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In 1884 Mr. White took a business course at T. A. Ledden's Commercial College, Mem- phis, Tennessee, and for two years was book- keeper for D. H. Holt at Bunner, Mississip- pi. He then removed to Arkansas, resim- ing his educational work in Toledo and Grant counties, his headquarters for much of this period being at Toledo and Sheridan. He came to Indian territory about the time it was opened to white settlement, and has since been engaged in mercantile and commercial transaction in the territory and state. He spent the first three years as a merchant at Hanson, now in Sequoyah county, and in January, 1892, located at Oologah, where for the succeeding four years he was also con- nected with mercantile enterprises. He then became a farmer and a grain dealer. His homestead is about two miles from Oolagah, and his farm is a model for practical agri- culturists, as well as attractive to the man of taste.
Mr. White has become quite well known as a man of public affairs, both civic and
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governmental. He served as a trustee of his township under Cherokee government; was postmaster under Cleveland's second admin- istration and for four years was mayor of the town. Mr. White's wife was formerly Miss Helen Duncan Hughes, of Tahlequah, daughter of George W. Hughes, a profes- sional and business man of that place. Their daughter, Buena Vista White, is now a stu- dent at Henry Kendall College, Tulsa, Okla- homa.
JOSEPH R. SEQUICHIE. "The present post- master of Chelsea, Rogers county, is Joseph Rupert Sequichie, born in what was former- ly the Cherokee Nation of Indian Territory on the 17th of July, 1872. He is a son of Charles and Martha (Powell) Sequichie and was educated at Tahlequah Seminary. Mr. Sequichie commenced his working career as a printer with the Cherokee Advocate, pub- lished at Tahlequah in the native language, the alphabet in use being arranged by the celebrated chief Sequoyah. The postmaster became proficient in both the mechanical and editorial departments of the newspaper, and was selected by the tribal council to fill the editorial chair. This he fully accomplished for two years, resigning in 1899 to enter the employ of the federal government in be- half of the Dawes Commission sitting at Muskogee. He was thus employed until 1901, when he was attracted to Chelsea by the development of the neighboring oil fields. Until receiving his appointment as postmaster in 1907. his interests in that line, with his agricultural operations, occupied his atten- tion.
Postmaster Sequichie's wife was former- ly Miss Annie L. Roberts, of Chelsea, daugh- ter of Marion Roberts, and their children are Marian (a daughter) and Joseph Oris Sequichie. Mr. Sequichie has so developed the land of his allotments that he has a val- uable and attractive farming property, this work, with the performance of his official du- ties, making him a citizen of broad unseful- ness to the community. In the field of re- creation, he is a skilful fisherman and hunt- er of small game.
DR. RICHARD V. SPENCER, a physician of substantial standing at Chelsea, Rogers coun- ty, was born at Fort Dodge (now Dodge City) on the 29th of June, 1876. He is a son of Captain George K. and Jane (Mc- Collough) Spencer, both sides of the family being of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father
was an officer in the United States army. Richard V. Spencer received his earlier edu- cation in the public and high schools of Leav- enworth, Kansas, and at St. John's Military Academy, Salina, Kansas. Soon afterward, however, he commenced the study of medi- cie and took a three years' course at the Medico-Chirurgical College of Kansas City, commencing the practice of his profession at that point. In 190? he graduated from the University Medical College of that city with the degree of M. D. and at once located at Chelsea for the continuance of his profession- al work. He is a thoroughly competent phy- sician and surgeon and is well established.
JAMES MONROE OGLESBY, a substantial farmer of Oologah, Rogers county, was born near Tahlequah, then in the Cherokee Na- tion, on the 28th of July. 1870. He is a son of George and Laura (Wilkerson) Ogles- by, his father being a Texas ranchman and his mother of Cherokee blood. The early education of James M. Oglesby was obtained in the schools of his nation and. he finished his studies by a four years' course at the Tahlequah Seminary.
In his boyhood and youth Mr. Oglesby assisted his father in his farming and stock raising operations, and after his marriage, with the allotment of lands to himself and children, he developed his estate to such ad- vantage that he has become a prosperous member of the community. His farm near Oologah is considered a model, and his sub- stantial standing as an agriculturist, with his honorable character as a man, has given him a strong and a good local influence. Mr. Oglesby was married near Selome, Arkan- sas, to Miss Rebecca Brickey, and the chil- dren born to them are Ruth C .. John L., El- dee and Lee May (twins), Gladys and Su- sanne.
