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 75

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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In the public schools of Tennessee and Kentucky James M. Berry laid the foundations of a liberal educa- tion. He attended Sulphur Well College in Metcalfe County, Kentucky. In 1878 he became a teacher in the schools of Kansas, and during 1879-80 taught in An- derson County of that state. Then locating at Cherry- vale, Montgomery County, he entered the employ of the Exchange Bank, and was with it from 1881 until 1887. He then became associated with the First National Bank of Oswego, Labette County, Kansas, which he served as cashier until 1895, when he resigned and removed to Seneca, Newton County, Missouri, taking the cashier- ship of the Bank of Seneca at that place. In 1906 Mr. Berry disposing of his interest in Missouri and associat- ing himself with J. G. McGannon organized in the spring of 1907 the Central National Bank of Tulsa, of which he became cashier. Since March, 1912, his effective executive service has been in the office of vice president. He has become influential in the financial affairs of this section of the state, with high reputation for ability and steadfast integrity. Mr. Berry is a democrat in politics and though he has had no ambition for public office he is loyal and progressive, always ready to co-operate in the furtherance of measures pro- jected for the general good of the community. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.

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At Horse Cave, Kentucky, July 23, 1884, Mr. Berry married Miss Maude Isabell Murray. Of their five chil- dren the first two are . deceased, William having died at the age of twenty years and Harold iu intaney. The surviving children are Ralph H., now in the bank with his father; Robert G. and James K., both in school.

JACKSON BROSHEARS, M. D. In the practical work of his profession aud in his devotion to the interests of the medical fraternity and the welfare of the com- munity, Doctor Broshears has been one of the leading men of Lawton since the founding of that city. His name and attainments are especially associated with a high degree of skill as a surgical operator, and his prac- tice is almost exclusively confined to that branch of his profession.

Jackson Broshears was born in Spencer County, Indiana, January 30, 1866. The name originated in France, and the family were early settled in the Ameri- can colonies. Doctor Broshears' grandfather was Jere- miah Broshears, a Kentucky farmer, who was killed about 1850 in Hardin County as the result of being kicked by a horse. The father of Doctor Broshears was Ira Broshears, born in Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1844, aud now living in Hancock County, Keutucky, where he is a farmer and stock man. During the Civil war he eulisted in Company D of the Sixty-fifth Indiana Mounted Infantry, and was in active service from the first year of the war until its close. He was at one time taken prisoner by the Confederates and kept at Belle Isle in Virginia. About 1865 he removed to Graud View in Spencer County, Indiana, and in 1901 participated in the opening at Lawton, Oklahoma, but remained in this com- munity only a few years, and in 1906 returned to Ken- tucky, locating in Hancock County. He is an active republican in politics. Ira Broshears married Elizabeth York, who was born in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1830, and died at Lawton July 26, 1912, at the age of eighty- four. Their children were: Doctor Jackson; James, who died at Lawton and had been a pioneer merchant here; Thomas, a resident of Clinton, Oklahoma; and Anna, wife of Frank Rumpel, a traveling salesman with residence at Clinton, Oklahoma.

Dr. Jackson Broshears spent his early life on a farm in Indiana, attending the public schools at Grand View and graduating from the high school there with the class of 1890. In 1891 he entered the State Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana, and in the fall of 1892 matriculated in the Medical College at Louisville, Ken- tucky, where he continued his studies until graduating March 6, 1894, with the degree M. D. He was in prac- tice at Grand View, Indiana, from 1894 until July, 1898, but in the meantime, during 1896, had left his practice to pursue a post-graduate course at Baltimore, Mary- land, where he remained for fifteen months, giving par- ticular attention to surgery. In 1898 he accepted a pro- fessional position as physician for a lumber company in the State of Missouri. In the fall of 1899 an illness compelled him to desist from his work, and for nearly two years he did little practice. On July 26, 1901, Doc- tor Broshears was among the pioneer arrivals at Lawton with the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche Reserva- tion, and was one of the best qualified among the physi- cians who came to Lawton at that time. He has enjoyed a large practice, and in surgery probably has no supe -. rior in Northwestern Oklahoma. He is a director in the Southwest Hospital at Lawton, and has his offices in the Boone Hammond Building on D Avenue.

