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 68

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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On the 18th of August, 1897, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Reardon to Miss Corinne O. Sumner, daugh- ter of Josiah and Ada (Patterson) Sumner, of Lincoln, Illinois. Of this union have been born three daughters, two of whom are living: Audrey was born August 14, 1902; Katherine was born August 7, 1904, and was sum- moned to the life eternal in 1909; and Margaret was born November 19, 1911.

ISAAC NEWTON BROWN, M. D. A quarter century of continuous practice is sufficient to establish a claim as one of the pioneer physicians of the new State of Okla- homa. Doctor Brown, who since 1905 has been located at Davis, and is now president of the Murray County Med-

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ical Society, is a physician and surgeon of more than thirty years, and his work has beeu iu old Indian Terri- tory or Oklahoma since 1890, when he located at Ard- more. He was one of the leading physiciaus of that city until his removal to Davis in 1905.

Representing an old southern family, Doctor Brown was born in Selma, Alabama, October 14, 1860. Both his father and grandfather had important military records. His grandfather, Hitson Brown, was a native of Ireland, and on coming to America settled in Alabama. In 1837 he went to Texas, during the early days of the republic, aud afterwards served as a soldier in the Mexican war. When he died at Big Sandy, Texas, in 1871, he was a little past a century in age. His career had been one of great activities and at one time he owned a large planta- tion and was an extensive stock raiser.

B. W. Brown, father of Doctor Brown, was born iu the vicinity of Selma, Alabama, in 1828. He grew up in his native state and was a young man of recognized promi- nence in the community when the Civil war broke out. He became a captain iu the First Alabama Regiment of Infantry and went through the entire war. During the first battle of Bull Run, while leading his company, he had seven bullet holes shot in his hat and his sabre was shot from his hand, but he sustained no bodily injuries. He also participated in the entire three days' battle at Gettysburg. In 1865, soon after the close of the war, Captain Brown removed to Longview, Gregg County, Texas, and lived there until his death in 1901. He was elected a representative to the first Texas Legislature after the war, and sat iu that body for thirteen suc- cessive terms. During Governor Ireland's administra- tion he was superintendent of the state penitentiary. His chief business was as a planter and rancher, and he owned several farms in Texas. He was also a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church South and naturally was identified with the democratic party. He also attained thirty-two degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry. Captain Brown married Nancy Cox, who was born in Alabama in 1835 and died at Longview, Texas, in 1908. Their children were: Mary, who married Tom Stinch- comb, a Texas farmer, and now deceased; Mattie became the wife of Thomas Carroll, formerly a real estate man at Longview, and they also are deceased; Emma, who lives at Longview, is the widow of Joe Boring, who was a merchant there; Oscar, whose home is at Marshall, Texas, is engineer on one of the fastest trains between Longview and Texarkana; the fifth in age is Doctor Brown of Davis, Oklahoma; Lula is the wife of Ed Crane, who has been a general merchant and is now a druggist at Longview; Walter lives at Houston, Texas, and has active charge of the House estate in and near that city; Mittie is the wife of Robert Bruce of Longview.

Dr. Isaac Newton Brown was born in the home of his parents at Selina, Alabama, October 14, 1860. He grew up at Longview, Texas, and was graduated from the Alexander Institute at Kilgore in Gregg County, A. B., in 1878. Then followed two years of clerical experience in a drug store at Longview, and from there he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louis- ville, where he was graduated M. D. in 1884. Before taking up private practice he served two years as interne in the City Charity Hospital at Louisville. Doctor Brown began practice in Bell County, Texas, in 1886 and re- mained there until his removal to Ardmore, Indian Ter- ritory, in 1890. In his long experience as a physician he has gradually contracted his practice and specializes largely in surgery, obstetrics and gynecology. He took special courses in 1903 in Tulane University at New Orleans. He is examining surgeon for the Phoenix Life, the American Life, the Bankers and the Oklahoma State

Life Insurance companies at Davis. He is also a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, is affiliated with Lodge No. 120, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, at Davis, aud with Cedar Camp No. 420, Woodmen of the World, at Davis. He and his family are members of the Christian Church.

