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 52

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. Mitchell possesses that genial social character which gives him standing in all organizations for social purposes, and was one of the leading spirits in organ- izing the Elks Home at Tulsa. He is a past exalted ruler of Tulsa Lodge No. 946 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and in 1885 took his first degree in Masonry in Garrett Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Acola, Missouri. He is now identified with the Scottish Rite Consistory at South McAlester and with Akdar Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Tulsa.

Mr. Mitchell has one of the fine homes of Tulsa and is justifiably proud of his fine family. February 25, 1886, he married Miss Alice M. Young, who was born near Greenfield, Missouri. To their marriage have been born six children, two of whom died in infancy. Belva L. is the wife of Ralph H. Shaw of Tulsa; Garland G. is an energetic young business man of Tulsa; Young O. is a graduate of the University of Kansas and is now engaged in business at Tulsa; and Eudora, who is a

graduate of Fairmont Seminary, is the wife of John H. Harvey of Tulsa.

HENRY MCGRAW. A member of the Tulsa bar since 1911, Henry McGraw is numbered among the substantial lawyers of this city, where he has been connected for several years with the Gulf Pipe Line Company of Okla- homa, in the capacity of assistant attorney. Mr. McGraw was born at Leavenworth, Kansas, May 9, 1877, and is a son of Thomas and Anna (Gilmore) McGraw.

Thomas McGraw was born in County Down, Ireland, and was a child when brought to this county in a sailing vessel, landing at New York City during the '40s. Grad- ually he drifted to the West and located in Kansas, where he spent some years at Leavenworth, but in 1893 came to Oklahoma and settled in the vicinity of Ponca City, Kay County, where he engaged in farming and stock- raising as a pioneer. He still continues to be active in his operations and through industry and perseverance has made a success 'of his ventures. He is a republican, but has not been identified with political affairs save as a voter. While a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas, Mr. MeGraw was married to Miss Anna Gilmore, who was born in County Clare, Ireland, came as a child with her parents to America, and settled with them in Kansas. She also survives. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McGraw, of whom seven survive, Henry being the fifth child in order of birth.

After attending the public schools of Leavenworth, Henry McGraw entered the University of Oklahoma, where he took his literary course, then taking up his law studies in the law department of the University of Kansas, from which he was graduated in 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. At that time he began the active practice of his profession at Ponca City, but sub- sequently removed to Perry, Oklahoma, where for three years he was associated with Judge Thomas H. Doyle. This partnership terminated in 1904. Mr. McGraw, at statehood, removed to Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and in 1911 he came to Tulsa, and here has since been assistant attorney for the Gulf Pipe Line Company of Oklahoma. He is considered a close and careful student of his pro- fession, and belongs to the Oklahoma State Bar Associa- tion and the American Bar Association. In political matters he is a republican, but the duties of his practice have kept him from engaging in public affairs. He maintains offices on the seventh floor of the Clinton Building.

PHIL C. KIDD. One of the prominent young bankers of Oklahoma, Phil C. Kidd is vice president of the First National Bank of Norman. His banking experience be- gan in St. Louis soon after he finished his work in the public schools and in addition to a thorough training in a metropolitan banking center.

Born at Lexington, Kentucky, October 30, 1886, Mr. Kidd has a number of interesting and prominent rela- tionships with old families. His parents were Philip C. and Lelia (Major) Kidd, his father a Kentucky stock- man who died in 1897. His mother was born in Pettis County, Missouri, and is a descendenat of the noted DuPays family of France, whose lineage is traced back authentically to the tenth or eleventh century. Her ancestors were the French Protestants or Huguenots and were among the many thousands driven out of that country after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and subsequently found refuge in America. In the paternal line Mr. Kidd had as one of his great-grand- fathers Abraham Clark, who was one of the representa- tives of the Colouy of New Jersey in planning the Dec- laration of Independence in 1776, and was subsequently

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a member of the Constitutional Convention which framed the present Constitution of the United States.

