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 112

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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He represents an old colonial family. The MeDaniels, Scotch-Irish people, on coming to America located in South Carolina. Doctor McDaniel's grandfather was Britain McDaniel, who was born in North Carolina in 1784. He reached a remarkable age, passing away at Kennedy, Alabama, in 1883, at the age of ninety-nine. He was one of the early settlers at Kennedy, Alabama, and followed the occupation of farmer and stock raiser.

It was at Kennedy, Alabama, that Dr. William B. McDaniel was born December 6, 1868. His father, B. V. McDaniel, was born in the same place, June 10, 1839, and died at Kingsville, Alabama, April 18, 1898. Prac- tically all his native career was spent as a farmer and stock man near Kingsville. He was a Confederate soldier during the war, and from exposure contracted a disease which impaired his vitality the rest of his life and eventually resulted in his death when only thirty-six

years of age. He was a democrat, an active membe of the Missionary Baptist Church, and was affiliated wit. the Masonic fraternity. B. V. McDaniel married Nancy Guin, who was born near Kennedy, Alabama, Novembe: 18, 1844, and died at Kingsville, January 1, 1891. A brief record of their children is: A. J. McDaniel, a farmer at Kingsville, Alabama; G. G. and Dr. Willian B., twins, the former a farmer at Kingsville; J. B., ¿ teacher at Paris, Texas; M. V., a druggist at Big Cabin Oklahoma; and Abbie, wife of John Duke, a farmer near Kingsville.

While Doctor McDaniel had the advantages of a good comfortable home during his youth, he had to depend upon his own exertions to promote him into a learned profession. The first twenty years of his life were spent on his father's farm, and his education came from the public schools at Kennedy. For six months after leav- ing home he clerked in the store of S. E. Ware & Com- pany. He took two courses during the years 1891-92 in the Louisville Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, and in the following year began practice at Kingsville, Alabama. During 1894-95 he' was a student in the Birmingham Medical College of Alabama. He practiced at Reuben and for one year at Lubbub, Alabama, and in 1895 he removed to Oklahoma. His first location was at Baum, where he remained until 1899, and during the following year his home was at Zena. In 1900 Doctor McDaniel entered the Barnes Medical College at St. Louis, where he graduated M. D. April 12, 1901.

Being thus especially equipped by practical training and experience for increased efficiency as a physician and surgeon he resumed practice in 1901 at Big Cabin, Oklahoma. From there in 1908 he removed to Rosedale, but in a short time located at Byars. He is now the oldest physician in point of continuous residence in that town. His offices are in the State Bank Building.

Besides his private practice Doctor McDaniel is local surgeon for the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads, and is examining surgeon for the following insurace companies: New York Mutual, New York Life, Bankers, Missouri State Life, Kansas City Life, Northwestern Mutual of Mil- waukee and the Equitable Life. He is also a member of the Garvin County Medical Society.

In politics Doctor McDaniel is a democrat, is a mem- ber of the Missionary Baptist Church and is affiliated with Byars Lodge No. 261, A. F. & A. M. and with the Woodmen of the World.

At Vinita, Oklahoma, in 1899 he married Miss Tommie L. Norris. Her father was the late Tom Norris, an Alabama farmer. Doctor and Mrs. McDaniel have a fine family of seven children: Alta, now in the eighth grade of the public schools of Byars; Claudius, also in the eighth grade; John, in the fifth grade; Madge; in the fifth grade; Leo and Lando, twins, both in the second grade; and Wykoff, who has not yet reached school age.

JAMES G. DORAN is one of the successful lawyers of Western Oklahoma. He has had an active business and professional career, not only in Oklahoma but in several other western states and the value of his citizenship has been expressly appreciated in recent years at Laverne, his present home.

He was born November 6, 1857, at Xenia, Ohio, son of William and Rebecca (Haywood) Doran, his father a native of Ohio and his mother of New Jersey. There were ten children in the family, and it is a remarkable fact that all of them are still living, named as follows: John L., Frank M., Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Isaac, James G., Rebecca and Oscar.

During his infancy James G. Doran's parents moved to Indianapolis, where he spent the years until he was

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twenty-two. In the meantime he attended the public schools, graduated from St. Mary's Academy at the age of eighteen, and then entered a law office where he studied until admitted to the bar of Indiana at the age of twenty-one. After one year of preliminary prac- tice at Indianapolis, he moved to Nebraska, and later practiced in Colorado, North Dakota and Missouri until 1900. In that year his home was moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where for two years he gave his attention to the life insurance business. From Muskogee Mr. Doran went to Mangum, and soon afterwards to La- verne, where he has since enjoyed a profitable law practice.