EVERETT NATHANIEL JACKSON. proprietor of the "Hotel London" of Collinsville, Rog- ers county. was born in Muldrow. Mead county, Kentucky, on the 17th of Decem- ber. 1875. His parents were J. S. and Mi- nerva (Wolverton) Jackson, both natives of Kentucky-the former of Garnettsville and the latter of Louisville. The father was both engaged in business and in the conduct of outside affairs, being a citizen of strong and good influence.
Everett N. Jackson was first educated in the public schools of his home locality and afterward completed a high school course at
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Yellville, Arkansas. In 1892 he accompanied his father to Oklahoma and assisted him for a year in the sale of patent rights, then go- ing to the Indian Territory and to California on an extended prospecting tour. This oc- cupied about a year of his time, when he re- turned to the Indian Territory coming to Rogers county and occupied himself for a time as a farmer and a stock raiser. He again went to California and engaged as a clerk in the store of C. W. Grossell, a dealer in groceries at Redondo, and after eighteen months of this employment again established himself as a ranchman in what is now Rog- ers county, Oklahoma.
He was thus engaged when, on January 1, 1908, he became proprietor of the Hotel Lon- don at Collinsville, and as its host has made himself both popular and respected. On January 26, 1901, Mr. Jackson married Miss Sarah O. E. Baker, a daughter of John H. Baker, and in his present venture, as in all else, she has proven his practical and faith- ful assistant.
THOMAS BENTON DICKSON, M. D., of Chel- sea, Rogers county, has been practicing medi- cine and surgery for nearly twenty-five years, about half of that period in Chelsea. He has a substantial practice, is widely known in the west as an evangelist, and is also a farmer and stock-raiser of advanced views. He is in all respects a typical citizen of the new south- west, a man of judgment, energy and practi- cal ability, who at the same time orders the conduct of his life on a high plane.
A native of Adairsville, Gordon county, Georgia, Dr. Dickson was born on the 14th of February, 1863, son of Thomas B. Dixon, Sr., and Letitia (Stallings) Dickson. The mother was the daughter of a Baptist clergy- man, chaplain of a Confederate regiment in the Civil war and a noted missionary of his church. The father served in the ranks as a member of a Georgia regiment of Union troops stationed at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley. The Doctor received his early education in the Adairsville public schools ; afterward he completed a course at the high school of Collinsville, DeKalb county, Ala- bama and then commenced his medical stud- ies under private tutelage.
Dr. Dickson commenced his practice at Plummerville, Arkansas, in 1883, before he had reached his majority, and two years later received the appointment of assistant state physician at the county farm, Conway, that
state. He remained in that position until 1889, when he removed to Chelsea, then in Indian Territory, where he continued in pri- vate practice until 1895. Then returning to Memphis, where he had commenced his med- ical studies, he was matriculated at the Memphis Hospital Medical College, graduat- ing with his degree of M. D. in the year named above. Since that time he has been a permanent practitioner of Chelsea, although his work as an evangelist has called him as far west as the Pacific coast. He is in touch with all denominations and has been a wide promoter of church and Sunday school work. The scope of his labors has included many intermediate points between Chelsea and San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon. During the World's Fair at the latter city he was an active participant in the annual camp- meeting of the Apostolic Union. He has con- ducted successful revivals at Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has effectively assisted in the missionary work of the Salvation Army and the Holiness church, also at Los Angeles, California, in the "Naz- erine" church, etc.
On March 21, 1891, Dr. Dickson married Miss Cynthia Parrett, daughter of William Parrett, a Cherokee citizen who was born in Tennessee. The children born to them are Claude N., Serena, Paul, Buela, Thomas Benton, Jr., Cleva, Lucille and Cynthia May Dickson. In the development of his family allotments the Doctor has become a skilled agriculturist and a successful stock-raiser, making a specialty of the breeding of Durham and Jersey cattle. In the line of the medical profession he is a member of the Rogers County Medical Society, the Oklahoma Med- ical Society and the Chelsea Board of Health, and is now the physician of the Eagles, and a member of the same.
