A standard history of Oklahoma; an authentic narrative of its development from the date of the first European exploration down to the present time, including accounts of the Indian tribes, both civilized and wild, of the cattle range, of the land openings and the achievements of the most recent period, Vol. III, Part 112

Author: Thoburn, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradfield), 1866-1941
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 660

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On July 3, 1899, Mr. Ruth was married to Miss Flora A. Robertson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Randolph Robertson, of the old Robertson and Randolph families of Virginia.

JAMES HIRAM EARP, M. D. Though a physician of high standing and many years' experience, Doctor Earp since locating in Oklahoma City in 1903 has been pri- marily concerned with the development of local real estate. Many of the fine homes in the northwestern quar-

ter of the city were constructed by Doctor Earp, who lived in that district for several years, but now occupies an ideal suburban home on the South Side, situated on the rural free delivery route No. 8. Doctor Earp is also prominent in the democratic party of Oklahoma, and is regarded as one of the strongest influences in this section of the state and a campaigner of notable energies and success.

James Hiram Earp is a native of Texas, born in Gil- mer, Upshur County, November 3, 1863. His parents were Buel M. and Mary H. (Wilson) Earn. the former a native of Lawrence County, Alabama, and the latter of Tennessee. His father had a prominent military record. As a young man he was a soldier in the war with Mexico in 1847, and fourteen years later when the conflict broke out between the North and South, he joined the Con- federate army and was fighting the southern cause until the end of the war. . He was wounded at Chickamauga, but soon recovered and was back on the fighting line. At another time he was captured, and spent about three months in an Ohio federal prison. The greater part of his service was under General Hood.

Doctor Earp received his early education in the com- mon schools of Texas, and in 1889 graduated from the Louisville Medical College of Kentucky. Some years later he took a post-graduate course in the Policlinic at New Orleans, finishing in 1896. For fifteen years Doctor Earp carried on a successful practice as a physician in Texas, being located at San Antonio and Corsicana.

When Doctor Earp came to Oklahoma City in August, '1903, he entered actively into the real-estate business, building, buying and selling. About that time the city entered upon its career of expansion, and he interested himself in the development on the Northwest Side. He purchased a number of lots in the Putnam Heights Addi- tion, and built more than thirty fine homes in that one quarter. He sold most of these, but still owns the finest of all the large homes he constructed on that addition, though the place is now occupied by a tenant. Several years ago Doctor Earp moved to the South Side, and on ten acres of land close to the Moore interurban has improved one of the ideal rural residences of Oklahoma City. On his suburban home he has everything modern, including his own waterworks plant, lighting plant, a fine pond stocked with game fish, a splendid bearing orchard, vineyard, and all the surroundings and facilities which represent his ideals of a home.

In politics Doctor Earp is regarded as a partisau democrat, but most of his work has been accomplished within the ranks of the party in behalf of his friends and political favorites. He is not an aspirant for political honors himself, but any man in Oklahoma politics counts himself fortunate if he can secure the friendship and support of this Oklahoma physician. In state affairs le has always been an ardent supporter of Congressman W. H. Murrey, with whom as a boy he went to school and picked cotton in Texas. Those ties of early friendship havo never been abandoned, and when Mr. Murrey an- nounced as a candidate for governor, Doctor Earp dropped all his own business and spent his time and money freely to further his cause. He was also an enthusiastic supporter, in the fall of 1914, of Chief Justice Hays, when that able jurist was a candidate for tho democratic nomination for United States senator against Senator Gore. While he worked emphatically and energetically in behalf of his own friends before the primaries, after the ticket is made up he is equally stauch and regular with his party, and is a strong factor in every election wherein the votes of Oklahoma City and county are concerned.