At Longview, Texas, in 1885, soon after graduating in medicine, Doctor Brown married Miss Iris Boyd, a daughter of James Boyd, now deceased, who was a farmer and stockman. They had one child, Lynn, who died at Davis in 1908 at the age of twenty-two.

DIAS A. SHRIVER. Among the typical representatives of the agricultural element of Oklahoma County, whose industry, energy and careful management in farming operations have enabled them to relinquish active labors while still in the prime of life and to enjoy in leisurely retirement the fruits of former toil, is Dias A. Shriver, who is now liviug at his comfortable home at No. 2949 West Tenth Street, Oklahoma City. During the twenty years in which Mr. Shriver has been a resident of this community, he has built up a reputation for substantial and public-spirited citizenship, and for honorable dealing in all affairs of life.

Born at Wadestowu, Monongalia County, West Vir- ginia, March 4, 1859, Mr. Shriver is a son of Bazle G. and Mary Aun (Wise) Shriver, natives of the same county, where the grandparents were also born and where the family has been known and honored for many years. His father was born January 15, 1827, and his mother January 7, 1833, and iu 1864 they removed for the West, locating on a farm in Scotland County, Missouri, where Bazle G. Shriver continued to be engaged in farming operations during the remainder of his life. In that county, amid agricultural surroundings, Dias A. Shriver was reared to manhood, securing his education in the district schools. He adopted farming and stockraising as a means of livelihood on attaining his majority, and continued to be thus employed there until 1895, when he disposed of his Missouri interests and moved to the newly-opened country of Oklahoma, settling with his family on a farm three miles west of the business section of Oklahoma City. Here he also farmed until 1905, when the young city spread out toward him in such a tempting manner that he had his farm surveyed into 'small tracts and town lots and sold all of it off with the exception of twenty acres, upon which he still resides, and which he has improved in a way that makes it one of the ideal places near the city, being equipped with all modern comforts and conveniences, including natural gas, water works and electric lights. After disposing of most of his own land adjoining Oklahoma City, Mr. Shriver became a buyer and seller of lands throughout the West, for a time handling large tracts in Texas and Oklahoma. He is one of five heirs to inherit rich coal and oil lands in West Virginia, from a brother of his late father, valued easily at $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, but, naturally, it must pass through a tedious litigation before being distributed among the five beneficiaries. As a citizen, Mr. Shriver has always been active, a liberal contributor to the material advancement of the county and state and a conscientious and stirring booster for Oklahoma and the Southwest.

At Memphis, Missouri, Mr. Shriver was united in mar- riage, April 14, 1881, with Miss Martha Jane Baker, daughter of Franklin and Rosa (Sedoris) Baker, of Memphis, Missouri. Mrs. Shriver died December 9, 1911. To this marriage there were born four children, as fol- lows: Hugh H., born February 10, 1882; Beulah, born May 23, 1884; Arthur, born August 11, 1887; and Eliza Vera, born February 13, 1899.

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J. R. CHARLTON. Educator, historian, newspaper man, inister and legist, there is probably no better known ure in Washington County, Oklahoma, than J. R. harlton, of Bartlesville. In each of the various fields wwhich he has labored, he has made an enviable reputa- on, and if an individual's true character may be termined by the opinion of those around him, his is reproachable. To enumerate and describe the varied tivities of his useful life would be to prepare a sketch ich would transcend the limits of this volume. It ust suffice that the biographer attempt an outline of e salient points in a career remarkable for its useful- ss and helpfulness to his community and his fellow- en.

J. R. Charlton was born at Salem, Marion County, inois, July 21, 1858, and is a son of W. J. and izabeth Ann (Huff) Charlton. His maternal grand- ther was Samuel A. Huff, who moved to Kansas in 73 and took up Government land near Sedan, where passed the remaining years of his life. His paternal andfather, Isaac Bradbury Charlton, was a native of rginia who went to Tennessee in 1820 and married a iss Black, following which he moved to Marion County, inois, and located on the farm on which J. R. Charlton is born. There also was born W. J. Charlton, Decem- r 31, 1836, and in that community he was married to izabeth Ann Huff, who was born about six miles stant, March 28, 1838. They resided on the Charlton mestead until 1877, when they went to Chautauqua bunty, Kansas, traveling in true pioneer style by airie schooner, and locating at Sedan, where they sided until about 1900 when they moved four miles rth of Independence, Montgomery County, and there ey still reside, typical Kansas farming people. At the e of seventy-eight years Mr. Charlton is still managing s own farm, doing all his chores, including the pre- ring of the wood for his wood fire. On his seventy- ghth birthday he was pleasantly surprised by his inday school class, the members of which brought their implements and cut un enough wood to last him ring the following year. He and his faithful wife are Insistent members of the Christian Church, and have ken an active part in Sunday school work, and in litics he has been a stanch and lifelong democrat. ey have been the parents of four children: J. R., of is review; Mrs. Adelia Hayward, who is deceased; ra, who is the wife of Oliver Beemer, of Chattanooga, lahoma; and Mamie, the wife of George Underwood, Independence, Kansas.

