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In 1904, Mr. Teitzel married in Lincoln county, Oklahoma, Sylvia E. Smith, a woman of intelligence and kindly attributes, who is a faithful helpmate to her husband. She is the daughter of J. M. Smith and wife, of Chan- dler, Oklahoma. Mrs. Teitzel is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. As a citizen of integrity and enterprise, Mr. Teitzel has no superior in the town which he has chosen as his permanent residence.
J. W. CALDWELL, mayor of Fallis, Lincoln county, Oklahoma, and an enterprising and thoroughly reliable real estate dealer, came to this section of the great, and then wild southwestern territory, before the opening for actual settlement of the Sac and Fox, Kicka- poo, Iowa, and Pottawatomie Indian reserva- tions. He had received an appointment under President Benjamin Harrison as a clerk in In- dian Territory from the Indian Department. He landed there November 23, 1889, hence may truly be counted among the early pio- neers. He was born March 18, 1853, in Mor- gan county, Indiana, and comes of an old and time honored family of the Hoosier state, this family having originally resided in Tennessee. He is the son of Alexander Caldwell, who was born in Tennessee. He was a farmer and his wife was before her marriage a Miss Car- oline White, a native of Morgan county. Indiana.
Mr. Caldwell, of this narrative, was reared on a farm in Indiana and there took his first lessons in the habits of frugality and useful industry. He obtained a good education at the district schools of his native county and the state normal, Terre Haute, Indiana, and also took a commercial course at Indianapolis, Since coming to Oklahoma, Mr. Caldwell has been in close touch with the lands and realty of this territory and the new state of Okla- homa, buying and selling much real estate. Politically, he votes the Republican ticket and in all things exemplifies a true American citi- zen.
He was happily married at the age of twenty-seven years, in Indiana, to Ellen May Shireman, a woman of intelligence and refine- ment, who is a devout member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church. She is the daughter of Henry Shireman and wife Marie ( De Turk) Shireman. The children born to bless the home circle of Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell are as follows: Horace, of Parsons, Kansas ; Alethia of Mulhall, Oklahoma, and Ethel and Ralph at home. This family occupy a fine residence -as good as the county in which they reside affords. They are members of the Christian church.
Dr. JOHN H. BAUGH, physician and sur- geon practicing at Meeker, Lincoln county, Oklahoma, has an extended practice and a wide acquaintance. He has been a resident of Oklahoma since 1894, when it was still a territory. This eminently successful physician is a native of Kentucky, born on a farm in 1873, in the famous and ever charming blue grass region, which has so long been noted for its superior men and women, as well as its well bred horses, which are sought for throughout the country. Dr. Baugh's pater- nal grandfather came from Virginia, and the generations go back to Germany originating in Hesse-Darmstadt. The first representative of the family in the United States came to our shores prior to the Revolutionary war.
The father of Dr. Baugh, W. J. Baugh, was born in Kentucky. His wife whose maid- en name was Newell, was also a native of the same state and both now live in Kenesaw, Nebraska. The doctor was one of seven chil- dren-three sons and four daughters. He was reared on a farm in Nebraska, from the age of eight years and here he was developed in both physical and mental strength. He was taught his elementary education at the public schools of the state in which he lived, having been a resident of Nebraska as stated from the time he was a boy of eight summers. Having chosen the medical profession as the one which he wished to follow, he commenced its study under Dr. E. L. Dagley, a well known, and quite celebrated physician of Hastings, Nebraska. Subsequently Dr. Baugh entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated in 1893, with class honors. He then located at Sheridan, Wyoming, remaining in practice there one year. He returned to Hastings and in 1894 went to Oklahoma City where he became a
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pioneer doctor. Still later, he settled at Clif- ton, Lincoln county, and when the town of Meeker was started, he went to that place and erected a building twenty-five by eighty feet into which he put a good stock of pure drugs, conducted a first class drug store and soon built up a large trade in this line as well as carrying on a lucrative medical practice both within and without the new town.
The doctor was married in the month of July, 1895, to May D. Huffman, a woman of intelligence and refinement, who has proven herself an excellent helpmate to her husband. Mrs. Baugh is a native of Indiana, but was reared in Allen county, Kansas, she being a granddaughter of Col. Timberlake, of Indi- ana, of Civil war fame, and the daughter of J. M. Huffman, now deceased. Her mother was Jane S. Huffman. Mrs. Baugh was a popular school teacher in the early days of Lincoln county. Dr. Baugh and wife have been blessed with five children: Floyd Newell, Harold Timberlake, Theodore Burke, Ken- neth St. Clair and John Hardin.