Phil C. Kidd was educated in the schools of Missouri and on leaving school in 1904 entered the employ of the National Bank of Commerce at St. Louis. He spent six years with that institution as a clerk, and at the same time carried on his studies in the Benton College of Law at St. Louis, where he was graduated LL. B in 1910. Instead of taking up practice as an attorney he was made traveling representative for the National Bank of Commerce and for three years traveled over the large area tributary to that financial institution. Then in July, 1913, he came to Norman, Oklahoma, and has since been vice president of the First National Bank.

Mr. Kidd is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, one of his direct ancestors having helped to win the struggle for independence. He is also promi- nent in Masonry, has taken thirty-two degrees in the Scottish Rite, is a member of the Consistory at St. Louis, and of India Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Oklahoma City.

At Norman, Oklahoma, on November 27, 1912, he mar- ried Miss Ina Mary Johnson, a daughter of E. B. John- son, one of the leading bankers and citizens of Okla- homa and president of the First National Bank of Nor- man. Mr. and Mrs. Kidd are the parents of a daughter, Mary Lelia Kidd, born March 29, 1915. Their home is at 303 South Webster Avenue, Norman.

HON. WILBURN NASH REDWINE. With a record as a lawyer that has stood the test of all requirements dur- ing his twenty years of practice at McAlester, the pro- fessional career of Mr. Redwine, important though it has been, must yield a second place to his broad and varied public service which he performed as senator from the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District, Pittsburg County. He was a member of the State Senate from statehood for seven years, throughout the formative period of Okla- homa's legislative life and among the many who de- serve credit for having formulated Oklahoma's original statutes it is no invidious discrimination to point out former Senator Redwine for special honor.

In a very few days after the organization of the First Senate of the new state the man from Pittsburg County was looked upon as one of that intelligent and influential group who would direct and control the real results of the first session. But it was in the closing hours of the First Legislature, in May, 1908, that Sen- ator Redwine came to the front as the champion ot popular interests in the state, especially in his gallant and determined opposition to the school land bill which came up for consideration at a time when no proper consideration could be given it, and evidently for the purpose of getting it passed in the confusion marking the close of the session. The bill was championed by Senator Johnson, but Senator Redwine at once took up the gage of combat and it was a battle royal in the legislative arena for several hours before the senator for Pittsburg County was left victor and master of the field. In was claimed and properly so that the passing of the school land bill in the form in which it was intro- duced in the First Legislature would have cost the people of the State of Oklahoma millions of dollars, or rather that amount would have been sacrificed to the present and future generations. It was Senator Redwine's vigor- ous opposition that killed the bill, and at the close of his brilliant speech he said: "I would not be doing justice to my oath or the state to vote to sell the land under the conditions of this unfair bill."

Of Southern antecedents and of fine old Southern lineage Wilburn Nash Redwine was born on a farm in Colbert County, Alabama, March 13, 1862, a son of

John W. and Marinda (Burns) Redwine. He was one of a family of seven children, the others being named Frank; Calvin, deceased; Thomas; Marcus D .; Rufus; and Mary Frances. John W. Redwine, their father, was born in North Carolina and was of German ancestry. The mother was a native of South Carolina and with her parents moved to Alabama about 1840. About the same time John W. Redwine, then a young man, estab- lished his home in Alabama, where he soon afterwards met and married Miss Burns. The rest of his career was spent in the quiet vocation and with the success of a southern planter and farmer, except for the period of the Civil war, during which he fought in the ranks as a Confederate soldier.

Reared in a good home, though his early youth was spent in the period when the South was recovering from the disastrous effects of the war, Wilburn Nash Red- wine had a fine training and his ambition led him to gain a liberal education, largely at the expense of his own efforts and careful economy. He attended the noted normal schools at Lebanon and Ada, Ohio, and in 1892 completed his course of law in the Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee, gaining the degree of LL. B. After three years of experience as a lawyer elsewhere, Mr. Redwine identified himself with Indian Territory, and since 1895 his home has been at Me- Alester. While his powers have reached their climax as a trial and jury lawyer, he is almost equally com- petent as a counsellor, and is a man of sound legal education, absolute integrity of character, and with such abilities as would command precedence in any state.

He had already acquired an enviable position in old Indian Territory before statehood. His position was such that he could hardly have avoided the honors of public leadership when Indian Territory became the State of Oklahoma. He had been active as a demo- crat for a number of years, and was elected the first state senator from the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District of Pittsburg County. By subsequent re-election he re- mained a hard working public servant in the State Senate for seven years.

