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Hugh Allen Carroll began his public school education at Hennessey, Oklahoma, graduated from the high school with the class of 1903, and then spent two years of study in the University of Oklahoma at Norman. In 1905 Mr. Carroll accepted the principalship of the schools at Cleo, Oklahoma, remained there two years, then became prin- cipal of the high school at Mangum, and for two years held the chair of English in the Southwest Normal School at Durant. With this extended experience in school work he was called to Lawton in 1911 as principal of the high school.
Mr. Carroll is an old-line democrat, a member of the Christian church, and in 1914 was master of Lawton Lodge No. 183, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and also belongs to Lawton Chapter No. 44, Royal Arch Masons, and the Modern Woodmen of America at Cleo. He is a member of the Greek Letter college fraternity, the Kappa Alpha.
On December 26, 1907, at Hennessey, he married Miss Nelle Smith, daughter of Sol Smith, now deceased, who was formerly a trader at Burden, Kansas. Three chil- dren have been born to their marriage: Hugh A., who died at Durant at the age of ten months; Nelle, who was born August 6, 1910; and Carolyn, born August 6, 1913.
PAUL M. GALLAWAY. A scion of a sterling family that has long been one of prominence and influence in the Sonth, Mr. Gallaway has been a resident of the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, since 1906, has been closely identified with important business interests in the city, where he now holds the office of general manager of the Public Service Company of Oklahoma. He is essentially vital in his progressiveness and civic loyalty and is one of the representative citizens of Tulsa who fully merits recognition in this history.
Paul Martin Gallaway was born in the City of Mem- phis, Tennessee, on the 13th of March, 1873, and is a son of John Bell Gallaway and Margaret Eudosia (Mar- tin) Gallaway, the former of whom was born at Moulton, Alabama, and the latter at Houston, Mississippi. Of the seven children all are living except one and the subject of this review was the third in order of birth. John B. Gallaway died in 1884, at the age of forty years, and his widow now maintains her home at Fayetteville, Arkansas. The active career of John B. Gallaway was virtually one of continuous service as an executive in connection with railway operations. He was for some
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time stationed in the City of New Orleans, in the service of the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company. At Memphis, Tennessee, he later became the first purchasing agent for the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, of which he was general freight and passenger agent at the time of his death. Mr. Gallaway was a resident of Starkville, Missis- sippi, at the inception of the Civil war and was there a member of the militia organization known as the Stark- ville Riflemen. When the war was precipitated he was one of the loyal young men of the South who promptly tendered their aid in defense of the cause of the Con- federacy. He enlisted in the Fourteenth Mississippi Regiment, and with the same lived up to the full tension of the great conflict between the states of the North and the South, his service having included participation in a number of important battles. He held inviolable his allegiance to the democratic party and was a man ot strong character and vigorous intellectuality, his father, Levi J. Gallaway, having been for many years a promi- nent newspaper man, in Alabama and Mississippi.
To the public schools of the City of New Orleans Paul M. Gallaway is indebted for his early educational dis- cipline, and in 1884, the year of his father's death, he became an office boy in the general freight office of the Texas & Pacific Railroad, in that city, his age at the time having been but eleven years. He continued in the employ of this railway company for some time after its property had passed into the control of a receiver, and finally he was able to further his education by an effective course of study in the University of Arkansas.
In 1890, at the age of seventeen years, Mr. Gallaway assumed the position of bookkeeper in the office of the Dallas Ice Company, in the City of Dallas, Texas, and of this post he continued the incumbent until 1895, when he became secretary of the Dallas Ice, Light & Power Com- pany. He served in this capacity until 1902, when he became vice president and general manager of the com- pany, a dual office of which he continued the incumbent until his removal to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1906. Upon establishing his residence in this city Mr. Gallaway be- came manager of the People's Gas & Electric Company, of which he was one of the organizers and as general manager of which he continued until 1913, when he as- sumed his present office, that of general manager of the Public Service Company, of Oklahoma, which controls electric public utilities of the city.