Politically, Dr. Baugh is a Republican and in fraternal affiliations, is a Mason, having advanced to the thirty-second degree in the mysteries of this ancient order. He is a meni- ber of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine with membership in India Temple, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is also numbered among the worthy members of the Oklahoma Medical Society, as well as the medical societies of county in which he prac- tices. He was a member of the Board of Ex- amining Surgeons for pensions for a number of years, (Lincoln County, Oklahoma.) and also Superintendent of Public Health of Lincoln county for several terms. He founded the first public library, in Okla- homa. ("The Clifton Library Club," founded 1894,) of which he is now a life member. In the prime and full vigor of his life the doctor is an important factor in the community which he has chosen as his home.
F. M. RICE. The name of F. M. Rice is recorded on the pages of the history of Okla- homa as one of the promoters of the common- wealth and the founder of the town of Avery, a little village of one hundred and twenty-five inhabitants, people of thrift and enterprise. It was here that Mr. Rice located his claim on coming to the territory in 1891, the opening of the country to settlement. He lived on his claim one mile east of the town for twelve years and then organized the little village and
located within its borders. Avery can now boast of five church organizations, a postoffice of which Mr. Rice has been the postmaster since his appointment on the 16th of September 1902, and a number of business buildings. One of these stores is owned and conducted by Mr. Rice, where he carries a full line of merchandise, dry goods, shoes, groceries and. notions, and his fair and honorable dealings have secured for him a large trade through- out the surrounding country.
Although so long and prominently identi- fied with the interests of Oklahoma, where he moved in 1891 from Coffey county, Kan- sas, he is a native son of Missouri, born in Adair county, September 16, 1858. His par- ents were from Kentucky and were Alfred Rice and .Mary Lawrence. The former a Federal soldier in a Missouri regiment during the Civil war. He was a farmer and a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. On a farm in his native state of Missouri, F. M. Rice was reared to a sturdy manhood, and when he had reached the age of twenty he- was married to Eliza Hamilton, whose peo- ple had moved from Indiana to Missouri, her native state. They have become the parents of ten children,-Mattie, Mary, Roy, Jessie, Glen (deceased), Nora, Bessie, Floral,. George and Elmer. Mr. Rice is a stanch supporter of Republican principles.
DR. G. R. GALLOWAY, a true representative- of the medical profession, at Avery, Lincoln county, Oklahoma, located at this place in 1903, coming from Kansas. Dr. Galloway was born in Washington, Washington county,. Iowa, in 1871, a son of S. Galloway, an early settler of that part of the Hawkeye state, who settled there in 1866. He was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and went to Illinois locating in Peoria county. He served as a gallant soldier in the cause of the Union,. during the great Civil war and when he re- turned from the army, he weighed only ninety pounds. He was married in Peoria county, Illinois, to Jeanette Dyoe, who was born in Saratoga, New York, and died in 1895. She. had been a true wife and the loving mother of three children-two sons and one daugh- ter. The son was Dr. G. R., of this sketch; one daughter was Mrs. E. M. Iliff, wife of Dr. Iliff, of Battlefield, Missouri; the other child died while quite young.
Reared in Iowa and receiving a public school education, Dr. G. R. Galloway studied medicine under Dr. L. R. Sellars, a well
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known physician of Osawattomie, Kansas, and entered the medical college at Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. Galloway located in Linn county, Kansas, where he practiced his profession five years. He has built a good business house, twenty-four by fifty-two feet in which he placed a good stock of drugs and druggist supplies of all kinds, including patent medicines and his trade has come to be very extensive. As a business man he stands for all that is correct and practical. The doc- tor holds diplomas from the University Medi- cal College of Kansas City, Missouri. In his political choice, he is in sympathy with the teachings of the Democratic party and in fraternal relations, is connected with the Odd Fellows order.
Dr. Galloway married in Linn county, Kan- sas, Cora A. Holmes, who died in 1906, aged thirty-four years For his second wife, he married in 1908, Miss Bessie M. Shannon, of Avery, Oklahoma, a native of Texas, a daugh- ter of D. E. Shannon, who is an ex-soldier of the Union army.