Doctor Broshears is a member of the Presbyterian Church, a republican in politics, and has served as county

coroner of Comanche Couuty under appointment from Thomas Ferguson. Fraternally, his affiliations are with Lawton Lodge No. 183, Ancieut Free and Accepted Masons, and with Lawton Lodge No. 1056, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In December, 1905, Doc- tor Broshears was married at Sapulpa, Oklahoma, to Mrs. Lulu (Sassar) Gullett, who was a native of Ohio.

JOHN B. CAMPBELL. The bar of the City of Muskogee, the metropolis and judicial center of the county of the same name, has maintained a standard that places it high in prestige in this vigorous young commonwealth, and of this specially strong bar Judge Campbell is recog- nized as a representative member. He has been en- gaged in the practice of his profession in Muskogee since 1899, has long controlled a large and important law busi- ness in this section of the state and is known for high, broad and exact knowledge of the science of jurisprudence as well as for the resourcefulness that has made him exceptionally successful as a trial lawyer. He has been called upon to serve in minor judicial office and was the republican candidate for the high office of judge of the Court of Appeals of Oklahoma in the election of Novem- ber, 1914. He has made valuable contribution to the law literature of the state of his adoption and his high standing as a lawyer and as a citizen makes most con- sistent the special recognition accorded to him in this standard history of Oklahoma.

Judge Campbell was born on a farm near Gratiot, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, on the 12th of March, 1868, and is a son of Francis and Mary (Cole) Campbell, the former of whom was born in the north of Ireland, of sturdy Scotch lineage, and the latter of whom was of remote Irish ancestry, she having been born in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, where her parents were pioneer set- tlers, her father having been a scion of a family that was founded in America in the colonial era of our national history and that gave valiant soldiers to the patriot army in the War of the Revolution.

Judge Campbell was reared to adult age on the home- stead farm which was the place of his birth and after having duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, he pur- sued higher academic discipline in Ripon College, one of the excellent educational institutions of that state. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered the law department of the great University of Wisconsin, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1893 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws, at virtually the same time being admitted to the bar of his native commonwealth, by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. For three years thereafter he was estab- lished in the successful practice of law at Darlington, the judicial center of his native county, and within this interval he served for one term, of two years, as district attorney of Lafayette County. Upon leaving Wisconsin Judge Campbell was for a brief time engaged in profes- sional work in the City of Chicago and after leaving the great western metropolis he went to Texas and estab- lished himself in practice at Sulphur Springs, from which place he came to the present State of Oklahoma in 1899, in April of which year he established his permanent home at Muskogee, where he has risen to the front rank in his profession and where he has been closely identified with the civic and material development and progress of the fine city in which his interests have been centered and in which he has commanding place in popular con- fidence and esteem.

Prior to the admission of Oklahoma to statehood, Judge Campbell served two years as city recorder and police judge of Muskogee, and he proved specially well forti- fied for the work of his judicial office, his record in this

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minor tribunal having attested to his eligibility for higher judicial honors, though he has in a general way preferred to give his attention to the practice of his profession. In the autumn of 1914 he appeared as the republican candidate for a member of the Court of Ap- peals of Oklahoma, but he was, as he anticipated, unable to overcome the large democratic majority that faced him. He is now junior member of the representative law firm of Maxey & Campbell, which maintains offices in the Barnes Building and which controls a law busi- ness that in scope and importance is not excelled by that of any law firm at the Muskogee bar. A splendid work was executed by Judge Campbell when he compiled, with the utmost care. and circumspection, the published work entitled "Campbell's Abstract and Index." This vol- ume was prepared by him from the census cards in the office of the United States commissioner of the Five . Civilized Tribes of Indians, and shows concisely the status of each Creek Indian allottee and his family, both in the ascending and descending line. To these impor- tant data is added a cross-index, and the publication is the first authoritative presentation of facts involved and offered to the general public. It is needless to say that the work is of much value in imparting information con- cerning titles to lands of the Creek Nation, of which Muskogee was originally an integral part, prior to the formation of the present State of Oklahoma by the combining of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Terri- tory.

