A history of the state of Oklahoma, Volume II, Part 4

Author: Hill, L. B. (Luther B.)
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 810

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On June 30, 1887, Mr. Bryan married Miss Virginia Dallis, daughter of P. N. Bryan of Florida, and their only child, Stewart, was born on the 20th of July, 1894. Mr. Bryan is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Eagles, and, in religions faith, is a Roman Catholic.

IV. F. SIMs, chief of police, at the city of Shawnee, who is a pioneer and very early settler in Indian Territory, is the son of Rufus and Margaret (Harless) Sims, born in Alabama, of an old and highly respectable family of that commonwealth. His father was a planter and slave owner before the Civil war blotted this institution out of exis- tence. The family originally came from Wales to this country. The father and two brothers were in the Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee. W. F. Sims is one of seven sons in his father's family. He re- ceived his education in the old plantation style and was there taught to be honest and honorable in his dealings with his fellow men. He attended Buckler's College in Arkansas, going west when a boy in his teens. In 1885, he went to Indian Territory and was in business at Webber Falls for a period of ten years. He next went to Potta-

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watomie county, and located on a farm, shipping the first car load of potatoes out of Shawnee and later engaged in business at that point. He was elected chief of police in the month of April, 1904, receiving a ma- jority of three hundred and seventeen votes, and was re-elected by four hundred votes. When he went to this section of the south- west, the country was very wild and con- tained many desperate characters with whom the community had to constantly con- tend. His five years of police record shows him to be the proper man for the responsible position to which he was elected. He is a terror to evil doers and law breakers. He pos- sesses cool, calculating and reasonable judg- ment, together with undaunted courage. He ever has his eyes on the bad characters who flee from other parts of the Union to Okla- homa, and lets but few suspicious, or truly guilty men, escape from the clutches of the law. He is thoroughly an Oklahoman, hav- ing resided in this territory twenty-three years-since 1885-at which date all was disorder and lawlessness, and when the cow boy, the horse thief and desperado were ever alert to draw a gun, in a good or evil cause, and to defend or die game in the attempt to thwart the law, or their supposed rights.

Mr. Sims was happily married, at Boone- ville, Arkansas, when aged twenty-five years, to Laura L. Bunch, who died in 1895, aged twenty-five years ; she was a member of the Baptist church. The three children left by her were as follows: Frank, Rose and Laura.

Mr. Sims is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Or- der of United Workmen. In stature, he is six feet high, strong, quick and courageous in his action. He has a high sense of honor and demands honor of those with whom he mingles. Politically, lie is a firm supporter of the principles of the Democracy.

DR. F. L. CARSON is rapidly winning dis- tinction in the medical profession of Shaw- nee. He was born in Trego county, Kan- sas, February 11, 1882, and is a son of John M. and Jane ( Hoover) Carson, who were born in Ohio and Iowa respectively. Dur- ing his boyhood days John M. Carson be- came a resident of Iowa, from whence he subsequently removed from Kansas, and from that state came to Oklahoma in 1889, and since 1891 has been a resident of Te- cumseh. Mrs. Carson died in 1885, leaving ten children, five sons and five daughters, and all are living in Oklahoma.

The early educational training of Dr. F. L. Carson was received in the schools of Kan- sas and Oklahoma, and he is also a graduate of pharmacy from the University of Okla- homa. In 1906 he completed the course and graduated in the medical department of Tu- lane University. Previous to this time, how- ever, from 1905 to 1906 he was interne in the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, and at the close of his hospital work he came to Shawnee and has since been a member of the medical profession here. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations, and also has membership rela- tions with the Shawnee Masonic Lodge. Dr. Carson married, in 1907, Metta Hunt, of Shawnee.

