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 67

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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been confined in the county jail. Along toward mid night following their incarceration one of them reported to the jailer that he was suffering from a chill and feared he would die unless he had speedy relief. The jailer examined the man and was convinced that he was indeed ill. He called Doctor Holland, urging hin to make all haste, as the man was suffering intensely Doctor Holland hurried to the jail. The prisoners were all gathered in an open cell. The jailer, unarmed, un. locked the door and as the doctor stepped in two strong men seized him and pitched him into a far corner The other men rushed to the door, seized the jailer and flung wide the door. The entire group of prisoners barring two trusties, made good their escape. It was a: dramatic incident in which not a weapon figured, no1 was a man injured. The only alarm raised was the cry of the jailer when the escaping prisoners threat- ened to pinch his arm in twain between the cell door and the door facing. Some of. the men who escaped at that moment were not recovered for years.

Doctor Holland's early practice among Indians in Marshall County brought him other experiences that are of a different interest and serve to illustrate old Indian customs. There had been white physicians in the territory fifteen and twenty years before his con. ing, but modern medicine had not entirely supplanted the Indian Medicine Men. The latter had sullenly op- posed the coming of the white doctors and their influence among the tribesmen, especially the fullbloods, and cre- ated a strong sentiment against the doctors. Doctor Holland was called one day to attend Gilbert Pickens, son-in-law of I. Hunter Pickens, who was one of the wealthiest and most influential men of the Chickasaw Nation. The red medicine man had had the case, and his herb and root concoction had utterly failed. Pickens was suffering from typhoid fever, and as Doctor Holland approached he saw the patient walking about in the yard. When he entered the house he found Pickens in bed in a state of collapse. He had suffered a severe hemorrhage that must have resulted fatally but for the timely aid Doctor Holland was able to give. This case, it is said, heralded the coming of a change in sentiment toward the pale-face medicine men among the more influential of the red men.

Doctor Holland was born at Era, Cooke County, Texas, in 1878, and is a son of Joshua L. and Agnes J. (Tripp) Holland. His father, who was a native of Georgia and a Confederate veteran was an early settler in Cooke County, Texas. The grandfather was a native Georgian and before the war was one of the wealthiest men in his state, owning large plantations, slaves, mills and stores. When he settled in Texas after the war he paid $3.30 an acre for black prairie land that is today worth $150 an acre. Doctor Holland has a brother and three living sisters. R. J. Holland is a farmer at Era, Texas. One sister is the wife of F. W. Williams, a merchant in Myra, Texas; another is Mrs. E. Kirk- patrick, wife of a farmer in Cooke County, Texas; and Thelma is the wife of Doctor Reynolds, of Marysville, Texas.

While attending school at Era Doctor Holland made up his mind to become a physician, but this determina- tion met the opposition of his parents, and his medical education was accordingly acquired on his own re- sources. He graduated from the Era School with an A. B. degree and after a few years in the mercantile business entered the medical department of the Fort Worth College, graduating in 1905. In that year he began the practice of medicine at Madill.

Doctor Holland was married in 1895 at Era to Miss Zona Walker. Their two children are Wilna, aged four-

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teen, and Mildred, ten years old. Doctor Holland is a member of the Baptist Church of Madill. He is city superintendent of the public health and is a member of the County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. His fraternal connec- tions are with the Masons and with the Woodmen of the World, and in the former order he belongs to the Shrine at Muskogee, the Consistory at MeAlester, the Knight Templar Commandery at Ardmore, the Eastern Star at Madill, and the Blue Lodge No. 796 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Era, Texas. For five years he was clerk of the lodge of the Woodmen of the World at Hood, Texas.

ROBERT BILLUPS PATTON. Few enterprises have con- tributed more practical encouragement to grain and gen- eral produce raisers of Woods County than the Avard Mercantile Company, a business which since 1904, when it was organized as the Gerlach Mercantile Company, has been the chief commercial factor of this community. The credit for much of this company's success must be given to its secretary, treasurer and acting manager, Robert Billups Patton, whose interests have been identi- fied with it since its inception and whose energies have been devoted unceasingly to its development.

