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 85

Author: Thoburn, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradfield), 1866-1941
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 660

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Mr. Lee Daniel was also given the equipment of a liberal education preparatory to his professional career. He attended the Washington and Lee University in Virginia, the University of Mississippi, and finished his law course in the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, where he graduated with the class of 1911. He was soon afterwards admitted to all the courts of Mississippi, and in July, 1911, came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was admitted by examination to the Oklahoma court. In December 1912, Mr. Daniel set up in active practice associated with R. W. Kellough. At the age of twenty-two, in 1912, he was elected a justice of the peace and took up the official routine on January 1, 1913.

Mr. Daniel while in college and university belonged to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Tau Nu Epsilon Greek Letter Society, and in Masonry is a member of Tulsa Lodge No. 171, A. F. & A. M., of McAlester Consistory of the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, and of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Tulsa. He is also a member of Tulsa Lodge No. 946, B. P. O. E., of the Tulsa Country Club, and is president of the Tulsa Pan- hellenic Club. In politics he acts with the democratic party.

C. A. HICKS, M. D. Where many years ago the medi- cine man of the Indians brought the sick of the tribe to be treated at the springs of mineral waters at Bromide are today gathered a few modern physicians of the white race, a product of the universities. possessing ability and training, and with all the traditions and experience of centuries of medical practice at their command. Con- necting these two periods that are thus exemplified at Bromide are many romances and traditions and legends, and it is an interesting fact that some of the methods of practice by the old Indian physicians are not alto- Vol. III-19

gether without value to the profession of the present tine. Taking the place of the red men who once gath- ered around the springs at Bromide are white people congregating in increasing numbers, and naturally white physicians have almost altogether superseded the Indian practitioners of the old time. One of the alle young men now practicing as physicians and surgeons at Bro- mide is Doctor Hicks. He is a native of Mississippi, and a type of the young men of the South who are accom- plishing things worth while in the development of the new state.

Born at Bellefontaine, Mississippi, in 1886, he is a son of James Henry and Lucy J. (MeCain) Hicks. His father, who now lives at Gerty, Oklahoma, whither he brought his family in 1907, the year of statehood, is engaged in business there. He is a type of the self- sacrificing parent who gives practically his entire life that his children may have the best of opportunities and the foundation required for taking advantage of them. Doctor Hicks' grandfather was a wealthy farmer and Baptist minister in Mississippi, a native of North Caro- lina, and descended from some of the heroes of the American Revolution. The Hicks family originated in England and three brothers came to this country before the Revolution, one of them locating in New York, another in South Carolina and another in Mississippi.

The early education of Doctor Hicks was acquired iu the public schools of Mississippi and in the high school at Bellefontaine. On leaving school he accepted employ- ment in a drug store and this afforded him the oppor- tunity for beginning the study of medicine. In 1913 he was graduated M. D. from the Memphis Hospital Medical College at Memphis, Tennessee, and in the same year took up practice at Gerty, Oklahoma. After one year there he removed to Bromide, where he is now making a success at his professional work. He is surgeon at Bro- mide for the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Com- pany, for the Bromide Crushed Stone Company, and the. Bromide Oolitic Stone Company. He is also active in the Bromide Commercial Club, is a member of the Baptist Church, and has affiliations with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America. Profes- sionally he has meml ership in the county and state med- ical societies and the American Medical Association.

A sister and three brothers of Doctor Hicks are: H. A. Hicks, a graduate of the University of Mississippi and now a practicing attorney at Gerty; Dr. F. B. Hicks, a physician and surgeon at Wetumka, Oklahoma; Edward Hicks, living at home with his parents; and Miss Elma, also at home.

