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 48

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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Mr. Hoopes claims the old Keystone State as the place of his nativity and is a scion of a family that was founded in America in 1686, the original progenitor hav- ing immigrated from England in that year, as a member of the Society of Friends and as one of the members of the colony which came to the New World with William Penn. Charles Hoopes was born at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on the 22d of February, 1877, and in the same city was also born his father, Henry Hoopes. His mother, Ellen (Cooke) Hoopes, was born in Lewiston, New York. The father was a gallant sol- dier of the Union in the Civil war, as a member of a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers.

After duly availing himself of the advantages of the public schools of his native state, Charles Hoopes finally entered the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in the law department of this institution he was gradu- ated in 1905, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Soon afterward he became associated with the legal depart- ment of the Union Fidelity Title Company of Pitts- burgh, in the offices of which corporation he held the responsible position of assistant title officer until Novem- ber, 1910, having been connected with the company for fifteen years, in the meanwhile having also done an appreciable amount of general law business in an inde. pendent way. In November, 1910, Mr. Hoopes resigned

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his position in Pittsburgh and came to Oklahoma City to accept the office of secretary of the Oklahoma Rail- way Company, in which his older brother, Edward Hoopes, of Pittsburgh, is a large stockholder. In addi- tion to serving as secretary of this important corpora- tion Mr. Hoopes has also been its auditor since the 1st of January, 1914, and his professional ability and fine executive powers have both come into effective play in the handling of his multifarious and responsible duties. He is a steadfast, reliable and progressive business man of broad views and unswerving integrity of purpose, and in the city and state of his adoption he has gained a wide circle of friends in both business and social circles. He takes vital interest in all that touches the welfare of the community. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church.

At New Brighton, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of Sep- tember, 1911, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hoopes to Miss Anne Jackson, daughter of Samuel F. and Mary Jane (Dunbar) Jackson, of that place.

JOHN H. LINEBAUGH. A man of high intellectual and professional attainments, Judge Linebaugh is to be designated not only as one of the representative legists and jurists of Oklahoma, but also as one of the pioneer members of its bar, since he engaged in the practice of his profession at Atoka, Indian Territory, in 1898. He has continued his residence in this thriving little city, the judicial center of the county of the same name, during the long intervening years, has been a valued and hon- ored factor in civic and material development and prog- ress in this section of the state, where he is now serving on the bench of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District, and where he commands the unqualified respect and venera- tion of all who know him. A deplorable physical in- firmity has not been permitted to curb his spirit or his usefulness, and he has proved himself in the fullest ex- tent the friend of humanity. He has aided many young men in making their way to positions of honor and use- fulness in connection with the varied activities of life, has shown at all times the deepest human sympathy and tolerance, has accounted well in all phases of his steward- ship and his life offers both lesson and incentive.

Nearly half a century has elapsed since the community of Atoka, one of the oldest in the Choctaw Nation, was established, and yet an approximate quarter of a century had fallen into the abyss of time ere the community reached a stage of progress whereby a city government could be created, with a mayor as its executive head. In Atoka have lived some of the really great men of the Choctaw Nation, and here for many years was main- tained the most important seat of learning in that vigor- ous and progressive nation, yet when Atoka put on the garment of municipal government a white man became its mayor. That mayor was Judge John H. Linebaugh, to whom this brief sketch is dedicated.

The modern Indian in Oklahoma retains little more than a dim recollection of the prejudice of his father against the white man, and he has stepped aside many a time out of deference to the white man when he be- lieved the latter possessed superior qualities of leader- ship in thought and action. There is a breath of im- portant history in this fact, in that it shows the effect of civilization and education upon the loyal and high-minded Indian and a contrast in outline with the minority ele- ment of the Indians who still defy and despise every form of organized government. To have been the first mayor of a town that was the seat of the joint conventions that led to the signing of the historic Atoka Treaty and the supplemental treaty-two of the most important and far- reaching documents that have ever been executed in the

West in connection with Indian affairs-is a distinction that is worthy of prominent record on the pages of Okla- homa history. Judge Linebaugh has been a valued counselor and leader in community affairs during the entire period of his residence at Atoka-has been a veri- table guide and friena to all who have come within the sphere of his influence. He assisted in the organization of the first banking institution at Atoka, the Atoka National Bank, which in later years has been succeeded by the present Oklahoma State Bank of Atoka.