Mr. Gallaway enjoys unqualified popularity in the business and social circles of his adopted city, is liberal and public-spirited in his civic attitude, is a democrat in his political adherency, is identified with the Tulsa Commercial Club and the Rotary Club, of which last named he was president in 1915, as is he also exalted ruler of Tulsa Lodge, No. 946, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks. Both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
On the 14th of August, 1900, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Gallaway to Miss Minnie M. Murphy, who was born in the City of Springfield, Illinois, and the one child of this union is Paul Martin, Jr.
OREL BUSBY. Special interest attaches to the career of Orel Busby, the well kuown Ada lawyer, because of his being father of the movement that resulted in the organization of the Young Meu's Democratic League of Oklahoma, which now has a membership of over eight thousand and which is an efficient and vital arm of the state democratic organization. While a student of the law department of the university, in company with one or two friends in his room one night, Mr. Busby con- ceived the idea of this organization and presented it to Streeter Speakman, now county attorney of Lincoln
County, Oklahoma, and Will Randolph, now a practicing attorney ot McAlester, Oklahoma, who were his class- mates. They were favorably impressed with the idea. Thereupou plans were made for the organization. It was launched in 1912 at the state democratic convention at Oklahoma city and Mr. Busby presided over the initial meeting and was elected the league's first presi- dent. It prospered from the outset and in three years there were affiliated local and county organizations . in every county. Annual meetings are held on Washing- ton's birthday, and these are largely attended and bring party enthusiasm to a climax. So great was the interest in the 1915 meeting at Muskogee that special trains were operated from several points of the state. The purpose of the organization is to interest young men in party work, encourage them in the study of party pol- itics and inspire them to take an active part in cam- paigns. Several members of the organization, due to the support of their fellows, are now holding important county and state offices.
Orel Busby, who has spent nearly all his life in Okla- loma, was born at Batesville, Arkansas, in 1890, a son of G. W. and E. C. (Pegg) Busby. He moved with his parents to old Indian Territory when he was less than one year old and has since lived on the east side of what is now Oklahoma. His father, a native of Ala- bama, has for many years been a successful farmer and ranchman of Oklahoma, having come to this state in 1891 aud being now engaged in the mercantile business at Allen.
The primary education of Orel Busby was acquired principally in sul scription schools in Indian Territory before the days of public schools. Subsequently he en- tered the high school at Ada and Konawa, graduating at Konawa high school, and then spent two years in the University of Oklahoma. In 1910 he was graduated from the East Central State Normal School at Ada. This was followed by a year as principal of the public schools at Konawa, Oklahoma, and during the term he was elected justice of the peace and mayor of the town being the youngest man-only twenty-one at the time to hold that position in Eastern Oklahoma. In June, 1913, Mr. Busby was admitted to the bar, and in June, 1914, finished his regular course in the law department of Oklahoma University, graduating with the degree of LL. B. In July, 1914, he opened an office for the practice of law at Ada, and in his profession is making a pronounced success. His previous accomplish- ment had given him a state-wide reputation that has afforded him a profitable clientage.
At the 1915 meeting of the Young Men's Democratic League, Mr. Busby and many other young democrats initiated a movement having for its object the creation of a National Young Men's Democratic League. Stephen Johnson of Altus, Oklahoma, a newspaper editor and secretary to Congressman Jim MeClintie, is represent- ing the league in Washington and hopes through mem- bers of Congress to promote the national organization.
Mr. Busby is a member of the Christian Church, of the Ada Commercial Club and of the Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Phi and Sigma Delta Chi college fraternities. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Konawa, the Elks' Club at Ada and is a member of the Pontotoc County and the Oklahoma State Bar Associations.
GEORGE WASHINGTON YOUNG. One of the leading spirits of the Town of Alva and a man of much promi- nence throughout the county is George Washington Young, farmer, and president of the Oklahoma Good Roads Association. Mr. Young was born July 14, 1846, on a farm in Smith County, Virginia, and is the son of Lewis M. and Levina (Patrick) Young.
