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 44

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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After the completion of his educational work at Inde- pendence Mr. Jones returned to Oklahoma and engaged in the insurance business at Bartlesville. On the 1st of January, 1905, he removed to Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, where he continued in the same line of enterprise until the spring of the following year, when he returned to Bartlesville and assumed the position of bookkeeper in the Bartlesville National Bank, a position of which he continued the incumbent two years. For the ensuing two years he was retained as an auditor and bookkeeper in the service of the Sachem & Mid-West Oil Company and in 1910, when Bartlesville adopted the commission system of municipal government, he was appointed secre- tary of the board of city commissioners, in which capa- city he served, besides holding simultaneously the office of city treasurer, until the spring of 1912, when further municipal honors were conferred upon him, in his elec-

tion to the responsible office of commissioner of finance and supplies. His administration has beeu character- ized by efficiency and a loyal effort to do all in his power to further the civic and industrial welfare of his home city, and he was one of the popular and valued municipal executives of Bartlesville. Mr. Jones is aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and the Frater- nal Aid Association. He is a stockholder and director of the Fish Creek Oil & Gas Company, of which he is serving as secretary, and he is the owner of his residence property in Bartlesville. For the first three months after their marriage he and his wife lived in the home of his parents, and since that time they have maintained an independent home, their first child having been boru at Shawnee and the other in the City of Bartlesville.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones are popular in the representative social activities of their home city and are zealous mem- bers of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served six years as superintendent of the Sunday school and of whose board of trustees he is a member at the present time. He was treasurer of the building committee at the time when the present beautiful church edifice was erected, and he has stated in a facetious way that he has held practically every lay office in the church save that of president of the Ladies' Aid Society.

FRED S. CALDWELL. Admitted to the bar of Oklahoma Territory in 1903, Mr. Caldwell has since been engaged in the successful practice of his profession in Oklahoma City, is one of the well fortified and influential members of the bar of the capital city, being a member of the representative law firm of Scothorn, Caldwell & McRill.

Mr. Caldwell is a scion of a staunch Scotch-Irish family that was founded in America in the colonial period of our national history, the original progenitor having settled in Virginia, and a branch of the family having later been established in New England. Benjamin Cald- well, great-grandfather of him whose name introduces this review, was born at Rutland, Vermont. Milton P. Caldwell, the grandfather, likewise was a native of the old Green Mountain State, whence he removed to the State of New York, and finally he moved with his family to the West and settled in Wisconsin as a pioneer.

Fred S. Caldwell was born in historic old Monroe County, Michigan, on the 11th of November, 1876, and is a son of Alfred P. and Clara (Jones) Caldwell, who now maintain their home in Oklahoma City, where the father is living virtually retired. Alfred P. Caldwell was born in Wisconsin, eventually became a prosperous farmer in Michigan, from which state he removed to Decatur County, Kansas, in 1879. There he continued to be identified with the basic industries of agriculture and stockraising until 1891, when he established his home at Longmont, Colorado, which state continued to be his place of residence until his removal to Oklahoma.

Fred S. Caldwell was about three years old at the time of the family migration from Michigan to Kansas and twelve years of age when removal was made to Long- mont, Colorado, where he availed himself of the advan- tages of the public schools until he had completed the curriculum of the high school. He thereafter completed a course in Colorado College, at Colorado Springs, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In the summer of the same year he went to Cripple Creek, that state, where he de- voted his attention to the study of law and mining until September, 1901, after which he was for one year a student in the law school of the University of Denver.

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Thereafter he held an executive position in a savings bank at Colorado Springs about one year, and in the meanwhile completed his work of preparation for the legal profession.