His record as a legislator can be traced for all time through the statute books of the state. He was the author of several bills enacted in the law, including the State Mining Law, the Anti-Trust Law, and was largely influential in bringing about the passing of what by competent authorities has been regarded as the best code of labor laws found in any state of the Union. He also assisted in passing the Farmers Usury Law. He was a member of many important committees, served as chairman of the Public Service Corporation Committee and as a member of the committees on private corpora- tions, judiciary No. 1, federal relations' committee, public buildings committee, mining and manufactur- ing appropriations committee, timber, oil .and coal lands committee and on the committee of rules. The reputation as a debater which came to him in the first session, particularly as a result of his gallant fight in opposition to the school land bill, followed him throughout his senatorial career.

In 1900 Senator Redwine married Miss Mattie Buck of McAlester, who was born at Macon, Mississippi. They have one son, John Nash Redwine.

MATTHEW G. NELSON. In the person of Matthew G. Nelson is found an example of that material which has brought Woods County to a full realization of its agricultural possibilities. Endowed with native ability, backed by business shrewdness and commendable ambition, this agriculturist has worked his way to the ownership of a fine farm, located six miles west of

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Dacoma, and which he is devoting to general farming and stockraising. A resident of this community since 1898 there are evidences of his progressive methods on every hand and of his endeavor to attain to the best achieved thus far in agricultural science.

Mr. Nelson was born April 20, 1877, on a farm in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Andrew and Anna (Rhinehart) Nelson. His father, a native of Ireland, was born in January, 1828, and was a youth of seventeen years when he emigrated to the United States. Locating at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, le there learned the trade of wagonmaking, which he followed in that city until 1878, then removing to Russell County, Kansas, and settling on Government land. He was a pioneer of that part of Kansas and continued to be engaged in farming there until 1898, when he disposed of his interests and removed to Woods County, Oklahoma. Here he continued to be identified with agricultural operations until his death, which occurred November 21, 1906. In 1851 Mr. Nelson was married to Miss Mary Ruth, who died June 23, 1861. They were the parents of one son and four daughters, of whom all are now deceased except one, who is now Mrs. Mary L. Smith. Mr. Nelson was married a second time, August 27, 1863, when united with Miss Anna B. Rhinehart, who was born in Pennsylvania, November 2, 1838, and died May 20, 1909, in Woods County, Oklahoma. Six children were born to this union, as follows: Carrie, Annie, Laura, Laila, John W. and Matthew G.

Matthew G. Nelson was but two years of age when brought to the West by his parents, and in Russell County, Kansas, he was reared amid the surroundings of the home farm and secured his education in the district schools. On attaining his majority, in 1898, he came to Woods County, Oklahoma, and here purchased his present farm, six miles west of Dacoma, on which he has since continued to carry on operations. He now has a valuable and fertile property, with substantial buildings and improvements of the most modern kind, and is considered one of the progressive and intelligent husbandmen of his locality. A friend of progress and education he has been selected by his fellow-citizens to serve as a member of the board of township trustees and of the school board, and in both capacities has endeavored to advance as far as has lain in his power the best interests of his part of the county. Mr. Nelson is a democrat and an active worker in the ranks of his party. He and the members of his family belong to Holiness Christian Church.

On September 11, 1901, in Barton County, Kansas, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage with Miss Laura Childs, who was born July 7, 1878, a daughter of Charles and Jennie (Stone) Childs, natives of Peoria, Illinois. Mrs. Nelson, who had been a schoolteacher in Barton County, Kansas, for several years previous to her mar- riage, died in Woods County, Oklahoma, August 31, 1912. She had been the mother of three sons and one daughter, all born in Woods County, as follows: Charles Andrew, January 13, 1903; Laura Belle, August 25, 1904; Harry Earl, April 15, 1906; and Everett Dean, July 22, 1908.

ERNEST B. DUNLAP, M. D. A prominent physician and surgeon of Oklahoma Dr. Ernest B. Dunlap has had a great variety of experience and his attainments have not been of a mediocre order. He is vice president and a director of the Southwestern Hospital Association at Lawton, in which city he has been established in a general practice for the past seven or eight years.