Mr. Patton was born May 6, 1876, at Alvarado, Texas, and is a son of Isaac A. and Salome (Billups) Patton. His father was born in 1846, in Maury County, Tennes- see, and received excellent educational advantages in his youth, graduating at the age of twenty-two years from the law school of Center College of Kentucky. At the outbreak of the Civil war he was commissioned a first lieutenant of cavalry, in a Texas regiment, and served with distinction until the close of the conflict, under the flag of the Confederacy. When peace was declared he located at Goliad, Texas, where he engaged in the prac- tice of law for many years, becoming prominent in the courts of Texas. He was also not unknown as an edu- cator in his younger days, and served as principal at several colleges, thus earning the means with which to pursue his legal studies. In 1875 Mr. Patton located at Alvarado, Texas, and there has since been prominent in legal and public life, While Mr. Patton has been suc- cessful in politics and has represented his district and county in the Texas Legislature on several occasions, the law has been his life work, a profession by which he has been honored and which has been honored by him. Mr. Patton was married in 1862 at Goliad, Texas, to Miss Salome Billups, a daughter of Robert Billups, who was born in Georgia. Eight children were born to this union, of whom three sons and two daughters are now living: A. B., now vice president and manager of a large mercantile company at Winona, Minnesota; Isaac A., a prominent attorney of Alice, Texas; Robert Bil- lups; Lomie, who is the wife of J. D. Clayton, a mer- chant of Amarillo, Texas; and Bessie, who is the wife of W. G. Mitchell, a wholesale lumber manufacturer of Alabama.

After attending the public schools of his locality, Robert B. Patton enrolled as a student at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, and following his gradu- ation therefrom entered the Masonic Institute at Alva- rado, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Sciences in 1894. He next attended the Texas State Normal School and was granted a teacher's license, spending the next year in the public schoolrooms, but in 1896 gave up the educator's profession for mercantile lines, in which he has since been engaged without intermission. In 1904 Mr. Patton came to Avard and associated himself with the Gerlach Mercantile Company, which in 1907 was reorganized and incorporated as the Avard Mercan-

tile Company, a concern with a capital of $20,000. This concern does a business of from $60,000 to $70,000 annually, handling and purchasing all that the farmer produces and utilizes. The present officers are John J. Gerlach, president; George Gerlach, vice president, and R. B. Patton, secretary, treasurer and manager, and the concern maintains stores at Woodward and Avard, Okla- homa, and Canadian, Texas. The firm are wholesale and retail dealers in broom corn and grain of all kinds, and of the former have bought and shipped as high as 500 or 600 cars. While this is perhaps their largest line, they also handle hardware, tinware, cutlery, wind mills, water pipe, casing, implements, farm tools, coal, feed, field seeds, queensware, groceries, harness, saddlery, dry goods, gents' furnishings, hats, shoes, furniture, carpets, mattings and oil cloths. The large department store at Avard is stocked with the most up-to-date goods of every character, and is the principal business industry of the city.

Mr. Patton is a director in the State Bank of Avard, and continues to maintain his position as one of the lead- ing business men of the community. He is fraternally connected with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. He has also shown an interest in civic affairs, serving acceptably as a member of the town council and the school board and as town treasurer, and at all times taking a foremost part in movements which have made for progress and advancement. With his family, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church,

On April 5, 1902, at Cleburne, Texas, Mr. Patton was married to Miss Martha. E. Poole, daughter of R. L. Poole, of Mississippi.

PHILIP E. WINTER. Many of the older states of the Union have contributed to the personnel of the bar of Oklahoma, and the representative lawyer whose name initiates this review claims Illinois as the state of his nativity, passed his childhood and youth in Iowa, and came to Oklahoma from Washington, D. C., where he had served for eight years as an assistant attorney in the office of the assistant attorney-general for the depart- ment of the interior. Mr. Winter is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in Oklahoma City, where he maintains his offices at 616 Terminal Building, and he has been a resident of this city since the autumn of 1910.