J. R. Charlton was reared on the homestead farm in linois, received his early education in the public schools, d was nineteen years of age when he came to the est. He had graduated from the Odin (Illinois) High hool, and had decided upon a career as a teacher, and hen he came to Kansas his parents accompanied him. is first school was located six miles east of Sedan, ansas, where he was teaching in 1878 when he was duced by his uncle, J. D. McBrian, who married r. Charlton's mother's sister, and resided at Sedan, ansas, where he was a minister of the Christian Church ed an attorney, to come into his office and study. There r. Charlton read law during two summers, teaching hool in the winter terms and studying at night times, id was finally admitted to the bar August 16, 1880. He d. not immediately enter practice. for he taught for 70 more years before orening an office, when he moved Elk City, Kansas, and in March, 1884, began practice Montgomery County, Kansas. There he continued itil 1906, when he moved to his present home at artlesville, although he had lived within thirty-five miles : this place since 1877.

While in Montgomery County, in 1890, Mr. Charlton

was elected county attorney on the democratic ticket, and served in that capacity during the famous Dalton raid at Coffeyville. It was through his efforts that Emmett Dalton was sent to the penitentiary, but in later years he also assisted in securing his freedom. He was re-elected county attorney in 1906, and since the close of that term, in 1908, has applied himself to the practice of law simply as a practitioner. His law practice is largely of a criminal character, and Mr. Charlton is probably one of the most capable and best known legists in this field in the state, having defended during the last four years twenty-eight persons charged with murder. One of the first of these cases was that of Nettie Brown and her step-son, Pete Brown, charged with the murder of Mrs. Brown's husband in Osage County. Mr. Charlton obtained a change of venue to Bartlesville, where Pete Brown turned state's evidence and the prisoner was sent to the penitentiary for life. Another case, and one of the most famous in the history of Oklahoma, was that of Mrs. Laura Reuter, who was accused of killing her husband, was convicted in this county, and was granted a new trial through the efforts of Mr. Charlton, who, with the assistance of two other attorneys, finally secured her acquittal. His professional career has been crowded with interesting incidents, among which may be men- tioned the first law suit in the United States Commis- sioners Court at Bartlesville, in 1895, when there being no building to hold court in, temporary seats were erected in Pecan Grove. Mr. Charlton won his case over his opponent, W. A. Chase.

Mr. Charlton has been a regular ordained minister of the Christian Church since 1894. He has preached all over this part of the country, where he has dedicated over thirty churches, and is now pastor of the church at Dewey, where he held a meeting in February, 1915, and had 123 converts. He was the organizer of the Christian Church at Bartlesville, following a meeting which he held at Bartles Grove or Park, in July, 1897, and had sixty- six members, continuing to preach here every other Sunday and driving all the way from Caney, Kansas, until June, 1900, when a church was dedicated here on the present site of the Masonic Building. When Mr. Charlton came to Bartlesville, in 1908, he found the Christian Church in Dewey with but twenty-two members, in a small frame building. He set about to build up this congregation, erected a new church which was dedicated in May, 1908, and now has the largest congregation in the city, consisting of 270 members. As a minister he is zealous, sincere and energetic, a friend as well as a spiritual advisor to his people and greatly beloved by them.

