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Professor Jolinston was born at Omaha, Texas, on the 8th of February, 1867, and is a son of James Harvey Johnston, Sr., and Mary (King) Johnston, the former of whom was born at Loudon, Loudon County, Tennessee, in 1836, and the latter of whom was likewise born in Eastern Tennessee, in 1837. Both passed the closing years of their lives at Omaha, Texas, where the father died in 1910 and the mother in 1912. James H. John- ston, Sr., was a youth at the time of the family immigra- tion to Texas, where he was reared to manhood and where his marriage was solemnized. He became a suc- cessful ranchiman and influential and honored citizen of Morris County, and was there called upon to serve many years in local offices of public trust, including those of county commissioner and justice of the peace, besides which he represented Morris County in the Texas Legis- lature, his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party. He was a valiant soldier of the Con- federacy for four years, representing practically the en- tire duration of the Civil war. He was a member of Sutton's Brigade and took part in numerous important engagements. He was a double-cousin of Clementine and Richard Wilson, members of the celebrated million- aire New York family of that name. He was promi- nent as a member of the Patrons of Husbandry for a long period of years and both he and his wife were zeal- ous members of the Christian Church. Of their children the eldest is Polina, who resides at Tishomingo, Okla- homa, and is the widow of Albert Curlee, a contractor and builder by vocation. Elizabeth died at the age of twenty-one years, she having been the wife of Peter F. Holder. James H., Jr., of this review, was the next in order of birth. Louise is the wife of William B. Wright, a prosperous farmer near Omaha, Texas. Edna died at the age of thirty-five years, as the wife of John C. Davis, who is a farmer near Omaha, Texas. Dr. Lewis Johnston, youngest of the children, was afforded the advantages of Nashville University, at Nashville, Tennessee, and of Dallas University, at Dallas, Texas, in the medical department of which latter he was gradu- ated, and he is now engaged in the practice of his pro- fession at Jordantown, Texas.
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his service as a teacher he earned the money whichi enabled him to complete his higher education. For two years he was a student in the Sam Houston Normal School, at Huntsville, Texas, and in this connection his mental alertness and assiduity were shown in an em- phatic way, for he completed within the two years the work of the junior or third year. He left this school in 1892, and, having won a Peabody scholarship in Pea- body Normal College, at Nashville, Tennessee, he at- tended that institution one year and received therefrom the degree of Licentiate of Instruction. Out of 115 con- testants for this Peabody scholarship Professor Johnston was one of the three who received the award. He was graduated in the University of Nashville as a member of the class of 1895, and received therefrom the well earned degree of Bachelor of Arts. For two years there- after he taught in the schools of Omaha, Texas, and he next held, for one year, a professorship in Jeff Davis College, at Pittsburg, that state. The following three years found him a member of the faculty of Emerson College, at Campbell, Texas, and thereafter he was for three years professor of mathematics in the high school at Denton, Texas. In 1907, the year that marked the admission of Oklahoma to statehood, Professor John- ston became superintendent of the public schools at Tishomingo, county seat of Johnston County, this state, where he continued his service in this capacity until the autumn of 1914, when he assumed his present office, that of superintendent of the public schools of the City of Marietta, where he has under his direction two well equipped schools, with a corps of sixteen efficient teach- ers and with an enrollment of 600 pupils.
Professor Johnston shows his deep and abiding inter- est in his profession by his unbounded enthusiasm in his work, and he himself continued an ambitious stu- dent, with appreciation of the fact that the whole course of life offers opportunities for advancing education. It may thus be understood that he is distinctly progressive and systematic in his labors and that his enthusiasm is made infective as touching both teachers and students who come under his influence. He has been a valued instructor in summer normal schools in both Texas and Oklahoma and has taken courses on educational subjects by availing himself of the advantages of the best cor- respondence schools-notably those at Columbia Uni- versity, New York, and in Chicago, Illinois.