Judge Campbell has not wavered in his allegiance to the republican party and has been a resolute and effective advocate of its principles and policies. Both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and he is a member of the vestry of the parish of Grace Church in Muskogee, as well as superintendent of its Sunday School. Both he and his wife are zealous in the various departments of church work and are pop- ular figures in the representative social activities of their home community, as is also their daughter.

In the year 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Campbell to Miss Minnie Warn, who was born at Cuero, Texas, and their only child is Miss Catherine C., who is still attending school.

FRED G. SHAW. One of the alert and progressive busi- ness men of the City of Tulsa is the popular citizen whose name initiates this paragraph and who is here president and treasurer of the New State Auto & Supply Company, which conducts a substantial enterprise in the handling of motor cars and general automobile supplies.

At Albia, the county seat of Monroe County, Iowa, Fred G. Shaw was born on the 4th of January, 1875, the fourth in order of birth in a family of six children, of whom four are living. He is a son of Edward and Emma (Zulemma) Shaw, both of whom were born and reared in the State of New York and both of whom now reside at Newton, Iowa, as honored pioneer citizens of that section of the Hawkeye State. The year 1915 marks the celebration of the seventy-eighth birthday anniversary of the father and the sixty-fourth of the mother. Edward Shaw became a representative contractor and builder in Monroe County, Iowa, where he has lived virtually re- tired since 1895.

To the public. schools of his native place Fred G. Shaw is indebted for his early educational discipline, and as a youth he entered the employ of the celebrated Barber Asphalt Paving Company, at Omaha, Nebraska. His effective service eventually brought to him promo- tion to the position of superintendent for this company, the operations of which extend into all parts of the Union, and he continued in the service of this corpora- tion for the long period of 141/2 years, his experience Vol. III-17

having admirably fortified him as an executive and as a business man of judgment and circumspection. In 1907, the year that marked the admission of the State of Oklahoma to the Union, Mr. Shaw identified him- self with the ambitious young commonwealth by estab- lishing his residence at Tulsa. Here he held a respon- sible executive position with the Cleveland Paving Company for the ensuing eighteen months, at the expiration of which he effected the organization of the New State Paving Company, which was duly incor- porated and the headquarters of which were established at Tulsa. Mr. Shaw continued as president and general manager of this company until 1911, when he disposed of his interest in the business, which had been developed to substantial proportions under his able management, and he then became the organizer of the New State Auto & Supply Company, of which he has since been president and treasurer. This company is duly incor- porated under the laws of the state and now controls a large and representative business in the handling of automobiles and motor trucks. The company has the local agency of the Buick cars and trucks, as well as for the Kelly and G. M. C. motor trucks, and its well equipped establishment is never found lacking in all kinds of general supplies incidental to the automobile business.

Though a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party, Mr. Shaw has manifested no ambition for political office, but his civic loyalty and public spirit have been shown by his effective service as a member of the board of park commissioners of Tulsa, a position to which he was elected in 1914. He is a popular figure in business and social circles in his adopted city and here is affiliated with Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, as well as with Tulsa Lodge, No. 946, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks.

On the 18th of September, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shaw to Miss Minna May Adams, who was born and reared in the State of South Dakota, and the two children of this union are Madeleine and Freda Marcellus.

LAURENCE L. DUNLAP. It is perhaps the unique dis- tinction of the Dunlap family that both father and son are now serving as postmasters in Oklahoma, the father at Ringling and the son at New Wilson. The Dunlaps have long been prominent in Southern Oklahoma.

