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. IV, Part 103

Author: Thoburn, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradfield), 1866-1941
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 656

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In 1892, at Kansas City, Missouri, Doctor Bonham was united in marriage with Miss Priscilla Haigh, of that city, and to this union there has been born one child: William L., who is now a freshman in the Hobart High School.

PRESLEY H. GALLION. When the Cheyenne-Arapaho reservations were opened in Oklahoma in 1892, Presley H. Gallion came to this section of the country, and since that time he has been identified more or less conspicu- ously with the growth and development of the district. His career has been a widely varied one, and has led him into many fields of occupation, in as many different states in the Union. When he came to the Indian Ter- ritory, however, he found a country that made an appeal to him that he was unable to withstand. He was appointed postmaster at Arapaho in 1912, and is still occupying that position.

Presley H. Gallion is of German and English ancestry, though his family has been identified with American life since Colonial days, when the first of the name settled in Virginia. He was born in Middletown, Henry County, Indiana, on July 12, 1847, and is the son of Thomas N. and Ellen (Smith) Gallion. The father was born in Ohio in 1820, and died in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1858. The mother, born in Ohio in 1823, died in Howard County, Indiana, in 1912.

Thomas N. Gallion moved from his native habitat into Wayne County, Indiana, in young manhood, and was there married, after which he located in Howard County. That move took place in 1848, and soon after he re- turned to Wayne County. He went to Minnesota in 1856, but trouble with Indian outbreaks caused him to return to Wayne County, where he died. He was a black- smith, and was a member of the United Brethren Church and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a man of excellent habits of life, and he stood well in those communities where he made his home.

Presley H. Gallion attended the schools in Howard County, Indiana, in his boyhood, and it will be recalled that in the '50s and '60s the educational advantages to be had in the country schools were not as valuable as

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those found in similar communities today. At the early age of thirteen he went to work for himself, and he was employed on farms in that vicinity as a helper, re- ceiving a small monthly wage. He continued in that work until he was almost sixteen years of age, and in the summer of 1863 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Indiana Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. He was then barely sixteen years of age, and he served for a year, being mustered out on March 4, 1864. He took part in several important engagements during that time.

In 1864 the boy went to Hagerstown, Indiana, and there applied himself to the task of learning the trade of a stonemason. He was occupied in that work until 1869, when he went to Clinton, Missouri, and there ran a coal mine for one winter, after which he resumed his trade as a stone mason and worked at it for the balance of the year. In the spring of 1870 Mr. Gallion went to Lawrence, Kansas, and until 1872 he was employed at his trade in the summer months, and in the winter seasons he taught school. In 1873 he went to what is now knowu as Elk County, in Kansas, and there he took up a preemption claim, on which he lived until 1889. He then went to Moline, Kansas, and ran a general store for a year, after which he changed his line to hardware and continued in business.

In April, 1892, Mr. Gallion came to Oklahoma, the opening of the Cheyenne-Arapaho reservations attracting him to the new place. He secured a claim of 160 acres eight miles distant from Arapaho, and he still owns that property. He lived on it until 1902, when he moved into Arapaho and took up his residence in town, secur- ing employment in a tin shop, where he worked until 1904. He then returned to his farm, and for three years gave his undivided attention to that well established enterprise. In 1907 he was offered a position in the Arapaho post office, which he accepted, and in 1912 he was appointed postmaster under President Taft. He has continued in that office down to the present time, his appointment having been confirmed under the democratic administration that followed. Mr. Gallion himself is republican in his politics, and has always been prom- ineut in local polities wherever he has lived. He has been the frieud of the public school system all his life, and has served many years as a member of school boards in his various communities. He is a member of the G. A. R., Custer City Post, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 42 of Arapaho. He is past noble grand of the local order, and belongs to the canton and encampment as well. .

On January 1, 1871, Mr. Gallion was married near Lawrence, Kansas, to Miss Anna Bailey, daughter of John A. Bailey, now deceased. He was a prominent farm owner and oil operator. Nine children have been born to the Gallions. Fred B. is a resident of Artesia, New Mexico, and is a farmer there. Fannie M. mar- ried J. C. Brower, and they live in Wichita, Kansas, where Mr. Brower is engaged in church work. Heury is a prominent rancher in California. Tom and John, twin brothers, are farmers at Fallon, Nevada. Roslyn is a teacher, and lives with her parents. Presley H. Jr. lives in California, and Robert I. is with him. Paul, a recent graduate of the Arapaho high school, is now at home with his parents.

