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Politically, Mr. O'Bannon is a supporter of the Democratic party. His only public office has been that of town recorder of Okemah, which position he held three years. December 22, 1895, Mr. O'Bannon was unit- ed in marriage, to Miss Hassie B. Hull, who was born on April 24, 1876, in Webster county, Mississippi, but passed most of her life before marriage at Hassie, Mississippi. She was a daughter of William H. and Mary Ann (Peoples) Hull. Both were born in Pickens county, Alabama, the father in 1839, and the mother. August 27, 1836. The moth- er died in August, 1906, and the father is still living, in Maben, Mississippi. The chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. O'Bannon are: Wil- liam Grady, born September 7, 1898: Roy Odell, born November 30, 1903; and Albert Lowell, born September 30, 1901. Frater- nally, Mr. O'Bannon is a member of Oke- mah Lodge, No. 140, I. O. O. F., and Oke- mah Camp, No. 1566, M. W. A.
WILLIAM NEWTON MCCULLEY, of Oke- mah, Oklahoma, sheriff of Okfuskee county, was born in Knoxville, East Tennessee, June 10, 1868, a son of Charles and Julia (Mars) McCulley. The father was a farmer and a native of Tennessee, of a family connected with the early history of the state, as was also the mother of William N. He was edu- cated in the public schools in the vicinity of his home. After assisting his father about the work on the old home farm for a number of years, he came to Indian Territory, when nineteen years of age. There he engaged in the cattle business as a ranchman, asso- ciated in the business with L. C. Absher. in the western part of the Chickasaw Na- tion, near the Comanche line. Mr. McCul- ley continued there until 1901, when he came to the Creek Nation, that portion 110W known as Okfuskee county. Here he en- gaged in farming on lands leased near the new town of Okemah.
In his political views, Mr. McCulley is a supporter of the Democratic party, and was elected sheriff of his county and inducted into his office on Statehood Day, November 17, 1907, and was present on the occasion of turning the territorial government over to the new state officials, at Guthrie. Hence he has the honor of being the first sheriff elected in Okfuskee county. As a peace officer he had served as the city marshal of Comanche during the stirring times of the territorial period. He is a member of Oke- mah Lodge, No. 139, A. F. & A. M., and Okemah Chapter, No. 61, R. A. M. He is also a K of P., belonging to Okemah Lodge, No. 185.
He was happily united in marriage to Miss Ara Crain, of Lamar county, Texas, September 24, 1888, daughter of Washing- ton Crain and wife. There is no issue by this marriage. Hunting large and small game is the chief recreation of Mr. McCul- ley in the hours not occupied by his official duties. He is the owner of a pack of Ken- tucky fox-hounds and has caught three wolves with his own hands, when the hounds held them at bay.
JUDGE JOHN CARUTHERS, an attorney-at- law, and the present district judge of the ninth judicial district of Oklahoma, who re- sides at Okemah, was born in Trousdale county, Tennessee, February 26, 1870, a son of William A. and Fannie (McCall) Car- uthers. Judge Caruthers comes of a family
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eminent in the legal profession. His father and grandfather were both able legal advo- cates, the grandfather being a judge of one of the judicial circuits in Tennessee, and a legal writer of note. An uncle, Hon. Robert L. Caruthers, was a judge of the supreme court of Tennessee. The grandfather, Abra- ham, and uncle, Robert L., were the found- ers of Cumberland Law University, at Leb- anon, Tennessee. Caruthers Hall was do- nated to the University by Robert L. Car- uthers, and stands as a monument to his memory. Judge Caruthers' grandmother on the paternal side was an Allen, a lineal des- cendant of the Allens of Revolutionary times. His grandfather on the maternal side was a physician, Dr. John A. McCall, of Rome, Tennessee.