JACK E. LEMON. As the author of two important constitutional amendments that were submitted to and adopted by the people of Oklahoma as a result of his effective labors during one term of service in the State Legislature, Mr. Lemon has gained a prominent place among the representative legislators and law-makers of this commonwealth. His other efforts of constructive and leveling order in connection with the providing con- sistent and effective formulation and interpretation of the constitution and statutes of the new commonwealth constitute an important part in the history of the state, and he has stood exponent of the highest type of civic loyalty, as well as sponsor for progressive policies in governmental, educational and industrial affairs. Mr. Lemon is a pioneer who settled in the historic Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma at the time when it was thrown open to settlement, and he has since continued his residence in what is now Grant County, his home being at Nash, in which village he is engaged in the real-estate business.

Jack E. Lemon was born in Crittenden County, Ken-

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tucky, in the year 1870, and is a son of William Blunt Lemon and Fannie (Word) Lemon, his paternal grand- father, who was a native of North Carolina and of Scotch descent, having been numbered among the pioneers of Crittenden County, Kentucky, and the maternal ancestors having settled in Virginia in the colonial era, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Lemon having been a prosperous planter and slaveholder in the Old Dominion State prior to the Civil war and having thereafter removed to Ken- tueky. Mr. Lemon has four brothers and one sister: Robert F. is a merchant at Shady Grove, Kentucky; Edward L. is engaged in farming near Phillipsburg, Kan- sas, and Gustavus E. is a prosperous farmer of Grant County, Oklahoma; Robert A. is associated with his brother, Jack E., of this review, in the real-estate busi- ness at Nash; and Mrs. Daisy Coldiron resides at Red Rock, Oklahoma, where her husband is a representative physician and surgeon.

The rudimentary education of Jack E. Lemon was obtained in primitive mountain schools in Kentucky, and his entire period of attendance did not cover more than twelve months. With alert mentality and early developed ambition, he did not permit this handicap to dismay him, but pursued his studies at home, where often he lay at night before an open fireplace blazing with pine knots and, like Abraham Lincoln, made, through sheer force of will, a definite advancement in scholastic lore. The re- sult of this earnest application under unfavorable condi- tions was that he eventually proved himself eligible for pedagogic honors. He was granted a teacher's certificate, and tor ten years thereafter was a successful and popular teacher in the schools of his adopted state. A natural student, he has widened constantly his scope of knowl- edge, and is today a man of excellent intellectual attain- ments. While teaching he read extensively and with marked discrimination, becoming specially interested in the works of Henry George and Adam Smith.

In 1893 Mr. Lemon came to what is now the State of Oklahoma and became a member of that remarkably large band of men and women who "made the run"' into the Cherokee Strip for the purpose of obtaining homesteads. He entered claim to a tract of 160 acres in Grant County, and on this homestead he remained fifteen years, applying himself. vigorously and effectively to its reclamation and improvement and in the meanwhile having taught in the pioneer schools of that section of the territory during a period of ten years, his pedagogic labors having been performed principally during the winter months, when he was relieved of the responsibilities of his farm man- agement to a large extent. He still owns a valuable landed estate in Grant County and upon leaving his homestead he removed to the Village of Nash, where he has since been associated with his brother, Robert A., in the real-estate business, under the firm name of Lemon Brothers. The firm controls a large and important bnsi- ness and its operations have contributed in large measure to the civic and industrial development and prosperity of Grant and adjoining counties.

Undeviating from the course of close allegiance to the cause of the democratic party, Mr. Lemon has been one of its prominent and influential representatives in Grant County. In 1912 he was elected a member of the Fourth Legislature of the state, and in the same he distinguished himself as the anthor of several measures which resulted in important legislative reforms. He was a member of the committee on education and of the sub-committee that had charge of the preparation and adoption of the gen- eral code. He was associated with Representative Wood- ward as joint author of a resolution setting aside for the benefit of rural consolidated schools the money obtained from the sale of section 33 of the state school lands.

This measure, ably championed by him, came to enact- ment and constitutes one of the most important pieces of legislation that the state has adopted in connection with the rural schools.