Professor Johnston is a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party and both he and his wife are active and earnest members of the Baptist Church. He has served many years as Sunday school superintend- ent and is now teacher of the young men's Bible class in the Baptist Church at Marietta. The Professor is actively identified not only with the Love County Teach- ers' Association, but also with the Oklahoma State Teach- ers' Association. He is affiliated with Marietta Lodge, No. 102, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, of which he is past master; and with Tishomingo Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Tishomingo Council, Royal & Select Masters. At Tishomingo he holds membership also in the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, and at Marietta he is affiliated with the camps of the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America.
At Omaha, Texas, in 1899, was solemnized the mar- riage of Professor Johnston to Miss Claudia Ward, and they have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted: Laura, July 25, 1900; Julius, August 2, 1905; and Mary, September 14, 1907.
WILLIAM E. DICKEN, M. D. The State of Oklahoma has been signally favored in having drawn within her borders an admirable coterie of physicians and surgeons
who have thoroughly equipped themselves for their responsible and exacting vocation and who, through. their character and services, have maintained the standard of the profession at a high mark in this vigorous young commonwealth. The consistency of this statement finds definite voucher in consideration of the status of Doctor Dicken, who has signally dignified and honored his pro- fession during somewhat more than a decade of active and successful practice in Oklahoma City and who, as a representative physician and surgeon of high attain- ments, is fully entitled to recognition in this history of Oklahoma. A previously published record gives so ef- fective an estimate that there is all of consistency in reproducing at this juncture quotations therefrom, with but slight paraphrase:
"Dr. Dicken has been established in the practice of his profession in Oklahoma City since 1901, the year that marked his reception of the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. His period of novitiate was brief, as he quickly gained success in practice and be- came specially skilled in the domain of surgery. His ambition to achieve the highest possible proficiency in his chosen calling led him to withdraw for a time from active practice in order to afford himself of technical advantages and privileges through which he has signifi- cantly advanced himself in the theory and practice of the most modern systems of medical and surgical science, besides which his acquirements have made him a most valuable factor in the educational work of his profession in an objective way. In 1905 the Doctor did effective post-graduate work in leading institutions in New York City, and in 1907 he made a trip abroad for further clin- ical experience and research work. In Vienna, Austria, he devoted special attention to observing and assisting in clinical operations in gynecological surgery, in the K. K. Allgemeines Krankenhaus, and he also carried his investigations into other prominent medical and sur- gical institutions of Europe. Energetic and self-abnegat- ing in the prosecution of his studies and his practice, Dr. Dicken has attained to enviable success in his pro- fession during the period of his residence in the capital city of Oklahoma, and both by training and natural aptitude he ranks among the leaders in his profession, without reference to local confines. For some time the Doctor occupied the chair of gynecology in the medical department of the Epworth University, this department being now the medical school of the University of Okla- homa. He is local surgeon for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, is a member of the Oklahoma County Medical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Society, the Medical Association of the Southwest, the American Medical Association, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He continues a close and appre- ciative student and each year marks a distinct advance- ment in his reputation for skill and ability in the voca- tion of which he is a most worthy and popular repre- sentative. "'
Dr. William Edward Dicken was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, on the 18th of January, 1872, and is a son of Rev. Charles W. and Mary (Williams) Dicken. His father was a clergyman of the Baptist Church, was born and reared in Campbell County, Kentucky, and for many years was a prominent and honored representative of the ministry of his church in Kentucky, Missouri and other states. In the schools of his native commonwealth Doctor Dicken acquired his early education and thereafter pursued higher academic studies at Ogden College, in the fine little City of Bowling Green, that state. Proper literary education is now fully recognized as virtually a prerequisite for the absorption and assimilation of the vast and varied knowledge essential to success in the med-
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ical profession, and Doctor Dicken is fortunate in having been, able to fortify himself most fully along academic lines. In the State of Missouri he continued his studies in turn in Westminster College, at Fulton, and at Liberty, that state, he completed his classical course in William Jewell College. He had early given himself also, and with such characteristic energy and ambition, to the study of medicine that in 1896, when twenty-four years of age, he was enabled to pass the required examination that entitled him to practice medicine in Missouri. In that year he established himself as a practitioner at Kahoka, Clark County, that state, and later he was graduated in the College of Physicians aud Surgeons in the City of St. Louis, from which staunch institution he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901, as previously noted in this context. In his large and representative practice in Oklahoma City the doctor gives special attention to surgery and his reputation in this domain rests securely upon his splendid record of success in the performing of many delicate operations of both major and minor order.