OLIS L. PRICE. One of the well fortified and repre- sentative lawyers of the younger generation in Oklahoma City and now serving as judge of the Municipal Court, Mr. Price has shown marked ability and discrimination in the handling of the affairs of his court, which is one of very important order in connection with the ordering of governmental and general civic affairs, for the minor causes presented in such tribunals often touch more

closely the specific social welfare of the community than do those offered for adjudication in the higher courts.

Judge Olis LeRoy Price was born at Benton, the judicial center of Marshall County, Kentucky, on the 15th of September, 1880, and is a sou of John P. and Elizabeth Gertrude (McLeod) Price, the former a native of Missouri and the latter of Kentucky. Judge Price was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the beautiful and historic little City of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and in preparation for his chosen profession he entered Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tenncs- see, in the law department of which admirable institution he was graduated in 1906, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Immediately after his graduation he came to Oklahoma and established his residence in Oklahoma City, where he engaged in the practice of his profession and where he thus became a member of the bar of the new state, as Oklahoma was admitted to the Union in the following year. For a time he was associated in practice with D. B. Welty, and his ambitious efforts in his profession brought in their train a success and prestige that gained him strong vantage place in popular confidence and esteem, so that when the commission form of municipal government was adopted in Oklahoma, in 1911, he was recognized as a most eligible and logical candidate for the office of judge of the Municipal Court, to which position he was elected by the city commis- sioners in that year and of which he has since coutinued the efficient and valued incumbent. In the handling of the multifarious cases that have been presented before him he has manifested true judicial ability and also that humaneness and abiding sympathy which cause him to temper justice with mercy without sacrificing the prin- ciples of equity and of law and order. Concerning him the following statements have been made by one who knows him well and is able to place a true estimate: "Judge Price is blessed with a sunny, optimistic and buoyant disposition,-a temperament that makes for subjective happiness and that promotes the happiness of others. No matter what may be the conflicting purposes or motives of those about him, he maintains a gracious equipoise, is genial, considerate and courteous, with the result that he soon proves to all that he is master of himself and worthy of the respect and confidence of those with whom he comes in contact in the varied rela- tions of life. Such attributes make him specially strong and resourceful in the judicial office in which he is serving. "

Judge Price is actively identified with the Oklahoma State Bar Association, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.

At Mayfield, Kentucky, on the 27th of June, 1911, Judge Price wedded Miss Myra Davis, daughter of Robert T. and Sarah Elizabeth Davis, well known citizens . of that place. Judge and Mrs. Price have one daughter, Sarah Elizabeth.

GEORGE L. ZINK. Senior member of the firm of Zink & Cline, attorneys at Hobart, George L. Zink is like his partner one of the pioneer lawyers of Southwestern Oklahoma. He and Mr. Cline have been associated in partnership as lawyers since 1907.

Born at Litchfield, Illinois, March 27, 1875, George L. Zink is a son of George L. and Gillie R. (Cave) Zink. The Zink family is of German descent, with an admix- ture of Irish stock, and Mr. Zink is also related to the old Pennsylvania Quaker family of Browns. George L. Zink, Sr., was born in Smithfield, Ohio, in 1838, and died at Litchfield, Illinois, in 1902. He was a lawyer, and early in his career moved to Litchfield, where he married and where he practiced his profession until his death.

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In 1861 he enlisted in the Sixty-second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was incapacitated after only a short service. His wife was born near St. Louis, Mis- souri, in 1840, and the only child is George L., Jr.

He received his education in the public schools of Litchfield, graduating from high school in 1893, and then completed the junior year in the collegiate depart- ment of the University of Illinois, having specialized in chemistry. In 1896, after leaving university, he took up the study of law in his father's office and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1901. At the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation in 1901 he came to Hobart as one of the first lawyers, and also was a lucky drawer of a claim of 160 acres eleven miles southeast of the town. He developed that claim and sold it in 1907, but in the meantime had carried on a general law practice ever since coming to Hobart. Mr. Zink is also a veteran of the Spanish-American war, having enlisted in 1898 in Company K of the Fourth Illinois Regiment, and saw some duty in Cuba, being mustered out May 2, 1899. He went out as a lieutenant in his company and returned as captain.