In 1912 he was appointed a justice of the peace and in 1913 was elected police judge of Laverne, an office he filled with credit for three years. He is an active democrat.

On October 14, 1893, at Marshalltown, Iowa, Mr. Doran married Miss Cora Berry, daughter of Benjamin Berry. Mrs. Doran was born May 24, 1862, and died February 19, 1899, at Bosworth, Missouri. She was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church. She is survived by one child, Lloyd Doran, who was born at Bosworth, Missouri, October 25, 1897, and was graduated from the high school at Mangum, Oklahoma, with the class of 1914.

CHARLES HENRY GOODING. A forcible reminder of the pioneer days of the Choctaw Nation is contained in the recollections of Charles Henry Gooding, manager and owner of the Valliant Lumber, Light and Power Company, at Valliant, Oklahoma. His father's home, near old Goodland Church, was built in the wilds and for years it was possible to kill both deer and turkey while standing on the porch. The prairies were void of fences and houses, grass was as high as the back of the average house, and tens of thousands of cattle roamed at will. Those were days when the Choctaws themselves owned most of the cattle, and among the prominent ranchmen of that section were George Colbert, Thomas Griggs, Cole Nelson, Uncle Billy Springs, Gov- ernor Wilson Jones and the Wilson brothers.

Goodland Church was a popular meeting-place for the Indians. Here were put into use the bugle and the drum as instruments to lead the Indians on marches that were part of the early religious ceremonials. They marched two and two, and Mr. Gooding remembers lines that were more than a mile long. He recalls also that after the march in the evening, parties of the paraders visited the homes of individual Indians and serenaded them with the bugle and drum, and this was a social feature of the religious life of the community.

Mr. Gooding is the son of a white man, Henry Leaven- worth Gooding, who was born in the Choctaw Nation and whose wife, Rosanna LeFlore, was a daughter of Bazil LeFlore, the first governor of the Choctaw Nation after the Indians came from Mississippi. The elder Gooding was a contractor in his early manhood and later a farmer and stockman. After marriage into the Indian tribe, he served a term as clerk of Kiamichi County. His father came to Indian Territory when Fort Towson was established and was a sergeant in the first detachment of soldiers stationed there. He is now seventy-nine years of age. His wife died in 1905. The grandmother of Charles Henry Gooding was a full- blood Choctaw who could not speak English, while her husband, Bazil LeFlore, who came to Indian Territory with the Choctaws in the early '30s, was a quarter-blood Choctaw. Besides being the first governor of the Choc- taw Nation in the new country, he represented it for several years as a delegate at Washington, D. C. Until a year before his death he served as auditor for the

Nation. His early home was near Goodland, but he also once lived at Fort Towson, having bought from the United States Government the property at this post after it was abandoned by the War Department. Gov- ernor LeFlore, in 1902, had gone to visit Daniel Miller, a full-blood Choctaw preacher, who lived near Goodland, and stayed for the night. Next morning at breakfast table he expired of heart failure.

The first school Charles Henry Gooding attended was at Goodland. The schoolhouse was situated in the corner of the yard of Governor LeFlore and the school was taught by Mrs. LeFlore. Later he attended old Spencer Academy, which was situated near Fort Tow- son, and of which the Rev. J. J. Read, an early Presby- terian missionary, was superintendent. Later, O. P. Stark became superintendent and still later, after the school was moved to the prairie near the home of Judge Oaks, it was presided over by H. R. Shemmerhorn, another of the early missionaries. After leaving school Mr. Gooding became clerk in the store of Joel Springs, at Roebuck Lake, and later clerked for T. J. Stevens, a merchant near the old Walker place fifteen miles north- west of Hugo. Subsequently he established a farm and store near the mouth of Boggy, and this he sold to return to the employ of T. J. Stevens. Afterward he entered the milling business on Red River, but moved his mill into the mountains. There he remained until eight years ago, when he located at Valliant and estab- lished a lumber mill, planing mill, lumber yard and electric light plant.