Representative Lemon was the author of a resolution that provided for submission to the people a constitu- tional amendment decreasing the number of members of the State Board of Agriculture from eleven to five and authorizing the governor to appoint the members of the board. This measure was carried as a constitutional amendment in the popular election of 1913, and has had important bearing in the furtherance of the industries of agriculture and stock-growing in the state. The high estimate placed upon the services of Mr. Lemon in the Fourth Legislature was indicated by his re-election, in the fall of 1914, to the Fifth Legislature, in which he continued his loyal and well directed efforts for wise legislation for the benefit of the people in general. He was made chairman in the Fifth Legislature of the com- mittee on roads and highways, and during the session de- voted much of his time and attention to measures per- taining to the very important work of this committee. He was the author of a bill, patterned after the Kansas "Blue Sky Law," regulating the issuance and sale of stocks, especially those of corporations outside the bor- ders of the state. He introduced also a bill prohibiting for five years the killing of quail and prairie chickens in the state. Another bill presented by him provided that railroad companies be required to establish crossings on streets and highways in the cities and villages and also on the public highway crossings in the country throughont Oklahoma. Another important measure introduced and effectively championed by Mr. Lemon vitalized a consti- tutional amendment distributing corporation tax among public schools. At the present time Mr. Lemon is zeal- ously advocating constructive legislation pertaining to rural schools and public highways, subjects that are correlated as a part of a general system of reform that will make farm conditions and rural education more in- viting and more consistent with the ideals of modern progress, besides tending to decrease the movement of farmers from their homestead places into villages or cities. In a fraternal way Mr. Lemon is an appreciative and popular member of the Nash Lodge, No. 373, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he served one term as noble grand. He still permits his name to remain enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors.

DAVID A. MYERS, M. D., C. M. Among the physicians who settled at Lawton in the opening year of 1901, Doctor Myers has probably the highest distinctions in the field of surgery. With Dr. A. L. Blesh and Dr. LeRoy Young, he was a member of the committee on credentials to pass on all candidates from the State of Oklahoma for the honor of fellow in the American College of Surgery. This indicates his recognized stand- ing as an American surgeon, and his local practice in that specialty has made him known all over the western part of the state.

Doctor Myers was born at Cambria, Wisconsin, June 16, 1875, a son of G. D. and Maggie E. (Kittell) Myers. The Myers family came originally from Scotland, where they were members of the Rob Roy Clan. On coming to America they located in New York State, probably before the Revolutionary war. The Kittells came from Holland, settling in Pennsylvania, and this family con- tains ancestors who participated in the Revolutionary war. G. D. Myers was born in New York State in 1839 and died at Prentice, Wisconsin, in 1905. As a boy in 1857 he removed to Southern Wisconsin, where for many years he was in the grain and elevator business, and

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subsequently proprietor of a hotel in Prentice. His wife was born in Pennsylvania in 1843 and died at Prentice in 1903. Their children were: Fred, who is connected with the El Rose Development Company at El Rose, Saskatchewan, Canada; Major, who died at the age of seven years; and Doctor David.

Doctor Myers as a boy attended school in Cambria and subsequently was graduated from the high school at Marshfield, Wisconsin. He obtained a liberal education, spending two years in the University of Minnesota, and then entering one of the most conspicuous professional training centers in America, McGill University at Montreal, where he was graduated in 1898 with the degrees M. D. and C. M. He has since taken post- graduate courses, specializing in surgery at St. Louis and Kansas City, and has always kept in close touch with the leaders of the profession. After a few months of practice at Colby, Wisconsin, illness compelled him to recuperate in Texas, where he remained about five months. Returning to his old home at Prentice, Wis- consin, he practiced there a short time, and then became interne or house surgeon in St. Mary's Hospital in the clinic' of Charles W. Oviatt at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He remained there a year and held a similar position for a few months in St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac.

Since removing to Lawton in 1901 Doctor Myers has had a general medical and surgical practice, but more and more his time has been taken up with surgery. His offices are in the Simpson Building. He is an ex-presi- dent of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, a former president and secretary of the Comanche County Medical Society, has served as vice president of the Medical Association of the Southwest, and is a member of the State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Southern Medical Association. He is on the staff of the Southwestern Hospital at Lawton, and formerly was one of the proprietors of the Lawton General Hospital. For nine years he served as county superintendent of public health and for two years was city physician at Lawton.