Judge Caruthers attended the common schools of his native county, at Hartsville, and a private preparatory school. Entering Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Ten- nessee, he was graduated with the class of 1891, with the degree of A. B., and in the law department of the same institution in 1893, with the title of B. L. Two weeks after his graduation, he began the practice of his profession at Nashville, Tennessee, and continued in an independent law prac- tice for eleven years, during which time he served one term as member of the lower house of the state legislature, in 1896. In January, 1903. he removed to Okemah, Ok- lahoma, and continued in his chosen profes- sion. In his political views, Judge Caruth- ers is a supporter of the Democratic party. and received the nomination for the office of district judge at the instance of his party, and was the successful candidate in the gen- eral election. He took his seat on the bench, November 17, 1907-Statehood day.
The Judge was united in marriage to Miss Willis Elizabeth Hurst, of Athens, Tennes- see, June 1, 1899, at the City of Nashville. She is the daughter of John L. and Rowena (Alexander) Hurst. Mrs. Caruthers springs from an old and aristocratic family on both her maternal and paternal sides of family. She is the granddaughter (five removes) of Judge George Eskridge, who seated Sandy Point, Westmoreland county, Virginia, about 1700. The family history traces to Edward de Eskridge, 1276. Judge Eskridge married Rebecca Bonum in 1698, and he died in 1735. He was a member of the house of burgesses, a lawyer, and the guardian of Mary Ball, mother of George Washington.
Portraits of Judge Eskridge and wife hang in the Martha Washington room, second floor, at Mt. Vernon. In tracing the family history from Judge Eskridge, Margaret, his daughter, married Houson Kenner ; George Tuberville Kenner, their son, was the father of Rev. Rodham Kenner, Farquier, Vir- ginia (Episcopal minister) ; Rev. Rodham Kenner married his cousin, Judith Beverly Kenner (uniting two estates) ; their daugh- ter, Judith, married Dr. Joseph A. Carden, Marion, Virginia, surgeon in war of 1812; their daughter, Lovely Josephine Carden, married William Alexander, Rogersville, Tennessee (who was a direct descendant of General William Alexander-Lord Stirling -- who was a major general in the Revolu- tionary war) ; their daughter, Rowena Jose- phine Alexander, married John Lane Hurst, Jr., of Athens, Tennessee, cotton broker ; their daughter, Willis Elizabeth Hurst, mar- ried Hon. John Caruthers, of Nashville, Tennessee. Mrs. Caruthers, on her father's side, enters the Daughters of the American Revolution through her great-great-grand- father, Lieut. Isaac Lane, promoted for gal- lantry at King's Mountain when only seven- teen years old. Lieutenant Lane drew a pension. Harriet Lane, hostess of the White House during Buchanan's administration, was kinswoman of Lieutenant Lane.
As a means of healthful exercise, the Judge and Mrs. Caruthers are very fond of horseback riding, and ever since he was old enough to hold property he has owned a good saddle horse. Judge Caruthers, like many another young man, went to the far Southwestern country at a time rich with opportunities for laying a broad and deep foundation for a successful legal career, in which he is now busily engaged.
