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 116

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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Harvey H. Smith of Shawnee was born at Vine Grove in Hardin Couuty, Kentucky, October 17, 1869. IIis father, M. Smith, was born in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1835, but in early life went to Hardin County, Kentucky, where he was reared aud married, aud became well known as a farmer and banker. He spent practically all his life in Hardiu County and died in 1905 while ou a visit

at Armour, South Dakota. He was a loyal democrat. During the war between the states he served under two of the most brilliant Coufederate leaders, John Morgan and General Forrest. The mother, whose maiden name was Mary E. Smith, was born in Hardin County, Ken- tucky, and is still living at Vine Grove in that state. Her children were: Maggie, who is the wife of Henry Ditto, a farmer and stock man at Viue Grove, Kentucky ; Rebecca, wife of G. E. McMurtry, who is president of the Farmers National Bank at Vine Grove, Kentucky ; Harvey H .; and Silas H., who is a lawyer, is now con- uected with the Interstate Commerce Commission and resides at Washington.

Educated in the common schools of Hardiu County, Kentucky, Harvey H. Smith graduated from high school in 1884, spent a year and a half in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, one year in the Normal School at Glasgow, Kentucky, one year in the Springfield Institute at Springfield, Tennessee, and followed that with two years in the University of Indiana at Bloom- ington, leaving that institution when in his senior year.

Mr. Smith began the study of law at Lexington, Kentucky, in the winter of 1887 under W. C. Brecken- ridge, one of Kentucky's most prominent attorneys. He then entered the Louisville Law School at Louisville, and finished both the junior and senior courses in one year. On examination by the Court of Appeal in April, 1889, he was admitted and soon afterwards went to the Southwest and spent one year in practice at Dallas, Texas. After that for eight years Mr. Smith was a lawyer at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and in 1890 was elected a member of the constitutional convention which drew up the present organic law for the State of Ken- tucky. In 1891 he was appointed by Governor John Young Brown as secretary of the Statutory Commission. While still living in Kentucky in 1894 he was candidate for the democratic nomination for Congress, and was defeated by A. B. Montgomery. It may perhaps be stated as signifi- cant that Mr. Montgomery was defeated at the election by the republican candidate, although the district was normally 5,000 democratic.

In 1896 Mr. Smith removed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was engaged in the practice of law in that city until 1902. In that time he served as temporary

chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Convention in 1900, and was both temporary aud permanent chair- man of the state democratic convention of that state in 1902. In 1900 he refused the democratic nomination for governor. From 1902 to 1906 he was engaged in practice at Armour, South Dakota. While at Armour he established the First National Bank and was its vice president, and also established the Farmers & Merchants Bank at Geddes, of which he was a director. His busi- ness interests for many years have been of wide scope. While in South Dakota he established and was proprietor of the Runningmead Stock Farm, which came in for more than local fame as a center for fine stock.

It was in February, 1907, Mr. Smith came to Oklahoma, and has since had his home at Shawnee. His work as a lawyer connects him with some of the very important litigation in both civil and criminal law, and he has well furnished offices in the Mammoth Building. In Okla- homa also he has been called upon for public service. In 1912 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in 'the following session was candidate for speaker of the House, being defeated by J. H. Maxey. In 1914 he was candidate for democratic nomination for Congress, and was defeated by Hon. William H. Murray, the veteran Oklahoma politician, but only by 343 votes.

Mr. Smith is a member of the Pottawatomie County Bar Association, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of the Maccabees at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. At Anderson, Indiana, in 1897, he married Miss Nellie Ozias, daughter of William Ozias, who is a physician and surgeon, now living at Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Mr. Smith and wife are the parents of two children: Mary Arlene, a senior in the high school at Shawnee; and Virginia Marion, a freshman in high school.

O. T. ROBINSON, M. D. A successful physician, an untiring town booster and a progressive business man are three phrases that admirably apply in description of the position occupied by Doctor Robinson at Britton. He is a graduate of the Medical College of the University of Kansas and of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and ranks among the best physicians and best educated men of the state. For four years he has been a member of the board of trustees of his town and always a leader in public progress. He is proprietor of the Britton Phar- macy, a modern drug store and the only one in the town.

Dr. O. T. Robinson was born July 12, 1871, at Mad- ison, Georgia, a son of N. F. and Phoebe (Penney) Robinson. His father, now eighty-seven years of age and living at Sabetha, Kansas, is a uative of New York State, was an early settler in Cook County, Illinois, and for thirty years has resided in Northeastern Kansas. Doctor Robinson's maternal grandparents were residents of Long Island. Doctor Robinson has six brothers, all farmers and living in Kansas, and two sisters: Mrs. M. E. Marsh, wife of a minister at Wichita, Kansas; and Mrs. Lillian Stimson, of Lawrence, Kansas, wife of a former professor in the university of that state.