Doctor Dicken constantly avails himself of the best of the standard and periodical literature of his profession and has personally made many valnable contributions to medical and surgical advancement, especially through the medium of numerous papers which he has carefully prepared and has read before the various medical societies with which he is identified and which, with other direct contributions, have been published in medical journals. Among the more noteworthy of such contributions may be mentioned those designated by the following titles: "Some Steps Toward the Prevention of Post-Operative Exudates, " published in the New York Medical Journal of November 26, 1910; "Intestinal Obstruction, "' a paper read before the Oklahoma State Medical Society in 1912; "A Plea for Larger Abdominal Incisions and Less Drainage," read before the Medical Association of the Southwest, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1913, and pub- lished in the Medical Herald of February, that year; "Esophago-Tracheal Fistula," a case report published in the Medical Herald of December, 1914; "A Study of Fifty Cases of Pyosalpink,"' published in the Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Society, March, 1914; and "The Simplified Baldy-Webster Operation," read before the Oklahoma County Medical Society in 1914. In connection with the presentation of the last mentioned paper Doctor Dicken exhibited an instrument devised by himself and designated as a uterine elevator. This device he proved to be of great value in simplifying the opera- tion described and the instruments are now on sale by the leading medical-instrument establishments of the country. The doctor maintains his offices at 518-20 State National Bank Building, Oklahoma City, and his resi- dence is at 410 West Tenth Street.
An appreciative student of the history and teachings of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, Doctor Dicken is prominently identified with various bodies of the same, his York Rite affiliations being with Oklahoma City Lodge No. 36, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Cyrus Chapter No. 7, Royal Arch Masons; and Oklahoma Com- mandery No. 3, Knights Templar. In the Ancient Ac- cepted Scottish Rite he has received at the time of this writing the degrees up to and including the fourteenth, and he holds membership also in India Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, as well as in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
At Kahoka, Missouri, in 1899, was solemnized the mar- riage of Doctor Dicken to Miss Bertha M. Smith, who was born and reared in Lewis County, that state. They have one child, Virginia Mildred.
BOUDINOT REAM. Few men of the former Chickasaw Nation possess as much blood relationship to persons of
distinction and prominence as Boudinot Ream, a promi- nent farmer and stockman of Wapanucka, and long iden- tified with public affairs. His mother is a daughter of former Governor Guy of the Chickasaw Nation, who now lives in Sulphur. She is a sister of Mrs. Charles LeFlore, who was mother of the wife of former Governor Lee Cruce of Oklahoma. Mrs. Mary Fuller, now about eighty years of age, a sister of Mr. Ream's father, has for more than forty years been a clerk in the Interior De- partment at Washington, while the paternal grandfather, Robert Ream, now seventy-five years of age, has been connected with the United States Geological Survey in Washington for many years. Another sister of his father was the late Mrs. Vinnie Rea Hoxey, after whom the City of Vinita, Oklahoma, was named. She made a name for herself as a sculptor, and designed the statues of Lincoln and Admiral Farragut now standing in con- spicuous positions in the City of Washington. The hus- bands of Mrs. Fuller and Mrs. Hoxey were Union sol- diers in the Civil war, and the Government since that conflict has shown them many special favors.