CHARLEY EDWARD GUTHRIE, clerk of the district court for Okfuskee county, Ninth judicial district of Oklahoma, residing at Okemah, is a native of Texas, born in Bos- que county, January 6, 1879, a son of Jere- miah P. and Josia (Sands) Guthrie. On the paternal side the family trace their line- age to Scotland and Irelaand, while the ma- ternal branch came from Ireland. The father was born in Texas and is a mechanic and contractor. The mother died, Novem- ber 22, 1881, and the father lives in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Charley E. Guthrie, of this memoir, re- ceived his early education in the common
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schools in his home vicinity and in Killeen, Texas. He began working at farm labor at a low rate of wages, and followed this for several years before he went to the In- dian Territory country of the great south- west, where dwelt the Indian tribes. He entered that section as a cowboy and "bron- co buster," being employed by H. B. Spauld- ing on one of his numerous ranches on Cloud Creek within the Creek Nation of Indian Territory, between Okmulgee and Muskogee. The city of Boynton is situated on a portion of this land today. There young Guthrie spent three years, on that and other ranches. He then abandoned ranch life and took up the profession of a teacher of penmanship, becoming an instructor in the art of writing at various points within the Indian country, and followed the same until 1902. His next position was that of bookkeeper and clerk under Postmaster J. B. Wilson, at Welty, Oklahoma, which was at that date known as Creek, Indian Terri- tory, and since then Mr. Guthrie has been an accountant. He was elected to the posi- tion of clerk of the district court, Septem- her 17, 1907, taking his seat on Statehood day-November 17, of the same year. Feb- ruary 14, 1904, he was married to Miss Nora B. Sherman, of the vicinity of Welty. They have two children : Clara E., born, Novem- ber 24, 1904: and Lee Roy, born, December 17, 1906. Mr. Guthrie is a member of Oke- mah Lodge, No. 139, I. T. A. F. & A. M., and will take the Consistory degree in April, 1909. He and his father have invented a system by which mail can be delivered auto- matically on rural routes and in cities, for which patent is now pending.
WILLIAM HENRY DILL, banker and in- fluential citizen of Okemah, Oklahoma. is a native of Champaign county, Illinois, born near the town of Dillsburg, April 28, 1870. The first authenic record we have of the Dill family is the birth of Andrew Dill, October 21, 1799, in Eckqarhofen, Bavaria. He was a weaver by trade, and was drafted into the Bavarian army February 2, 1821, where he served until April 1, 1833, a period of twelve vears. March 6, 1834, he married Mary Durr and settled in Wurtemberg, where the father of William Henry Dill, Sebastian Dill, was born, March 4, 1835. He remained un- der the parental roof until March, 1854, when he sailed from Havre and five weeks later landed in New York City. From there he
went to the province of Ontario, and com- menced work on a farm near St. Catherine's, where he remained four years. While here he married Miss Rosa A. Stricker, the cere- mony occuring February 28, 1860. Mrs. Dill was born in Grinschwinderr, Germany, October 12, 1841. She was a daughter of John and Rosina (Kohler) Stricker, both natives of Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Dill came to the United States on April 15, 1865, going direct to Illinois where he purchased a farm on section 4, Compromise township, Cham- paign county, where he continued farming and in 1876 began to deal in grain and coal. Mr. Dill purchased a large tract of land here, and erected the first store building and soon after a grain elevator. He was also the first postmaster. The town was known as Harwood, but in 1881 was changed to Dillsburg in honor of the founder of the town. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Se- bastian Dill are: Lillie A., born January 15, 1861 ; John, born June 24, 1862, died Sep- tember 16, 1862: Lucy C., born August 16. 1863; Clara M., born December 19, 1864; Andrew, born March 10, 1867; Nellie, born January 12, 1869, died September 3, 1879; William H., born April 28, 1870; Ralph A .. born January 5, 1882; Rosa B. and Gracie B., (twins) born October 9, 1884; and G. Clyde, born August 12. 1886. The children all received a thorough education. Sebas- tian Dill became a member of the Lutheran church in 1849, and was the leading spirit in all religious, educational and business en- terprises in his vicinity. He passed away January 3, 1909, leaving his widow, children and a host of friends to mourn his demise.
William H. Dill was educated at the city of Rantoul, Illinois, after having attended the district schools, entering the high school and gaining a good common school training. He was graduated in 1887. His commercial life began with his engagement with Goulds and Caldwell Co., manufacturers of pumps, in which concern he served as shipping clerk, in the Chicago branch. There he handled the details of a large business for one year, and in 1889, came to Oklahoma. He was a young man seeking good business opportunities within a new and prosperous country. At first he located at a point ten miles west of Edmond on a farm property during the great Oklahoma rush period, but not being of age. he was unable to lav claim to land. He waited until he had reached his
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majority, then, in 1891, exercised his home- stead rights in the Sac and Fox country. He was present at all of the openings for free lands in Oklahoma, his experiences be- ing many and varied in their interest and character.