The primary education of Doctor Robinson came from the public schools of Kansas, and for a time he was a student in Washburn College at Topeka. In 1892 he graduated M. D. from the University of Kansas. He has twice interrupted his professional career to take work in' the Chicago Post-Graduate College. At the outset of his professional training it was his intention to qualify as a inedical missionary, and in his education toward that end he completed the course of the Chicago Theological Sem- inary. His wife's health, however, compelled him to abandon missionary work, and instead he took up the

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active practice of medicine. For a number of years he was physician at the United States Indian Agency at Colony, Oklahoma, practicing among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes. After the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche Indian country in 1901, he moved to Hydro, remained there seven years, and since 1909 has been identified with the community of Britton in Oklahoma County.

Doctor Robinson was married in 1904 at Wichita, Kansas, to Miss Laura I. Wellman, daughter of W. M. Wellman, a pioneer missionary of Western Kansas. Mrs. Robinson, who died in 1906, was the mother of three children: Theron W., aged nineteen, a high school grad- uate, and has finished two years in the University of Oklahoma, and is now a teacher in the high school at Britton; Marion, aged fourteen, a student in high school; and William, aged ten.

Doctor Robinson is a member of the Congregational Church, has filled all the chairs in his lodge of Masons and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Yeomen. He belongs to the Oklahoma Medical Association and the Oklahoma County Medical Society. For four years he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Town of Britton, and for several years a member of the Oklahoma County Republican Central Committee.

CHARLES P. LINN, M. D. A physician and surgeon and owner of a well equipped and splendidly man- aged hospital at Holdenville, Doctor Linn has many dis- tinctions as a pioneer physician of old Indian Territory. He has been in practice in this section of the state for more than a quarter of a century.

He was one of the organizers of the first medical society in Indian Territory, which was known as the Indian Territory Medical Society at Muskogee. For a number of years he practiced at Claremore, and was the first local surgeon of the Missouri Pacific Railway there, and afterwards was the first local physician to the Choc- taw Railroad of the Rock Island System at Wewoka.

It was more than thirty years ago that Doctor Linn graduated in medicine and began his professional career. He was born at Osceola, Missouri, October 14, 1860, a son of H. W. and Mary Elizabeth (Harrison) Linn. His father was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, and is now, at the venerable age of eighty-six, living at Pueblo, Colo- rado. The mother was born in Missouri, and is now eighty-four years of age. Doctor Linn's father spent nearly all his life as a farmer and during his active career in Vernon County, Missouri, served two terms as recorder of deeds. He also took an active part in business af- fairs, was a merchant and was also in the banking busi- ness in Vernon County. Doctor Linn was the second in a family of seven children, the others being named as follows: A. W. Linn, who is secretary and bookkeeper of the Interurban Overall and Shirt Company at Sherman, Texas; Mary Smith of South McAlester; John, a miner at Pueblo, Colorado; Maria Tribble of Trinidad, Colo- rado; Marvin, of Pueblo, Colorado, and Maude, who died when eighteen months old.

Doctor Linn was reared and received his early educa- tion in Vernon County, Missouri. When quite young he entered the University of Louisville in the medical department, and was graduated M. D. in 1883. His prac- tical work as a physician began at his old home in Missouri, but from there in 1887 he moved to Indian Territory, and for several years looked after a widely ex- tended practice at Claremore. In 1891 he was appointed national physician to the Seminole Indians, and with his home and headquarters at Wewoka retained that of- fice until statehood. It was a position which offered a variety of interesting experience, and Doctor Linn has Vol. IV-26

many interesting anecdotes to relate of the old time Indians and of the experiences of a white doctor dur- ing the early days of Indian Territory. After some special courses in medicine and surgery in New York City Doctor Linn located at Oklahoma City, and for six years practiced there, making diseases of women his specialty. Failing health caused him to leave Okla- homa City, and in February, 1914, he located at Holden- ville and established the Holdenville Hospital. This in- stitution under his management has become very popular and supplies a great need in Hughes County. It is a thoroughly equipped, modern, sanitary hospital, with thirteen rooms, with a standard operating room, and with all the facilities of a first class institution.