Philip Ernst Winter was born in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on the 1st of November, 1859, and is a son of Wilhelm and Wilhelmina (Fiegenbaum) Winter, both natives of Germany. In 1844, shortly before the memor- able exodus of the refugees of the German revolution to America was instituted, Wilhelm Winter's parents im- migrated to the United States, accompanied by all of their children except their eldest son, and the family disembarked in the City of New Orleans, whence the voyage was continued up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, and settlement was made in Warren County, Missouri. Wilhelm Winter was a young man at the time of the family immigration to America and it was soon afterward his privilege to give significant assurance of his loyalty to the land of his adoption,-a country that has had much to gain from its valuable German element of citizenship, both in past and present generations. Early in 1846 Wilhelm Winter tendered his services as a soldier in the Mexican war. In the City of St. Louis he enlisted in a cavalry regiment of volunteers, and soon afterward proceeded with his command to the stage of polemic activities. He was with his regiment in the command of Gen. Winfield Scott when that gallant leader entered the City of Mexico, and he took part in

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various engagements marking the progress of the conflict between the United States and Mexico, his service having continued until the close of the war.

After victory had crowued the arms of the United States, Mr. Winter, a youthful veteran of the war, re- turned to his home iu Warren County, Missouri, in which state he remained until 1852, when he immigrated to Iowa and became one of the pioneer settlers of Louisa County, where he had been granted a tract of govern- ment land in recognition of his services in the Mexican war. He vigorously instituted the reclamation of this land and continued his activities as one of the pioneer farmers of the Hawkeye State until 1856, when he severed his association with the great basic industry of agriculture and, with characteristic zeal and ability, prepared himself for the ministry of the German .Methodist Episcopal Church, as a clergyman of which denomination he labored with all of consecrated devotion and fruitful results for a quarter of a century, his first charge having been Rock Island, Illinois, and his last, Davenport, Iowa. He was a man of broad intellectual ken and lofty ideals, the sincere friend of humanity, and his gracious and kindly persouality drew to him the staunchest of friends aud the confidence and esteem of all who come within the sphere of his influence. He died at Davenport, Iowa, in 1882, and his memory shall be held in lastiug honor through his effective services as a soldier of his adopted country and of the church militant.

Mrs. Wilhelmina (Fiegenbaum) Winter proved a de- voted wife and helpmeet to her husband and was ever earnest in her co-operation in and sympathy with his zealous labors in the uplifting of humanity. She was but an infant at the time of her parents' immigration from Germany to America, in 1833, and here she was reared and educated. This noble woman, now venerable in years, maintains her home at South Omaha, Nebraska, with her youngest daughter, who is principal of one of the public schools of that city.

Philip E. Winter acquired his early education in the pioneer schools of Iowa and in pursuance of higher academic discipline he finally was matriculated in the Iowa Wesleyan University, at Mount Pleasant, in which iustitution he was graduated in 1878, with the degree of bachelor of arts, and from which he later received, in 1881, the degree of master of arts, the intervening period having been by him devoted to successful work as a teacher in the public schools: he taught one year in a district school in Logan County, Illinois, and two years in the grade schools at Beardstown, that state. In consonance with his ambition and well formulated plans for his future career, Mr. Winter then entered the Union College of Law in the City of Chicago, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1883, of which Hon. William Jennings Bryan likewise was a member, and he duly received his well earned degree of bachelor of laws. Mr. Winter may consist- ently be designated a natural student, and is known for his high academic aud professional attainments and for his keeu appreciation of the best literature of general and professional order.

": On the 1st of November, 1883, Mr. Winter entered upon his professional novitiate by engaging in practice at Wymore, Gage County, Nebraska, where he built up a substantial law business and where he served three terms as city attorney. He continued to be numbered among the leading members of the bar of Gage County until April, 1891, when he entered a broader field of en- deavor by removing to the City of Omaha, where his ability and insistent devotion to the work of his profes- sion gained to him a large and representative clientage. He remained a valued and popular member of the Omaha bar for ten years, and within this period served four

years as deputy county attorney, besides having give effective service as a member of the board of educatio of the Nebraska metropolis.