Doctor Myers is a democrat, a member of the Presby- terian Church, and his fraternal affiliations comprise membership in Lodge No. 325, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Phillips, Wisconsin; Lodge No. 1056, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Law- ton; Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World, Woodmen Circle, American Nobles, and Knights and Ladies of Security.

In 1902 at Oklahoma City Doctor Myers married Daisy M. Herriott, who came from Plattsburg, Missouri. There is one child, Wanda Hallie, who now lives at home, and has attended Hardin College at Mexico, Missouri, and Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia.

IRA B. OLDHAM, M. D. One of the able and success- ful physicians and surgeons contributed to Oklahoma by the fine old Bluegrass State is Dr. Ira Brown Oldham, who has been engaged in the practice of his profession in the City of Muskogee since 1903 and who had become one of the representative physicians of Muskogee County prior to the admission of Oklahoma as one of the sov- ereign states of the Union. Through the territorial and state regimes Doctor Oldham has stood exponent of civic liberality and progressiveness and he is one of the well known and highly esteemed citizens of the fine Oklahoma City in which he has found a most attractive stage for successful professional activities.

On the parental homestead farm in Madison County, Kentucky, Doctor Oldham was born on the 2d of March, 1871, and he is a son of William Kavanaugh Oldham and J. Catherine (Brown) Oldham, botlı representatives of sterling old families early founded in Virginia. The

father of Doctor Oldham was born in Madison County, Kentucky, where his parents settled upon their removal from the historic \ Old Dominion State, and the mother was born in Albemarle County, Virginia. Hezekiah Old- ham, grandfather of the doctor, was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, and was a son of Capt. John Oldham, who was a gallant soldier and officer in the War of the Revolution and who was a son of William Oldham, the latter having immigrated to Virginia from England and having become the founder of the family in America. The foregoing statement indicates that Doctor Oldham is eligible for membership in that noble and patriotic organization, the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was the youngest in order of birth in a family of nine children, of whom three are now living, the parents having continued their residence in Kentucky until the time of their death.

Doctor Oldham passed the period of his childhood and early youth on his father's farm and in the meanwhile inade good use of the advantages afforded in the local schools, after which he completed an effective course of higher academic study in Central University, at Rich- mond, Kentucky. After having formulated definite plans for his future career he entered the medical de- partment of the University of Louisville, in the metrop- olis of his native state, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1892. After thius receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was en- gaged in the practice of his profession as a country physician in Madison County, Kentucky, for a period of ten years, the incidental discipline, of varied order and involving arduous work, having done much to fortify him more fully for his exacting and humane calling, of the dignity of which he has ever been deeply appreci- ative, the while he has shown his ambition to live fully up to its responsibilities by devoting himself continu- ously to study of the best standard and periodical liter- ature of his profession, besides which he has completed most effective post-graduate courses in the polyclinic institutions of Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans.

Doctor Oldham has been engaged in practice in the City of Muskogee since 1903 and here controls a large and representative professional business, the same being based on his distinctive ability, close devotion to his work and his unqualified personal popularity. While his practice is of general order he has devoted much atten- tion to surgery and in this field has gained high reputa- tion, with numerous delicate operations, both major and minor, to his credit. The doctor is a valued member of the Muskogee County Medical Society, is actively iden- tified also with the Oklahoma State Medical Society, and is a member of the American Medical Association. He was one of the organizers of the Oklahoma Baptist Hospital Association and has served continuously as a member of its board of directors. He is a stalwart sup- porter of the basic principles and policies for which the democratic party stands sponsor and while he has had no ambition for political office he served two years as superintendent of health for Muskogee, an office which he filled with characteristic loyalty and efficiency. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist Church in their home city.

The year 1895 gave record of the marriage of Doctor Oldham to Miss Mary Newland, who was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, and who is a daughter of Rev. Christopher Newland, a clergyman of the Predestinarian Baptist Church. Doctor and Mrs. Oldham have six children, namely: Elizabeth, Catherine, Ira B., Jr., Philip, Newland, and Caroline.