While his fraternal connections are not 'numerous, he is well known in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with which he has been identified as a member since 1890. Mr. Charlton is widely known as a speaker, not alone on religious subjects, but in the cause of morality, temperance, good citizenship and helpful living, and his services are in constant demand at various meetings and celebrations. He was state evangelist of Kansas in 1897, being selected by the state organization of the Christian Church, and occupied a prominent place on the pro- gram of the state convention of the Christian Church held at Oklahoma City, in June, 1915. In 1891, he was invited to Bartlesville by Col. Jake Bartles to deliver the Fourth of July oration, and for three days Mr. Charlton and his wife were entertained at the Bartles' home. A crowd of 5,000 people from all over the countryside attended the three-day celebration, twenty beeves were barbecued, the Indians held their war dances, the park was lighted by electricity generated in Colonel Bartles' own mill, and the dances, boat rides and other festivities of the occasion made an impression on

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Mr. Charlton's mind that he will never forget. Inciden- tally, the United States marshal "roped in" about fifteen bootleggers, who, in the absence of a jail, were secured by being tied to trees, much to the edification of the crowd. Mr. Charlton delivers several lectures annually before the schools of this and other commun- ities, and wherever heard is a general favorite with teachers and pupils alike, by reason of his interesting and instructive talks.

Mr. Charlton has lived a strictly temperate life, and has never tasted intoxicants or tobacco. His experiences during the early days were exciting and dangerous when he drove all over the country before the advent of the railroads. He often collected large sums of money for the harvester company which he carried on his person, but while the country was infested with criminals and "bad men" of all descriptions, to many of whom he was known personally, he never had any fear of being molested, nor was he. His experience as a newspaper man was while a resident of Elk City, Kansas, where for six years he conducted a weekly newspaper, the Elk City Enterprise. There he secured much valuable literary training, which was shown in his able chapter on Caney, written for the "History of Montgomery County, Kansas," which was published in 1903.

As a voter, Mr. Charlton has always supported the democratie ticket. His first appearance in a court room was when, at the age of eight years, he went to hear a trial in which the presiding judge was Uncle Silas Bryan, the father of William Jennings Bryan. He later visited Judge Bryan's farm and became a personal friend of his son, William J., was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee of Kansas in 1900, and chair- man of the Speakers Bureau, and campaigned with Mr. Bryan for two days when he visited Kansas. Mr. Charlton later attended the national conventions of the democratic party at St. Louis in 1904, and Denver in 1908.

On April 3, 1881, Mr. Charlton was married to Miss Hattie May Hutchison, who was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, October 18, 1861, a daughter of John Hutchison, who came to Kansas and settled near Lawrence in 1867, two years later removing to Elk City. Mr. and Mrs. Charlton were married at his farm, seven miles west of Elk City. They have one son: Roy Earl, born June 3, 1887, at Elk City, now deputy sheriff of Washington County, Oklahoma, and a resident of Bartlesville. He was married January 3, 1908, at Indianapolis, Indiana, to Miss Kittie Butler.

EUGENE R. COKER. That authoritative technical knowledge which is to be gained only through careful training and varied experience makes Mr. Coker an ex- pert in the milling business,. with which he has been identified in an active way from early youth, and his ability is attested when it is noted that he is at the present time manager of the Rea & Read Mill & Elevator Company, one of the foremost corporations of its kind in the eastern part of Oklahoma, the well equipped mills and elevator of the company, in the City of Tulsa, being of the best modern type, and the products of the plant including the highest grade of flour from both hard and soft wheat. The mill has a capacity for the output of 500 barrels, and the elevator capacity is 60,000 bushels. The brands of flour manufactured are "Dinner Party," "Main Line Special,"' "Peach,"' "Tulsa Star," and "Rich and Rare." Special attention is given also to the manufacturing of "Rich and Rare"' kiln-dried corn meal, chop and bran, and all of the admirable products issued from the mills of this representative company find wide and appreciative demand.

Eugene R. Coker was born at McLeansboro, Hamilton

County, Illinois, on the 12th of January, 1874, and a son of William A. and Emily (Davis) Coker, } natives of Hamilton County, Illinois, where the for was born in 1845 and the latter in 1850. Of the 1 children two died in infancy and the subject of this view is the elder of the two surviving, his brot Clarence, being a resident of Slater, Missouri.

