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Mr. Morley married Augusta Moore, in Mattoon, Illinois. In 1905 they settled in Oklahoma. They have one charming little daughter, Lucile, who is the idol of their home.
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WILLIAM F. McLAURY. In the prolific field of com- mercial law, William F. McLaury has won distinction among the younger generation of legists of Oklahoma City, through the possession of inherent talent and thorough preparation in his calling, and a comprehensive knowledge of business principles. As his name would suggest, Mr. MeLaury is of Scotch descent, belonging to a family whose progenitor in America came to this coun- try prior to the War of the Revolution, settling first in the colony of Virginia, from whence other members of the family migrated to Mississippi.
Calvin B. MeLaury, father of William F. McLaury, was born in Mississippi, but prior to the Civil war moved to Missouri, where he engaged extensively in the cattle business. There he was married to Miss Virginia Bryan, a native of Virginia, of Scotch-Irish descent, and a first cousin of the Hon. William Jennings Bryan. After some years spent in the cattle business, Mr. McLaury turned his attention to general farming, and continued in Missouri until 1892, when he moved to Payne County, Oklahoma. At the time of the opening of the Cherokee Strip, in 1893, he settled on a farm in the vicinity of Blackwell, Kay County, Oklahoma, and there has continued to make his home to the present time, being now one of the substantial agriculturists of his community. He is a man of excellent business abil- ity and a citizen who has gained the respect and esteem of his fellow men by a commendable display of public spirit.
William F. MeLaury attended the country schools of the vicinity of Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri, where he was born February 19, 1884. He was eight years of age when he moved to Oklahoma with his parents, and here his education was continued, first in the country schools and later at Blackwell (Oklahoma) High School, William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, and Epworth University, Oklahoma City, from which last-named insti- tution he was graduated in 1907, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His law course was pursued at the University of Oklahoma, and in June, 1909, he success- fully passed the examination and was admitted to prac- tice, at once locating at Oklahoma City, where he identi- fied himself with the firm of Burwell, Crockett & John- son, in the office of which concern he remained two years. In 1911, Mr. McLaury, with an excellent scholastic equipment and broad and practical experience, associated himself in partnership with Mr. H. B. Hopps, and from that time to the present the firm of MeLaury & Hopps has continued to carry on a general civil prac- tice, with a very extensive commercial business. The offices are now located at No. 436-439 Lee Building. Mr. McLaury bears a high reputation for careful prepara- tion, skillful handling and entirely conscientious treat- ment of every case submitted to him. His standing is high in professional circles, and of the various organi- zations of his calling he is a valued member. Mr. Mc- Laury is a stalwart democrat, but has never aspired to public office. His only fraternal connection is with the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. McLaury was married in 1906 to Miss Pearl R. Moody, daughter of W. E. Moody, of Blackwell, Okla- homa, one of the prominent attorneys of Kay County, and to this union there has been born one son: Frank. The family home is at No. 420 West Ninth Street.
JESSE L. RADER, A. M. There can be no element of indirection or puzzling in defining the value of the services of Mr. Rader in connection with educational affairs and civic progress in the State of Oklahoma, for he is making a most admirable record in his ad-
miuistration as librariau of the University of Oklahoma, at Norman, and is known as a young man of high intellectual. attainments and ideals and of utmost loyalty and appreciation as a citizen. The interest in his work as librarian is enhanced by the fact that he himself was graduated in the university with which he is now connected in an executive capacity, and he is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Oklahoma, where his parents established their home in 1893.
Mr. Rader traces his agnatic lineage back to a Prus- sian soldier and officer, one Rader who had served as an officer in the Prussian army and who came to America about the time of the War of the Revolution; he estab- lished his residence in Virginia and became the founder of the family in the United States.