Mr. Winter coutinued his successful professiona labors at Omaha uutil in August, 1900, when he wa appointed as assistant to the United States attorne general for the Interior Department aud removed to th national capital, where he served as a legal representa tive of the Department of the Interior until 1910, when he retired from his government post. In November o. that year Mr. Winter came to Oklahoma and established his residence at Oklahoma City, where he has since held high vantage ground as one of the representative mem bers of the bar of the new commonwealth and where he controls a large aud important law business, in connec tion with which he practices in all the State and Federa courts.

Though independent iu politics and not in the leas; constrained by partisan lines, Mr. Wiuter permitted himself to be uominated as the candidate of the pro gressive party for the office of judge of the thirteenth judicial district of the state in the election of 1914, but he was defeated, with the other local candidates of the newly created political party. Mr. Winter is affiliatec with the Masonic fraternity, as well as the Phi Delta Theta college and the Phi Delta Phi law school frater. nities, and while attending the law college in the City of Chicago he there served two years as a member of the fine old First Infantry Regiment of the Illinois National Guard. Both he and his wife are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city, where their circle of friends is coincident with that of their acquaintances.

Mr. Winter has manifested specially deep interest in and appreciation of the best traditious of the land of his forbears and especially in the lives and labors of the sterling German element that has wielded powerful in. fluence in the furtherance of civic and material progress and prosperity in the United States. His interest has found concrete exemplification, in that for several years past he has been devotiug earnest attention to the author- itative compilation of a history of the German people in the United States, a work to which he is bringing his fine intellectual powers and literary ability, so that the published edition when issued is certain to become a valuable contribution to American history.

On June 3, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Winter to Miss Alta S. Kauffman, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She is a descendant of Michael Kauffman, a Swiss Huguenot, who immigrated to America in 1707 and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This sturdy colonist was the ancestor of the numerous family of Kauffmans still prominent in the social and indus- trial activities of Lancaster Couuty, Pennsylvania.

In Oklahoma City the pleasant and hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. Winter is at 1636 West Fortieth Street. They have four children, concerning whom brief data are given in conclusion of this article: Max Wilhelm is a special agent for the United States General Land Office, with official headquarters at Cheyenne, Wyoming; Jean Grace is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools at Perry, the judicial center of Noble County, Oklahoma; Gladys Kauffman is the wife of Harold F. Bradburn, contract agent of the Pioneer Tele- phone & Telegraph Company, at Oklahoma City; and Winifred Elsa is a student in the University of Missouri, where she is a member of the class of 1917.

ELISHA B. CLINE. One of the oldest business men of Tulsa is Elisha B. Cline, who became identified with that little village nearly fifteen years ago, and has not only witnessed but has been a personal factor in its growth

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and developmeut. When the city government was en- trusted to the management of a commission, he was elected auditor of the city, and has held that office con- tinuously to the present time. There is no more popular nor more efficient public servant of Tulsa at the city hall than Mr. Cline.

Elisha B. Cline was boru in Fulton County, Illinois, October 30, 1875, a son of John and Ruby (Brenen- stahl) Cline. His father was born in Ohio in 1826, and lost his life in Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 27, 1911, at the extreme age of eighty-five years. His wife was born in New York State and is still living at the age of eighty years. To their union were born ten children, seven sons and three daughters, among whom Elisha B. was next to the youngest. The late John Cline moved out to Illinois when a young man with his parents and after finishing his education in that state took up farming and stock raising. In 1878 he removed to Ralls County, Missouri, locating on a farm near Hannibal. He con- tiuued farming and stock raising until 1898, but in the meantime had become prominent in other directions. He located the Town of Honeywell, Kansas, and for several years was employed by the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company in locating town sites. He located the Town of Caldwell, Kansas, and was thus an important factor in the early development of various localities in the Southwest. His home had been in Mis- souri, but in 1898 he removed to Kay County, Oklahoma, and was one of the early white settlers in that part of the state. He continued farming and stock raising in Kay County until his retirement from active pursuits iu 1901, when he took up his residence in Tulsa. While a resident of Fulton County, Illinois, he was honored - with several county offices, including that of county collector. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics a democrat.