William A. Coker, a representative of a sterl pioneer family of Illinois, was reared and educated Hamilton County, that state, and as a young man became a pioneer in the operation of a flour mill MeLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois, where he ( tinned his residence until 1896, when he removed w his family to the City of Paducah, Kentucky. Aj having there been concerned with the same line of dnstrial enterprise for some time he removed to B flower, Montgomery County, Missouri, where he opera a grain elevator until his removal to Slater, Sal County, that state, where he is at the present time oaged in the operation of a mill and elevator, being a a member of the St. Louis Exchange. He is a stalw republican in politics, is affiliated with the Maso fraternity, and both he and his wife hold members in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The public schools of his native town afforded Eugene R. Coker his early educational advantages : there also he learned the milling business under effective direction of his father, with whom he continu to be associated in this field of enterprise after family removal to Paducah, Kentucky. In 1900 he s his interest in their business in that city and engag in the operation of a mill at Shawneetown, Illinois. finally sold this business and removed to Bellflow Missouri, where he continued to be associated with . William Pollock Milling & Elevator Company until Ju 1913, when he purchased a third interest in the Rea Read Mill & Elevator Company, of Tulsa, of which has since been secretary, treasurer and general manag his technical and administrative ability having prov potent in advancing the prosperity of the enterprise a in bringing all products up to the highest standard, i company with which he is thus identified representi one of the most important industrial enterprises in 1 City of Tulsa and he himself having secure prestige an able and progressive business man and loyal a public-spirited citizen.

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In politics Mr. Coker is aligned as a staunch suppor of the cause of the republican party, though he is esse tially a business man and has had no desire for politi office. He is actively identified with the Tulsa Tra Association, the Tulsa Commercial Club and the Rota Club, and is affiliated with Delta Lodge, No. 425, Ancie Free & Accepted Masons.

On the 17th of December, 1900, Mr. Coker wedd Miss Ollie A. Severs, who likewise was born and rear at McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois, and who w his schoolmate in their youth. Mr. and Mrs. Coker ha two children, a son and daughter, Geraldin and Haske

DAN M. PENDLETON. Now engaged in the practi of law at Ada, Mr. Pendleton will be readily recogniz as one of the fortunate young men of the Southwest. ] has had all those natural endowments and cultural adva tages which furnish the best preparation for a life service and important accomplishment. He has bir and ancestry, and in his lineage are found emine patriots, statesmen, jurists and public leaders in Ame ican life. He also came to the West with a thorou legal education and wide experience in association wi prominent men. During the few years he has lived Seminole and Pontotoc counties he has become a lead in his profession. Virile, energetic, ambitious, Mr. Pe

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dleton is of that class of worth-while young men that is contributing so great a measure of elements to the progress of Oklahoma.

Dan M. Pendleton was born in Spencer, West Vir- ginia, April 6, 1887, a son of Walter and Nellie (McMath) Pendleton. His father is one of the dis- tinguished lawyers of West Virginia and a man of national reputation. He was the democratic nominee for congress in the Fourth District of West Virginia in 1896 and the democratic nominee for judge of the Supreme Court in 1908. Each time he was defeated by a small majority, in the latter race running ahead of his ticket by approximately ten thousand votes. He has traveled extensively in Europe, the Holy Land and Egypt and has written extensively concerning the countries of the Old World visited by him. Judge Walter Pendleton is an attorney for the Carter Oil Company in West Virginia, which is one of the largest producers in the well known Cushing, Oklahoma, oil field, and is also attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company and other cor- porations of the East. One of the great-uncles of Dan Pendleton was Edmund Pendleton, the first president of the Continental Congress, who assisted in drafting the Declaration of Independence though not a signer of that document, was an opponent of Patrick Henry in many debates in the House of Burgesses in Virginia, was asso- ciated with Thomas Jefferson and George Wythe in drafting the first code of the State of Virginia, which was the first state code in the United States and was first president of the Supreme Court of Virginia. In his honor Pendleton County, West Virginia, was named. Another prominent ancestor was Nathaniel Pendleton, who belonged to a New York branch of the family, and was the second for Alexander Hamilton in the duel with Aaron Burr. George Pendleton, of the Ohio branch of the family, was a United States Senator and a member of Congress from Ohio, was ambassador to Germany, and in 1864 was a candidate for the vice presidency on the democratic ticket.

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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