Success has crowned his efforts and he is now the president of the First National Bank of Okemah; is also president of the Citizens' State Bank of Okemah. He is an important factor of his town and county, because of his holdings in realty, both as to improved and unimproved. He has prop- erty in Shawnee and Okemah and is presi- dent of the Ohio Land Company of Okemah. He carries on farming operations, both for the pleasure and profit derived therefrom, at the same time developing his fertile lands. One of his farms is situated along the North Canadian river and is one of the handsomest within the state: it is situated to the west of the city in which he resides. He is num- bered among the favored ones, who saw a great future for the new star of our great empire-Oklahoma-and set his stakes in season and has remained constantly at the business helm until today he is surrounded with prosperity and plenty.
Of his domestic affairs, let it be said that on September 17, 1895, he was married to Miss Mamie Estes, of Shawnee, Oklahoma. She was a native of Illinois, and obtained an excellent education at the Methodist College for Girls, at Winfield, Kansas. She is the daughter of William J. Estes, a business man of Shawnee and a pioneer of Oklahoma. One child is born of this union, Glenn E., born September 16, 1896.
CREED TAYLOR HUDDLESTON, one of the brilliant representatives of the legal profes- sion practicing at Okemah. Oklahoma, which sprightly place is within Okfuskee county, is a native of Tennessee, born in Pickett county, near Byrdstown. March 15, 1875. a son of Martin V and Mary (Rich- ardson) Huddleston. On the maternal side, Creed T. Huddleston is a fourth cousin of Hon. James D. Richardson, of Memphis, Tennessee, who was the grand commander of the supreme council of the thirty-third degree Masonic lodge of the United States. and who resigned his position as member of Congress from Tennessee to accent this Ma- sonic position. Martin V. Huddleston was from the pioneer family in Tennessee of this name, and which family appears in the list
of historic families of that state, who trace their origin direct to Alfred the Great, a complete history of the family having been written, known as "The Footprints of the Huddleston Family."
The early education of Creed T. Huddles- ton was obtained at the public schools of the vicinity in which he was born and at Mt. Vernon Academy, at Burrville, Tennes- see. He also attended the American Tem- perance University, at Harriman, Tennes- see, and then took a course at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, graduat- ing with the class of 1901. with the degree of LL. B. Prior to his graduation he had been admitted to the bar in Ardmore, In- dian Territory, before the United States courts in 1899, and during that year began his law practice. Since his graduation, he has practiced law at Lawton, Oklahoma, and at Okemah in the same state, where he now resides.
At Monterey, he was married August 17. 1899, to Miss Lena W. Sehon, by whom two children were born: Lorena, born May 11, 1902, and Maggie Helen, born December 28. 1907. Mrs. Huddleston is the daughter of John F. Sehon, a merchant and general busi- ness man of Monterey, Tennessee. Politi- cally, Mr. Huddleston is a supporter of the Democratic party, and fraternally is a men- ber of Okemah Lodge No. 139. A. F. and A. M., Okemah Chapter No. 61. R. A. M., and Indian Consistory No. 2, of South Mc- Alester, Oklahoma, and India Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Oklahoma City.
W. L. SERAN, the postmaster of Paden, was appointed to this position in October of 1908, during the administration of Presi- dent Roosevelt. He is one of the best known and most popular citizens of the county, and has been identified with the interests of Oklahoma for fifteen years, first locating in Sallisaw and later in Keokuk Falls. He was born in Gloucester county. New Jersey, in 1837, and is a grandson of David Seran, one of the old-time settlers there. One of the latter's sons served his country in the Revolutionary war. The family are of English descent, and the par- ents of W. L. Seran were Samuel and Eu- nice (Langley) Seran, farming people, and they lived and died in the east.