Elisha B. Cline was reared from the age of three years in Ralls County, Missouri, up to the age of seventeen. In the meantime his education had come from the dis- trict schools, after which he took a four years' course in the Van Rensselaer Academy and subsequently gradu- ated from the Hannibal Commercial College in 1895. The succeeding twenty years have been well speut either in private business affairs or in public responsibilities. For two years he was deputy collector of Ralls County, and then for four years was deputy recorder. In 1898 he came to Oklahoma, locating in Kay County, where he was successfully engaged in farming and stock raising until November, 1901. At that date he removed to Tulsa, then a very inconspicuous village with little promise of becoming the great and thriving city that it now is. Here he established a general transfer business, and continued that until 1908. In that year he was ap- pointed city clerk and in 1909, when the city passed under the commission form of government, was elected on February 16th to the office of city auditor and has succeeded himself in the same office until he is now in luis fifth consecutive term.

Mr. Cline is a member of Tulsa Lodge No. 71, A. F. & A. M .; of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Tulsa Lodge No. 946, B. P. O. E., of the Knights of Pythias and of the Modern Woodmen of America. In politics he is a democrat and is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. On November 16, 1904, Mr. Cline married Miss Cary Norman, of Chicago. To their union have been born five children, three sons and two daughters, namely: Norman, Carolyne, Elwyn, William and Mary Genevieve.

EDWARD E. REARDON. In the year that marked the admission of Oklahoma as one of the sovereign states of the Uniou, Mr. Reardon was elected county attorney

of Oklahoma County, and during the formative period of the legal department of the county government under the new regime he wielded large and effective influence in the formulating and directing of the legal business of his jurisdictiou, his services having left a distinct and endur- ing impression upou the history of jurisprudence in the state because of the numerous early constitutional ques- tions arising in Oklahoma County, the most important iu the state, as the seat of the government of the common- wealth and the location of the capital city and metropo- lis. Mr. Reardon has been engaged in the active work of his profession in Oklahoma City since 1901 and has secure vantage-ground as one of the strong and resource- ful trial lawyers and well fortified counselors of the state, besides which he is known and valued as a citizen of high principles and civic ideals and as one whose in- fluence has always been given in support of those things which make for the general well-being of the com- munity.

Edward Emmet Reardon was born at Hopedale, Taze- well County, Illinois, on the 22d of December, 1867, and is a son of Bryan and Anna (Flemming) Reardon, botlı natives of Ireland, the father having immigrated from the fair Emerald Isle to America about the year 1850.

In the public schools of Illinois Edward E. Reardon acquired his early education, which was supplemented by a well defined course of higher academic study in the University of Illinois. After having decided to prepare himself for the profession in which he has since achieved both success and prestige, he finally entered the law department of the University of Nebraska, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1901 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He had left his native State of Illinois in 1894 and had resided two years in Iowa before going to Nebraska and entering the university of that state, as noted above.

In the year that marked his graduation Mr. Reardon came to Oklahoma Territory, and, as an ambitious and well equipped young lawyer, engaged in the practice of his profession in Oklahoma City, where his energy and ability soon gained to him a substantial and lucrative law business, the scope and character of which attested the high estimate placed upon him in the community. He soon became an active and influential leader in the councils of the republican party in the territory, and he has not wavered in his allegiance to and advocacy of the cause of his party, in the ranks of which he is known as a safe counselor and as one of well fortified convic- tions concerning economic and governmental policies. When the state was admitted to the Union, in 1907, Mr. Reardon was elected the first county attorney of Okla- homa County under the new regime, and he continued the able and valued incumbent of this office for a period of over three years. His are the attributes that make for loyal and useful citizenship, and he well merits the unqualified esteem in which he is held in the city, county and state with whose development and progress he has been worthily identified.

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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