COLIN MI. THREADGILL. For the past six years an active, able and highly respected member of the Oklahoma bar and a resident of Coalgate, Coal county, Colin M. Thread- gill represents an old and cultured family of the south, originating in England, which has materially contributed to the patriotic, moral, religious and civic progress of the United States. The first three American emigrants from the mother country were brothers who served in the Revolutionary war under Gen- eral Gates. One of them. Colonel Thomas Threadgill, spent his civil life in this country as a resident of Anderson county, North
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Carolina, and as a prosperous planter-this patriot and agriculturist being the great- grandfather of Colin MI. His son, Randolph, was born in that county, but after his mar- riage to a Miss Cobb removed to Montgom- ery county, Alabama, became the father of eighteen children and saw them develop into useful men and women. Both grandparents died in that section of the state, and were the ancestors of most of the Threadgills who have migrated thence into various states of the southwest. Churchwell Threadgill, son of Randolph, was also a native of Anderson county, North Carolina, but was reared in Alabama, receiving his higher education at Auburn College and spending his early man- hood as an active and influential minister of the Methodist church in northern Mississip- pi and an educator of high repute in both
states. Eventually his life was confined to the field of education. During the first quar- ter of the ninetenth century he taught at Troy, Alabama, and was also engaged in ped- agogical labors of great merit in Mississip- pi, attaining high standing both as a private educator and as a pioneer organizer of public schools systems. Randolph Threadgill was a man not only of remarkable intellectual and scholarly attainments, but of a keen con- science and iron will. These traits are finely illustrated in the firm attitude which he as- sumed toward the Confederacy. Although he had married into a family which was wed- ded to southern institutions and his personal interests appeared to be bound up with them, at the outbreak of the Civil war he allied him- self with the Union to such an extent that he publicly declared he would sacrifice all his pro- perty rather than advocate its dissolution and the cause of Secession. The open expression of such sentiments evinced the moral courage of a remarkable man, and eventually brought him the admiration of those who were at first his bitter enemies. His wife was formerly Miss Sarah Jackson, daughter of Lewis Jackson, a rich slave-owning planter of Montgomery county and a man of mental and business strength. She died in 1899 and her husband in 1902, the parents of the following chil- dren : Frances F., now a resident of Coal- gate; Colin MI., of this review; James C., who lives in Mississippi ; and Mary, who mar- ried William Bell, of Monroe county, Missis- sippi.
Colin M. Threadgill is a native of Orion, Alabama, where he was born on the 14th of
February, 1866, the years of his boyhood and youth being passed in that state and in Pren- tice and Itawamba counties, Mississippi, where his father was engaged in educational and re- ligious labors. In 1890 he graduated from Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, with the degree of A. B., and soon afterward was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Church South. He was assigned to the St. Louis conference, his first charge at Dallas, Texas, being followed by pastorates at Bon- ham and Paris. During this period he had commenced his legal studies and upon his re- moval to Oklahoma, in 1901, gave himself solely to its mastery and practice. On Feb- ruary 8, 1903, Mr. Threadgill was admitted to practice at Atoka, before Judge Clayton of the Federal court ; at once opened an of- fice in Coalgate, and has since closely and successfully applied himself to his profession. His Republicanism is largely a tribute to the memory of his father's earnest stand for the Union during the bitter enmities of the Civil war, and the son's ability and general worth of character have already earned for him the honor of a legislative nomination to the sec- ond session of the Oklahoma house of repre- sentatives.
As to his more personal affairs, it may be added that Mr. Threadgill was first married at Commerce, Missouri, to Miss Susie Moore, daughter of J. H. Moore, who died leaving a child (a daughter)-the latter not long sur- viving the decease of her mother. Mr. Threadgill wedded as his second wife Mrs. Clara MI. Goodin, daughter of Marshall L. Elzy-the ceremony occurring May 10, 1907. Mrs. Threadgill is a native of Green county, Missouri, was educated in the North Tex- as Female College, and by her first marriage had a daughter, Gladys.
WILLIAM J. SMITH, M. D. Prominent among the. physicians and surgeons of Ok- lahoma is Dr. William J. Smith, who was born in Louisiana, October 5, 1851, and was reared on a plantation there. His educa- tional training was begun in the subscription schools and continued in the Baton Rouge Military University. During ten years after leaving college he taught school in northern Louisiana and Arkansas, and in that time also read medicine and in 1882 began a one year course of medical lectures at the I'ni- versity of Arkansas at Little Rock. During the three years thereafter he practiced in Arkansas, and then returning to the Little
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Rock University he graduated therein in 1888 and continued his practice in that state for one year longer. Moving thence to Texas, Dr. Smith practiced successfully at Wayland for ten years, and at the close of the period came in 189% to Cloud Chief, Oklahoma, then the county seat of Washita county. From there in 1900 he came to the old town of Mountain View, and at the time of its re- moval to the railroad he too moved and has continued his practice here since, each year showing excellent and growing results. He is always a student, possessing a large li- brary of standard works, and fully merits the confidence of Mountain View and its surrounding country.