Doctor Linn is a member of the various medical so- cieties, is affiliated with the different branches of Ma- sonry, being a member of the consistory at Guthrie and other Masonic bodies at Oklahoma City, and is also a member of the Elks Lodge at Oklahoma City. His wife belongs to the Presbyterian Church.

On May 24, 1899, he married Miss Gertrude Belle Fisk, who was born at Sturgis, Michigan, a daughter of C. E. and Agnes Fisk, both now deceased. Mrs. Linn has one brother, Claud, who lives at Douglas, Missouri. The two children of Doctor and Mrs. Linn are: Marjorie, aged fourteen, and Gertrude, aged ten.

DR. THOMAS J. LEE. The Lee family, one of the best known and most highly honored in America today, was first established in Virginia by its English representative in Colonial times. Dr. Thomas J. Lee, practicing his profession in Rocky, Oklahoma, is of the same branch as was Gen. Robert E. Lee, of Civil war fame. Doctor Lee was born in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, on October 15, 1860, and is a son of Joshua and Eliza (Doster) Lee.

Joshua Lee was born in South Carolina in 1830, and he died at Lyerly, Georgia, in 1910. From South Caro- lina he went to Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, and there married. In 1868 he moved to near Rome, Georgia, where he spent his remaining years in farming, an occupation to which he had been reared and always followed. He served four years in the Confederate army as a volunteer from North Carolina. He was with General Lee at Appomattox and was breveted colonel in appreciation of his gallant service to the Southland. He was a life-long member of the Baptist Church and a deacon for forty-five years. His wife, now a resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was born in North Carolina in 1836. She was the mother of ten children. The three eldest, Flora, J. Monroe and G. S., are deceased. Wil- liam Ellison, a Methodist preacher, lives in Purcell, Oklahoma. Robert E. is a contractor and builder in Gainsville, Florida. Dallas P. is a Baptist preacher and is located at Elba, Alabama. Willis W. is pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church at San Antonio, Texas. Frank S. is with the Richmond Oil Company at Chatta- nooga, Tennessee. Charles R., pastor of the South Rome Baptist Church, is living at Rome, Georgia, long the home of the family.

Thomas J. Lee was the fifth born child of his parents. He was reared on the home farm, had a common school education in the Rome schools and remained at home until he was twenty-one years old. In 1883 he was graduated from the medical department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, with the degree M. D. Since that time ho has taken numerous post graduate courses, among them training in Atlanta, Georgia, Tulane University, New Orleans and the New York Post Graduate School.

In 1883, soon after his graduation, Doctor Lee began practice in Stilesboro, Georgia. He was there three

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years, then moved in 1886 to Childersburg, Alabama, where he remained in practice until 1895. In that year ill health caused him to give up his work there and pioneer it to Oklahoma, where he settled in Pauls Valley. He fonnd the climate suited to him, and his health improved. He resumed practice and was there occupied until the year 1902, when he went to West Hobart and bought a farm of 160 acres. He had not been seriously enongh inoculated with the agricultural "bug" to induce him to take to actnal farming, so he sold the place soon after and took np practice in Hobart, where he continned successfully for a year. It was not nntil 1905 that Doctor Lee came to Rocky, and here he has since continued in active practice, enjoying a good deal of popularity and success in his professional work.

The doctor has his offices in the Rocky Drug Store. He is a democrat and has served the town as health physician. He has been prominent in politics and has done good work for the party in county and state con- ventions. He was one of the original Wilson men of the county and ably asisted in the campaign that made Mr. Wilson president. Especially in educational affairs of the community has Doctor Lee shown himself interested, and he has exercised an excellent influence in the town along those lines. He is an active member of the Baptist Church and a teacher in the Sunday school. He has been vice president of the Oklahoma Baptist Con- vention, was a member of the Oklahoma Baptist Educa- tional Committee, and is a member of the board of trustees of the Oklahoma Baptist University, located at Shawnee, Oklahoma.

His professional ties are with the County, State and American Medical societies, and he is fraternally identi- fied with Rocky Lodge of the Odd Fellows, being past grand of Alabama Lodge.

Doctor Lee was married iu 1885 at Jonesville, South Carolina, to Miss Josie Fowler, daughter of E. T. Fowler, a farmer of that state, now deceased. Three children have been born to them.

Mary Virginia is a graduate of the Oklahoma Bap- tist College, with the degree of A. B., and is a teacher in the Clinton High School.

Joshua is an instructor in public speaking at the Okla- homa Baptist University. He won the oratorical contest at the state university at Norman, Oklahoma, and as an entrant in the Intercollegiate Prohibition Contest of Ora- tory, won the local, state and interstate contests. It is his intention to engage in the national contest in 1916, and his chance of winning is everywhere conceded to be a most excellent one.