In 1903 Mr. Caldwell came to Oklahoma Territory and at Guthrie, the territorial capital, he took the bar exam- ination and was admitted to practice, the solidity of his legal learning at the time having been indicated by the fact that he passed the required examination with the highest mark of all of the class of thirty applicants. Immediately after his admission to the bar Mr. Caldwell established his permanent residence in Oklahoma City, where he has since given unremitting attention to the practice of law and where he has gained a staunch vantage-place as one of the representative attorneys and counselors at the bar of the Oklahoma metropolis and capital city. He has proved himself capable, hon- orable and resourceful in all of his professional activities, has achieved noteworthy victories in many important cases in the various courts and, with a true appreciation of and regard for the true ethical values, he has signally hon- ored the profession of his choice.

A citizen of high ideals and mature judgment, Mr. Caldwell has given his co-operation in the furtherance of the general welfare of the community, both as a lawyer and as a loyal and public-spirited citizen. He became influential in the councils and activities of the Anti- Saloon League at the time of the prohibition campaign that was made when Oklahoma was preparing for state- hood, and for a number of years he has been a valued member of the board of trustees of the Oklahoma Anti- Saloon League. In June, 1908, at the solicitation of the representative members of this organization, Governor Haskell appointed Mr. Caldwell prohibition-enforcement attorney, under the enforcement act that was passed at the first session of the State Legislature and which is commonly designated the "Billups law." Concerning his service to the new commonwealth in this important office, the following pertinent statements have been made, and the data are well worthy of preservation in this article: "In discharging the duties of this office Mr. Caldwell was early confronted by the inter-state com- merce barrier to the enforcement of the prohibition laws of Oklahoma, and numerous suits were brought in the Federal courts, by the railroads as well as by foreign liquor dealers who wished to market their goods in this state. As a result of this important and harassing liti- gation, which finally terminated in the Supreme Court of the United States, Mr. Caldwell became an authority and legal expert on inter-state commerce law, and in his final report to Governor Haskell he submitted a draft of a proposed bill to be presented in Congress and to pro- vide for a solution of the vexing problem of inter-state commerce in intoxicating liquors, and in his report he also recommended that the Oklahoma Legislature should memorialize Congress upon this subject, and that this draft of a proposed bill be offered as a concrete sugges- tion for definite congressional legislation.

"Early in 1911 E. C. Dinwiddie, national legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League at Washing- ton, D. C., and a close personal friend of Mr. Caldwell, presented to Hon. E. Y. Webb, a Representative in Congress from North Carolina, a copy of the proposed measure as drafted by Mr. Caldwell. Mr. Webb promptly recognized the intrinsic value and consistency of the measure, and in the first session of the Sixty- second Congress he introduced it in the House of Repre- sentatives, as the original Webb bill. In December, 1911, a convention of representatives from the Anti- Saloon League and other temperance organizations was held in Washington, and largely through the efforts of Mr. Caldwell and his clear and convincing exposition of

the intricate legal questions involved, the Webb bill was agreed upon as the measure upon which all should unite. In March, 1912, at the request of the Anti-Saloon League of America, Mr. Caldwell appeared before the judiciary committees of both the House of Representa- tives and the Senate and argued for the passage of the Webb bill, besides giving cogent reasons to establish its constitutionality. This effective argument was used by Mr. Clayton, chairman of the house judiciary committee, in the fight for the bill which he led on the floor of the national House of Representatives. The Webb bill was passed by both houses of Congress, was vetoed by Presi- dent Taft, and was repassed over this veto by consid- erably more than the necessary two-thirds vote. For his ability, zeal and faithful service in this connection Mr. Caldwell merits the enduring gratitude of the friends of temperance and prohibition throughout the entire United States."'

During the earlier years of his professional activities in Oklahoma City Mr. Caldwell conducted an individual or independent practice, but since the 1st of February, 1911, he has been associated with John W. Scothorn and Albert L. McRill, under the firm name of Scothorn, Caldwell & McRill. They control a large and important civil practice and make a specialty of fire-insurance law. The well appointed offices of the firm are in the Insur- ance Building. Mr. Caldwell is a member of the Amer- ican Bar Association; is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America; and both he and his wife are zealous members of the First Presbyterian Church of Oklahoma City, in which he holds the office of deacon.

