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 62

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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Judge Cameron was married January 19, 1865, at Cincinnati, Ohio. to Miss Frances M. Welch. She was born at Athens, Ohio. November 19, 1844, a daughter of Judge John and Martha (Starr) Welch. Her father was one of the most distinguished lawyers and jurists of Ohio, and was a contemporary of such distinguished Ohioans as Chase. Giddings, .Wade and Corwin. Judge Welch was born October 28. 1805, in Harrison County, Ohio, and died August 20, 1871, at Athens. For fifteen years he sat as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. In 1850 he was elected to Congress, and in 1852 participated as a delegate in the last national convention of the whig party at Baltimore. In 1856 he was a member of the electoral college during the first campaign of the republican party. He was the recipient of many honors, and one of the universities bestowed upon him the degree LL. D. Judge Welch was twice married, and his marriage to Martha L. Starr occurred in June, 1830. Their four children, two sons and two daughters, were: Mary. who was born in 1832 and died in 1887; Johnson Mortimer, born April 20, 1834, and died in 1912; Henry Harrison, horn April 20, 1842, and now a retired capitalist living at Los Angeles; and Mrs. Cameron, who since the death of her husband keeps her home in Alva.

Judge Cameron and wife were the parents of eight children five sons and three daughters, as follows: Helen Vol. III-14

Seymore, born January 22, 1866, is now the wife of John Hood Charless, a prominent cattleman at Amarillo, Texas; Robert Welch, born February 22, 1866, is now superintendent of a box-board manufacturing company at Peoria, Illinois; Nell Emerson, born September 13, 1873, died at Carthage, Missouri, October 14, 1876; John Williams, born January 8, 1870, died January 25, 1870; Ralph Bradlock, born June 10, 1875, is now a mining superintendent in Nevada; John Welch, born June 17, 1878, is now a prosperous farmer in Woods County, Oklahoma; George Starr, born March 6, 1881; and Ruth, born at El Dorado, Kansas, October 5, 1883.

HOWSON C. BAILEY, M. D. For fully twenty years there has been a member of the Bailey family engaged in the practice of medicine in what is now Southern Oklahoma. Dr. Howson C. Bailey is one of the promi- nent physicians and surgeons of Sulphur, and his father is also well known to the profession there, and first began practice in Indian Territory in 1896 in the Wynnewood locality.

This branch of the Bailey family came from England to Virginia during colonial times. Dr. Howson C. Bailey was born in Hickman, Kentucky, December 9, 1878. His father, Dr. J. E. Bailey, was also born in Kentucky in the year 1847, was reared and educated in that state and after his removal to Texas he married Sallie M. Miller, a native of Texas. He graduated in medi- cine from the Louisville Medical College, and practiced his profession in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas before locating at Wynnewood, Indian Territory, in 1896. In the years before statehood he carried his skill to a large patronage in and about Wynnewood, where he was a pioneer doctor, but since 1908 has car- ried on a general medical and surgical practice at Sulphur. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in politics is independent. He and his wife have three children: Dr. Howson C., R. S. Bailey who conducts a men's furnishing store at Sulphur; and Lucy, wife of C. P. Williams who is engaged in the life and fire insurance business at Sulphur.

In 1887 Howson C. Bailey accompanied his parents to Hunt County, Texas, where he attended the public schools until graduating from high school in 1895. The following year his parents moved into Indian Territory, but in the meantime he had entered the Add- Ran University at Thorp Springs, Texas, the nucleus of what is now the Christian University at Waco. He grad- uated S. B. in 1898, took post-graduate work in the same school, and then for two years was a student in the medical department of Fort Worth University and for one course attended the medical department of the University of Texas at Galveston. He finished his studies in the Trinity University Medical Department, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1903. Doctor Bailey took much part in college and university life, was prominent in the Glee Club and as an athlete made the football teams.