During the war between the north and the south, W. L. Seran entered the service in the Twelfth New Jersey Infantry in Aug-
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ust, 1862, and participated in the hard fought battles of Ferdericksburg, Chan- cellorsville and Gettysburg. He was later examined before General Casey's board for promotion and received the rank of a first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Twenty-first U. S. C. T. After his organization of Company B he was pro- moted to captain and transferred to the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth U. S. C. T., serving with a good record as an army officer until his discharge. He was on duty at Covington, Kentucky, for a time, and was later made the captain of Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth U. S. C. T., thus continuing until his discharge, October 31, 1867. The latter part of his service was on the western plains and at Fort Bliss, New Mexico. Being mustered out at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Seran went to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he spent fifteen years, and he also served as the postmaster of Lenape in that state dur- ing the administration of President Grant. By appointment by Governor St. John, who was a personal friend, he received a good position in the state penitentiary at Leaven- worth, and after two years there went to Taney county, Missouri, from whence he came to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and located in Sallisaw. Throughout the period of his residence in this state he has been prominently identified with its public interests, and had the honor of serving as a delegate to the first convention held in Okfuskee county.
The union of Mr. and Mrs. Senar has been blessed by the birth of nine children, five sons and four daughters, namely : Sarah, Ella, Arthur, Albert, Joseph, Claude, Lula, Alvin and Madge. Claude Seran is a merchant in Paden. Mr. Seran is a mem- ber of the fraternal order of Masons and is prominent in Grand Army circles. Mrs. Seran is a member of the Christian church, active and efficient in its work. W. L. Seran is a consistent Republican, giving his first vote for Abraham Lincoln and his last for William Taft.
ARTHUR PHILANDER SMITH, attorney-at- law, practicing at Weleetka, Okfuskee coun- ty, Oklahoma, is a native of West Virginia, born in Pleasant county, in the town of He- bron. December 15, 1820, a son of Jacob and Eliza (Cornell) Smith. His father was a native of Virginia of an old established
family of early settlers, who traced its fam- ily origin to England. On his mother's side the same ancestry obtains, except the Eng- lish is mixed with an extraction of the Ger- man. On the paternal side, Mr. Smith can trace back to the Norman conquest of Eng- land.
Arthur P. Smith, of this personal narra- tive. received his education at the public schools of his home vicinity, and he also assisted his father, who was an agriculturist. Subsequently, Arthur P. Smith attended the Western Normal College of Nebraska, later graduating from the University of Nebras- ka with the class of 1897, receiving the de- gree of LL. B. As a boy he went to Lin- coln, Nebraska to visit a brother and later gained the consent of his father to remain and this gave him an opportunity for his collegiate education. While taking his courses in college he taught school and for five years was the principal of the city schools of Anselmo, Nebraska, from 1891 to 1892.
He had been fitting himself for the legal profession and first began the practice of his chosen profession at Broken Bow. Nebras- ka, as a partner of Hon. C. W. Beal, being the junior partner of the firm of Beal & Smith, which relation existed until 1905 when Mr. Smith came to the Indian Terri- tory, locating at Weleetka. The first day after he qualified as a voter, he was elected mayor of Weleetka and was re-elected for a second term, but resigned in order to look after his own business affairs. He also, at the hands of the Democratic party in 1908, received the nomination for the office of re- presentative of the lower house of the leg- islature of Oklahoma.
Mr. Smith was united in marriage in 1896 to Miss Jessamine David, a daughter of James C. David, of Crawford, Nebraska. One daughter-Miss Blanche Alice has come to bless their home circle.