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Miss Mary Nunn, daughter of Col. D. A. and Helen ( Williams) Nunn. Colonel Nunn was a Confederate cap- tain of tho Civil war. His wife's brother was Judge F. A. Williams, one of the prominent lawyers and judges of Texas. Hardly six months after their happy marriage Mrs. Earp died, December 1, 1895. Doctor Earp mar- ried for his second wife, at San Antonio, Texas, April 10, 1900, Miss Nellie Thompson, daughter of Tom and Julia (Luthey) Thompson. Both her parents were natives of St. Louis, and her father was for years head of the St. Louis Baggage & Transfer Company. To this union two daughters were born: Mary Annette, born March 25, 1908; and Nelsie May, born April 8, 1910. Mrs. Earp is a member of the St. Luke Methodist Episcopal Church of Oklahoma City.

SIMPSON B. RICHARDS. That Waynoka has become one of the thriving centers of commercial activity in Woods County and has attained a creditable prestige among its sister cities in Northwest Oklahoma, is due to the efforts and activities of such men as Simpson B. Richards, editor and owner of the Woods County Enterprise. Mr. Richards' coutributions toward advancing the material interests of the city are so widely recognized that they can be considered as no secondary part of his career of signal usefulness, and give him an established place among that class of representative men who, while gaining individual success, also promote the public prosperity.

Simpson B. Richards was born November 1, 1870, at Indianola, the county seat of Warren County, Iowa, and is a son of Arthur W. and Margaret (McGowan) Richards. His father was born at Fairfield, Columbiana County, Ohio, September 14, 1832, aud in the spring of 1854 migrated to the West, settling as a pioneer at Indianola, Iowa. A carpenter by vocation, he was engaged iu the contracting and mercantile business at Indianola until 1861, when he answered the call of his country aud enlisted in Company G, Third Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Iufautry. Brought home from an engagement with his back seriously injured, in spite of being a large and robust man he was never able to again leave his bed, even to sit up or to walk a step. In spite of this awful misfortune, his will power and determina- tion uiade it possible for him to remain cheerful aud patient, and to busy himself with his literary labors and with the invention of a number of articles which have enjoyed a reasonably successful sale on the market. His death occurred at his home on South Howard Street, Indianola, January 24, 1915, aud the funeral services were attended by a large number of his friends, many members of the Grand Army of the Republic being present to do honor to their old comrade. Mr. Richards is survived by his widow, a brother, Albert Richards, and a sister, Mrs. Caroline Silcott, all of Indianola, as well as by nine children: Mrs. Dr. C. C. Cherryholmes and Mrs. Capitola Bryson, of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Homer L. Ross, of Hilo, Hawaiian Islands; Mrs. Bur- dette Derrough, of Chicago; John M. Richards, of Kansas City, Missouri; Simpson B., of this notice; Sterling J., of Missoula, Montana; Roscoe H., of Chicago, Illinois; and Frank A., of Des Moines, Iowa.

The public schools of Indianola, Iowa, furnished Simpson B. Richards with his educational training, and at the age of seventeen years he entered a printing office, where he served a full apprenticeship. He subsequently became a journeyman printer, and served as such and as an apprentice for a period of fourteen years, but in 1903 entered upon what he felt was his real career when he bought his first newspaper, the Duncombe News, of Duncombe, Iowa. He continued as the publisher of this

sheet for 41/2 years, passing through the varied and enlightening experiences incidental to an introduction to this calling, and later was editor and part owner of the Webster City Herald, at Webster City, Iowa, that city being his field of operations for 21/2 years. In 1909 Mr. Richards came to Waynoka, Oklahoma, and pur- chased the Woods County Enterprise, of which he has continued to be editor and owner. This paper, estab- lished in 1900, has a wide and influential circulation in Woods County and Northwest Oklahoma, largely built up under Mr. Richards' excelleut management. It is well edited and well printed, containing a wealth of interest- ing news, and is considered a thoroughly trustworthy and reliable publication. In connection with the newspaper plaut Mr. Richards conducts a job printing office, and is in a position to do the best class of work of all kinds.