Ernest B. Dunlap was born at Eden, Alabama, July 24, 1881, a son of Dr. Perry G. and Jennie B. (Turner) Vol. II-12

Dunlap. The Dunlap family originated in England, and settled in South Carolina during colonial days. Dr. Perry G. Dunlap was born in Alabama in 1862, removed from Eden to Adger near Birmingham in 1892, and in 1907 came out to Lawton, Oklahoma. He was in practice in that city until January, 1912, since which date he has lived at Porter, Alabama. He is a graduate in medicine from the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, and is still engaged in practice. His wife is also a native of Alabama. Their living children are: Dr. Ernest B .; Ellis, a merchant at Adger, Alabama; Carl Walton, who is in service with the United States Navy, but whose home is at Bremmerton, Washington; Vivian, of Anniston, Alabama; Lucile, a teacher at Liv- ingston, Alabama; and Hurteline, a student in the public schools of Porter.

Dr. Ernest B. Dunlap attended the common schools at Eden, Alabama, and in 1902 graduated A. B. from the Southern University. His medical studies were pursued in the Birmingham Medical College, where he received his degree Doctor of Medicine in 1906. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity and the Phi Chi medical fraternity. During his college days he took a prominent interest in athletics, particu- larly football and baseball, and was also president of the college Y. M. C. A. He has been a member of Board of Education of Lawton for past six years and has been president of this board for the past four years.

Doctor Dunlap had an unusually thorough training and experience before taking up individual practice. He spent nearly two years as interne in St. Vincent's Gen- eral Hospital in New York City, was for four months connected with the health department of that city, and three months in the Lying-in Hospital. For about two months he was assistant surgeon at Fort Sill, Oklahoma .. Doctor Dunlap began his active individual practice at Lawton in October, 1908, and now has a large clientage in general medicine and surgery. His offices are in the First National Bank Building. He is a member of the County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association and was appointed by Governor Williams on State Board of Medical Examiners, April 17, 1915. He was elected president of the board at the meeting in January, 1916. He holds a commission from the United States Government with the rank of first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps. His church is the Methodist Episcopal in which he is a trustee, and his politics is democratic. Doctor Dunlap is a member of Lawton Lodge No. 183, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Lawton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and be- longs to the Lawton Chamber of Commerce.

On January 20, 1909, at Greensboro, Alabama, Doctor Dunlap married Miss Willie Walton. Her father, the late J. J. Walton, was a prominent plantation owner at Greensboro. To their marriage have been born three children, all of them still young and at home: Mary Virginia, Jack Walton, and E. B., Jr.

AUSTIN FLINT MOSS. The rapid growth and develop- ment of the City of Tulsa as the metropolis of the oil and gas district of Oklahoma has naturally attracted to that center many men of foremost ability in both busi- ness and the professions. Austin F. Moss is one of the leading lawyers who has recently identified himself with Tulsa after a broad experience as a lawyer in other sec- tions of Oklahoma. Mr. Moss possesses a fine heritage from worthy and honorable ancestors, solid native ability, is one of the fortunate men who started life with a lib- eral education, and with a dozen years of experience in the law he is fortified for success at practice.

Austin Flint Moss was born at Hodgenville, LaRue County, Kentucky, January 22, 1880. His parents are

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Richard H. and Harriet Ann ( Means) Moss. His grandfather, Thomas H. Moss, was born in Green County, Kentucky, in 1821, and died in 1915 at the age of ninety- four. He was a farmer and stock raiser, indulged the typical taste of a Kentucky gentleman in fine saddle horses, and was also an extensive grower of tobacco. His local prominence drew him into politics, and for two terms he was a member of the Kentucky Legislature. He was a stanch old Kentucky democrat. Richard H. Moss, father of the Tulsa lawyer, was born in Green County, Kentucky, in 1849, was educated in the Uni- versity of Louisville, became a physician and for about thirty years was engaged in practice at Hodgenville in LaRue County. His activities have been widely extended, and in 1896 he was elected a member of the Legislature and reelected in 1898, after which he was connected with the office of the internal revenue collector for about three years, and was then again elected to the Legislature for one term. In recent years he has been engaged in the retail drug trade at Hodgenville. Austin F. Moss has one brother, Burdett H. Moss.