Mr. Zink is a republican and is now a member of the Republican State Committee and has served as chair- man of the County Central Committee of Kiowa County. He belongs to the County and State Bar associations and has served on several important committees of each association. His fraternal affiliations are with Lodge No. 881 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Hobart.

At Hillsboro, Illinois, in 1904, he married Miss Nellie I. Miller, daughter of John Miller, who was at that time sheriff of Montgomery County, Illinois, but is now living retired at Hobart. Mrs. Zink died on the 30th of March, 1916, after a brief illness. They have one daughter, Marguerite Rebecca who was born September 4, 1905, and is a student in the Hobart public schools.

JOSEPH H. CLINE. In those eventful days of August, 1901, when a throng of people were seeking new homes in the recently opened Kiowa and Comanche reservations, one of those who selected Hobart as their place of resi- dence was a young man bearing the stamp of a pro- fessional education and who soon hung out his sign in the little village as a lawyer. From that time to the present Joseph H. Cline has continued a member of the bar, and is now one of the oldest in point of continuous service in Southwestern Oklahoma. Mr. Cline is a lawyer of sound learning and unquestioned ability and has been more or less constantly a leading figure in the republican party in the old territory and the new state.

His birth occurred at Belle Center, Ohio, in Logan County of that state in 1881. While the name now has an American spelling, his great-grandfather was a native of Germany, where the name was spelled Klein, and was an early settler in Virginia. Mr. Cline's father was H. M. Cline, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1834 and died at Belle Center, Ohio, in 1899. After leaving Cleveland he located in Auglaize County, Ohio, and then went to Belle Center, where he married, and in 1881 was elected sheriff of Logan County. The duties of that office took him to Bellefontaine, the county seat, and he continued as sheriff five years. Returning to Belle Center, he became a merchant, was owner of an elevator, and also had extensive interests as a farmer and stock raiser. He made a notable record as a soldier during the Civil war, having enlisted in 1861 in the Forty-fifth Ohio Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. In 1862 during the campaign through Eastern Tennessee he was cap- tured at Philadelphia in that state, and thenceforward for nearly three years endured the perils, discomforts

and hardships of Confederate prison life, in Anderson- ville, Libby, Belle Island, Raleigh, Columbus and other places where the Federal soldiers were confined. He was not released until the close of the war, and thus while four years elapsed from the time of his enlistment until his honorable discharge he had been a member of his company and regiment actually only about a year. The notable fact about his service is that only one other Federal soldier endured imprisonment for a longer time during the War of the Rebellion. His rival in this record was a soldier from Augusta, Maine, but his term of im- prisonment was only twenty days longer than that of Mr. Cline. H. M: Cline was a republican in politics and a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married Margaret Conley, who was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, in 1844, and died at Belle Center, in 1913. Their children were: C. H., who is a traveling salesman with home at Rushsylvania, Ohio; G. H., a merchant at Springfield, Ohio; Blanche, who married John Mains, railroad station agent at Belle Center, Ohio; Clara, wife of O. F. Dodds, who is interested in mining in the State of Arizona; Joseph H .; and Hugh M., who is on the police force at Springfield, Ohio.

Joseph H. Cline received his early education in the public schools of his native county, and graduated from the Belle Center High School in the class of 1897, His early law studies were in the office of Judge William H. West at Bellefontaine, and for one year he was in the Ohio State University and was admitted to the bar in 1900. After a brief experience as a lawyer in Charles City, Iowa, he came to the Southwest and participated in the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche reservations in 1901, and in August of that year settled at Hobart, where as one of the pioneer attorneys he has enjoyed a large general civil and criminal practice. Soon after arriving at Hobart he was appointed deputy county attorney of Kiowa County and acted in that capacity a year and a half. Before statehood he was one of the assistant attorney generals of the territory, and in 1909 began a two-year term as city attorney of Hobart. His offices are in the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building.

As an active republican Mr. Cline was for a number of years state committeeman from Kiowa County, also served as chairman of the Republican County Central Committee, and for several years was a member of the State Executive Committee. He belongs to the County Bar Association and fraternally is affiliated with Hobart Lodge No. 881 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

In 1905, four years after his arrival in Hobart, he married Miss Kathryn Ziegler, whose father is A. O. Ziegler, a cotton buyer at Hobart. To their marriage have been born four children: Margaret, born August 7, 1906, a student in the public schools; Kathryn, born September 11, 1909, and also in school; Mildred, born October 17, 1911, and Ralph, born April 3, 1913.