Jesse Lee Rader was born at Prairie Home, Cooper County, Missouri, on the 20th of April, 1883, and is a sou of Nathan and Sophia (Challes) Rader, the former of whom was born in Nicholas County, West Virginia, which state was then a part of Virginia, in the year 1836, and the latter of whom was born in Missouri, in 1838. Nathan H. Rader was reared and educated in his native county and in the State of Kansas, his parents having removed to the West in 1847 and having become early pioneer settlers in the Sunflower State, and later having removed to Cooper County, Missouri. In the county last mentioned he became a prosperous farmer and there he continued his residence until 1887, when he removed with his family to Stuttgart, Arkansas, where he continued his activities as an agriculturist until 1893, when removal was made to Oklahoma Territory and he became one of the pioneer farmers near New- kirk, Kay County, as now constituted. He finally re- tired from the active labors that had so long engrossed his time and attention and he passed the closing years of his long, honorable and useful life at Newkirk, where he died in the year 1912 and where his widow still maintains her home. Mr. Rader was unwavering in his support of the principles and policies of the democratic party and was a gallant soldier of the Con- federacy in the Civil war, in which he served in the com- mand of General Price and took part in many important battles, including those of Gettysburg and Pea Ridge. His service covered virtually the entire period of the war and in later years he was an appreciative member of the United Confederate Veterans, besides which lie was for many years affiliated with the Masonic frater- nity. Of the children, William, the first born, died at the age of twenty-one years; Robert E. is a prosperous merchant at Newkirk, Oklahoma; and Miss Mattie re- mains with her widowed mother.
He whose name introduces this article acquired his earlier educational discipline in the public schools of Stuttgart, Arkansas, and Newkirk, Oklahoma, after which he took a course in the preparatory department of the University of Oklahoma. He next entered the regular academic or literary department of the univer- sity, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1908 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, his alma mater conferring the degree of Master of Arts upon him in 1913.
After his graduation Mr. Rader was employed for a time as clerk in a drug and book store at Norman. In August, 1909, he was appointed librarian of the library of the University of Oklahoma, and of this important office he has since continued the efficient and popular in- cumbent, being known as a true bibliophile and as a careful and effective executive. The university library was established in 1892, and the original building was destroyed by fire in 1903. The following year marked the completion of the present fine library building, in
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Mr. Rader is aligned as a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party, is a member of Phi Alpha Tau National Dramatic Fraternity and the Nor- man Chamber of Commerce, a director of, the Norman State Bank, and attends and supports the local Presby- terian Church, of which his wife is an active member. He is affiliated with Norman Lodge, No. 38, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Lion Chapter No. 24, Royal Arch Masons; and Norman Commandery No. 38; and is a member of Sigma Nu and the Sigma Delta Chi College fraternities.
On the 26th of July, 1911, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Rader to Miss Mary Frances Simpson, daughter of John J. and Sallie Simpson, the former of whom is deceased and the latter of whom resides in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rader, at 527 West Eufaula Street, Norman, Mr. Simpson having been a prosperous agriculturist and merchant of Caddo County at the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Rader have one child, Virginia Katherine, who was born February 25, 1915.
VERDE V. HARDCASTLE. This well known and repre- sentative member of the bar of Oklahoma City, where he is serving as assistant municipal counselor, became a resident of what is now the State of Oklahoma when he was an infant, and he thus belongs to a pioneer family of both Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory. He has been in active practice for nearly eighteen years.
Born at Ozark, Franklin County, Arkansas, July 17, 1872, he is a son of Benjamin Franklin Hardcastle and Adelphe (Kalvini) Hardcastle. His father was born in Missouri and his mother in Pulaski County, Arkansas. His father was connected with the building of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad from Kansas into Indian Territory in 1871, and in the following year he became one of the pioneer residents of Indian Territory. Later he moved his family to Atoka, and there his wife taught school during 1873-74. Later she was one of the early teachers in the pioneer schools of Tahlequah in Cherokee County. Verde Vicar Hardcastle probably has within the present State of Oklahoma a greater number of kinsfolk and collateral relatives than any other one inan in the state, since many of the family connections came across from Arkansas in the early days, and they or their descendants are numerously represented in the eastern half of the state.