S. B. Richards was married December 27, 1900, at Indianola, Iowa, to Miss Louise A. Young, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Young, of Iowa. She was born December 20, 1877, and was reared and educated at Indianola. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Richards, namely: Eleanor "Morine, born Decem- ber 27, 1903; and Margaret Amanda, born January 11, 1905, both of whom are students in the Waynoka public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Richards are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has taken a keen interest in civic matters, and fraternally is a member of the local lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

LON LEWIS HUTCHISON, author, scientist, educator, and oil producer, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has led a career remarkable for accomplishment. He was born in Marion County, Kansas, July 26, 1876, and is the second of four children of Humphrey L. and Annie D. (Smith) Hutchi- son, both of whom are still living.

The former was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1849, and the latter in Saline County, Missouri, in 1856.

Humphrey L. Hutchison went from Kentucky to Sum- ner County, Kansas, in 1872, where he turned the first furrow ever plowed in the county, but as buffalo hunting was his chief occupation, his career was rather nomadic for several years, but after the buffalo became scarce he settled in Marion County of the same state. During his hunting career the settler upon the land now in the heart of Wichita, Kansas, offered to trade his land for Mr. Hutchison's 45-caliber colt, but as land was plentiful and six-shooters were scarce the trade was not made.

In 1882, Mr. Hutchison, with his wife and two eldest children, moved to Meade County, Kansas, where he lived until 1892, and engaged in stock raising and the dairy business. In September of the latter year he, with his family, moved to Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, where they resided until the opening of the Cherokee Strip, in 1893, when he made the "run" for a home and staked a "claim" upon the southwest quarter of section 1, township 21 north, range 1 west, about three miles northwest of the Government townsite of Perry, the seat of "Q" County, Oklahoma. There he proved up his claim and in 1909 removed to Enid, Oklahoma, which city was his home until the fall of 1913. In that year he moved to Tulsa, where he has continued success- fully engaged in dairy farming.

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From the age of six until eleven years, Lon Lewis Hutchison spent a large part of his time in the saddle, doing the work of a full-fledged cow-puncher, and in the meantime kept up his studies under parental tute- lage, so that upon entering school during his thirteenth year he ranked eveu higher in the grades than others of his age who had attended school continuously. When niueteen years of age, with a total schooling of twenty- three months, Mr. Hutchison began teaching in the pub- lic schools of Noble. His first school was taught in the 4-D district, near the site of the famous 4-D ranch of territorial days. The next year he was principal of the Osage City school, while Osage City was located north- east of Blackburn near the mouth of the Blackbear Creek in Pawnee County. The next year he was trans- ferred to Cleveland, Oklahoma, where he remained for two years, attending Oklahoma University during the summer of 1899. During the early part of 1900 he was deputy superintendent of schools of Pawnee County, but realizing, as he puts it, "that if he kept teaching he would grow up in ignorance,"' he entered Oklahoma University as a preparatory student in the fall of 1901, aud was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the spring of 1907. Majoring in geology, he submit- ted as his major thesis a treatise on the Stratigraphy of Oklahoma North of the Parallel of Thirty-five Degrees and Thirty Minutes, which is up to the present time the most complete treatise extant upon the geology of that region.

In October following his graduation Mr. Hutchison was married to Miss Jessie Pennington, who was born in Hill County, Texas. To this union there have been born four children, namely: Annie Josephine and Jessie Margaret, who died in infancy; Gregory Lewis and Mary Genevieve.

In April preceding his graduation at Oklahoma, Mr. Hutchison was elected "Fellow" by the faculty of Yale University and appointed assistant in the depart- ment of geology for the year of 1907-08, so that his "honeymoon" consisted of a year's work in that great school, which conferred the degree of Master of Science upon him in the spring of 1908, he having learned the same in the record time of twenty weeks' resident work. His graduating thesis was a comprehensive treatise upon The Origin, Occurrence and Accumulation of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Just before receiving his master's degree he was elected instructor at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and assistant director of the State Geological Survey.

This latter position he resigned to return to Oklahoma where, upon July 26, 1908, he was appointed chief of the Eastern Division of the Oklahoma Geological Sur- vey, and a month later elected assistant director of that bureau and given charge of the coal, oil, gas, asphalt, lead, zinc and gypsum investigations of the state.