E. D. PROWANT, the postmaster of Agra in Lincoln county and also one of the county's leading farmers and stock raisers, was one of the first to seek a home in this community, and during the fourteen years which covers the period of his residence here he has been prominently identified with the interests of Agra and of Lincoln county. He was born thirty-three years ago near Pawnee City in Pawnee county, Nebraska, a member of one of the oldest families there and a son of a brave and honored Civil war soldier. His father enlisted for service in a Union regi- ment in Ohio when but seventeen years of age, becoming a member of the Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he is now a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and an honored pioneer resident of Pawnee county, Nebraska. His wife was before mar- riage Elizabeth Stair, a native of Putnam county, Indiana. She is a member of the Methodist church.
E. D. Prowant, one of their eight children, three sons and five daughters, was reared to mature years on the old homestead farm in Nebraska. In 1895 he left his native county of Pawnee for Oklahoma, where he has ever since resided, and he now owns a valuable farm of two hundred acres near the town of Agra. His land is valuable and well improved and he has been very successful in his farm- ing and stock raising. In January of 1906
he was made the postmaster of Agra, and his wife is serving as his assistant in the office. The office maintains one rural route.
The marriage of Mr. Prowant and Miss Emma Ryan was celebrated in 1896 in Lin- coln county. She was one of the first teachers in the territory of Oklahoma, and was born in Ohio, a daughter of James Ryan. The two children of this union are Paulina and Wayne, aged respectively ten and eight years. Mrs. Prowant is a member of the United Brethren church. Mr. Prowant is both a Mason and an Odd Fellow, belonging to Lodge No. 133, in the former order and of which he is also the secretary and to Lodge No. 197 in the latter.
DR. C. W. MARTIN, physician and surgeon, whose medical practice extends throughout the territory in which the sprightly town of Payson, Lincoln county, is situated, is a na- tive of Ohio, born in Putnam county, in 1862, a son of Dr. D. W. Martin, a reputable phy- sician, practicing for many years and who is now sixty-eight years old. The paternal grandfather was D. Martin, of Springfield, Illinois. The mother of Dr. C. W. Martin was Lucy (Harris) Martin, who died in 1901. The family moved from Ohio to Gallatin, Davis county, Missouri, and Doctor C. W. Martin obtained his education, primarily, at the district schools, studying medicine with his father as his tutor. He began the practice of medicine in 1888, at Wichita, Kansas, dur- ing the great boom days of that city. He was active in the development of the city's interest and spent eight years there. He spent the next two years in Labette county, Kansas, then went to Joplin, Missouri, and from there to Topeka, Kansas. After remaining there sometime, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and from that city moved to Oklahoma Territory. He arrived in this new country in 1893. He is a graduate of Ensworth Medical College of St. Joseph, Missouri, graduating with the class of 1903. It should be stated that the doctor had twenty years of actual practice before he graduated at the last named col- lege. His extensive practice in various places, surrounded by different conditions, with many kinds and classes of patients, has equipped him for the better coping with dis- ease than would probably have been his lot, had he remained in one locality.
He was united in marriage in 1886 to C. L. Gardner, who is a native of Zanesville, Ohio, by whom three children were born: Esther
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L., Charles and Ruth. The doctor's family reside in Joplin, Missouri, where his children are being educated. Dr. Martin is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Woodmen of the World. He is prominent in the state and county medical societies and possesses much of the true public spirit which makes him an exemplary citizen. In his medical practice no physician is more careful and successful.
DR. F. B. ERWIN, one of the practical and skillful physicians and surgeons prac- ticing the medical profession at the town of Wellston, within Lincoln county, Oklahoma, is a native of Brown county, Kansas, born near Hiawatha, in 1874, a son of an early pioneer settler, of Brown county, John J. Erwin, who located there in 1868, coming to Oklahoma in 1893, where he still resides, now leading a retired life, at Wellston. He married Mary E. Hannah, a native of Illinois. By this union there were born four sons and three daughters. Politically, the father is a Republican and takes a general inter- est in the political issues of the day.