Though a part of his childhood was spent in Eastern Oklahoma, Verde V. Hardcastle received his education in the public schools of Savannah, Missouri. He early decided that the law should be his vocation, and in line with that decision he entered the law department of Washington University at St. Louis, where he was grad- uated in 1896 LL. B. Later he returned to Oklahoma Territory, and on October 2, 1898, began practice at Oklahoma City, and for a time resided at Anadarko, county seat of Caddo County, where he served as first village attorney of what is now a thriving city. Experience soon proved his ability as a lawyer, and with confidence as to the future he sought a broader field and returned to Oklahoma City, where he has since enjoyed a good general practice. He has appeared in much important litigation in the various courts both under the territory and state regime. In 1911 when the commission form of government was adopted in Oklahoma City he became assistant municipal counselor, and in that capacity has conducted a large amount of legal business for the city, the skillful handling of which has inured to his increased reputation as an attorney.
In 1912-13 at the instance of the city commissioner, Mr. Hardcastle compiled the municipal ordinances and thus gave to the capital city its first code of laws. His work as compiler received much commendation and has been creditable in every sense to his work as a lawyer and as a public official.
Mr. Hardcastle may rightfully be considered as one of the influential figures in the democratic party of Oklahoma and has shown both zeal and ability in promoting the success of the organization. He served as a member of the Democratic Territorial Central Com- mittee before statehood, being its secretary one term. For many years he has been active in the Oklahoma City Democratic Committee, of which he is now secretary and has shown peculiar ability in handling political forces in various campaigns. He has frequently attended as a delegate the more important conventions of his party in the state. As secretary to the campaign committee in behalf of Oklahoma City he attended to the detail work in the campaign which made the metropolis also the capital and permanent seat of the state government.
A personal and more intimate view of Mr. Hardcastle is found in the following brief quotation: "Mr. Hard- castle is loved by his friends and shunned by his enemies. He is somewhat abrupt in his contests and controversies, believing that in being frank and outspoken he has less opportunity to give false impressions or make mistakes. Thus he creates opposition when those of more tendencies for compromise would avoid friction, yet he is always fair and sincere and honest in meeting his opponents- in law, civic contact or political discussion."
Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a member of the Oklahoma County and Oklahoma State Bar Association. On April 24, 1896, he married Miss Mary Louise Phillippe, daughter of Hiram and Mary L. (Robinson) Phillippe of Fillmore, Andrew County, Missouri. They have one child, a son, Valle V., who was born in 1898.
FRED B. WOODARD. Dewey, in Washington County, is now one of the important towns in Northeastern Okla- homa, a central point in the oil and gas district and with some extensive manufactories as well as stores and other business houses to supply a local trade. Fifteen years ago, in 1900, Fred B. Woodard, a prominent lawyer, built the first new dwelling house on the site of the present city. Mr. Woodard has been identified with that section of old Indian Territory since 1898, and as a lawyer ranks among the ablest in the Washington County bar.
Fred B. Woodard was born near Bloomingdale, in Parke County, Indiana, October 21, 1871, His parents were William Penn and Martha Ellen (Kelley) Wood- ard. His father was also born in Parke County, Indiana, on a farm that Grandfather Thomas Woodard had entered direct from the Government. Thomas Woodard came from South Carolina, and was one of the number of freighters who founded a settlement in Western Indiana. Thomas Woodard was of English ancestry and spent his life as a farmer. William P. Woodard was both a merchant and farmer, and died in 1887 at the age of forty-seven years. His brother, John E., of Bloomingdale, was for several terms a member of the Indiana State Legislature. Mr. Woodard's mother was also born in Parke County, Indiana, and for the past ten years has lived at Dewey. Her father, Robert L. Kelley, represented Parke County in the Indiana Legis- lature for several terms, and his son, Robert L., Jr., is now president of the fine old Quaker college, Earlham, at . Richmond, Indiana. Fred B. Woodard was one of five sons and three daughters: Ida M., wife of Col.