THE POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY MEDICAL SO- CIETY is one of the strongest organizations of the kind in Oklahoma, standing second in actual membership. It was founded in 1895, with Dr. Skinner as president and only a few members, being subsequently affiliated with the Oklahoma State Society. With the growth of population and the influx of medical men, the county society also in- creased in strength but for several years had no regular meetings. But when Dr. J. A. Walker was elected secretary, seven years ago, it was re-organized and regular quarter- ly meetings were instituted. In 1904 the American Medical Society inaugurated a general plan of re-organizing all the county societies, and under its sanction Dr. Walker and his associates made such successful efforts to induce all regular practitioners to join the association that it has reached a high standard both in numerical strength and effi- ciency of organization. Its officers are elected annually, and regular weekly meeting are held, at which are carried out attractive programs of a scientific and social nature, besides the transaction of routine and official business. The interesting discussions cover questions relating to sanitary and hygienic subjects, life insurance, laws regarding pure food, and other matters of interest to the public and the profession. The present membership of the society is about fifty, and the current year has been the most prosperous in its history.

JOHN A. WALKER, M. D., began the prac- tice of medicine at Shawnee in 1899. Thor- oughly prepared on the technical side of his profession, of broad general ability and of engaging personality, he has won his way

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to distinction among the medical fraternity of the city. He is president of the Pottawa- tomie County Medical Association, which is one of the most active and progressive local societies in the state, much of its suc- cess being attributed to Dr. Walker's popu- larity and good management.

Dr. Walker was born in Paris, Texas, November 10, 1866, a son of W. H. and Kate (Rath) Walker. the former a native of Ark- ansas and the latter of Georgia. Until his death in 1893 the father was one of the well known ministers of the Methodist church in the south and southwest. For years he was a missionary among the Choctaw Indians. He moved to Texas in 1857, and during 1858 and 1859 was lieutenant of a company of Texas Rangers. At the opening of the Civil war he joined the Confederate army at Gainesville, and served until mustered out in 1866. His wife died in 1877. Dr. Walker received his literary education at Paris, Texas, and in Savoy College and Grayson College, in the same state. He studied medicine and graduated from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1897. His first prac- tice was at Ada, Indian Territory, and Bur- nett, Oklahoma, after which he moved to the new town of Shawnee. Dr. Walker is brig- adier general of the Eastern Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and is captain of the local camp of Sons of Confederate Vet- erans No. 80. Fraternally he affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, be- ing past grand of his lodge and now depart- ment grand master ; also is a member of the Knights of Pythias. In 1895 he married Miss Ida Castleberry. He lost his wife by death in 1904, she being survived by three sons: Agnew, born May 14, 1898; J. Knox, born November 4, 1900; Osmond, born April 16, 1902.

THOMAS CLAY SANDERS, M. D. The med- ical profession of Shawnee and Pottawa- tomie county numbers Dr. Sanders among their leading members, and he has been prominently identified with their profession- al life since 1903. He came here from his native state of Arkansas, where he was born on the 19th of October, 1876, a son of Wil- liam H. and Julia (Ellis) Sanders, both of whom were born in Alabama, the mother in Decatur. William H. Sanders became a res- ident of Arkansas in his early life, and died there in 1898, when fifty-eight years of age.

Dr. Sanders received a high school train- ing and then began the study of pharmacy,

finally drifting into the study of medicine and graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1903. He at once began practice at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in company with Dr. A. F. Sanders, his uncle, a well known medical practitioner, and after six months came to Shawnee. This was in 1903, and for one year he was associated in practice with Dr. Hamilton. Since then he has been alone in his work and is also the present city phy- sician, elected in 1907. He is a member of the State, County and American Medical as- sociations.

Dr. Sanders married, in 1904, Genevieve Larch-Miller, of Jackson, Tennessee, and their only daughter, Eleanor, was born on the 31st of October, 1905. Dr. Sanders has membership relations with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the Modern Woodmen of America.

HARRY JOHNSON, proprietor of a carriage, wagon and blacksmith's combined shop, at the thriving city of Shawnee, Pottawatomie county, Oklahoma, is a native of Texas, born in Grayson county, in 1827, son of L. M. Johnson, a brick and stone mason by occupa- tion, now deceased, and Minnie (White) Johnson, now of Shawnee. Harry was reared in Texas, and there attended school and remained in Texas until twenty-four years of age. In 1901, he located at Shawnee and began business in a small way, but by persistency and good workmanship, he has forged to the front and has today the leading shop of his trade within the city. He makes wagons, carriages and does all kinds of re- pair work on every known vehicle. His plant is within a substantial brick building twenty-five by one hundred feet, with all the modern machines and ingenious devices for turning out such work in the quickest and most desirable manner. He employs as high as sixteen workmen, with experts in each department. A bookkeeper correctly records the details of the extensive and constantly growing business, all of which is based upon honest workmanship. He was apprenticed to learn this business, when but sixteen years of age, working nine years to master all of the details of the business, which he now so successfully conducts. He came to this place when aged twenty-four years, and began business in a small shop.