His first public report on the mineral resources of Oklahoma was Bulletin No. 1, in collaboration with other members of the staff, and he is the author of Bulletin No. 2, being a Preliminary Report Upon the Asphalt, Asphaltite, Petroleum and Natural Gas of Oklahoma. He was nearing the completion of Bulletin No. 4, the Coal Fields of Oklahoma, when he left the survey in No- vember, 1910.

Upon leaving the state's employ he was located at McAlester for a short time surveying coal lands for a private corporation, but in March, 1911, came to Tulsa and took charge of the science department of the City High School, which position he occupied until June, 1912, when he closed his pedagogical career and hung out a sign as oil and gas geologist, the first to enter this field of endeavor west of the Mississippi River.

Practice grew rapidly and was most satisfactory aud remunerative-enough so that in July, 1913, Mr. Hutchi- son took down his professional shingle and entered the field as an independent operator upon his own capital, under the corporate name of the Kanola Oil Company. When things became quiet in the oil fields during 1915 he went to Joplin, Missouri, and bought one of the largest zine mines in the field and is now known there as one of the large individual producers of the district.

Mr. Hutchison's motto has always been, "If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well," aud as a result of its practical application has received many signal honors. One of which he is the proudest is the fact that when the Holland office of the Oklahoma State Oil Company had, in 1914, optioned large properties in South America, he was appointed, unknown to him and unsolicited, to pass upon the advisability of making the purchase involving millions of dollars. The follow- ing summer he was sent upon a similar mission to Cali- fornia and subsequently proffered permanent employ- ment which would give him work in the oil fields of the world.

On January 21 and 22, 1912, Mr. Hutchison made a hurried geological survey of the two south tiers of sec- tions in township 18 north, range 7 east, for Thomas B. Slick. His report upon this was as follows: "So far as I can determine from present investigation, it seems to me that the region from your first location (North center Section 28) southward to the township line, should all be good territory (for oil and gas) and may probably have a width equal to or even greater than the distance between your two new locations (West side Section 32 and center west half of Sectiou 24)." His judgment proved correct. The location in the west part of section 32 was the discovery well of the now world famous Cushing field.

Mr. Hutchison is a member of the Christian Church and has been a liberal contributor to its work. Polit- ically he is a democrat and has always taken a good citizen's part in public affairs, though he could never be rated as a politician. He is ever ready with encour- agement and material assistance in all movements, not only for the betterment of his home, but for maukind in general.

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, M. D. More than twelve years of service to . a large practice in Oklahoma City has drawn the career of Dr. William M. Taylor within the fold of an extensive and emphatic need, giving him an increasing outlet for a wealth of professional and gen- eral usefulness. Doctor Taylor entered upon the prac- tice of his calling only after a thorough and comprehen- sive training, and brought to it also an enthusiasm and devotion to the best ethics of the science of medicine that have served to assist him in gaining a high and responsible position. While his practice has been some- what general in character, he is best known as a special- ist in the diseases of children, a field in which he is also prominent as an educator.

Doctor Taylor was born in Lagrange, Oldham County, Kentucky, September 20, 1872, and is a son of Reuben T. and Mary (Ryon) Taylor, his father being a farmer and stock raiser and a descendant of the Taylors of Virginia. After attending the public schools of Lagrange, Oldham County, William M. Taylor became a student in the . Kentucky Wesleyan College, Winchester, Kentucky, being graduated therefrom in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. His medical course was pursued at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, where he was graduated in 1898 with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine, and the following three years were passed in gain-