The influence of Boudinot Ream in the public life of the old Chickasaw Nation deserves some mention at the beginning of this article. Some of the now notable McMurray Indian contracts out of which a law firm of Mc Alester made $750,000 and which were entered into that the Indian rolls might be kept clear of fraudulent claimants, would not have been approved by the Legis- lature of the Chickasaw Nation in 1900 had enough members of that body agreed with Mr. Ream. He opposed the approval of the contracts on the theory that they were too expensive and that there were probably other and more satisfactory ways of obtaining the desired ends. Later, contracts similar to these caused a scandal in public life in Washington, resulting in a congressional investigation. While a member of the Chickasaw Legislature Mr. Ream, foreseeing that state- hood was but a few years distant, sought to have passed a measure that would permit the Legislature to sub- divide the nation into counties and request of Congress the approval of the act in the passage of the statehood enabling act. This measure was defeated, and its dis- cussion developed the fact that a majority of members of the Legislature were not anxious for statehood.
At the well known old Indian Territory town of Boggy Depot Boudinot Ream was born in 1873. His father, Robert L. Ream, was a native of Wisconsin, but the grandfather was born in Pennsylvania and belonged to an old Dutch family. Mr. Ream's mother, whose maiden name was Anna Guy, is a native of Indian Ter- ritory and of Chickasaw Indian blood. She is now Mrs. Anna Addington, and for several years has been superintendent of Bloomfield Academy, an Indian school at Hendrix, Oklahoma. Mrs. Addington and her brother at the outbreak of the Civil war were taken to Massa- chusetts by their guardian and educated before return- ing to the Indian country. The primary education of Boudinot Ream was acquired in the Chickasaw Industrial Academy at Tishomingo. Later he spent three years in a preparatory school in Tennessee, that being followed by two years in Vanderbilt University at Nashville. His career has been an exceedingly active one. On leaving university he enlisted in the First Tennessee Regiment of Volunteers for the Spanish-American war, and accom- panied his regiment to San Francisco, where he received his discharge. Returning to Indian Territory, he then settled on his farm, two miles from Wapanucka, where he has since lived, with the exception of the time spent at Mannsville. While at the latter place he was elected a member of the Chickasaw Legislature, serving one term during the first administration of Gov. D. H. John-
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ston. Later he was office deputy United States marshal. He has served on the board of township trustees at Wapanucka and is a member of the Wapanucka Board of Education, in which position he has shown an active interest in educational affairs, and from every point of view is one of the community's most progressive men.
April 22, 1901, he married Miss Mattie Taylor of Wapanucka. She is a granddaughter of the Rev. W. J. B. Lloyd of Bennington, a pioneer missionary and min- ister of the Choctaw country. Her father, Dr. A. A. Taylor, was an early settler in the vicinity of Wapa- nucka, and many years ago was associated with the Rev. Allen Wright, a distinguished Choctaw minister and historian who gave Oklahoma its name. Mr. and Mrs. Ream have a family of six children: Mary, aged thirteen; Vinnie, aged eleven; Boudinot, aged nine; Helen, aged seven; Lloyd, aged five; and Lavinia, aged two. Mr. Ream is a member of the Presbyterian Church and affiliates with the Masonic Order. He has served until recently as a member of the County Election Board of Jolinston County.
ROBERT ELMORE LOONEY, M. D. In the ranks of Okla- homa's medical profession, one whose skill in the healing art has won for him a high standing with the medical faculty and an enviable reputation among the people generally, is Dr. Robert Elmore Looney, who, since 1908, has been engaged in practice at Oklahoma City. While his professional business is a large and constantly-increas- ing one, making incessant and heavy demands upon his time, Doctor Looney has been able to serve in a number of positions of importance to which he has been called, and in which he has displayed a profound knowledge of the most enlightened tenets of his calling.
Robert E. Looney was born in Davidson County, Ten- nessee, August 12, 1877, and is a son of Robert Taylor and Alice (Neely) Looney. His parents were natives of Tennessee, and throughout his life Robert T. Looney was engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he won success through perseverance and untiring industry. While the father was himself too young for service during the Civil war, the family was well represented in that struggle, three of his brothers having fought in the ranks of the army of the Confederacy.