Politically, he favors the Democratic par- ty. In fraternal relations, he is a worthy member of the Independent Order of Odd

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Fellows and the Maccabees. He was mar- ried in 1904, to Ollie Obright, of Shawnee, by whom three children were born, two of whom are living-Monroe and Mildred. The first born, a daughter, died in infancy. Mr. Johnson's brothers and sisters are as fol- lows: One sister lives in Colorado ; another, Mrs. M. Lamlat, in Shawnee; Gertrude is now bookkeeper for her brother Harry John- son; Jessie, resides in Colorado; Charles; Joseph ; and Lewis Johnson.

BENJAMIN B. BLAKENEY of Shawnee was among the lawyers who came to Oklahoma at the opening of 1889. He participated in the labors and stirring events that founded Oklahoma City as a commercial center dur- ing the first year or so of its history, and with the opening of a new Indian country he moved to Tecumseh in 1891. Since that vear he has been a member of the bar of this vicinity. Mr. Blakeney has been identi- fied with this new country about as long as any of his associates, and in ability and pro- fessional standing is one of the strongest attorneys of central Oklahoma. He prac- ticed law at Tecumseh nine years, and after removing to the metropolis of Pottawatomie county in 1900 became a partner of W. N. Maben (now judge). The firm of Blakeney and Maben lasted until 1903, it was then Blakeney and Maxey (J. H.), and since Jan- uary, 1908, Mr. Blakeney has practiced alone.

A native of Arkansas, born May 2, 1869, Mr. Blakeney was a son of Benjamin, a na- tive of Alabama, and Mary E. (Quarles) Blakeney, a native of Mississippi. The fam- ily is Scotch-Irish in origin, its home having been in Londonderry, Ireland, where the town of Blakeney is named in honor of cer- tain distinguished members of the family. After gaining a preliminary education in the public schools of Arkansas, Mr. Blakeney continued his academic and law studies in Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennes- see, and was admitted to the bar shortly be- fore coming to Oklahoma. He is a stanch Democrat, is a man of influence, but has been most successful in the law, to which he has given his energies and talents with singleness of purpose. In the interests out- side of his profession, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South.

Mr. Blakeney married, April 21, 1902, Miss Evelyn Whittaker, who had been a resident of Oklahoma since she was a girl of twelve,

and received her education in the public schools and a business college. Her father James Whittaker was till recently a well known citizen of Lincoln county, Oklahoma, where he located in 1894. He was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, was reared there and in Illinois, and when a young man moved to Arkansas, where he was a farmer and Meth- odist minister. He died in Lincoln county, this state, at the age of sixty-two years. His wife, Lucy E. (Strickler) Whittaker, was born in Washington county, Arkansas, and died at the age of fifty-four. Mrs. Blakeney was born at West Fork, Washington county, Arkansas, August 6, 1883. They have one son Benjamin B. Jr., born July 30, 1908.

S. M. MARTIN, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, is one of the hardy pioneer characters and has had an eventful life, having been a soldier, a traveling salesman and active business man. He was born in 1858, in Montenegro of an old family of a foreign country. He re- ceived a good education including a course at a business college in Vienna, Austria. When seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a soldier and took part in a war between Russia and Turkey; was in several battles and received wounds at the hands of the en- emy. For bravery he was awarded two medals from the Russian government. Sub- sequently he came to the United States, re- mained in New York four years, then went west and located in California for a time, traveling for Girardeli and Co., San Francis- co. Later he became a traveling salesman for J. C. Grant Chemical Company, of Chica- go, with whom he remained twelve years. After this he went to St. Louis, Missouri, from which city he traveled as salesman for the Columbia Biscuit Company for six years. He made headquarters at Little Rock, Ar- kansas for about three years, as their travel- ing representative. In his various business tours, he has visited every state within the Union save Maine alone. He was present at the great Exposition at Chicago, associ- ated with the Columbian Exposition Com- mission and also attended the World's Fair at St. Louis and has become a man of vast travel and much valuable information. He has the great advantage over most men, as he speaks seven different languages fluently. After having traversed a large portion of the globe, and been variously engaged, Mr. Martin has finally settled down to a steady and profitable business, in a city and state worthy of his best efforts and whose popu-

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lace he ever seeks to please. He has no nee. Politically he is a Democrat. In 1906 family, his wife being deceased. His two he was elected as member of the town coun- brothers, M. M. and P. M., are associated . cil from the Second ward and was re-elected with him in business.