In the decade prior to the admission of Oklahoma as one of the sovereign states of the Union, the influence of Judge Linebaugh was constantly cumulative in connection with community and general governmental affairs in the aspiring efforts that culminated in the desired end, and his activities contributed much to the triumph of the democratic party over the republican party in the elec- tion of a delegate from his home county to the constitu- tional convention-a triumph of special significance in view of the well established belief that the district had been created by a republican Congress for a republican delegate. This district was laid out by three judges- appointed by Congress. As a partial reward for his party services the democrats of Atoka County after the admission of Oklahoma to statehood, elected Judge Line- baugh the first county judge of the county, a position which he retained four years. In the meanwhile Hon. Robert M. Rainey, who first represented the county in the State Legislature, had been appointed to the bench of a new judicial district created in this section of the state. In 1914 Judge Rainey was a candidate for a posi- tion on the bench of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and the democrats of the district elected Judge Linebaugh to his present office on the bench of the Twenty-sixth Ju- dicial District, which comprises the counties of Atoka, Coal and Johnston and embraces a part of each of the former Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian nations.

Judge Linebaugh was born at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, on the 4th of December, 1861, and is a son of Rev. Daniel Haden Linebaugh and Margaret Elizabeth (Sweets) Linebaugh. His father, who was a native of Tennessee, passed the greater part of his ma- ture life as an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, South, and at one time he filled the office of presiding elder. In 1871 Rev. Daniel H. Linebaugh re- moved with his family to Texas and established his home at Temple, Bell County, and in the Lone Star State the father died. The mother died in Oklahoma. He and his wife passed their lives secure in the affectionate regard of all who came within the sphere of their benign influ- ence. Rev. N. L. Linebaugh, who is a brother of the Judge, is a degree man, having won the LL. D. and D. D. degrees. He is now a leader in the general organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He studied law and initiated a successful career at the bar, but later abandoned the legal profession to enter the ministry ,of the church mentioned.

At Temple, Texas, Judge Linebaugh began the study of law and laid the foundation of a successful profes- sional career. He devoted in his youth careful attention to the study of medicine, but never engaged in active practice. Later he studied theology and was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The Judge is a local preacher at this time, preaching quite regularly. His studies of medicine and theology had greatly broadened his mental ken, but his ambition fur- ther prompted him to prepare himself for the legal pro- fession. In 1891, at Belton, Texas, he was admitted to the bar, by Judge William A. Blackburn, then presiding on the bench of the Twenty-seventh Judicial District of that state. He initiated the practice of law at Temple, Texas, where he continued his activities successfully until

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1898, when he came to Indian Territory and established his permanent home at Atoka. On the 7th of October, 1882, he had been stricken with paralysis, as the result of an attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, and from that time, about two months before he attained to his legal majority, he has never been able to walk. Enforced con- finement but spurred his ambition for learning, and his physical infirmity has been but slight handicap to one of such indomitable spirit and such abiding faith in the wise orderings of the Everlasting Will. His own in- firmity has sweetened and broadened the mental makeup of Judge Linebaugh, rather than tending to pessimistic embitterment, and he has thought and lived and learned, has gained appreciation of the real values in human life and has striven earnestly and with much of inspiration to be helpful to others. To him and his wife no child of their own has been vouchsafed, but, with characteristic loyalty and affection they have reared in their home eiglit boys whom they took under their care for the purpose of educating them and training them to lives of usefulness. To Judge and Mrs. Linebaugh there comes compensation and enduring gratification in the knowledge that all of their boys have entered upon successful careers. In the office of Judge Linebaugh, Hon. Haden Linebaugh, now United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Okla- homa, studied law and made ready for his successful work as a representative of his chosen profession.