Mr. Moss was educated in the public schools at Hod- genville, the South Kentucky College at Hopkinsville, attended the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Ten- nessee, and finished his law studies with the class of 1900 at Center College at Danville, Kentucky. He soon afterwards came to Oklahoma, was admitted to the bar and began practice at Blackwell in Kay County, and in the fall of 1902 was elected county attorney and served one term. After this experience lie was engaged in a general practice until 1908, and then removed to Okla- honia City, where he was engaged in general practice. During 1911 he was associated for about half of his time with the county attorney's office of Oklahoma County in the handling of criminal cases, and this proved a valuable experience as a trial lawyer. During 1912 Mr. Moss was honored among his associates with the office of president of the Oklahoma City Bar Asso- ciation.

In March, 1913, he located at Tulsa, becoming a member of the firm of Martin, Bush & Moss. In 1914 Mr. Bush withdrew from the firm and removed to Cali- fornia, since which date the firm has been Martin & Moss. They are general lawyers, handling a large volume of civil and criminal litigation, and also represent sev- eral corporations. Mr. Moss is a member of the Tulsa County Bar Association and the Oklahoma State Bar Association, and politically is a democrat. He was mar- ried March 14, 1903, to Miss Marjorie L. Buchanan, who was born at Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.

U. G. WINN. Much that is of consequence in the his- tory of the last twenty years in the old Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma-its most important epoch-is re- flected in the experiences of Judge Winn, who as one of the pioneer United States commissioners of this section assisted in ridding it of outlaws, whiskey peddlers and other undesirable characters. The once thriving Town of Center, situated twenty miles from Pauls Valley, which for years was the nearest railroad town, was the home of Judge Winn while he was a servant of the Federal Government. The country was sparsely settled, and afforded a free range for refugees from justice and the active violators of the law. Many of these rene- gades appeared at one time or another in his court, to which was attached a constable and two deputy mar- shals. Judge Winn by his actions practically set a date for the end of lawlessness in his district. Time after time the outlaws were remanded in this decree when they were held for trial before the United States courts, over which at that time in that district Judge Hosea Townsend presided. Such prompt and courageous han-

dling of the forces of justice soon gave indication that the stronghold of lawlessness was to be broken up, and facing such an issue the ill-assorted characters attempted to intimidate the fearless commissioner. At length he received word that he was to be attacked by the outlaws and strung to a tree with a rope. They meant business, and Judge Winn knew it. He therefore called in his official force and instructed them to arm citizens of the town in a body of defense. All good men rallied to the call and when the outlaws appeared they were com- pletely routed by the Wiun forces. That was the begin- ning of the end of the reign of lawlessness in that part of the present State of Oklahoma. The end came a few years later when respectable inen of Pontotoc County, incensed by the slow processes of justice, took four of the leaders of the outlaws from the county jail in Ada and lynched them on a public street.

Judge Winn, who had for many years been one of the substantial lawyers of Southern Oklahoma, and is now again practicing at Ada, was born in Christian County, Missouri, May 30, 1864, a son of Larkin David and Sophia A. (Looney) Winn. His father, a native of Ten- nessee and an early settler of Missouri, was descended from Irish and Scotch emigrants who came early to America from Ireland. Judge Winn has four brothers, John C. Winn is a minister at Sparks, Oklahoma; Willis M. Winn is a merchant at Seminole, Oklahoma; Ira B. Winn is an architect of Springfield, Missouri; and Columbus M. Winn is a farmer and stockman at Nowata, Oklahoma.

Judge Winn obtained his early education in Arkansas, to which state the family moved in 1870. The father had died in Missouri. After finishing the course of the, common schools he took a teacher's course in the State Normal School at Mount Nebo, following which came a law course in the University of Arkansas at Fayette- ville. When seventeen years of age Judge Winn was a teacher, and for three years had charge of schools in country districts prior to entering the State Normal. With a certificate from the State Normal he continued educational work for seven years. In the meantime lie had come to Oklahoma, and in 1894 located at Duncan, where for two years he was in the mercantile business.

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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