H. P. WHITE. The work by which Mr. White has chiefly identified himself with Oklahoma has been as a successful lawyer and a live and public spirited citizen of Pawhuska, which has been his home since 1905. He has lived in Oklahoma since 1903. Mr. White is a lawyer who has gained at the same time a substantial stake in business affairs and is also one of the local leaders in the republican party in his part of the state.

An Indiana man, H. P. White was born in Daviess County, March 8, 1871, a son of John A. and Mary (Harris) White. His parents were born in the same county, and his father, who was a farmer, died there in 1905 at the age of fifty-seven, He made a gallant record as a soldier in the Civil war, though he was only a

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boy at the time. His service was first with the Twenty- fourth Indiana Regiment of Infantry, and he afterwards veteranized and was with the Eightieth Indiana Regiment. Early in his career as a soldier he was severely wounded at Shiloh, where he lost an eye and received a bullet through his lung. Mrs. White died February 11, 1916. Her father, John Harris, also served four years in the Civil war and was a comrade of his son-in-law, John White. Mr. Harris was a sergeant, and did not altogether escape wounds and many hardships during his serviee. He is now living, past ninety years of age, at Alfords- ville, Indiana. Both these old soldiers took much interest in the Grand Army of the Republic, and several times attended the National Eneampment. H. P. White was one of a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters, a brief record of them being as follows: W. L., who is in business at Owensville, Indiana; Etalia, wife of Florian Webber of Alfordsville, Indiana; H. P .; Mollie, deceased wife of W. M. Winninger; Charles Otis, who was a farmer in Indiana and is now deceased ; Horace, also deceased; and Ray O., a farmer at Alfords- ville.

The first twenty-one years of his life Mr. White spent on the farm with his parents in Indiana. Most of his education was paid for by his own efforts and earnings as a teacher. For two years he was a student in the State Normal School at Terre Haute, and for five years was employed as a teacher in the publie sehools of his home town and county. He employed the intervals of his terms as a teacher in continued study; and following out an early ambition to become a lawyer was graduated from the University of Indiana, LL. B., in 1900. In that year he was admitted to the Indiana. Supreme Court and to the Federal Court, and in 1911 was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.

After three years of experience as a lawyer at Salem, Indiana, Mr. White moved to Oklahoma in 1903, first locating at Hobart, and from there moving to Paw- huska in 1905. He has sinee looked after a large gen- eral practice, and was also one of the organizers and is secretary of the Acacia Oil & Gas Company of Paw- huska. Other interests include the ownership of lands in Osage County.

Ever since eoming to Oklahoma Mr. White has been locally influential in the republican party. He was at one time an unsuccessful candidate for the office of district judge. He was a member of the Pawhuska School Board when its first and most important school building was being eonstrueted. His name is found on the rolls of membership in both county and state bar associations.

In 1908 Mr. White married Miss Idona B. Elrod. She was born at Salem, Indiana, in August, 1876. a daughter of A. W. and Lydia L. Elrod. Her father moved to Oklahoma in 1904, locating at Hobart, where he still resides on his farm. Mrs. White's mother died about three vears ago. To their marriage have been born two children: Ralph Waldo, eight years of age; and Mary Elizabeth, four years old.

FRED G. PRIESTLY, M. D. A resident practitioner of Frederick since the year 1902, Dr. Fred G. Priestly has become well known in medical circles of Southwest Okla- homa, and particularly in Tillman County, where he has attracted to himself a large and representative profes- sional business and has built up a reputation as a thor- oughly learned and conscientious physician and surgeon. Doctor Priestly was born at High Point. Missouri, Janu- ary 25, 1864, and is a son of E. T. and Polly Ann (Sun) Priestly. On his mother's side he is a member of an old family of Kentucky, where her grandfather settled

on his arrival from Germany, and also deseends from some of the earliest settlers of Arkansas.

E. T. Priestly was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1829; died at Siloam Springs, Arkansas, in 1903. He was reared and edueated in his native land, where he prepared for the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was twenty-one years of age when he emi- grated to the United States. For a number of years he was engaged in preaching in Missouri and filled various charges, but in 1867 removed to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and later went to Siloam Springs, in the same state, where his death occurred. Mrs. Priestly was born in Arkansas in 1830, and died at Siloam Springs in 1904, the mother of four children: Harriet Louisa, who is the wife of Mr. Shelton, a farmer of Pleasant Hill, Illinois; Dr. Fred G., of this notice; Maggie, who married George T. Thurmon, a merchant of Siloam Springs, Arkansas; and George, who was a machinist and died in the State of Montana in 1904 at the age of twenty-six years.