MARK E. CARR. During a residence of more than ten years at Tulsa, Mr. Carr has made the best interests of

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the city his own, and has worked with a most admirable publie spirit to forward every movement which would prove of permanent advantage to this growing commer- cial metropolis of Northeastern Oklahoma. That his work has been appreciated is indicated by the esteem and respect with which his name is spoken in that com- munity. Since coming to Oklahoma in 1904 Mr. Carr's chiei private interests have connected him with the oil and gas industry and more recently with the insurance business at Tulsa.

He was born at Port Henry, Essex County, New York, January 30, 1864, completing his education in an acad- emy at that place. His first experience in the insurance field was gained at the age of seventeen, and in 1886 he was made superintendent in Essex County for the Northern New York Telephone Company. About two years later he started for the West, visiting the states of California, Oregon and Washington. In the spring of 1889 he engaged in the hotel business at Deuver, Colorado, but the following autumn moved to Leadville in the same state, where he served four years as deputy clerk and recorder of deeds of Lake County, and later became identified with mining operations during the high tide of that industry in the famous camp at Lead- ville.

Coming to Indian Territory in 1904, Mr. Carr located at Bartlesville, where he was actively associated with the oil industry. In March, 1905, he removed to Tulsa, which had become the real metropolis of the oil and gas belt of Oklahoma. He was connected with several com- panies both in development and productive operations in the oil fields until 1912. In that year le established an insurance agency, and soon developed a profitable and extensive business. In June, 1914, he joined in partnership with Schuyler C. French, and the firm of Carr & French, with offices at 11 East 4th Street, is now one of the leading insurance agencies in North- eastern Oklahoma, and' both members have shown them- selves most progressive underwriters. They conduct a general business, and represent a number of the leading fire and life companies.

In politics Mr. Carr has always been stanchly aligned with the principles of the democratic party. He is a trustee of Tulsa Lodge No. 946 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and as a worker in season and out for the best welfare of his home city, is an enthusi- astie member and a director of the Chamber of Commerce.

GERALD H. GALBREATH. Both in winter and summer the opportunities for pleasures outdoors in the region of the bromide springs of Bromide are subject only to the temporary aberrations of weather, and even then there is scarcely a suspension of such activities, since indoors at the modern Hotel Galbreath are all the facilities for pleasure that the globe trotter finds in the average hotel of the cities. Many sources of interest are found in this hotel, its springs and immediate surroundings. The student of Indian lore finds everywhere the marks of a history relating to the Indian tribes going back for more than three-quarters of a century. Giant red oak trees are fanned by pleasant breezes nearly every day of the year. Gentle sten-like declivities succeed one another to the summit of a long meandering mountain, clothed with grass and trees, and winding gracefully back toward the main range of the beautiful Arbuckle Mountains. Like the prongs of a fork run little streets from the very door of the hotel. One of them goes back into the timber of the valley where blue waters run over picturesque falls, form beautiful bathing pools and run swift and deep over the clear rock-bottomed haunts of many kinds of fish. Another path goes over the mountain crest toward the palatial home of the pioneer of the Bromide region.

Another leads to the bromide spring, the sulphur spring, the fresh water spring, the bath house, sanatorium hill and a dozen other points of interest to the pleasure or health seeker.

The Hotel Galbreath, the manager of which is Gerald H. Galbreath, is built of white oolitie stone taken from the adjoining hills. It stands out on the upturned valley edge in striking likeness to some castle in an old country. As a finishing touch to Nature's work Judge William H. Jackson, father-in-law of Mr. Galbreath, and Robert Gall reath, the great Oklahoma oil magnate and uncle of Gerald H., built the hotel and made it artistic. While the hotel manager is engaged in other business activities in this quiet and attractive village, he is recalled by the hundreds of transient residents who vis't there as the chief man of the town in providing comfort to visitors and in giving them an abiding appreciation of this resort.

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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