The office of Judge Linebaugh in Atoka has always been open to young men of good character and the right caliber, and he has assisted many such ambitious yonths in preparing for the legal profession. In his office Judge Robert M. Rainey, previously mentioned in this context, began his legal career. There also were initiated the activities and studies of J. W. Clark, who is now county attorney of Atoka County and who has served as a mem- ber of the Legislature of this state. Another student of Judge Linebaugh who likewise has made an admirable record is Judge C. M. Threadgill, of Coalgate, Coal County.

During his administration on the bench of the County Court of Atoka County, Judge Linebaugh, careful of the finances of the office, caused all of its expenses to be paid out of fees received, and over and above this ex- penditure the office under his administration earned for the county $10,000 in the four years of his service. He witnessed the opening of the United States Land Office at Atoka and later the establishing here of the enrolling office of the Mississippi Choctaws who sought allotments in Indian Territory. He wielded much influence in con- nection with the establishing of the office first mentioned. Judge Linebaugh is an appreciative and valued member of the Atoka County Bar Association and the Oklahoma State Bar Association, is a resourceful and stalwart advocate of the principles and policies of the democratic party and both he and his wife are most zealous and de- voted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in connection with which he is at times still called upon to exercise his ministerial functions.

At Atoka, on Christmas Day of the year 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Linebaugh to Miss Annie Young, of Magnolia, Arkansas, and she has been to him a devoted companion and helpmeet.

JAMES ARTHUR LOVE. The Chickasaw Nation is proud of what its distinguished families have done to develop a land of happy and permanent homes, and among the foremost of those families that have had a leading part in this noble work, the Love family stands well to the forefront. For this family, the County of Love, with Marietta as, its county seat, was named. One branch of the family is represented prominently at Colbert in the person of James Arthur Love, a young

man who gives splendid promise of carrying on the example of the family in the matter of progress and development, and already is he proving himself a factor in the community.

James Arthur Love was born on January 18, 1887, at Colbert, Oklahoma, then the old Indian Territory. His father was Henry Love, a quarter-blood Chickasaw, and his mother was Jennie Gooldsly, of white blood. Henry Love was a farmer and stockraiser all his life. He was born in Mississippi and came to Indian Terri- tory in 1832 with the Chickasaws. He served in the Chickasaw Senate after locating in this region, and was a prominent and popular man in the tribe. He was a son of Isaac Love, who was a native of Mississippi, but who migrated to Indian Territory and died here in advanced years.

James Arthur Love attended Hailey Institute at Tishomingo, and the Metropolitan Business College at Dallas, Texas. After the completion of his business course he engaged in the drug business at Colbert, and continued in that business for six years. It is the pres- ent plan of Mr. Love to identify himself with the gro- cery business in Colbert, and he is at present evolving plans for the establishment of such an enterprise. With his business training and his practical experience in the retail business, there is no question but he will make a splendid success of the venture. After he closed out his drug business in Colbert, Mr. Love went to Oklahoma City and there engaged in a similar enterprise, but in February, 1915, he returned to Colbert, his native city, and here he means to spend the remainder of his life.

On October 6, 1909, Mr. Love was married to Miss Gertrude Ingram of Carter County, Oklahoma. She is of Chickasaw descent, and the daughter of a prominent cattleman of Carter County, who now has his residence in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Love owns 200 acres of land in the heart of the Healdton oil fields.

Mr. and Mrs. Love have one child-Arthur Ingram Love, born July 19, 1912.

The family have membership in the Presbyterian Church and Mr. Love is a member of the Masonic order. He is a democrat, and has always given worthy service to the party.