After graduating he spent. one year as assistant to Doctor Chambers, who was at that time health officer of Fort Worth. From 1904 to 1912 he practiced in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, and in the fall of 1912 located in Sulphur, where he has his offices in the Weems Building. Few of the younger physicians have applied themselves more industriously to continued study and training for their special work. Doctor Bailey has taken special post-graduate work at Galveston and at Dallas, and in 1913 attended the Sophian clinics at Dallas. In these courses he specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat and also in general surgery and diseases of

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women. For the past two years Doctor Bailey has been city superintendent of health at Sulphur, and for one year was assistant city superintendent of health at Dallas.

He is a member of the board of censors of the County Medical Society, a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Doctor Bailey is president of the Physicians Oil and Gas Com- pany of Sulphur. He is a democrat, a member of the Christian Church, affiliates with the Modern Woodmen of America, with the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen and with the Homesteaders.

At Baxter, Kansas, in 1903, Doctor Bailey married Miss Anna L. Beeson, whose father is E. W. Beeson, a Presbyterian minister now located at Bloomingdale, In- diana. Doctor and Mrs. Bailey have two children : H. C. Bailey, who was born December 15, 1904, and Foster, born November 9, 1906, both attending the pub- lic schools at Sulphur.

WILLIAM MANSFIELD WALLACE, M. D. A member of the medical profession for twenty years, Doctor Wallace has spent more than fifteen years in practice in Oklahoma, and since 1907 has had his home and office in Oklahoma City. His attainments are widely recognized both as a physician and surgeon. He is a man of college training, of varied associations with culture, and is now regarded as one of the leading members of his profession in the state.

William Mansfield Wallace was born at Lexington, Kentucky, January 20, 1874, a son of William A. and Margaret Lavina (Franklin) Wallace. His grandfather was a native of England, came to the United States in young manhood, and located in Illinois, where William A. Mansfield was born. The latter subsequently re- moved to Fayette County, Kentucky, and was one of the pioneer physicians there. Margaret Lavina (Franklin) Wallace was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, and her father was a pioneer settler in Arkansas, a native of Illinois, and in the early days taught school in and around Bentonville, Arkansas.

Doctor Wallace received his early education in the high school at Louisville, Kentucky, where he graduated at the age of fourteen. From that time until the age of twenty he worked in a drug store and read medicine in his uncle's office. He was a student by inclination, and while his ambition has been steadily directed toward successful attainment in his chosen profession, he has also from an early age been a devotee of literature. As a young man he read and made a part of his mental equipment the great works of Shakespeare and other classic authors, and these associations brought out the latent talents within himself, so that for years his own pen has been more or less active in literary productions. Safely stored in the archives of his home and office are stacks of manuscript both in prose and verse that repre- sent his varied efforts in the field of literature. Many of these productions have appeared in newspapers and magazines, and although urged by publishers to compile and issue them in book form, he has so far failed to do so. While his broad acquaintance with classic literature has caused his own writing to follow the classic form and methods, he has individuality and force of his own in literary matters, and those who have read his composi- tions will readily recall the facile and charming style that pervades all his work.

Doctor Wallace was graduated M. D. in 1896 from Tulane University at New Orleans. He had previously begun to practice medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of twenty-one, being authorized to practice after

examination. For three years following his graduation he was associated with his uncle, Dr. W. A. Wallace, in practice at New Orleans, and then came to Hugo, Okla- homa, as local surgeon and physician for the Frisco Rail- way Company. Doctor Wallace stayed in Hugo three years, for a similar time was located at Sulphur Springs, and while there established the Wallace Sanitarium, a popular institution still in existence.

In 1907 Doctor Wallace removed to Oklahoma City, where he was at once recognized among the leading mem- bers of the profession as a man worthy of their friend- ship and confidence and by the public as a conscientious gentleman and scholar. He is often honored by invita- tions to lecture before medical bodies, and no small part of his professional activity is in consultation practice and surgical operations. He has been peculiarly success- ful as a surgeon, and has the entree of all the leading hospitals of Oklahoma City.

Doctor Wallace is affiliated with the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Khorassan, the dramatic order of the Knights of Pythias. At San Angelo, Texas, May 20, 1890, he married Miss Callie Ottre Musick, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Neal) Musick, both of them natives of Texas. They have one son and one daughter: Grace, born June 24, 1896; and Earl Ingersol, born May 4, 1900. Doctor Wallace and family reside at 1736 West Eighth Street, and his offices are at 13212 West Main Street in Okla- homa City.