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Lewis M. Young was born in Virginia in 1830 and he died in Nebraska in 1899. His wife, also of Vir- ginia birth, died in Nebraska in 1878. They moved from Virginia to Ohio after their marriage, and in 1867 moved from Ohio into Nebraska, making the trip by boat from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Plattsmouth, Nebraska. He was twice married, and seven children were born of the first union. Of these children, Mary, the first born, is deceased. George Washington of this review was the second. Robert A. was next. Visa Jane is deceased. Cansby is the wife of George Carroll, a farmer in Alva. Lewis H. was the sixth, and Julia is the wife of Charles Loop, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
George W. Young was reared as a boy on the farm home of the family in Smith County, Virginia. He attended private schools and in 1864, when he was eighteen years old, moved into Ohio with his parents. Three years later he followed them to Nebraska, where they lived in true pioneer fashion on unbroken soil. In time Mr. Young became an independent farmer and he prospered in all his undertakings. In 1893 he was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners in Cass County, Nebraska, in which he served six years, and was then elected a committeeman to the State Legislature. Good roads laws had always been a hobby with Mr. Young, and he was the author and sponsor of the first laws on that subject that Nebraska had. He was the founder of the good roads movement in the state, and as long as he was a citizen of that commonwealth he served that cause with vigor. His four years in the Legislature were productive of much benefit to the state in respect to its roads alone, aside from other causes he served. He also filled numerous other minor offices in Plattsmouth and Cass County, Nebraska, and in public life, none had a better reputation for genuine service than did he.
In 1901 Mr. Young moved to Alva, Oklahoma, buying the south half of what is known as the Normal Section, which he has improved with modern buildings and up-to- date equipment. He has in the county 640 acres of valuable land, and his property is handled along modern and progressive lines.
Since coming to Oklahoma Mr. Young has ridden his good roads hobby to excellent purpose, as the following clipping from the Sunday Oklahoman attests: "The first interstate highway planned under the provisions of the new road law was launched at Alva Saturday at the 'pole-raising' to celebrate the marking of the Young Highway, running from Oklahoma City to Alva. The road is named in honor of George W. Young, president of the State Good Roads Association. A cement pole marking the start of the route was unveiled by Mr. Young. The pole was established by the Alva Commer- cial Club. President Grumbine, of the Alva Normal, pre- sided. Speeches were made by good roads enthusiasts, including Mayor Titus of Cherokee, Dr. Rhoades of Goltry, Henry Couch of Helena, Mr. Young and others.
"Immediately after the ceremonies the first lap of the road, running from Cherokee to Alva, was marked by the Cherokee boosters. Twenty-four automobile loads of Cherokee good roads boosters marked the road from Alva to Cherokee. At least six telephone poles in each mile were circles, with the turns plainly marked. The leading business men of Cherokee were in their cars and the start was made by assign a mile to each car, each being equipped with paint and brushes. The road has been worked over and is a fine boulevard between Alva and Cherokee. Monday the next lap of the road from Chero- kee to Helena and thence to Goltry will be marked. The road has been designated as a state highway and a move-
ment is on foot to have it oiled all the way to Oklahoma City. The trail runs from Alva to Cherokee, to Helena, to Goltry, to Carrier, to Enid, to Kingfisher, to El Reno, and into the capital. As soon as the road is laid out it is planned to make an opening trip over the new trail, starting at Alva and picking up cars along the route. It is estimated that fifty will start from Alva, and that fifty more will join at Cherokee. An effort will be made to reach Oklahoma City with 200 cars. Cherokee is planning another highway to connect with the old Santa Fe trail in Kansas, and has been assured of cooperation by the Kansas towns."
Other papers in the county gave much space to the launching of this worthy project, and in all of them Mr. Young is hailed as the veteran road-builder and inspiration of the movement that will mean so much to the state when carried to completion.
Mr. Young is progressive in politics and is at present serving on the Alva school board. He is a member of the United Brethren Church.