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A. II. Norwood, the well-kuown publisher aud business man of Dewey; Johu T., of Dewey; Fred B .; C. Earl, also of Dewey; Elmo; Herbert, a teacher of manual training in Detroit, Michigan; and two that are deceased, Lawrence and Allie.
When he was uine years of age, Fred B. Willard accompanied his parents to Douglas County, Kansas, and after four years iu the country the family removed to the City of Lawrence, where he grew to manhood. He spent one year in the University of Kansas at Law- reuce, and in 1898 came to Claremore, Oklahoma, aud from there to Washington County, in 1899. In 1902, Mr Woodard was admitted to the bar and has since developed a large general practice in Washington Couuty. For one year after being admitted to the bar, in 1903-04, he lived in Old Mexico, near Guymas, where he still owns some irrigated farm lands. He is also interested in the oil business.
Mr. Woodard is a republican, and was twice a candi- date on the minority party ticket for the office of county judge. In 1900 he was a delegate to the republican convention at Purcell, with William Brentz, and they represented a district that is now cut up into half a dozen counties. For five years, from 1900 to 1905, Mr. Woodard was assistant to Richard C. Adams, of Wash- ington, D. C., in handling a number of legal and business matters in connection with the Delaware tribe of Indi- ans in the Cherokee Nation. Mr. Woodard was qualified for the practice of law when he came to Oklahoma, but deferred taking his examination largely ou account of this work in connection with the Indiau tribes.
Religiously he belongs to the Quaker faith and is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. In 1900, Mr. Woodard married Lula L. Mitchell, who was born in the British West Indies, a daughter of J. C. Mitchell, now a resident of Oklahoma, and of Mexico and other places. Mr. and Mrs. Woodard have five children : Mary A., Kenneth Penn, Darrel, Patricia Elizabeth and Martha G.
COL. ROY HOFFMAN. The name of Roy Hoffman has been too familiar to the people of Oklahoma during the past twenty-five years to require any introduction. Mr. Hoffman was one of the early attorneys who represented the United States in some of the cases growing out of the first settlement of Oklahoma's lands, and in addition to his many years of active practice as a lawyer, founded the first democratic daily newspaper, and was its editor and publisher.
He has been prominent in state affairs and politics, has served his country as captain of Company K, First Territory Volunteer Infantry, throughout the Spanish- American war, and has been a leading spirit in the or- ganization and maintenance of the National Guard of Oklahoma. Colonel Hoffman resides at Oklahoma City.
Roy Hoffman was born in Neosho County, Kansas, June 3, 1869. His father, Peter Hoffman, now deceased, was one of the pioneers in the Sac and Fox Reservation of Oklahoma, and established the first bank of Chandler. He was a native of Ohio. His wife's name was Julia Hakins, who was born in Vermont. It was in 1888 that the Hoffman family established a home on the Sac and Fox Reservation in Oklahoma. Peter Hoffman built up a large business as a general merchant, and died at Chandler, February 20, 1912, at the age of seventy-one. He was a life-long democrat and did considerable work in behalf of his party. There are ouly two surviving children, the daughter being Mrs. C. C. Pottinger, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Col. Roy Hoffman grew up and received his early edu- cation in Neosho County, Kansas, most of his boyhood
having been spent on a farm. After the public schools, he attended a normal college, and came to Oklahoma on the original opening day, April 22, 1899.
He was private secretary to Governor Reufrow, one of the first goveruors of Oklahoma Territory, and after his admission to the bar was employed by the United States Government in the prosecution of some of the land fraud cases. He served five years as assistant United States attorney. He was also connected with the Cherokee Strip Commission. He has been president of the Press and Bar Association, and chairman of the State Board of Affairs, and district judge of the Tenth Judicial District.