The postmaster at New Wilson is Laurence L. Dunlap who was born at LaGrange, Texas, August 10, 1890, a son of Thomas R. Dunlap, who is now the postmaster at Ringling. The Dunlaps are of Scotch ancestry, long identified with South Carolina, and of Revolutionary stock. Thomas R. Dunlap was born in Gibson County, Tennessee, February 11, 1853, a son of J. M. and Eliz- abeth (Carter) Dunlap. Thomas R. Dunlap grew up on a Tennessee farm, and after his course in the public schools attended the Southwestern Baptist University at Jackson, Tennessee, and in 1880 graduated A. B. from Eminence College in Henry County, Kentucky. He has been primarily an educator. He was superintendent of schools in Texas up to 1894, and then became superin- tendent of the schools at Ardmore, Indian Territory. For four years he was principal of the Chickasha Col- legiate Institute, and for four years had charge of the Jarvis Institute at Granbury, Texas. He was also pres- ident of Sulphur College at Sulphur, Kentucky; was con- nected with the college at Wilson, North Carolina, and also with the Virginia Christian College at Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1914 he removed to New Wilson, Oklahoma, but early in the same year identified himself with the townsite of Ringling, and was made postmaster there in

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July, 1915. Thomas R. Dunlap married Miss Sallie E. Young.

One of a family of four children, Laurence L. Dunlap spent his childhood and early youth in the various local- ities where his father was engaged as an educator. He attended the public schools in Texas, and in 1896 went to Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he also attended the public schools. He took a four years' course in the preparatory school at Sulphur in Henry County, Kentucky, where he finished in 1908. He then lived in Ardmore for two years, and from there went to Wilson, North Carolina, and was in Wilson College to the end of his junior year, spending three years altogether there. In 1912 he entered the employ of the American Tobacco Company as foreman in the machine department in New York City, and worked in that capacity for one year.

On September 1, 1913, Mr. Dunlap took part in the founding of the Town of New Wilson, Oklahoma, and established and perfected one of the first stores on the townsite. To his service as a merchant were added the duties of postmaster in March, 1914.

Mr. Dunlap is a democrat, a member of the Church of Christ, and is affiliated with Hewitt Lodge No. 89, A. F. & A. M., Lodge No. 417, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at New Wilson of which he is noble grand; is clerk of Wilson Camp No. 11885 of Modern Woodmen of America; and also belongs to the Brotherhood of American Yeomen at Wilson. Mr. Dunlap is not married.

W. D. CLAUD PICKARD. The duties and responsibilities of the office of sheriff of Cleveland County were placed npon the shoulders of a very capable engineer and busi- ness man in the election of Mr. Pickard to that office in 1912, and he is now giving a most satisfactory admin- istration of his second term. Mr. Pickard represents an early family of the original Oklahoma Territory, and practically grew up from infancy and acquired his early training and education in this state.

He was born in Johnson County, Texas, February 1, 1886, but has lived in Oklahoma since he was four years of age. The Pickards were originally pioneer settlers in Tennessee. His father, W. D. Pickard, was born in Middle Tennessee, in 1860, grew up there and married Miss Emma Massey, who was born in the same section of Tennessee in 1857. From Tennessee the family moved into Arkansas, and in 1883 to North Central Texas. In the spring of 1890 W. D. Pickard came as a pioneer to Canadian County, Oklahoma, only a few months after the original opening, and bought a relinquishment to 160 acres fifteen miles southeast of El Reno. After working that claim and developing it into a first class farm he removed to Norman in 1901, and is now living there retired from his regular business as a farmer and stockman. In politics he is a republican and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife have the following children: Maud, wife of John McKittrick, a dry goods merchant at Nor- man; W. D. Cland; Clyde, in the real estate business at Norman; Edna, wife of Hugh Houston, a farmer living east of Lexington in Cleveland County; Ana, a teacher in the high school at Noble; Lela, who also is an instructor in the Noble High School.