Mr. Young has been twice married. His first wife was Mary Barry, whom he married on February 6, 1868, in Cass County, Nebraska. She was born October 7, 1848, in Noble County, Ohio, and died at Murray, Nebraska, in 1899, the mother of seven children-James A., W. H., Sarah, Thomas L., Hattie Jane, Euna V. and Ada. The first four are dead. Hattie is the wife of M. I. Davis; Euna is married to John Murray; and Ada is the wife of Albert Baehler, of Alva. On July 3, 1901, Mr. Young was married to Mrs. Lavinia Elford, born in Warren County, Iowa, on June 17, 1860. Her maiden name was Wheeler, and she had three children by her husband, H. Elford, who died on April 16, 1896, at Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
WALTON F. DUTTON, M. D. Oklahoma claims its due quota of able physicians and surgeons, and among the number a comparatively recent recruit to the ranks is Doctor Dutton, who is recognized for his high profes- sional attainments and who is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Tulsa. Though he is still a young man, Doctor Dutton has had excep- tionally broad and varied experience in the practical work of his profession, has made many valuable contri- butions to its standard and periodical literature, and his reputation is firmly based on results achieved. Though he has been a resident of Oklahoma only since the sum- mer of 1914, he has gained distinct precedence as one of the representative members of his profession in this state and has built up a substantial and important prac- tice, with a most appreciative clientele. His standing as a physician and as a liberal and progressive citizen of sterling character fully entitles him to recognition in this publication.
Dr. Walton Forest Dutton was born in the Village of Macksburg, Washington County, Ohio, on the 6th of August, 1876, and is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of the old Buckeye State, and the family name has been closely identified with the petroleum oil industry virtually from the time of its inception. The doctor is a son of Robert L. and Mary (Walton) Dutton, the former of whom was born on the old homestead farm of his parents, near Macksburg, Ohio, in the year 1858, and the latter of whom was born in Monroe County, Ohio, in 1857. Robert L. Dutton passed to the life eternal in March, 1912, and is survived by his wife and by three children, of whom the subject of this review is the eldest; Dolly is the wife of Dr. Frank L. Watkins, who is special agent at Jackson, Mississippi, for the United States Bureau of Vital Statistics; and Amanda
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B. is the wife of Dr. Frank C. Reisling, who is engaged in the practice of dentistry at Caldwell, Ohio.
James Dutton, the great-grandfather of the doctor, was the first man to drill an oil well in Washington County, Ohio, this pioneer well having been drilled in 1860, near the Village of Mackburg, and its construc- tion having been effected by the primitive means of a spring pole, oil having been found at a depth of fifty- five feet and the product having been found to be a fine quality of lubricating oil constituency. The output of the well was barrelled and then transported by wagon to Lowell, Ohio, from which point it was transported by boat up the Ohio River and sold in the City of Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, at $20 a barrel. This enterprise on the part of James Dutton represented the inception of the oil industry in America outside of the Oil Creek fields in Pennsylvania. Incidentally it is pleasing to note that James Dutton attained to the venerable age of nearly ninety years and that his great-grandson, Doctor Dutton of this review, had the privilege of accompanying him on various hunting expeditions.
The progenitor of the Dutton family in America was Joseph Dutton, who came from England in 1778 and who first established his residence in Pennsylvania, whence he later removed to and became one of the pioneers of Ohio. He was a son of James Dutton, Lord Sherbourne of England, and the lineage of this patrician family in England traces back to the time of the Norman conquest.
William Dutton, grandfather of the doctor, succeeded his father in the oil-producing business in Ohio, and he in turn was succeeded by his son Robert L., father of him whose name initiates this article, the original oil field developed by the Dutton family in Ohio having been one of the best in the history of the industry in that state. Robert L. Dutton continued his operations as an oil producer until the time of his death, which occurred in March, 1912, and he achieved distinctive success and prominence in this important field of enter- prise. He was a man of strong mentality, sterling character and much business acumen, his political alle- giance having been given to the republican party and he having been affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
The public schools of his native village afforded to Doctor Dutton his preliminary educational advantages, and in 1898 he was graduated in the excellent academy at Marietta, Ohio. In the same year, at the inception of the Spanish-American war, Doctor Dutton enlisted, in the City of Cleveland, as a member of Company B, Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the regiment having been mustered into the United States service at Columbus, the capital city of the state, and having thence been sent to the reserve camp at Tampa, Florida, where Doctor Dutton was detailed to the hospital service. After the lapse of several months he was transferred to the same department of service at Fernandino, Florida, where he remained until October, 1898, when he returned to Cleveland, Ohio, in charge of a hospital train. He con- tinued in supervision of the invalid soldiers until the 3d of the following month, when he received his honorable discharge, the regiment in which he enlisted having not been called to the stage of military operations in Cuba.