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ing first-hand experience in the hospitals of New York, twenty-three months of this period being spent as resi- dent physician of the New York Infants' Asylum. Succeeding this, Doctor Taylor went to Louisville, where he engaged in a general practice for one year, and in 1902 came to Oklahoma City and established himself in practice at Oklahoma City, where he maintains an office at Nos. 509-512 State National Bank Building. Doctor Taylor soon became favorably known in the line of his specialty, and in 1910, when the medical school of the University of Ofllahoma was established, he was made assistant professor of diseases of children of that institution, and has continued to retain that position. He is also a member of the staffs of the Wesley, Saint Anthony's and University Hospitals, and enjoys a high reputation in the ranks of his calling. He has a well- equipped office and appliances for the most delicate and exacting demands of his profession, has been deservedly successful both in a material and professional way, and is a necessary adjunct to the households of many of Oklahoma City's most representative families. Person- ally, Doctor Taylor is a man of rare discretion, tact and helpfulness, an earnest and painstaking exponent of the best tenets of medical science, and an indefatigable stu- dent and investigator. He holds membership in the Oklahoma County and Oklahoma State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. Doctor Taylor is well known in Masonry, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree, passing through the various Scot- tish Rite bodies to and including Indian Consistory, No. 2, McAlester, and being a member of India Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Oklahoma City. He belongs also to the B. P. O. Elks of Oklahoma City, No. 417, the Oklahoma City Men's Dinner Club, and the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club. With his family, he is identified with the First Christian Church of Oklahoma City.

In 1902 Doctor Taylor was married to Miss Mary C. Caplinger, daughter of D. F. Caplinger, of Campbells- ville, Kentucky, and to this union there has been born one daughter: Anna. The family home is located at No. 925 West Seventeenth Street, Oklahoma City.

JAMES W. HAWK. In every populous community the artistic conceptions and practical skill of the reliable and able architect have inestimable value in the develop- ment and upbuilding of that community, and even the cursory observer can not fail to pay tribute to one whose professional talent finds concrete and enduring evidence in buildings of fine design and substantial construction. Mr. Hawk is distinctively to be designated as one of the representative architects of Oklahoma and has been engaged in the successful practice of his profession in Oklahoma City since March, 1899, when he here estab- lished his permanent home. None has achieved a more noteworthy work in connection with the physical upbuild- ing and progress of the fine capital city of Oklahoma, where many of the most metropolitan public, business and private buildings stand as monuments to his ability in his profession and to that inflexible integrity of pur- pose that ever finds its reflex in popular confidence and esteem. He is one of the substantial and honored busi- ness men of Oklahoma and as such is entitled to special recognition in this history of the state to whose advance- ment he has contributed much.

James Watson Hawk was born at Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio, on the 26th of March, 1864, and is a son of Jacob and Mary A. (Campbell) Hawk, both natives of Bncyrus, Crawford County, that state, and repre- sentatives of sterling pioneer families of Ohio. The family removed from the Buckeye State to Missouri when James W. Hawk was a lad of five years, and the

home was established at Kirksville, where the father engaged in the work of his profession, that of architect, of which he became a leading exponent in that section of Missouri. He whose name initiates this review acquired his early education in the public schools of Kirksville, where also he prosecuted higher studies in the State Normal School. As a youth he became asso- ciated with the various details of the technical and execu- tive work in the office of his father, under whose able preceptorship he developed his exceptional talent as an architect. This discipline was supplemented by later association of important order with important architects' offices in the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, and Kansas City and St. Joseph, Missouri, where he perfected him- self in the technique of his profession, which represents both an art and a science.

In March, 1899, Mr. Hawk came to the Territory of Oklahoma and established his residence in the vigorous and ambitious little municipality and embryonic metrop- olis of Oklahoma City, where he forthwith was accorded a position of indubitable priority as one of the leading architects of the territory. Oklahoma City today is replete with handsome and substantial architectural structures that shall long give definite attestation to the skill and the fidelity of this loyal and progressive citizen, for Mr. Hawk has had the supervision of many of the finest buildings designed by him. Among the more important of such evidences of his skill to be found in the capital city of the state may be noted such modern fireproof structures as the American National Bank Building, the Majestic Building, and the Security Build- ing, in which last mentioned he has maintained his own offices since its completion, in 1906. To him also is to be assigned the credit for designing and supervising the construction of the building of Epworth University and practically all of the larger school buildings in the city, including the fine high school building, which is conceded to be second to no other of its class in the entire United States, botli in architectural design and careful and substantial construction.

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Author: Thoburn, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradfield), 1866-1941 Publication date: 1916 Publisher: Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society Number of Pages: 660

Author: Thoburn, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradfield), 1866-1941
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 660