W. D. Claud Pickard spent the years of his early child- hood and youth on his father's place in Canadian County and while there attended public school and was grad- uated from the Norman High School in 1903. For two and a half years he was a student in the Oklahoma State University at Norman, but in the fall of 1905 left school and had some practical business experience for two years. In 1908 he spent a semester specializing in engineering at the Oklahoma State University, and from 1908 to 1911 he followed engineering in practically all

the states west of the Mississippi. He made three trips into Canada. He was engaged in installation work and also was employed to discover and rectify faults and troubles. In 1911 Mr. Pickard returned to Norman, where he was engaged in the real estate business with his brother Clyde until his first election to the office of sheriff in November, 1912. He was re-elected for an- other term of two years in November, 1914. His offices are in the court house, and he is one of the most popular officials of the county, is a man of solid character, deter- mined purpose, and does every official duty without flinching.

In politics Sheriff Pickard is a republican. He is affiliated with Norman Lodge No. 7, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Norman Camp No. 154, Woodmen of the World, and carried insurance with the Bankers Life In- surance Company. In December, 1914, at Norman, he married Miss Ava Berry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Berry of Norman. Her father is connected with the city water department. They have one child, Claud, Jr.

JENNETT SMITH CROSBY. For the past seven years the City of Lawton and Comanche County have known the attainments and ability of Mrs. Crosby as an educator. She is now serving as superintendent of public instruc- tion for Comanche County and is doing much to give vitality and increased efficiency to the school system of the county, and is one of the most capable women edu- cators in the state, having a broad experience as a teacher and showing unusual skill in handling the admin- istrative duties of her present office.

Miss Jennett Smith was born at Tomah, Wisconsin, March 3, 1872, a daughter of W. H. and Orcelia (Ken- yon) Smith. W. H. Smith was a relative of James A. Garfield, his grandmother and Garfield's mother having been sisters. Mrs. Orcelia Smith, who is now living at Lawton, Oklahoma, is a native of New York State, and the Kenyon family were early identified with that colony and province, having located there probably before the Revolutionary war.

About 1875 Mrs. Crosby's parents removed to Sparta, Wisconsin, where she attended the public schools. In 1881 they moved out to Pipestone, Minnesota, becoming pioneers in that section of the great Northwest. She continued her education in Minnesota, until completing the high school course, and at the early age of fifteen qualified and filled her first position as a teacher in Pipestone County. She taught successfully for three terms, and in May, 1889, entered the State Normal School of Minnesota, and after graduating returned to Pipe- stone and for about three years was connected with the city schools. Then followed a thorough course in the Pillsbury College at Owatonna, Minnesota, where she took special courses in elocution, music and art. Fol- lowing this she was a teacher for a time at Little Falls, Minnesota.

In 1893 Miss Smith married Edwin W. Crosby, who was born in Michigan in 1857 and died at Lawton, Okla- homa, in 1908. They continued to reside in Pipestone, Minnesota, until August, 1908, when they came to Law- ton, where Mr. Crosby soon afterward died. During his residence in Minnesota he was a railway man, and for fifteen years was station agent for the C. St. P. M. & O. Railway at Pipestone, and at the same time was a busi- ness representative for the Peavey Elevator Company. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, and affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America and at one time with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

After the death of Mr. Crosby Mrs. Crosby was con- fronted with the necessity of providing for her house-

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hold. She formed a class in elocution in Lawton, and then for two years was one of the regular teachers in the public schools. Following that for two and a half years she was instructor of English and history in the Lawton High School. Her qualifications as an educator are beyond question or cavil, and when she sought her pres- ent office it was with no great difficulty that she per- suaded the citizens of Comanche County of her fitness for the position. She was elected superintendent of public instruction in November, 1912, taking office in July, 1913. She was reelected to the same office in November, 1914, and is now serving her second term of two years. Comanche County is divided into seventy- eight school districts. There are 85 schoolhouses, 150 teachers, and the enrollment of scholars for 1915 is 7,327. This is a large business organization, and its adminis- tration is a matter of great responsibility. Mrs. Crosby has the supervision of all the schools and teachers in Comanche except the independent district of Lawton.

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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