As to his present business operations, let it be stated that he is the proprietor of an ice cream manufactory, which product he sells at wholesale and retail in Shawnee. His trade is large, as his goods possess ex- cellence of quality. He has been established in this lucrative business since 1905. Both his two brothers mastered all the intricate details of this special business at St. Louis, Missouri, where they worked at it for ten seasons. Pure milk and cream are purchased of the farmers, from which the ice cream and kindred products are produced. He has teams which deliver his goods to his numer- ous customers.

In his fraternal affiliations, Mr. Martin be- longs to the Elks order, having united with this civic society about fourteen years ago. He is also a worthy and honorable member of the Greek Catholic church.

JOHN LAIN, of Shawnee, Pottawatomie county, has been a resident of that place since 1898, but has resided in what is now known as Oklahoma for thirty-one years. He was born in east Tennessee, in Monroe county, August 9, 1850, of an old and re- spected family of that state. He is the son of Pleasant Lain, who served in the Con- federate army during the Civil war, under General Joseph Johnston and General Long- street. He died in Missouri in 1870. Politi- cally, he was a Democrat. He married Nancy Huff, who died in Oklahoma in April, 1901. John Lain was one of a family of fifteen children born to his parents-five sons and ten daughters. He was reared in Tennessee and there taught to be industri- ous and manly in his every act, whether in business or socially. He was educated in his native state, and when seventeen years of age went to Phelps county, Texas. He resided in the Lone Star state and Indian Territory until the opening of the reserva- tion in Oklahoma, in 1889, when he was successful in obtaining a homestead, on which he lived for ten years, then sold and moved to Shawnee, where he engaged in the grocery business for six years. He bought lots and erected two good buildings, made of brick, which are for business pur- poses. He also built a commodious resi- dence, in which he now resides. He is one of the heavy tax-payers of the city of Shaw- Vol. II-2.

in April, 1908, from the First ward.

He was united in marriage in 1875, to Martha Clanton, of Phelps county, Mis- souri, by whom five children were born : Mamie, of New Mexico ; Pleasant, a railroad man of Oklahoma; Alfred, a soldier in the United States army ; Ivy and Wille at home. He and his wife are exemplary members of the Christian church. Both of his grand- fathers were ministers of the gospel. Mr. Lain is an excellent Bible student and a generally well informed man. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

D. M. NEWELL is one of the honored pio- neers who aided in laying the foundation on which rests the superstructure of Wan- ette's present prosperity and progress. He was one of the promoters of the town, and he came to Oklahoma twelve vears ago, so that his name is inscribed high on the roll of the county's honored pioneers and bus- iness men. He bought land here, the town site, opened the town site here and sold the first lot February 3, 1903, thus began the founding of the town of Wanette, in which he has ever since made his home, laboring for its promotion and its welfare.

Mr. Newell is a native son of Somerset, Kentucky, born in 1853, a son of William and Jane (Goggin) Newell. The father has long since passed away, but the mother is still living and maintains her residence at the old homestead in Kentucky. Of their four children the son Samuel is a res- ident of Okema, Oklahoma. It was on the old homestead farm in the Blue Grass state that D. M. Newell laid the foundation of his subsequent successful life, and from the time of leaving the farm he has been engaged in various occupations, spending four years of the time as a deputy in the county clerk's office under George South- gate. He upholds the principles of the Democratic party, and his first vote was cast for Colonel Frank Welford, the Ken- tucky congressman, and since then he has represented his party many times in con- ventions. He was made a Mason in 1875, when a young man of twenty-two, and is now a member of Wanette Lodge No. 66. He is not a member of any church but his wife is an earnest member of the United Brethren church, and he has given to the

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various churches of the town the land on which they are now located, and he also donated to the town the school site.