THOMAS E. KIRBY. In Oklahoma City not to know "Tom" Kirby is practically to designate oneself a stranger within the gates of the capital city, where his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaint- ances, where he has served since 1910 as elerk of the District Court, and where he is one of the representative younger members of the bar of Oklahoma.

Born at Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri, on the 28th of February, 1881, Thomas Emerson Kirby is a son of George T. and Nannie (Emerson) Kirby, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Missouri. The origi- nal American progenitors of the Kirby family immigrated from Ireland and settled in Virginia in the colonial era of our national history, and in the historic Old Dominion State was born and reared the paternal grand- father of Thomas E. Kirby. This sturdy and ambitious Virginian removed with his parents from his native com- monwealth to Illinois about the year 1820 and they became pioneer settlers in Sangamon County, where he was a youthful friend of Abraham Lincoln and wit- nessed the historie wrestling match between Lincoln and Jackie Armstrong. George T. Kirby was long numbered among the substantial farmers and honored citizens of Illinois, and for a number of years was identified with the same basic line of enterprise in Missouri. The father of his wife was Judge Burr H. Emerson, who removed from Tennessee to. Missouri and who served in the latter

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state on the bench of the Circuit Court for the long period of twenty-four years.

To the public schools of Missouri Thomas E. Kirby is indebted for his early educational discipline and his higher academic training was obtained in Illinois Col- lege, at Jacksonville, Illinois, in which old and repre- sentative institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In preparation for the profession of his choice he entered the law department of Drake University, at Des Moines, Iowa, in which he was gradu- ated in 1905, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. For the ensuing five years Mr. Kirby was engaged in the practice of his profession at Ottumwa, Iowa, and at the expiration of this period, in 1910, he came to Oklahoma City, where he successfully continued in the work of his profession two years. He was then appointed clerk of the District Court, to fill a vacancy, and after serving the remaining year of the unexpired term he was, in 1912, regularly elected to this office, as candidate on the democratic ticket. Through reelection in 1914 he con- tinues his efficient and valued services in this position and in his home city he commands inviolable vantage- ground in popular confidence and esteem. His is a nature of utmost buoyancy and optimism, he is tolerant and kindly in his judgment of others, always ready to say a kind word or do a kind deed, exemplifies in his personality both culture and refined ideals, so that popu- larity comes to him as a natural prerogative.

Mr. Kirby accords staunch allegiance to the demo- cratic party, both he and his wife hold membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Oklahoma City, and in the time-honored Masonic frataernity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in the Consistory at MeAlester, this state. In the York Rite he is affiliated with the lodge, chapter and commandery in Oklahoma City, where he also holds membership in the Knights of Pythias.

At Piper City, Illinois, on the 11th of June, 1913, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kirby to Miss Ethel Read, daughter of Arby D. and Mary Elizabeth (Long) Read, and they are popular figures in the representative social activities of Oklahoma's metropolis and capital city.

WILLIAM H. OLMSTED. Through progressive policies, fair and honorable dealings and marked executive ability Hon. William H. Olmsted has gained and retained prece- dence as one of the representative exponents of the retail merchandise business in the northwestern part of Oklahoma, and he is a prominent and influential citizen of Waynoka, besides having been representative of Woods County in both the Fourth and Fifth General Assemblies of the Oklahoma Legislature. He is a man of broad mental ken, is direct and positive, well fortified in his opinions concerning matters of economic and governmental policy and has proved a most valuable member of the legislature, the while his official prefer- ments indicate his sterling qualities and consequent hold upon popular confidence and approbation.