Dr. F. B. Erwin was reared on the home- stead, in Brown county, Kansas, and re- ceived a good education at Ottawa Univer- sity, Kansas, and also attended the State Normal College, at Edmond, Oklahoma. He taught school three years in Lincoln county, Oklahoma, and one year in Ne- vada, and was counted a successful instructor. He took the medical course at the University Medical College, Kan- sas City, Missouri, graduating with the class of 1906, with class honors. He is now a member of the County Medical Society and is serving as its secretary. Po- litically, he is a Republican. He is an hon- ored member of the I. O. O. F. and Wood- men's lodges.
The doctor was united in marriage in 1907. in Oklahoma, to Mae O. Whistler, a woman well educated and of an excellent family, the daughter of W. S. Whistler. The doctor and wife have one child, Lucile.
DR. H. C. MANNING, a practicing physi- c'an and surgeon of Cushing, is a graduate of the well known Chattanooga Medical Col- lege of Tennessee, and is a medical practi- tioner of true and tried ability. A native son of the southland of Kentucky, he was born near Williamsburg on the 15th of April, 1881. a grandson of a prominent old southerner who moved from Virginia to that state. William
H. Manning, his father, was also born in the Blue Grass state, and was reared, educated and married there, wedding Aurelia Bryant, also from that state, and she died at the age of sixty-one years. During the period of the Civil war William H. Manning served as a Federal soldier in a Kentucky regiment, and he died in his native state at the age of fifty- nine years, honored and respected bv all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He voted with the Republican party and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Manning were twelve children, ten sons and two daugh- ters, and the seventh born of this number was H. C. Manning, Cushing's well known physi- cian and surgeon. From the public schools he passed to the Williamsburg Academy in Kentucky, and on leaving that institution be- gan the preparation for his life work by study- ing under his cousin, Dr. Bryant, of Wil- liamsburg. This study was later continued in the Chattanooga Medical College of Tennes- see, in which he graduated with the class of 1906. Since locating in Cushing he has built up a large practice, and in addition is also serving as the local physician for the Atchi- son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company.
In 1905 Dr. Manning married Dora Smith. also from Kentucky, and their only child, a daughter Ethel, died at the age of fourteen months. He is a member of the State Board of Physicians and of the Masonic order and the Modern Woodmen of America.
ABEL D. CHASE. More than fifty years have passed since Abel D. Chase took up his abode in the Chickasaw Nation. He came here in the year of 1859, and has since been prom- inently identified with the interests of its people, enjoying their freedom and independ- ence, and always shedding an influence for peace and harmony among his fellow men. His ancestors were among the first people to settle in Massachusetts, and in the old town of Newburyport on the Atlantic coast lived and died Aquilla Chase, the great-grandfather of Abel D. Aquilla Chase is said to have sail- ed the first vessel out of the harbor of that old town. The many oppressions of England against her colonies on this side of the Atlan- tic, and the recollections of the persecuted Pil- grims combined to alienate the friendship and loyalty of Chases to the mother country, and more firmly weld them to the Colonial senti- ment for independence, and all who could bear arms were found in the ranks of Wash-
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ington's army and aided in the establishment of a new nation and in defending its flag.
Among Captain Aquilla Chase's sons were Thomas, the grandfather of Abel D., and an- other who became the father of the famous Ohioan, Salmon P. Chase. Among the sons of Thomas was Abel D. Chase, Sr., born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he pre- pared himself for the profession of a civil engineer, and going later to Baltimore, Mary- land, where he was married. In the course of his career he drifted into Pennsylvania and did a large amount of work in and about Philadelphia, his death also occurring in that city about 1830, when about forty years of age. His wife, Emma Harrison, was a daugh- ter of a sea captain who was taken prisoner by the British during their operations about Baltimore, his vessel having been confiscated and he put in irons. But at a convenient op- portunity he slipped off his hand irons, stripped himself to the skin and made his escape by swimming ashore. After her hus- band's death Mrs. Chase lived with her only daughter in Janesville, Wisconsin, where her death occurred. Her children were: Abel D., mentioned below ; and Emma, who married her cousin, Winfield Chase, and moved to Port- land, Oregon, where she died in 1895.