WILLIAM H. TRAPP. Civic office, both local and national; financial affairs of considerable scope and re- sponsibility; agricultural supervision, both extensive and varied: all these lines of activity have engaged the attention and competent effort of William H. Trapp, now of Miami, Oklahoma. Since 1902 he has been a resident of this commonwealth and has closely identified himself with many of the significant enterprises of this promising and rapidly developing region of the United States.

The earlier residence and birth-place of Mr. Trapp was in Kansas. His father, William C. Trapp had been a where he was born in 1850. With his parents he had Canadian immigrant from Heidelberg, Germany, crossed the sea when he was but eleven years of age and with them had settled in Waterloo, Ontario. There he had lived until his public school education was com- plete and he was ready for vocational life. At the age of nineteen, he located in Chicago, engaging in the business of merchant tailoring, which he later trans- ferred to Topeka, Kansas. He married Christina T. Holmes, a native of Tonica, Illinois, and four children were born to them, of whom three are still living. Wil- liam C. Trapp died in Topeka in 1896.

Eldest of the children of William C. Trapp and his wife, William H. Trapp was born at Topeka on July 21, 1876. He was educated in the excellent schools of that city and early entered upon the vocational responsi- bilities of manhood. His first salaried position was with the Santa Fe Railway Company, with whom he was en- gaged for about six months. He next turned his atten- tion to the activities of a clerk and in 1900 he accepted a position which later opened up to him exceptional opportunities. This was the civil office of clerk for the Interior Department of our National Government at Washington, D. C. Mr. Trapp continued in the duties of his position and in residence at Washington until February of 1902. At that time he came to Oklahoma and first located at Muskogee, being associated with the Choctaw and Cherokee United States Commission, which was concerned with locating town lots at vari- ous points in the territory. In 1904 Mr. Trapp estab-

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lished his residence in Miami, his marriage having occurred the preceding December.

In Miami Mr. Trapp engaged in the abstract and loan business, organizing the Miami Abstract and Loan Company, of which he was president. He also organ- ized, jointly with others, the Miami Trust and Sav- ings Bank, of which he was at first vice-president, having later succeeded to the presidency, which he now holds. Aside from his financial enterprises, Mr. Trapp is interested in the development of farm lands, on which he is engaged in the extensive raising of wheat, oats, corn, cattle and hogs.

Mrs. Trapp was formerly Miss Lavinia Briscoe to whom William H. Trapp was united in marriage on the closing day of the year 1903. Their home has been blessed with three daughters, who bear the names of Lillian, Llewelly and Mary. The Trapp family occupy one of the most attractive homes of Miami. Religiously they are affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Trapp is a member of Lodge 140 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and of the Miami Lodge of Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically he is of republican preferences and convictions and has served his constituency for three terms as a member of the city council.

JAMES R. COTTINGHAM. Solicitor for Oklahoma for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Mr. Cottingham maintains his residence in Oklahoma City, where he is a member of the representative law .firm of Cottingham & Hayes, with offices at 810 Colcord Building. He has been a prominent and houored member of the Oklahoma bar since the early territorial period and has not only stood exponent of the highest professional ideals but has also proved a most loyal and public-spirited citizen whose influence has been definite and benignant in connection with governmental, political and general civic affairs.

Mr. Cottingham was born in Scott County, Kentucky, on the 5th of September, 1865, and is a son of John W. and Elizabeth C. (Hanna) Cottingham, both likewise natives of the fine old Blue Grass State, whence they re- moved to Kansas in 1869 and numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers of Cowley County, where the father developed a productive farm and became a valued and influential citizen. For nearly a decade prior to his death, which occurred in 1904, he served as judge of the probate court of that county, and he was one of the county 's best known and most honored pioneer citizens when he was thus called from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, after a career of many years of earnest and effective work, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest. The original American progenitors of the Cotting- ham family came from England to the "eastern shore" of Maryland shortly after that colony was settled by Lord Baltimore.