WILBUR CARLIN MCINTOSH, a real estate and farm land dealer doing an extensive bus- iness at Okemah, Oklahoma, was born in Salem, Indiana, December 24, 1878, a son of Andrew J. and Sarah E. (DePauw) Mc- Intosh. On the paternal side, the family is of pure Scotch descent and on his mother's side Mr. McIntosh is of French ancestry, tracing its origin from the family of Gen. Charles DePauw, who came to America as a member of the coterie of French officers
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on the military staff of General Lafayette. General DePauw later became a resident of Kentucky and a branch of the family migrated to Indiana. DePauw University, of Greencastle, Indiana, was named in honor of Mr. McIntosh's grandfather, Washington Charles DePauw.
After attending the public schools of Sa- lem. Indiana, as well as the public and high schools of Indianapolis. Wilbur C. McIntosh attended Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, from which he was graduated in the class of 1901, with the degree of A. B. Subsequently, he took a course at the Ind- ianapolis Business University. His first business experience was with his brother. Charles D. McIntosh, in a general ware- house and brokerage business in Indianap- olis, where Wilbur C. continued two years, and then traveled through the southern states and the southwest, finally locating at Okemah, Oklahoma, where he is engaged in the sale of farm lands and making farm loans. Mr. McIntosh indulges in small game hunting sports, of which he is very fond. He owns a kennel of fine blooded dogs, in- cluding thoroughbred English pointers.
BENTON CALLAHAN. farmer and merchant, residing at Morse, Oklahoma, was born in Hopkins county, Texas, January 19, 1866, a son of Samuel B. and Sarah (Thornburg) Callahan. The father, residing in Muskogee, is now retired and is of the Creek Indian extraction, of about one sixteenth Indian blood, he having emigrated from Alabama to the Indian Territory.
The early education of Benton Callahan was obtained in the township schools of Texas and later he attended the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Bryan, Texas. In 1884 he went with his parents to Muskogee, where the family settled and where he be- came a salesman for the Patterson Mercan- tile Company. He was also a stock-raiser in which business he is somewhat interested at the present time. The store at Morse of which he is in charge, is a branch of the Patterson Mercantile Company's business of Muskogee, and in it Mr. Callahan retains a working interest. His experience as a ranchman brought him in the vicinity of Okmulgee and Muskogee for a number of years and his ranching operations took him over the great plains that now are all under a good state of cultivation. He carried on his ranching business over a radius of thirty miles. until the public domain was fenced
off into pastures. He began as a cowboy and a ranchman in a small way, but soon employed others as his business was ex- tended. He has come to be a highly suc- cessful operator and has the confidence and esteem of all within the radius of his ac- quaintance.
Benton Callahan was united in marriage to Miss Celia M. Swaney, a daughter of William Swaney, born in the city of Glas- gow. The mother, Mary A. Swaney, was born in Dublin, Ireland. Mrs. Callahan was born at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and to her and her husband were born the follow- ing children : William J .; Muskogee, a daughter; and Thomas Homer, and Sam Callahan.
JAMES DANIEL NELSON, the efficient and first superintendent of schools in Okfuskee county, Oklahoma, was born in Coffee coun- ty, Tennessee, May 14, 1855, a son of Robert Mitchell and Joe Annis (Brewer) Nelson, both natives of Tennessee. The father was born, August 6, 1832, and the mother, Oc- tober 3, 1833. Robert M. was the son of James and Elizabeth (Evans) Nelson. James Nelson was born in Buncombe coun- ty, North Carolina, where he followed the trade of manufacturing hats. Elizabeth Evans was born in Virginia, a daughter of Ludwell Evans, who sailed with his brother, William, from Wales and settled in Vir- ginia in an early day. Elizabeth Evans was a second cousin to Robley D. Evans (Fight- ing Bob). On the mother's side, Mr. Nelson traces his ancestry to Russell Brewer, his greatgrandfather, who came from North Carolina in a very early day and settled in Warren county, Tennessee. His son, John B. Brewer, married Lovisa Starkey, daugh- ter of Isaiah Starkey. Their daughter, Joe Annis Brewer, was the mother of James D. Nelson, of this sketch.
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