The marriage of Mr. Newell to Allie Owens, of Kentucky, was celebrated in 1875. She is a daughter of Major W. N. Owens, who served as a gallant officer of the Union army during the Civil war, a member of the First Kentucky Cavalry. The six children of Mr. and Mrs. Newell are : W. O., who is married and is in business in Wan- ette; Lena, a teacher ; Eben M., a merchant of Tecumseh; Oscar, who is in Quanah, Texas; Anna A., with her brother in Te- cumseh ; and Beula, in school.

DR. WALTER C. BRADFORD is rapidly win- ning for himself a name and place among the talented members of his profession in Oklahoma, and since 1903 he has practiced in Shawnee. He comes from the Sunflower state of Kansas, where he was born in Coun- cil Grove, a son of Dr. C. B. and Florence O. (Whittaker) Bradford, natives respective- ly of Missouri and Illinois. Dr. C. B. Brad- ford has been engaged in the practice of medicine for many years. In 1889 he came with his family to Oklahoma, and has since been one of the leading medical practitioners of Oklahoma City.

Dr. Walter C. Bradford attended first the public schools of Kansas and then the Okla- homa City high school, where he graduated with the class of 1898. In 1901 he gradu- ated from the University Medical College, Kansas City, Missouri, and at once began the practice of his chosen profession in Okla- homa City, from whence in 1903 he came to Shawnee and at once enrolled his name among its practicing physicians. He is the secretary of the County Medical Society, vice-president of the State Medical Society, vice-president of the American Anti-Tuber- culosis League, lecturer to the Nurses Training School in connection with the Shawnee Hospital and is a member of the Southwestern Medical Association. His fra- ternal relations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and other societies.

In 1900 Dr. Bradford married Miss Ida A., a daughter of John Dodge, of Iowa, and they have one child, Walter Bruce, born October 24, 1903.

CLARENCE FREDERICK HAWORTH, engaged in the transfer, bus and baggage business at Shawnee, was born in Moberley, Missouri, in 1872, a son of A. D. Haworth, who was a

prominent man in that state. He obtained his education at the public schools of his na- tive place, and when seventeen years of age, commenced as a salesman for a wholesale house. Later he did a large buying and sell- ing business in mules for the St. Louis markets. Later still he followed railroad work being a fireman and engineer for seven years, making a good record assuch. In 1907 he went to Shawnee, Oklahoma, and engaged in his present business, running an omnibus and baggage barn at Nos. 117 and 119 Union street. He has the leading business in this line within the city. He has the pioneer barn of the place which did the first transfer work in the town when it was yet in its first stages of formation. It was established by Mr. Carey in 1900 and is a two-story building fifty by one hundred and fifty feet, having a large carriage room, which vehicles are all rub- ber tired. He keeps sixty horses. A tele- phone line which he owns privately con- nects with all depots. Twelve to fifteen men are constantly employed at his barns in looking after his extensive business.

Politically, Mr. Haworth is a Democrat, while in his fraternal affiliations, he is con- nected with the Masonic and Elks orders. He was also in his railroad days an active member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He is a frank, honest man, whose every effort is in harmony with the best interests of Shawnee and her people.

He was united in marriage, when but nine- teen years of age, at Moberley, Missouri, to Daisy Tait, who is of an excellent family. Mrs. Haworth was reared and educated in Moberley. Two children have come to bless this union : Clarence Frederick, Jr., and Margaret.

WILLIAM E. HENDERSON, M. D. Since 1901, Dr. William E. Henderson has been identi- fied with the medical profession of Shawnee, and for fifteen years he has made a specialty of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He doubtless inherited his talent as a physician from his father, Dr. Thomas F. Henderson, who for many years practiced his profession at Social Circle, Georgia. He was a native of that state, as was also his wife, Emeline Starks, born in Walton coun- ty, and she was of Scotch and Scotch-Irish descent. In 1859, nine years after the birth of their son, William, the family moved to Alabama, where the husband and father practiced medicine for ten years, and at the

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A history of the state of Oklahoma, Volume II, Part 4

Author: Hill, L. B. (Luther B.) Publication date: 1909 Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 810

Author: Hill, L. B. (Luther B.)
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 810