Mr. Gooding was first married to a step-daughter of Thompson Nohoa, an Indian. They became the parents of three children, namely: Louis LeFlore, who attended Armstrong Academy and the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, and is now successfully engaged in business at Valliant; Henry L., who is a graduate of a military school at Lexington, Missouri, and is now engaged in farming near Mead, Oklahoma; and Mrs. Ernest Ball, who is the wife of an oil man at Tulsa. Mrs. Gooding died in 1893 and in the following year Mr. Gooding was united in marriage with Mrs. Clara Mitchell, a daughter of Thomas Ashford, of Doaksville. They had two children, namely: Mrs. Rosa Lacester, who is the wife of a prosperous farmer at Glen, Okla- homa; and Mrs. Virgie Martin, who is the wife of a merchant at that place. In 1902 Mr. Gooding was again married, being united with Miss Minnie Hall, daughter of P. D. Hall, of Grant, Oklahoma, and when she died he was married to Marinda Hall, her sister. Mr. Good- ing has one brother and three sisters: Bazil LeFlore, who is a farmer living in the vicinity of Grant, Oklahoma; Mrs. Joel Springs, who is a widow living at Hugo, Oklahoma; Mrs. J. E. Plank, who is the wife of a telegraph operator in the employ of the pipe line com- pany at Savannah, Oklahoma; and Miss Esther, who lives with her father at Goodland. Mr. Gooding is a member of the Masonic and Woodmen lodges, and was a charter member of the Woodmen Lodge and Woodmen Circle at Grant.

IRVING L. HULL. In 1909 Irving L. Hull came to Cordell as the cashier of what was then the Oklahoma State Bank, but which three years later was nationalized, becoming the State National Bank. Mr. Hull is still in the office of cashier with the institution, which is the foremost of its kind in the community.

Mr. Hull was born in Woodbine, Iowa, on January 31, 1882, and is a son of Irving D. and Annette A. (Rumple) Hull. The father was born in Connecticut in 1850, and is now living retired in Greeley, Colorado.

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to Maringo, Iowa, near where he was married, and they later moved to Woodbine, Iowa, where the subject was born. Mr. Hull was a farmer and stockmau all through his active business career, and prospered in that work. He is a veteran of the Civil war, serving in Company E, Twenty-fourth Iowa Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, pass- ing through the entire period of the war. He was at Vicksburg, Malvern Hill, passed through the Red River campaign, and participated in many vital engagements with his regiment. He is a Methodist of long standing and is a Mason and au Odd Fellow.

To him and his wife were born seven children. Edith married Arthur Garrett, a factory superintendent, and they live in Detroit, Michigan. Oscar, a farmer, lives at Gilerest, Colorado. Ethel is a milliner and makes her home with her parents in Greeley, Colorado. Edna mar- ried a Mr. Kindred, and they live in Windsor, Colorado, where he is a phunber. Irving L. was the fifth child of his parents. Vera married G. G. Wilson, a wholesale produce merchant of Greeley, Colorado. Orlo B. lives at Ocean Beach, California, where he is a professor in the high school.

Irving L. Hull had his early schooliug in Woodbine, Iowa, and when he had finished his studies in the public schools entered the Woodbine Normal and finished a course of training there. His first positiou was with the First National Bank of Woodbine, Iowa. He entered as a book-keeper and was promoted to the office of cashier's assistant, which he held uutil 1909. In that year he came to Cordell, Oklahoma, to take the cashier- ship of the Oklahoma State Bank, which was uational- ized in 1912 and became the State National Bank of Cordell.

The State National Bank of Cordell is the oldest finan- cial institution in the town. It was founded in 1900 with a capital stock of $5,000, by G. H. and H. L. Rowley, under the name of the Cotton Exchange Bauk. In 1902 its growth demanded an increase in capital to $10,000, and it became the First National Bank, still under the direction of the Rowleys. In 1909 the bank was again reorganized as the Oklahoma State Bank with a capital of $30,000, and a new and modern brick build- ing was erected to house the concern. Under this organ- ization H. L. Rowley was made president, and I. L. Hull was retained in the position of cashier. In 1912 the bank was nationalized and its present title, the State National Bank, came into use. In 1913 H. L. Rowley disposed of the greater part of his interest in the con- cern, and W. L. Taylor was elected president, J. A. Taylor becoming assistant cashier. In 1914 the bank deposits aggregated $113,000.

Mr. Hull, who has been connected with banks and banking from his earliest independent career, has active charge of the business. He is conceded to be a man of good judgment, well versed in affairs connected with the banking business, and only success is predicted for him. The directors of the bank are J. G. Dodson, J. A. Duff, G. F. Ames, W. F. Taylor, I. L. Hull and J. A. Taylor.