Mr. Caldwell was married on November 29, 1906, to Miss Blanche Atchison, daughter of Mrs. Pauline Atchi- son, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the two children of this union are Robert and Fred S., Jr.

ALBERT E. DAVENPORT, M. D., is a citizen who has not only added to the distinction of Oklahoma City in pro- fessional and intellectual fields, but through his high character and broad talents has carried its good name into state councils. A resident of this city since 1908, he is now recognized as one of the leading representa- tives of the medical profession, and in the performance of the duties of the various offices to which he has been called has demonstrated an eagerness to be of use to the interests of his adopted community and its people.

Doctor Davenport was born near Mount Vernon, Texas, June 23, 1873, and is a son of William H. C. and Julia C. (Kennon) Davenport. His father, a native of Geor- gia, entered the army of the Confederacy during the war between the North and the South, and after the close of that struggle, seeking a location in which to regain his lost fortunes, went to the little community of Mount Vernon, Texas. There he opened the first store, took an active and helpful part in the movements and enterprises that served to promote the growth of the city, and remained in the mercantile business until his death, which occurred October 8, 1910. While still a resident of Georgia, Mr. Davenport was a member of the association and of the committee thereof which in 1857 sent the Rev. Dr. J. S. Murrow as a missionary to the Indians. Mrs. Davenport passed away in 1888.

Albert E. Davenport received his early education in the public schools of Texas, following which, in 1891 and 1892 he took a preparatory course at Russellville, Kentucky. In the latter year he entered the University of Nashville, Tennessee, where he graduated in his liter- ary work in 1894, and then entered upon his medical studies at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, from which institution he was graduated in March, 1897, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

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Returning at once to Mount Vernon, Texas, Doctor Davenport was engaged in practice there for a few months, when he went to Paul's Valley, Indian Terri- tory, and from 1897 until 1901 was engaged in practice with a measure of success. His next location was Tisho- mingo, Indian Territory, where he remained until 1908, and since that year his field has been Oklahoma City, where he has steadily arisen to an enviable place in the ranks of his calling. At this time he occupies well ap- pointed offices at No. 716 State National Bank Building.

In 1907, at the commencement of statehood, Doctor Davenport was appointed by Governor Haskell a member of the State Board of Health, and when the change was made therein in 1908 he was made a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners, but resigned there- from in 1909. In 1908 he became superintendent of the Oklahoma County Board of Health, and retains that position to the present. His practice has beeu broad and general in its character. Doctor Davenport has not ceased to be a close and careful student, spending much of his time in independent research and investigation and being a valued member of the Oklahoma County Medical Society and the Oklahoma State Medical Society. He is a democrat in his political views, and his religious con- nection is with the First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City. Doctor Davenport is well and widely known in fraternal circles, belonging to Oklahoma City Lodge No. 36, A. F. & A. M., all the Scottish Rite bodies up to the thirty-second degree, and Oklahoma Consistory, Valley of McAlester, as well as Indian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.

In 1899 Doctor Davenport was united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Chism, a daughter of William A. Chism, and a granddaughter of Jesse Chism, a well-known Chickasaw Indian who built what is known as the "Chism Trail. " When William Chism died his three young daughters were taken into the household of and reared and educated by Gov. D. H. Johnston, governor of the Chickasaws. Mrs. Davenport's sisters are Mrs. Cora McKeel, of Ada, Oklahoma; and Mrs. W. T. Ward, of Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Doctor and Mrs. Davenport have no children. They reside at No. 500 East Park Place, Oklahoma City.

E. N. JONES. By following a well-directed and sys- tematic course of study and by making events and circumstances serve rather than oppose him in his ambitious course, Mr. Jones has come to a realization of one important step in his career-a law office of his own and a successful practice. He belongs to that class of determined young men in the professions in Oklahoma who are giving a fine account of themselves in the com- munities where they live, and who through constant effort to realize an ambition of high ideals and earnest purpose are, in the aggregate, making Oklahoma a state of notable men. Like mauy other successful young pro- fessional men, he re-enforced the foundation of his career with a training for teaching, and spent three successful and profitable years in that calling.

