist. His wife died aged eighty-three years and was of the Christian church faith. This couple had eight sons.
WV. H. Fallis, of this narrative, was reared in Missouri on his father's farm and had none of the advantages of the public school system. At the time of the Civil war, he served as a soldier in the Confederate army in Col. T. J. Patton's regiment, Gen. Little's brigade. He resided in St. Joseph and Bethany, Missouri. until twenty-five years of age then went to Peirce City, in southwestern Missouri, re- mained some time and then went to Kansas City, Missouri, and lived there two years. He next went to Chattanooga, Tennessee, living there three years and in 1889 came to Guthrie, Oklahoma territory. He has been active in politics, and served as a justice of the peace several years and is a supporter of the Demo- cratic party.
Mr. Fallis was married at Bethany, Mis- souri, to Jennie R. Hodge, born in Linius, Missouri, her parents coming from Virginia. They were William and Eliza ( Bell) Hodge. Mrs. Fallis died, aged sixty-two years, on February 14, 1908, leaving two daughters: Cora Stillmer of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Blanche Lucas, of Guthrie, Oklahoma, proprietor of the only newspaper clipping bureau in the state.
GEORGE H. TEA, present postmaster at Fal- lis, Lincoln county, Oklahoma, was appointed to such office, April 22, 1902. He came to Fallis in 1900 from Union county, Iowa, hav- ing resided near Afton, the county seat. He
was born in Wisconsin in 1851 of one of the early families of Polk county, that state. His father came from Virginia and the family re- moved from Wisconsin to Iowa. The father reached the ripe old age of eighty-six years, dying November 15, 1908. He had always been a farmer and in his religious faith ad- hered to the creed of the Lutheran church. His wife died in Iowa at the age of fifty-eight years.
Reared on his father's Iowa farm, George H. Tea was there taught the usefulness and manliness of hard labor. He received his ed- ucation at the common schools of Union county, Iowa, and since then has obtained much useful knowledge by being in touch with the business world and by his reading. Upon coming to Oklahoma Mr. Tea went on to his farm where he remained until he was ap- pointed postmaster. Politically, Mr. Tea votes the Republican ticket and is an ardent party worker. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and is a zealous worker in the same. He is numbered among the mem- bership of the Masonic fraternity. Both he and his good wife are members of the Sab- bath school and do efficient work therein.
Mr. Tea was united in marriage in Union county, Iowa, to Anna Munsell, a woman of education and refined tastes. She comes of a most excellent family, her parents coming from Ohio to Iowa in 1859. The father, Dr. George Munsell, now resides at Rayo, King- man county, Kansas. His wife, Mary ( Rey- nolds) Munsell, died in Iowa. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Tea are as follows: Flora Saffle, of Fallis, Warner T., Mary and Charles Lewis. Two children are deceased. Mrs. Tea is president of the W. C. T. U. and a most excellent worker in the great cause of temperance. In short, in all that tends to build up religion, morals and sobriety in the new state of Oklahoma, Mr. and Mrs. Tea are ever foremost in helping along.
HARRY MCQUOWN, M. D. Botli as a physi- cian and surgeon Dr. Harry McQuown has won distinction in Lincoln county, where he has practiced in Fallis since 1904, and though but a few years have passed since he became a permanent resident of this community he enjoys an extensive and remunerative prac- tice. He is progressive in all his methods, constantly reading and studying, and keeps in close touch with the spirit of the times.
Dr. McQuown was born in Hill county, Texas, in 1874, his family having moved to
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that state from Kentucky two years previous- ly, in 1872. His father, the Rev. H. C. Mc- Quown, is now living in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. McQuown was reared both in Texas and in Parkville. Missouri, attending the Park College at the latter place. From there he entered the Fort Worth Medical College, in which he was graduated with the class of 1901, and from that year until his removal to Fallis he was in practice at Walter, Oklahoma.