William Henry Olmsted was born in Knox County, Illinois, on the 27th of July, 1854, and is a son of Edwin R. and Harriet B. (Boyer) Olmsted, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Illinois, in which state her parents were pioneers. The Olmsted family was founded in America in 1632, two of its representatives were patriot soldiers of the continental line in the War of the Revolution, and the lineage traces back to sterling Eng- lish origin. The family history has been traced in Eng- land back to 1580 and a scion of the American branch has recently published a most interesting genealogical

record that gives authentic data concerning the various generations both in England and America. Of the children of Edwin R. and Harriet B. Olmsted four sons and two daughters are living besides the subject of this review: Nelson H. is engaged in the manufacturing of pumps at Liberty, Nebraska; George W. is conducting at that place a barber shop; Horace J. is employed in the offices of the Modern Woodmen at Rock Island, Illinois; Frank E. is a printer and publisher at Nebraska City, Nebraska; Mrs. J. W. Eatinger resides at Newton, Kansas, her husband being identified with railroad operations; and Mrs. W. L. Freeman is a resident of Bloomington, Illinois, where her husband is engaged in the bakery business.

The rudimentary education of William H. Olmsted was acquired in the public schools of his native state, but in the broad school of experience he has gained the stable fund of knowledge that makes him a man of circumspection, mature judgment and well fortified opinions. At the age of eighteen years he was con- ducting independent operations as a farmer in Iowa, to which state he had accompanied his parents in 1870, the family having removed in 1878 to Kansas, and a few years later to the little town of Liberty, Nebraska, where his parents passed the remainder of their lives. After severing his association with agricultural pursuits Mr. Olmsted became a stone mason and plasterer, and later he developed a prosperous business as a contractor and builder at Syracuse, Hamilton County, Kansas. He served efficiently as mayor of that city and there held also the office of township trustee.

In 1893, shortly after the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma was opened to settlement, Mr. Olmsted here established his residence at Waynoka, where he has since maintained his home and where he has been one of the most liberal and influential forces in the development and upbuild- ing of the thriving little city. For a time Mr. Olmsted was here engaged in the hardware and lumber business and he then turned his attention to a general merchandise enterprise, which he operated independently for eighteen years. But for the past year he has been a member of the firm of Olmsted & Hawkins. His former enterprise for a number of years was known as one of the largest and most substantial of its kind in Northwest Oklahoma. The reinforced concrete building erected by Mr. Olmsted for the accommodation of the business is said to be the only fireproof business building in Oklahoma west of Oklahoma City.

Within the period of his residence at Waynoka Mr. Olmsted has served as township trustee and as president of the village board of trustees. During his administra- tion in the latter office a municipal bond issue of $27,000 was voted and out of the proceeds were provided the excellent and thoroughly modern waterworks and electric lighting systems owned by this ambitious little city. In politics Mr. Olmsted accords unwavering allegiance to the republican party, and as a candidate on its ticket he was elected, in 1912, representative of Woods County in the lower house of the State Legislature. In the ensuing session he devoted himself largely to the promo- tion of legislation for the improving of the public high- ways of the state, and he was otherwise alert and progressive in supporting measures that appealed to his judgment as tending to foster the best interests of this commonwealth and its people. He was re-elected in 1914, and in the Fifth Legislature was found specially active in supporting measures for the advancement of the agricultural interests of the state and in obtaining adequate appropriations for the Oklahoma Northwestern Normal School at Alva. In this session he was a mem-

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ber of the committees on criminal jurisprudence and on publie roads and highways.

Mr. Olmsted is vice president of the First National Bank of Waynoka, is one of the active and influential members of the Waynoka Commercial Club, besides be- ing identified with the Oklahoma Retailers' Association. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty- second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in Oklahoma Consistory No. 1 at Guthrie, and his ancient craft affiliation is with Waynoka Lodge No. 422, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons. He holds membership also in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Wood- men of the World.

At Burlington, Kansas, on the 28th of December, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Olmsted to Miss Minnie P. Rowell, who received excellent educational advantages in the City of Chicago and who was there- after a successful teacher in the public schools of Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Olmsted have four children: Mildred E. is the wife of Robert V. Williams, who is engaged in the mercantile business at DeQueen, Arkansas; Stanley E. is employed as a special railroad officer at El Paso, Texas; and Dorothy and Katherine remain at the parental home, which is known for its gracious hospitality.

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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