E. N. Jones was born in Coryell County, Texas, in 1890, and is a son of Jesse S. and Adella (Jones) Jones. His father, a native of Texas, is a real estate dealer at Vanoss, Oklahoma. Besides E. N. Jones there are the following children: Mrs. J. W. White, wife of a rail- road man at Byars, Oklahoma; Mrs. B. Norvell, whose husband is a farmer at Vanoss, Oklahoma; Sybil Marvin, Johnnie V., Jack, Ulysses and Sol Philip. The parents of these children are members of the Christian Church.

On both sides of the family farmers have predom- inated for several generations, and Mr. Jones was reared on a farm. His father settled in Oklahoma in 1893 and consequently Mr. Jones has spent all his life since in- fancy in the territory and state. His education came

from the public schools, and subsequently he completed a literary education in the East Central State Normal at Ada, and did his work as a teacher in the schools of Garviu and Pontotoc counties. His first school was taught when he was eighteen. He completed a course in law in the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Ten- nessee, and was admitted to the bar in Oklahoma June 20, 1913. He began his practice soon afterward at Ada. While engaged in teaching the pursuance of a home study and correspondence course gave him a funda- mental knowledge of the law which enabled him to com- plete in a very short time the work required by a LL. B. degree at the Cumberland University.

Mr. Jones was married February 7, 1915, to Miss Minnie Duty, of Ada, whose father was a well-to-do farmer of Paris, Texas. Mrs. Jones was for several years a teacher in Choctaw and Poutotoe counties. Mr. Jones is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World, the Ada Com- mercial Club and the Pontotoc County and Oklahoma State Bar associations. He is attorney for the Vanoss Oil & Gas Company and the Diamond Oil & Gas Com- pany, of Oklahoma City.

In politics a democrat, Mr. Jones has as yet developed no definite ambition for public life, and is content to pursue the delightful work of his profession. While in school he was much interested in politics. At Cum- berland University he was secretary and treasurer of his junior class and was also chairman of the Interstate Club of students.

D. K. HATHORN. Oklahoma is a state of "new- comers." Only a small percentage of the young business men of this section have been reared or educated here. Twenty-three years ago, where now flourishes the Town of Ravia, the wild grass grew waist-high, while the woods were inhabited chiefly by deer, wolves and wild turkeys. The habitations of white men were scarce, and the red man was monarch of the land. It was at that time that the subject of this sketch, then ten years old, came to this locality with his parents. He was born in Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama, in 1882, and is a son of Hugh and Sarah (Taylor) Hathorn. His father was a native of Alabama and his paternal grandfather of Ire- land. The lure of an easy fortune to be made in the Indian country drew Hugh Hathorn with his family to this section, and he settled on a tract of land owned by Governor Wolf of the Chickasaw Nation, near where Ravia sprung into being several years later. Here the Hathorn family remained for fifteen years and here young Hathorn grew to manhood, acquiring such ele- mentary knowledge as was dispensed by the country schools of that period. This, however, was later supple- mented by a course in the Selvidge Business College at Ardmore. Oklahoma. In 1904 he eutered the First National Bank of Ravia as bookkeeper. Here he showed adaptability to the business aud persevering industry, which in due time brought him promotion, and in 1910 he was elected cashier of the First State Bank, which succeeded the First National Bank. His next promotion was in 1915, when he was elected active vice president of the institution, in which position he is now serving. The bank has a capital stock of $12,500 and is the only one in the town that is situated in the midst of a rich and growing agricultural region. The other officials are: Harold Wallace, of Ardmore, president, and Clyde Faught, cashier. For eight years Mr. Hathorn has served as city treasurer and for a similar length of time as clerk of the school board. Taking a lively interest in the encouragement of agriculture and the improvement of agricultural methods, he is serving as a member of

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the Johnston County Fair Association, and has done good work in this connection.