The experience gained in the hospital service during the war fortified the doctor in his determination to pre- pare himself for the medical profession, and in the autumn of 1899 he was matriculated in the medical de- partment of the University of Ohio, at Columbus. In this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903, and after thus receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine he served his professional novitiate by engaging in practice, in May of the same
year, at Walkers Mills, a suburb of the City of Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, where likewise he established and maintained an office. There he continued in successful practice, with excellent opportunities for diversified clinical experience, until January, 1910, when he removed to Carnegie, likewise in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he built up a substantial private practice and served also as chief surgeon for the Pittsburgh Coal Company, the Superior Steel Company, the Carnegie Coal Company, the MeHugh Coal Company, the Dunlap Enameling Company, and the Adler Stove Company, besides having been local medical examiner for the Equitable Life In- surance Company, the Polish National Alliance and other organizations of fraternal and insurance order.
Owing to impaired health Doctor Dutton sold his sub- stantial practice at Carnegie in August, 1913, after which he traveled somewhat extensively through the Southern States and gave special attention to the study of tropical diseases and sanitation. Thereafter he completed an effective course in the Post-Graduate Medical College of New York City, in the class of 1913, and on the 1st of June, 1914, he established his residence in the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he has built up an excellent general practice, though he gives special attention to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the heart and lungs, and arterial system.
A close and appreciative student and one who is un- remitting in his researches and investigations, Doctor Dutton has unselfishly given the results of his labors and experience to his professional confreres, through con- tributions to the leading medical journals and through the compilation and publication of various standard works. It may thus be noted that he is the author of the following papers, which were read before various medical associations: "Hypertonia Vasorumcerebri, " published in 1908; "Insect Carriers of Typhoid Fever," pub- lished in 1909; "Blood Pressure in the Practice of Medicine," 1908; "The Responsibilities of Municipali- ties in the Ohio Valley for Epidemics of Typhoid Fever,"' 1908; "Present Day Problems and Progress in Preven- tion of Typhoid Fever,"' 1910; "Laws Relative to the Sanitary Control of Public Eating and Drinking Places," 1912; "Tubercular Phthisis: Is the Second Recovery Possible?" 1908. All of the above papers were published by the respective medical associations before which they were read, and a number were prepared for the meetings of such representative organizations in the cities of New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago. It is specially interesting to record that the suggestions made by Doctor Hutton rel- ative to the sanitary control of public eating and drink- ing places were embodied in the admirable laws passed by the State of Pennsylvania in the supervision and con- trol of such places of public service. The doctor is now engaged in the preparation of a comprehensive volume which will comprise about 300 pages and which will bear the following title: "Venesection: A Monograph of Practical Value to Students and Practitioners."
Doctor Dutton was a prominent and valued member of the Carnegie Academy of Medicine, at Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and served as president of the same. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for the Prevention of Social Disease, and is identified also with the American Medical Association, the American Associ- ation for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Inter- national Congress on Tuberculosis, the National Geo- graphical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Associa- tion, the Tulsa County Medical Society, and many other representative professional and scientific organizations. The doctor was raised to the degree of master mason in Harrison Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Cadiz, Ohio; his capitular degrees were received in Cyrus
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Chapter, No. 280, at Carnegie, Pennsylvania. His pres- ent affiliations are with Delta Lodge, No. 425, at Tulsa; Tulsa Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Chartiers Com- mandery, No. 78, Knights Templars, at Carnegie, Penn- sylvania; Akdar Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in the City of Tulsa. He is affiliated also with the consistory of the Ancient Ac- cepted Scottish Rite, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which he has received the thirty-second degree. In politics the doctor is not constrained by strict partisan lines but gives his support to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment.
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