Mr. Hull is secretary and treasurer of the Cordell Library Board, and it should be said that he was the originator of the movement that resulted in the obtain- ing of a fine Carnegie library which was completed iu 1911. He is a member of the Commercial Club and has served for several years as a member of its executive com- mittee. With his family he has membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his fraternal associa- tions are with the Elks, the Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen.

In 1909 Mr. Hull was married in Woodbine, Iowa, to Miss Bessie M. Haas, daughter of Lewis Haas, now pres- ident of the Woodbine Savings Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Hull

have two children, Allison, born in June, 1910, and Harley born June 20, 1912.

R. EARLE SMITH, M. D. Among the enterprising citizens of the younger generation in Gracemont, Okla homa, R. Earle Smith figures prominently as a successfu. physician and surgeon. He has been engaged in the active practice of his profession in this city for the past two years and during that period has acquired a large and lucrative patronage here and in the adjacent countryside.

The Smith family originated in England and representa- tives of the name came to America and settled in New York in the early colonial days. The first born in a family of seven children, Doctor Smith is a native of Gorman, Texas, where his birth occurred, May 3, 1887. He is a son of C. C. and Addie (Mauu) Smith, the former of whom was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1856, and the latter of whom is a native of Norton, Kansas, where she was born in 1857. The father was reared and educated iu Alabama aud was a pioneer settler in the vicinity of Gorman, Texas, in 1871. He was mar- ried in the latter place and was actively engaged in farming and stock raising there until his retirement from business. To him and his wife were born the following children: Doctor Smith is the subject of this sketch; Marion is county superintendent of schools for East- land County, Texas; Low is a successful and popular teacher in the schools of Eastland County; Vera is a sophomore in the University of Texas; Charles is a sophomore in the Denton Normal College; Iola is a junior in the Gorman High School; and May is a pupil in the public school of Gormau.

After a thorough preliminary educatiou in the public and high schools of Gorman, Texas, Doctor Smith attended Hankins Normal College, in Eastland County, Texas, graduating in the class of 1906. He then entered the University of California, in which he completed the course in 1909 and in the following year he was matricu- lated as a student in the University of Oklahoma, in which excellent institution he was graduated in 1913, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Doctor Smith began his professional work in Gracemont, this state, and his splendid success here indicates a thorough pre- paredness for his life work. His offices are in the Grace- mont Drug Building, on Main Street. In politics he is enrolled as a democrat, and in a fraternal way he affiliates with Gracemont Lodge No. 344, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; and with Gracemout Camp, Woodmen of the World. Doctor Smith is essentially progressive in his professional work and as a citizen he gives his ardent support to all measures and enterprises tending to pro- mote the public welfare.

In 1910, in Norman, Oklahoma, occurred the marriage of Doctor Smith to Miss Effie Brisbin, a daughter of Mrs. Flora Brisbin, of Norman. Doctor aud Mrs. Smith are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Gracemont, in which he serves on the official board. They are both popular in the social life of Gracemont and are held in high esteem by their fellow citizens.

HENRY MAURICE REEDER, M. D. Since he established his heme at Asher in August, 1908, Doctor Reeder has been an active citizen as well as a very competent physician and surgeon. He enjoys a very large prac- tice and in whatever way it may be estimated his life has been one of commendable success. He gained his professional education by his owu earnings, and he is a man ambitious to serve and make himself a useful factor in the commuuity.

The Reeder family to which he belongs came from

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England to Massachusetts in colonial times. However, Doctor Reeder himself was born in Bland County, Vir- ginia, April 27, 1876. His father, Stephen S. Reeder, was born at Starkey, New York, in 1833, grew up in his native state, but from there went to Virginia, and was married in Bland County to Emma Fulkerson, a native of Virginia and of a well-known family of that state. She is still living. The father died at Lexington, Missouri, in 1889. In July, 1876, when Doctor Reeder was only a few weeks old, his parents moved out to Lexington, Missouri, where his father became a mer- chant. He also served several years as deputy county collector. He was a deacon in the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Doctor Reeder was the second in a family of five children, the others being: Catherine, wife of O. S. Bulkley, a rancher at Lancaster, California; Lyman F., who is a successful attorney at Batesville, Arkansas, where he studied law under Judge Yancy and Judge Fulkerson; Walter, who is a planter at Tampa, Florida; and Pearl, wife of Dr. H. G. Campbell, a physician and surgeon at Asher, Oklahoma.