Dr. Sinith is a son of William J. and Jane C. (Davidson) Smith, natives respectively of Georgia and South Carolina, and a grandson of Noah Smith, who was also a native of Georgia and of Scotch-Irish descent. He was a pioneer Methodist minister there, a noted orator and evangelist, and he died in Georgia in 1861, his family now residing mostly about Atlanta.
William J. Smith, Sr., married in Georgia and soon afterward settled in Louisiana, where, until his death in 1851, he was a sad- dlery and harness merchant. He was a stanch Democrat politically, and a member of the Methodist church. Mrs. Smith survived her husband and remained with her father, John Davidson, during his lifetime. He died in 1860, a prominent planter and slave owner, a Whig politically and a member of the Pres- byterian church. In his family were ten chil- dren, among whom were Joseph T. and Jane C., the latter the mother of Dr. Smith. Joseph T. Davidson was a minister of the old-school Presbyterian church, a popular man in north- ern Louisiana, and his memory is honored and revered by all who knew of his works. He served at one time as a delegate to the state constitutional convention, and he lived and died in Louisiana.
Dr. William J. Smith, the only child of Wil- liam J. and Jane C. (Davidson) Smith, mar- ried in Louisiana Miss Emma Wilbourn, who was born in that state in 1854, a daughter of A. W. and Nancy (Grey) Wilbourn, natives respectively of North Carolina and Louisiana. The father, who was both a planter and a teacher of music, served through the Civil war in the Confederate army, and both he and his wife died in Louisiana. Mrs. Smith was the fourth born of his ten children, and by her
marriage to the Doctor she has become the mother of five children, namely: William and Lendmer, both deceased, the former dying when but a year old and the latter when but two; O. W. C., a jeweler and silversmith; Ernest A., a physician and registered pharma- cist ; and Roy, a boy in school. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Methodist church, and the Doctor has fraternal relations with the Ma- sonic order and Knights of Pythias.
EDWARD YORK BASS, M. D., the leading physician and druggist of Talala and one of the commissioners of Rogers county, is one of the pioneers and substantial citizens of the place. He was born at Silver Spring, Tennes- see, on the 25th of October, 1866, being a son of Hugh L. and Almedia ( Vivrett) Bass. Hugh L. Bass was a farmer. After the son had been educated in the fundamental bran- ches at the home schools and those of Troy, Mississippi, he pursued a normal course, which he completed in 1890. He then entered the medical department of Vanderbilt Univer- sity, Nashville, Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1892 with the degree of M. D.
Dr. Bass commenced practice in his Ten- nessee home, but after two years removed to what was then Indian Territory, locating at Talala. He was first impressed with the nat- ural promise of the country and his cordial reception by the people induced him to make his final decision in favor of the town in which his advancement has been continuons for fourteen years. In September, 1907, the people among whom he had so long resided placed another stamp of their appreciation upon him by electing him county commis- sioner on the Democratic ticket. Dr. Bass is a member of the County and State Medical societies, being president of the county asso- ciation for two years and is now vice-presi- dent of the same. He holds membership in the A. F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., W. O. W., and the M. W. of A.
In 1894 the Doctor was married at Nash- ville, Tennessee, to Miss Florence Emily Bass, and the three sons born to them are Clarence Johnson, Clyde D. and John Bunyan Bass. S. O. DAVIS, M. D. Lincoln county num- bers among its successful physicians and sur- geons Dr. S. O. Davis, who is practicing at Kendrick. He has the honor of being one of the county's pioneer physicians, for he located within its borders as early as the year of 1897, when he established his home at Parkland near the present town of Ken-
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drick. His nearest railroad at that time was Guthrie, and this part of the country was then almost in its virgin wildness. He came to Oklahoma from Corning in Adams coun- ty, Iowa, his birthplace in 1864, and he is a representative of one of the first families to seek a home in that county. His father, Thomas H. Davis, moved there from Indiana, and his death occurred in Adams county when he had reached the age of eighty-one years, and thus passed away one of the most prominent of its pioneer residents. He had married in his early life Anna Fees, also from Indiana, and she died in Adams county at the age of eighty-five.