James R. Cottingham was about four years of age at the time of the family removal to Kansas, where his boy- hood and early youth were compassed by the conditions and influences of the pioneer farm and where he was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the period, this discipline being supplemented by an effective course in the Southwest Kansas College, at Winfield, the judicial center of his home county. In that city he initiated the study of law in the office of Hackney & Asp, and there he was admitted to the bar in 1890, his novi- tiate in the active practice of his profession having there been served with the firm under whose preceptorship he had gained his technical training. In March, 1892, Mr. Cottingham came to Oklahoma Territory and settled at Guthrie, the territorial capital, where he continued in the general practice of law and where he was associated

with his former preceptor, Henry E. Asp, under the firm name of Asp and Cottingham, from 1902 until 1907, the year which marked the admission of Oklahoma to state- hood. In the following year he formed a professional alliance with S. T. Bledsoe, under the title of Cotting- ham & Bledsoe, and in 1911 they removed to Oklahoma City, where the partnership was continued until Mr. Bledsoe's removal to Chicago, January 1, 1915, the firm controlling a large and representative law business. On the removal of Mr. Bledsoe to Chicago the firm was re- organized, January 1, 1915, by the admission of Judge Samuel W. Hayes, the firm name becoming Cottingham & Hayes as at present existing. Much of Mr. Cotting- ham's time is devoted to railway work, he having been in the law department of the Santa Fe continuously for twenty-five years. Mr. Cottingham is a member of the American Bar Association and is prominently identified also with the Oklahoma State Bar Association and the Oklahoma City Bar Association. Substantial and well merited financial success has attended his work as a member of the Oklahoma bar and he is a stockholder in many prominent industrial and commercial corporations in this state and elsewhere.

Before assuming his present official position with the railroad company Mr. Cottingham was for a number of years an influential figure in the councils and campaign activities of the Oklahoma contingent of the republican party. He was an active member of the Republican State Central Committee and served for a term of years also as chairman of its finance committee. Notwith- standing his political activities, which have been prompted by civic loyalty, he has manifested no ambition for political office, even along the line of his profession. Mr. Cottingham is a member of the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce, and in his home city is affiliated with the Country Club and the Men's Dinner Club.

In October, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cottingham to Miss Ada Hixon, daughter of John W. Hixon, of Guthrie, and the one child of this union is Madeline, who was born iu February, 1896, and who remains at the parental home.

HARRY WILSON BROADBENT. Since 1907 located at Sulphur, where he has built up a good civil and crimi- nal practice as a lawyer, Mr. Broadbent has had a very active career since leaving his father's Kansas farm a little more than a quarter of a century ago. He has been a lawyer for the past fifteen years but the management of business affairs has always gone hand in hand with his practice.

Born in Henry County, Illinois, September 30, 1869, Mr. Broadbent comes of sturdy English ancestors. His grandfather, William Broadbent, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1822, and brought his family to America about 1850, locating in Henry County, Illinois, where he continued his career as a farmer until his retirement. He died at advanced age in 1908. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Broadbent was Jolin Kemplay, who was born in Leavening, Yorkshire, England, in 1822 and came to America about 1853. His first location was in the young and growing City of Chicago, where he acquired a tract of about forty acres of land occupying the site now covered by the Chicago stockyards. Naturally enough he did not realize the great future value of that location, and sold out and moved to Henry County, Illinois, where he continued as a farmer and died there in 1889.

Mr. Broadbent's parents were Wilson and Mary (Ken- play) Broadbent. His father was born in England in 1847 and was about three years of age when brought to this country and grew up in Henry county, Illinois, where he married. In 1871, when his son Harry W. was

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two years of age, he removed to Whiteside County, Illi- nois, and in 1879 came further west and established his home on a farm in Nemaha County, Kansas, where he still resides. His entire active career has been spent as a farmer and stock raiser. He has frequently held township offices and is a loyal democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Modern Woodmen of America. His wife was born in England in 1851 and was also an infant when brought to America. Their children are: Harry W .; Rosa S., wife of Henry A. Furst, in the abstract business at Duncan, Oklahoma; Charles E., assistant postmaster at Duncan; and Alice E., wife of Robert E. Kempin, a farmer in Nemaha County, Kansas,