Doctor Reeder as a boy attended the public schools of Lexington, Missouri, graduating from the high school in 1892. After that he earned his living for several years as clerk in different stores at Lexington. In 1899 he went out to Kern County, California, and was employed in the California oil fields until 1904. Returning East he entered the University Medical College of Kansas City, and remained until carning his M. D. degree in 1908. A few weeks after his graduation he located at Asher, Oklahoma, and has since acquired a large general medical and surgical practice, his offices being located on the main street of the town. He is a member of the Pottawatomie County and Oklahoma State Medical so- cieties, and the American Medical Association, He is also local surgeon for the Rock Island Railroad, and is examining physician for the Oklahoma National Insur- ance Company, for the International Insurance Company of St. Louis, and the Bankers Life Insurance Company of Des Moines. He is a member and medical examiner for Choctaw Lodge No. 87, Woodmen of the World, at Asher, and is a member of Asher Lodge No. 238, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. His church is the Presbyterian, and in politics he is a democrat. He has served on the Asher School Board.

At Batesville, Arkansas, in 1910, Doctor Reeder mar- ried Miss Mary Latham. Her father, Rev. James G. Latham, is now pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Minco, Oklahoma. To their marriage have been born three children : Henry Maurice, Jr., Mary Catherine and Nell Latham.

HENRY C. L. LUCK. One of the most accomplished editors in Oklahoma is Henry C. L. Luck, editor and owner of the Beacon Light at Laverne. It is said that Mr. Luck is a master of five languages, and while still a comparatively young man he has had a range of experience which is very unusual.

He was born in the noted Prussian City of Spandau, August 14, 1877, a son of Albert and Emily (Goettel) Luck, both of whom were natives of Germany. Mr. Luck was fifth in a family of seven children and the only one of them in America. He received his early education in the public schools of Germany, and spent most of his early youth in the City of Berlin. From the age of fourteen to twenty-one, he served a thorough apprenticeship and a journeyman's experience as a machinist.

Following that came four years of European travel with an American circus, and his mechanical proficiency, his command of language and general all around ability

made him very valuable to the concern. For two years he was with Buffalo Bill as an interpreter during his European tour.

Mr. Luck came to America in 1904 as valet to Buffalo Bill, but soon afterward left his service and in 1905 resumed his work as a machinist. Subsequently he toured the United States with a circus, and in 1907 arrived in Oklahoma. He located a claim in Ellis County thirteen miles south of Laverne, and made that the center of his operations for a time. For two years he lived in the Town of May, and owned and conducted a machine shop there before his removal to Laverne.

On August 1, 1915, he bought the plant and business of the Beacon Light, which is a socialist paper at La- verne, and under his editorial management this paper has prospered and has widely extended its influence and circulation. The Beacon Light is now in its fourth year. Mr. Luck is an active socialist and is identified with the party in Harper County. He was secretary of the Ellis County organization in 1910. Mr. Luck has never mar- ried. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church.

NELSON P. H. WHITE, M. D. Seven years of devoted service in maintaining the health of a large part of the population of Clinton has drawn the career of Dr. Nelson P. H. White within the fold of a large and emphatic need, giving him an increasing outlet for a wealth of professional and general usefulness. Doctor White was born in Washington County, Virginia, Sep- tember 27, 1864, and is a son of Pascal H. and Eliza- beth (Essary) White, natives of Virginia. The father, of Scotch descent, was a farmer and stockman in Vir- ginia all of his life, where he owned a large plantation, and died in 1872, at the age of fifty-seven years, at Men- dota, Virginia, where Mrs. White still resides.

Nelson P. H. White attended the public schools of Washington County, Virginia, and was graduated from the Mendota High School in the class of 1882. In the following year he was graduated from Hamilton (Vir- ginia) College, and after leaving that institution taught school for one year in Washington County, Virginia, and one year in Sullivan County, Tennessee. He com- menced the study of medicine in a preparatory school at Blountville, Tennessee, where he spent three years, and then entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, at Baltimore, Maryland, and was graduated therefrom in 1890, with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. He did not cease his study and research when he left college halls, however, for he has been a con- stant student, having taken a post-graduate course at the Medical College of Virginia, in 1896, where he specialized in obstetrics and in the diseases of women and children.

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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