Dr. Davis, one of their ten children, six sons and four daughters, received a good educational training in the public schools of Iowa, and he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. W. H. Davis and Dr. Coakley, then one of Creston, Iowa's, prominent and successful physicians. After a time he matriculated in the Marion Simms College of Medicine at St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated with honor in its class of 1895. His first practice was at Parkdale, Oklaho- ma, and from there he came to Kendrick in 1896. and has since been identified with its professional life.
He married at Fontanelle in Adair county, Iowa, Sarah Broadfoot, whose native state was Kansas, but she was reared and educated in Iowa, and is a daughter of Thomas Broad- foot. The only child of this union is a daughter, Dot Jerrue Davis Dr. Davis is a member of both the Lincoln County and the Oklahoma State Medical societies, and a man of scholarly attainments he has made deep and careful research into the two sci- ences to which he is devoting his life and is one of the best known medical practitioners of Lincoln county.
DR. J. W. DUNN has practiced in Lincoln county, Oklahoma, throughout nearly the en- tire period of his professional career, and he is now numbered among the successful phy- sicians and surgeons of Tryon. He is a graduate of the Marion Simms College of St. Louis with the class of 1905. and he came to Oklahoma from his native county of Effingham, Illinois, in the following year of 1906. Dr. Dunn has perhaps inherited his love for and his ability as a physician from his father, Dr. T. J Dunn, who for many years was a successful practitioner in Effingham county. He was originally from
Kentucky, a member of a prominent old south- ern family of that state, but during the Civil war he served with valor as a Union sol- dier. He married Mary Fields, a member of another of the prominent old families of Ef- fingham county, Illinois, and at her death she left four children, two sons and two daughters.
In this family was numbered Dr. J. W. Dunn, whose natal day was the 19th of March, 1882, and after an excellent literary training in the graded and high schools and in college, in which he received the degree of B. S., he began the study of medicine under the able instructions of his father. Later Dr. J. W. Dunn was for two years a physician on the staff of the State Insti- tute at Anna, Illinois, and during a similar period after leaving that institution he was in practice at Watson in the same state. At the close of that period he came to Oklaho- ma, locating first in Paden and from there came to Tryon. In 1905 Dr. Dunn was mar- ried to Nettie O. Graham, from St. Louis, Missouri. He is a member of the frater- nal order of Odd Fellows, and his wife is a member of its auxiliary, the Rebekahs.
IV. M. DAVIS, superintendent and man- ager of the Weelee Ka Cotton Company. stands at the head of one of the large indus- trial institutions of this part of the state. The Weelee Ka Cotton gin was erected in 1903, and is splendidly equipped with all the mod- ern appliances known to the business, in- cluding a fifty horse-power engine, a sixty horse-power boiler, a Meyer's press, and has a capacity of thirty-five bales of cotton a day. During the past season they ginned over 1,724 bales, and during the present sea- son of 1908 their output is expected to reach 2.000 bales. The mill is equipped to do all kinds of work of its class, doing strictly high class work, and it enjoys an unassailable re- putation for honorable and straightforward dealings and reliability.
W. M. Davis, its superintendent and man- ager, is a man well fitted for the position he holds, and has done much to bring the mill to its high standard of excellence. He came to Oklahoma from Texas in February of 1890, first locating in Cleveland county'on a farm near Lexington, but after a time went to Nor- man in the same county, and from there came to Paden and assumed charge of the Weelee Ka Cotton Company. He has had an experience of thirteen years in the cot-
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ton gin business. Mr. Davis was born in Mis- sissippi January 1, 1861, a year made mem- orable in the history of the United States by the inauguration of the strife between the north and the south, and he is descend- ed from an old Scotch family noted for their industry and honesty. His father, William Davis, was also identified with the cotton gin business for many years, and the moth- er was Hattie Parsons. W. M. Davis was one of their ten children, and he was reared as a farmer boy. When a lad of sixteen he went to Texas, and when he had reached the age of twenty-eight he was married to Laura Hobson, a relative of Captain Hob- son of naval fame. and their five children are Edgar. Lee, Clarence, William, Hattie Belle, and Lida May. Mr. Davis votes with the Democratic party, and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen and the Yeomen. Mrs. Davis has membership relations with the Methodist Episcopal church. .
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