At the age of twenty-five years Dr. Mc- Quown was married in Fort Worth, Texas, to Lulu Johnson, a graduate of the high school there, and they have three children,-Mattie, Lottie and Roy B. The doctor's political affi- liations are with the Democratic party, and both he and his wife are church members. He is now in the prime of life, a finely edu- cated and successful physician and surgeon. Genial in manner, the soul of honesty in his professional and business life, he has won and retained many friends, and is one of Fallis' best known and most valued citizens.
I. N. BRADFIELD is a Missourian by birth but many years of his life have been spent in the state of his adoption, and he is now serv- ing his third term as the city judge of Fallis. His efforts toward advancing the material in- terests of his city are so widely recognized that they can be considered as no secondary part of his career of signal usefulness. Seventeen years ago he sought a home in the then territory of Oklahoma, coming from Butler county, Kan- sas, and he first bought the old Mission farm, but later sold that property and during the past six years has lived in Fallis, prominently and actively identified with its interests.
Judge Bradfield was born in Clark county, Missouri, March 11, 1856. His father, G. W. Bradfield, was a native son and a member of an old Virginia family, while his mother, Rachel (Riggs) Bradfield, was born in Ohio, and both are now deceased. She was a good and pious mother, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in her family were nine children. The father served as a mem- ber of the Home Guards in Missouri in Civil war times.
Reared in this good old southern home, I. N. Bradfield was early taught the value of in- dustry and honesty as the true means of suc- cess and his early years were spent as a farmer boy. In later life he spent thirteen years in Butler county, Kansas, and from there came to Oklahoma seventeen years ago. From the farm he in time drifted into the
furniture business, but perhaps his best and most efficient labor for his adopted home has been as the city judge of Fallis, an earnest co- worker with those whose lives are devoted to the best interests of home, state and native land.
When Judge Bradfield had attained the age of twenty-seven years he was married to Laura J. Evans, who was born in Cooper county, Missouri, a daughter of Albert J. Evans, of Washington, D. C. Her mother was before marriage Martha McCarty. The seven children of this union are Alice Waas, Lizzie Bassett, Mattie Fent, May Bradfield, Eva Blanch, Musie Dora, and Thomas T., the only son and a lad of seventeen years. Mr. Bradfield is a valued member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Fallis, being one of its most active and efficient workers and elders and the superintendent of its Sunday school. The church was organized at his home in 1898 by the Rev. W. E. Jones, its charter roll num- bering thirteen members, but the church now has a membership of fifty. Mrs. Bradfield is also a member and an efficient worker of this denomination.
W. B. TEITZEL, a careful and enterprising druggist, doing business at Fallis, Lincoln, county, Oklahoma, is numbered among the substantial men of the town. He located here in 1905, having first settled at Guthrie, Oklahoma, in 1891, hence has been a resident of what is now embraced in the state of Okla- homa, for seventeen years. Mr. Teitzel is a native of Gasconade county, Missouri, born there in 1864 of a family of note who were possessed of much intelligence and industry. This family is of German origin. The father was born and educated in Germany and died in Missouri in 1878. The widowed mother of W. B. Teitzel resides in Illinois. The father was a shoe manufacturer. In his church relations, he was of the Lutheran de- nomination. The parents had six sons, one of whom, C. C. Teitzel resides in Chandler, Oklahoma.
W. B. Teitzel was reared and obtained his education in Missouri. He attended the pub- lic schools and high school of his native coun- ty and studying pharmacy he passed a most excellent and rigid examination, receiving his state permit and diploma, at the hands of the state board, as druggist, in which he is well qualified to handle and compound all kinds of drugs and medicines.
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In his fraternal affiliations, Mr. Teitzel is a Mason and a past master of Carney Lodge, No. 107, A. F. and A. M., also a member of Fallis Lodge, No. 228, I. O. O. F., Praeterian Fraternity, member at large, and Success Re- bekah Lodge, No. 161. Politically, he is a Democrat and an ardent worker in that politi- cal organization. He has served as mayor of his town and administered the affairs of the little municipality in a commendable manner. He is now city clerk of Fallis.
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