Abel D. Chase, Jr., was born at the paren- tal home in Baltimore, October 19, 1826, and the days of his childhood and youth were pas- sed in that city, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Staunton, Virginia, obtaining his edu- cational training chiefly in the latter state. He left Roanoke College to enter the army for service in the Mexican war, enlisting in 1846 in Captain Kenton Harper's Light Infantry, Virginia Volunteers, and when the troops of which he was a member reached the scene of action they were assigned to General Taylor's command. Sailing from Fortress Monroe to the mouth of the Rio Grande river, they were disembarked up the river and garrisoned many places in Mexico. The regimental field officers were all West Point men, and included among their number Jubal A. Early, a general in the Confederate army. After the close of the war the regiment returned to Fortress Monroe and were discharged, Mr. Chase returning then to Staunton. Virginia, where he took up the pursuits of civil life as a clerk in a mercantile store. For some time after this he was con- nected with a New York house in the pur- chase of produce for shipment to South America, handling large sums of money
without bond or security of any kind, and still later he was connected with several wholesale houses in Baltimore. In 1856, however, he severed his busi- ness relations and sailed for California by the Isthinus route, where he was employed in car- rying mail and express for Greathouse Broth- ers from Shasta to the Trinity river, often through a dangerous country where all were at the mercy of "the man with a gun."
Mr. Chase returned home by the same route which had taken him to the Golden state, and after a few months at his old home in Virginia he started westward on the journey that led him to his final home and placed him perma- nently among a people which his presence has continually helped. On his way to the Indian Territory he stopped in Marshall county, Mis- souri, and taught a term of school there while visiting a friend, and resuming his journey to Mexico stopped again with an old time play- mate who was then a sutler at Fort Washita. And it was while clerking for that friend and resting there that he met the Indian maiden who interested him so strongly, and who in time he made his wife.
Having married and thus attached himself to the Chickasaw people he exercised his right by engaging in the stock business near the old fort, and was identified with that locality until he came to Pickens county in 1882 and took up land on Walnut Bayou, some thirty miles west of Ardmore, where he secured many business and residence lots. He has improved much of his land as the town has progressed and en- larged, and his city property and family allot- ments constitute valuable holdings and pro- duce a revenue sufficient for the ample mainte- nance of the household. When the Civil war was in progress he was in sympathy with the Confederate cause. The Chickasaws arranged to aid the south, and as he never opposed the regulations or laws of the nation he lent his support to the same cause and was offered a commission by the Richmond Government, and was also given an opportunity by Gen- eral Pike to raise an independent com- mand among the Indians, but he declined all this and contented himself with what aid he could render to the cause as a private citizen. He has never assumed any political rights among the people of his adoption, but he has known personally many of the statesmen of both the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations.
In 1860 Mr. Chase married Miss Nancy Mc- Coy, a daughter of a Choctaw, Judge McCoy,
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whose wife was a Chickasaw woman. They were married on the 24th of May of that year, and have had the following children : Grove E., a farmer at Walnut Bayou ; Emma, the wife of William Bates, of Durant ; Ruth, wife of Wil- liam Newton, of Cornish, Oklahoma; and Cal- lie C., who married John Blake and resides in Love county, Oklahoma. Since the close of the war between the states Mr. Chase has sup- ported the Democratic party, but those of his people who lived north of Mason and Dixon's line took an opposite view of political ques- tions. He has never been closely allied with any church denomination, but has lived a con- sistent Christian life.
DR. JOHN O. GILLIAM, of Berwyn, has spent his life of nearly sixty years as a res- ident of the southwest, and for more than half that period has been engaged in the education and uplifting of the Indian citizens of this re- gion, as well as in the lightening of the phy- sical burdens, which must be borne by all rac- es and classes of people. He is a Missourian, born in Chariton county, on the 17th of Aug- ust, 1849, son of James Gilliam, who came there at an early day from Prince Edward county, Virginia, where the family had been originally planted during the period of the Huguenot exodus from France. James Gil- liam was born in Prince Edward county in 1821; was a planter, a slave owner and a Whig, and for sixty years lived on the Ap- pomattox river in the house which had been his father's home through life. He died in Chariton county, Missouri, in 1902, and came of a long-lived family of successful farmers, consisting of nine sons and three daughters. James Gilliam married Martha Martin, a cultured Virginia lady, who was educated in Emory and Henry College, and died in 1872. Her father was a wealthy planter. The children of this union were: James of San Luis Obispo county, California, and a bachelor ; Dr. John O., of this sketch; Louisa, who married W. O. Sowers, of Sheri- dan county, Missouri; Edward, of Greenville, Oklahoma ; and Sallie, wife of Leslie Hickman, also of Sheridan county.
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