Colonel Hoffman has been foremost iu promoting and organizing the Oklahoma National Guard. His experi- ence in the Spanish-American war made him a firm be- liever in national preparedness, and upon his return set about seeing that Oklahoma did its part in the work of having a trained body of citizen soldiery. At the head of his force, he quelled the last Indian outbreak in Oklahoma, known as the Crazy Snake rebellion. Colonel Hoffman's active campaign for election to the United States Senate is well remembered, when he was a com- petitor of Senator Gore, and was defeated by only a few hundred votes.
Colonel Hoffman was married October 5, 1898, to Estelle Conklin, a daughter of E. L. Conklin. Her father' is a well known pioneer, banker and capitalist. Colonel Hoffman and wife have three children, Dorothy, Margaret and Roy, Jr. Fraternally Colonel Hoffman is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, is a thirty-third degree Mason, an Odd Fellow and Elk. He is a member of the prominent law firm of Burford, Robertson & Hoffman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, one of the strongest legal combinations now practicing in Oklahoma.
ALEXANDER J. MCCARTHY. In comparison with many of the men who have attained distinction in the legal profession in Oklahoma, and whose sketches appear in this work, Alexander J. McCarthy, of Oklahoma City, is but a beginner in the field; yet of none of his generation can it be more truthfully said that the foundation for what of success, of popularity and of honor the future holds in store for him, has been more firmly, thoroughly and with greater wisdom laid than in his case. Mr. McCarthy is a Chicagoan by birth and a Yale man, and through his parents inherits the sturdy qualities which have long characterized the people of Connecticut; also, he has absorbed the best spirit of the West, and all have combined to give him an honorable and substantial position in the ranks of a calling in which the mere fact of position gives evidence of sterling ability.
Mr. McCarthy was born in the City of Chicago, Illi- nois, in 1878, and is a son of Florence and Mary (But- ler) McCarthy. His parents, natives of Connecticut, were there married and subsequently moved to Chicago, where the father engaged in merchandising and was for fifty years identified with the steel and iron industry. Alexander J. McCarthy grew up in the stirring atmos- phere of the ever-ambitious Illinois metropolis, where the public school system furnished him with his elementary education. He later graduated from the high school, and after some further preparation was sent to Yale University, where he took the prescribed course and was duly graduated in 1899, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Returning to Chicago, he pursued his law course at Lake Forest University, where he was graduated in 1902 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and at that time entered upon the practice of his profession in his native city. There he continued to follow his calling until 1907, when, being attracted by the glowing reports
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of opportunities in Oklahoma, he came to this state and took up his residence and opened an office in Oklahoma City. Here Mr. McCarthy has continued to be engaged in a general civil practice, in which he has met with well- merited success. His practice has covered a wide range. He has a brilliant record as a trial lawyer, and his devotion to the interests of his clients has won him a high place in their esteem and confidence. Althongh his preparation was a most thorough and comprehensive one, he did not cease study when he left college halls, but spends a great deal of his time in research and study, and has a large legal library. His well-appointed offices are at No. 1022 State National Bank Building. Mr. McCarthy is a member of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, the Oklahoma State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, while his fraternal con- nections are with the local lodges of the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. McCarthy is unmarried and resides at No. 125 West Seventh Street.
GEORGE B. KEELER. One of the principal streets in Bartlesville is Keeler Avenue. It is only one of many memorials testifying to the prominent position occupied by George B. Keeler in that section in the present State of Oklahoma for more than forty years. Mr. Keeler was one of the early white settlers in the Cherokee Nation, and his enterprise has been identified with all the important developments in Washington County. He is well known as a banker, oil man and real estate developer, and is a Cherokee by adoption and marriage.
That life is not without credit which "pulls its own weight." But it is given to some men not only to pay their own way through the world but to serve as a con- structive force, or as it were the primary impulse to the tide which carries along with it many men to fortune and prosperity. A little casual inquiry in the Bartles- ville community reveals the fact that George B. Keeler has been such a character. He has not only been one of the real builders of Bartlesville, but it is reliably reported that he has pulled the heaviest part of the load in any association with others in business affairs or in carrying a public movement to success.
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