Mr. Hathorn has three brothers and three sisters, all of whom are residents of this section. Sam Hathorn is a blacksmith at Ada. Ray and Gordon Hathorn are en- gaged in oil operations in the Glennpool field. Mrs. Winnie Weaver is the wife of a farmer near Ravia; Mrs. Mabel Herrin, the wife of an oil man in the Glenn- pool field, and Miss Minnie Hathorn is a telephone employee at Stratford. Mr. Hathorn belongs to the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of America lodges, also to the Johnston County, Oklahoma State and American Bankers associations. Although still a young man his mind is a mine of information in regard to early events in Ravia. He recalls the fact that E. A. Forbes built the first house here in 1895, that the town was established on the land of Joe Ravia, an intermarried Chickasaw citizen, from whom it acquired its name, and that Ardmore, thirty miles distant, was the trading point for farmers and merchants here for a number of years; also that Tish- omingo twenty years ago was an inland town of no com- mercial importance. Mr, Hathorn was married in 1907, in Ravia, to Miss Lena Fields, He and his wife are the parents of one child, Ruby, now five years old.

C. A. LAMM. One of Oklahoma's thriving cities that have made great progress in municipal improvements along with reduced taxation under the commission form of government is Bartlesville. The first commission mayor as well as the present executive officer of the municipality is C. A. Lamm, whose administration has commended itself to citizens of all classes and who has the satisfaction of knowing that Bartlesville is a greater and better city as a result of the six years since the commission charter was adopted.

C. A. Lamm was born in Omaha, Nebraska, July 13, 1871, a son of Charles L. and Josephine (Stich) Lamm. His father was born in Baden Baden, Germany, in 1845, and his mother in Switzerland in 1843. She crossed the ocean to America in a sailing vessel in 1862, landing in New York City, while Charles L. Lamm came over in 1864, landing at New Orleans. They were married at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1870. The mother died in June, 1912, at Chanute, Kansas, while the father died in July, 1915. They located on a farm near Chanute in Neosho County in 1880. Of their eight children, seven are liv- ing, four sons and three daughters.

C. A. Lamm, the oldest of the sons, spent his boyhood on a farm, and had to walk three miles to school. His schooling was limited in time and otherwise, but in spite of lack of early advantages he has made himself a prac- tical and efficient worker and one who can be depended upon in every undertaking. At the age of twenty-four he learned telegraphy in the office of the Santa Fe Rail- way, and following that was for ten years operator or agent, sometimes combining the duties of both positions. In 1905 Mr. Lamm came to Bartlesville as joint agent for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Santa Fe Railroad, and continued in the railroad service for one year after locating in this great center of the oil industry in Northern Oklahoma.

He then took up another line of enterprise, and became connected with the Oil Well Supply Company, operating for five years in the mid-continent field. From business he was drawn upon for services as the first mayor under the commission form of government, taking office Octo- ber 31, 1910. Under the Bartlesville charter there are three commissioners, and the chairman of the commis- sion is mayor. Mr. Lamm is now serving his third term, and at this writing has one more year to serve. The first term was of only six months' duration, as provided for

by the charter. Mr. Lamm gives all his time to the municipal government, and is constantly looking after the details of municipal work and planning for future betterment. In the past five years Bartlesville has gone ahead rapidly in practically all departments of civic enterprise, and at the same time the citizens instead of being burdened with increased taxes have actually had their tax bills decreased. At the last election Mr. Lamm led a field of six candidates for the office of mayor, and was elected by a handsome majority. Mr. Lamm is six and a half feet tall, and is often referred to as the tallest mayor in Oklahoma, and is just as efficient as an officer as he is long in physical proportions.

Mr. Lamm is vice president of the Oklahoma Municipal League. He is a Wilson democrat and the only office he has ever held is the one he is now filling. Fraternally he has taken thirty-two degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry and is also a Knight Templar and member of the Mystic Shrine and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On October 11, 1900, he married Miss Mary Troxel, who was born at Longton, Elk County, Kansas. To their marriage have been born two children: Ruth Josephine, now five years of age; and Carl, who died at the age of one and a half years.

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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