Harry W. Broadbent attended the public schools of Whiteside County and from the age of ten the schools of Nemaha County, Kansas. His first nineteen years were spent on his father's farm. On leaving home he secured a position with the Swift Packing Company in Kansas City, remaining there three years, and was then with the Badger Lumber Company of Kansas City until 1900. While thus employed he determined to prepare himself for a professional career, and in addition to his regular employment during the day he spent several hours nearly every night attending a night school, the Kansas City School of Law, from which he earned his degree LL. B. in 1900. Then for about three years he continued to live in Kansas City and practiced law, after which he resumed the lumber business both in that city and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, until 1907.

Mr. Broadbent has lived at Sulphur, Oklahoma, since October, 1907. His offices arc in the old Wecms Boild- ing on Muskogee Avenue. While living in Kansas he served as a member of the State Legislature in 1903- 04. In politics he is a democrat, is a member of the County Bar Association, the Sulphur Commercial Club, and is affiliated with Sulphur Camp No. 10403, of the Modern Woodmen of America, is past master of Sulphur Lodge No. 144, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a member of Wyandotte Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, and is a fourteen degree Scottish Rite Mason in the Kansas City Consistory.

In Richmond, Virginia, in 1893, Mr. Broadbent mar- ried Miss Agnes B. Redd. Her father, now deceased, was J. H. Redd, a farmer. Their three children are: Wilson Redd, Howard Charles, both in the public schools, and Harry Hartwell.

DAVID FRANKLIN MILLER. Promineut among the citi- zens of Woods Couuty who while engaged actively iu the inanagement of large private interests have found time to serve their community in offices of trust and great responsibility is found David Franklin Miller, county treasurer of Woods County, and the possessor of extensive agricultural interests. Mr. Miller is a Hoosier, born on a farm in Starke County, Indiana, September 9, 1871, a sou of Jonas R. and Elizabeth (Stutzman) Miller.

Jonas R. Miller was born December 23, 1846, in Penn- sylvania, his parents being natives respectively of Ireland and Germany. He was brought up to agricultural pursuits and received his education in the public schools of Pennsylvania, from which state he removed with his parents when he was fifteen years of age, the family locating in Indiana. When he arrived at man's estate, Jonas R. Miller embarked in agricultural operations ou his own account, continuing to reside in Indiana until 1876, in which year he again turned his face toward the West and finally located in Stafford County, Kansas, where he took up a tract of Government land. Indus- trious and enterprising, he cleared and cultivated a valuable farm, became a successful agriculturist, and

in 1894 came to Oklahoma, where he purchased land ir Woods County. He still resides here and is known a: one of his community 's substantial men. On September 15, 1870, Mr. Miller was married in Starke County Indiana, to Miss Elizabethı Stutzman, who was born ir that county, September 13, 1851. They have had five daughters and two sons, as follows: David Franklin of this notice; Fannie, born June 6, 1873, who died December 23, 1892, in Stafford County, Kansas; Emma E., born May 8, 1875, married November 20, 1892, Willis Baker, and now lives at Seattle, Washington; Alice E. born August 10, 1877, in Stafford County, Kansas, who married in 1895, Charles Strick, and now lives on a farm in Woods County, Oklahoma; Bertha, born in Stafford County, Kansas, July 20, 1880, married George Young in 1903, and is now residing on a farm in Woods County; Manford E., born in Stafford County, Kansas, May 21, 1884, and now living at home; and Ethel, born August 5, 1887, married in 1913, Vernon Sheddy, and resides on a farm in Woods County.

David Franklin Miller received his education in the public schools of Stafford County, Kansas, and at Central Normal School, Great Bend, Kansas. He remained as a farmer of Kansas until 1894, in which year he canie to Oklahoma and located on Government land, in Woods County, twenty-eight miles southeast of Alva. This property he has since brought to a high state of develop- ment, it now being one of the really valuable properties of the community. He has erected substantial and arch- itecturally handsome buildings, has installed improve- ments of the most approved character, and everything on the farm is modern in every respect. He has carried on general farming in all its branches, and has also been successful in his stockraising ventures.

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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