The publie schools of Fayetteville, Arkansas, furnished Doetor Priestly with the foundation for his edueation, and when his preliminary training was completed he went to the University of Fayetteville, which he attended for three years. He left that institution in 1885 and began to elerk for a merchant, being thus engaged until 1889. In the meantime, however, he had taken the first course in medicine at the Memphis Hospital Medical College, subsequently took the second course, and finally took the third course and was graduated in 1892, with the degree of Doetor of Medicine. He has taken post- graduate courses at the Chieago Post-Graduate College, and in 1914 took a like eourse at the Chicago Polyclinic. Doetor Priestly entered upon the practice of his profes- sion in Benton County, Arkansas, in 1892, and there remained until the fall of 1902. By this time he felt he had the experience, knowledge and training to fit him for service in a wider field, and he accordingly came to Frederick, Oklahoma, where he has sinee been engaged in a general medical and surgical practice. his office now being located in the MeFadden Building, 2141% Grand Avenue. He holds membership in the Tillman County Medieal Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and stands high in the esteem of his fellow practitioners. He is politically a democrat, and served as health offieer of Tillman County until his resignation, January 1, 1915. He has various business connections at Frederick, and is a director and stockholder in the National Bank of Com- merce. He stands high in Masonry, and at this time is a member of Frederiek Lodge No. 349, Aneient, Free and Accepted Masons; Frederick Chapter No. 41. Royal Arch Masons. and Frederick Commandery No. 19. Knights Templar. With his family he attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Doetor Priestly was married in 1885, while a resident of Arkansas, to Miss Virginia Frances McMullen, of Texas. who died in Arkansas. Three children were born to this union: Mack, who is postmaster at Deeatur, Arkansas; Nolia, who is a trained nurse and resides in the State of Washington; and Thomas, who is a student in the preparatory eollege at Clarence, Oklahoma.

HON. JAMES J. HUNTER. After completing an unex- pired term in the office of mayor of Hobart, in the spring of 1915 Hon. James J. Hunter was elected by the people of this thriving Kiowa County municipality to represent them in the chief executive's chair for a full term of two years. A resident of Hobart since 1904, and here engaged in a prosperous business venture, he had favorably impressed himself upon the people of the eom- munity as a solid and substantial eitizen, and the faith

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which they displayed in his ability and integrity has been thoroughly vindicated during the comparatively short period of his incumbency of the mayoralty chair.

Mayor Hunter belongs to a family which came to America from England during early Colonial times and subsequently became pioneers of Tennessee. He was born in Dallas County, Texas, January 1, 1872, and is a son of W. L. and Elizabeth (Boardman) Hunter. His father was born in Illinois, in 1847, and was eight years of age when taken by his parents to Texas, where after some years passed in farming he entered mercantile lines at Garland, Dallas County. In 1893 Mr. Hunter left Texas to come to Oklahoma, and until his recent retirement was engaged in farming and stock raising, but at the present time is living quietly at his home at Warren, Oklahoma. A democrat in his political views he is one of the strong and influential men of his com- munity and at the present time is serving in the capacity of justice of the peace. He is an active member of the Christian Church and an elder therein, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and in every connection is known as a progressive and thoroughly reliable citizen. Mr. Hunter married Elizabeth Boardman, who was born in Indiana, in 1853, and they have been the parents of nine children, as follows: James J., of this review; L. R., who resides at Warren, Oklahoma, and is engaged in agricultural pursuits; Minnie, who married W. P. Bryant, and resides at Chickasha, Oklahoma, where Mr. Bryant is engaged in the mercantile business; Grace, who is the wife of T. L. Willis, a farmer of Warren, Okla- homa; Roy B., who is associated with his father in busi- ness; Rex and Jay, who are engaged in farming ven- tures at Warren; Jewel, who is the wife of Milton Biddy, a farmer of Warren; and Miss Anna May, who is unmarried and makes her home with her parents.

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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: 656

Author: Thoburn, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradfield), 1866-1941
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 656