The public schools of Davidson County furnished Rob- ert E. Looney with his early education, following which he was a teacher in the high school at Goodlettsville, Ten- nessee, for two years. He then entered upon his cherished medical studies at the University of Nashville, Tennessee, from which institution he was graduated in 1902, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and further prepared himself for his calling by spending one year as interne at the Davidson County Hospital. Doctor Looney entered actively upon the duties of his profession in 1903, at Lindsay, Indian Territory, and while there was a member of the Chickasaw Medical Society. To further his studies, in 1907 he went to New York City, where he did post- graduate work at Bellevue Hospital, serving a term serv- ice on the resident staff, and on his return to the West, in 1908, located at Oklahoma City, where he has been engaged in a general practice to the present time, now occupying offices at No. 622 State National Bank Build- ing. Through the exposition of his skill and particular talents, Doctor Looney has attracted to himself a very gratifying patronage aud has gained no insignificant place among Oklahoma City's practitioners.
As an educator in his profession, Doctor Looney has also made his name well known. In 1908 he was profes- sor of physiology at the medical school of Epworth Uni- versity, and when this school became a part of the University of Oklahoma, in 1910, he was appointed assist- ant professor of obstetrics, and in 1915 associate profes-
sor of obstetrics, a capacity in which he still acts. He is a member of the staffs of University and St. Anthony's hospitals, and is attending obstetrician of the latter. Doctor Looney belongs to the Oklahoma State Medical Society, the Oklahoma County Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and a charter member of the Oklahoma City Academy of Medicine. He has always been ready to contribute of his energies and time to the city's interests, and from May, 1909, until May, 1911, was city physician of Oklahoma City. In fraternal circles, Doctor Looney is well known, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of Okla- homa City Lodge No. 36, A. F. & A. M .; past master of Lindsay (I. T.) Lodge No. 248, A. F. & A. M., and a member of all the Scottish Rite bodies, of Oklahoma Consistory, Valley of Guthrie, and of India Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., holds membership in Capital City Lodge No. 231, Knights of Pythias, and is past chancellor of Endowment Lodge No. 77, Lindsay, Indian Territory. He belongs to the Oklahoma City Men's Dinner Club, the Oklahoma City Rotary Club, the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, and is connected religiously with St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In January, 1912, Doctor Looney was honored by appoint- ment to the personal staff of Governor Lee Cruse, and in 1915 was appointed on the personal staff of Gov. Robert L. Williams, and holds a commission as colonel thereon. He is one of the city's most popular professional men and his career is being watched with interest by a host of friends and well-wishers.
On September 2, 1903, Doctor Looney was united in marriage with Miss Sallie Core, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Core, of Nashville, Tennessee. Doctor Core has since about 1905 been superintendent of the David- sou County Hospital. Doctor and Mrs. Looney have no children. They reside at their pleasant and attractive home, at No. 1616 North Klein Street, Oklahoma City.
WILLIAM GILL. In view of the fact that for sixty years Atoka has been a center from which have radiated the missionary activities of some of the oldest Protestant organizations of the two territories that were combined to form the State of Oklahoma, it is of interest to note the modern Atoka, judicial center of the county of the same name, is the seat of the Young Men's Christian Association to be found in any community of the same approximate population in the entire state. Here is a chapter or association with fifty members-live, ener- getic young men of high ideals; young men who have made their influence distinctly and worthily felt in the community. These ambitious young men have crystallized sentiment into definite achievement. They have built and maintain an association home of their own in the business center of the town, and have equipped the same with a modern gymnasium, a comprehensive and well- selected library, with attractive reading room, and the building is also provided with an excellent and attract- ive assembly room. The ambitious members of the asso- ciation, through recourse to various normal means of raising funds for the cause, have virtually obliterated the debt that rested on them in connection with the erection and equipment of their building. Basket-ball has proved the chief source of income, the association team having developed qualities of and facility in play that for several years made its members the practical champions of Eastern Oklahoma. In 1914 this team defeated the best team that the City of Dallas, Texas, could present, as well as the admirable teams from the East Central State Normal School and the Southwestern State Normal School, of Oklahoma, the only defeat which the Atoka team encountered in that season having been received at the hands of the Muskogee team. Sun-
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