Thomas J. Jr. was graduated from the Granite High School in 1915.

WILLIAM BRUCE CATTO, M. D. Among the men who have risen to prominence in the Oklahoma medical fra- ternity in recent years, Dr. William Bruce Catto, of El Reno, should be given mention. A physician by inheri- tance, comprehensive training and inherent talents, he has steadily risen in the profession of his choice, and although still a young man has accomplished achieve- ments that many men gain only after years of devoted effort.

Doctor Catto was born at Warrensburg, Illinois, May 28, 1882, and is a son of Dr. William and Florence M. (Nightingale) Catto, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of England. As a young man, Dr. Wil- liam M. Catto was taken by his parents to Canada, where he was educated for the profession of medicine, being graduated from the medical college at Toronto. Following this he came to the United States and took hospital work at New York, but soon moved to Illinois,

locating first at Warrensburg and subsequently removing to Decatur. He was very successful in his calling, and would have nndoubtedly made a noted name for himself, but was not allowed to enjoy the fullest measure of suc- cess, for he met his death in a railroad accident when bnt fifty years of age. Mrs. Catto, who survives him, is the mother of two sons: William Bruce aud Keith Angus.

William Bruce Catto was a child when taken by his parents to Decatur, and there his early educational train- ing was secured in the public schools. This was sup- plemented by a course at Bunker Hill Military Academy, following his graduation from which he entered Leland Stanford, Jr., University. Doctor Catto then took up the study of medicine in the medical department of the University of Louisville, at Lonisville, Kentucky, from which he was duly graduated with his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He first engaged in practice at Stedham, Oklahoma, and later, for one year, was surgeon of All Saints Hospital, at McAlester, this state, but in 1909 took np his permanent residence at El Reno, and this city has continued to be his home and the scene of his labors to the present. Here he has attracted to himself a large and representative practice, and his nndonbted talents have gained him not only material success, but a high and established reputation in his profession. He is a member of the Canadian County Medical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, as well as the Southwestern Medi- cal Association. When he left college he did not give np his studies, for he has ever been careful to keep him- self fully informed as to the discoveries made in medical science, and has done post-graduate work at the Physi- cians and Surgeons Medical College, at Chicago.

Fraternally, Doctor Catto is a Master Mason and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In his political views he is a democrat, but his profession has engrossed him to the exclusion of more than a good citizen's interest in public matters. Doctor Catto is a communicant and supporter of the Episcopal Church.

MRS. EMMA D. GOULETTE. In one of the attractive homes of Shawnee resides a woman whose work and influence have been such as to justify a claim that she is one of the foremost factors in the movement for the education and enlightenment of the American Indian. Mrs. Goulette herself possesses three-eighths Indian blood. She is a native of Oklahoma, or as it was then the Indian Territory. She has received the best advan- tages of the Indian schools and the higher colleges and institutions of training attended by members of the white race both North and East. Her work has been that of an Indian educator. Mrs. Gonlette is not only a cul- tured woman and a practical educator, but possesses a large share of that rare vision and common sense which are the greatest essentials in working out the problems involved in making the Indian race a distinctive yet homogeneous part of American civilization.

She was born at Salt Creek, Oklahoma, March 31, 1876. Her given Indian name was Ducquawas. Her father was Jacob Johnson, who was born in the District of Columbia in 1827. He married Sophia Vieux, who is a three-quarter blood Pottawatomie Indian. Jacob Johnson had a life of varied experience in the West. In the early days following the discovery of gold in California he conducted a number of caravans from Omaha west to the Pacific Coast. He and his wife finally came into the Pottawatomie country and took their allotment of 160 acres each close to Shawnee. His wife's allotment of 160 acres is two miles southwest of Shawnee, while his own was two miles further west.

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He died at his home on his wife's farm in 1911, and his estate is now in course of settlement. The widowed mother still lives on the old farm.

Miss Johnson inherited exceptional strength of mind aud character from her French, American and Indiau ancestors and was given an education such as to develop all her faculties. She spent nine years in the Chilocco Indian School, where she received splendid training as a disciplinarian, housekeeper and dressmaker, conducting a sewing class every afternoon for a month at the Chi- cago World's Fair in 1893. She spent one year in public school at Arkansas City, Kansas, four months in Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, and finished her training in Philadelphia, where she took the kindergarten course and teachers' training course and other post-graduate studies. She has the distinction of being the first Indian kindergartner in the United States and so far as known in the world. She has also attended summer school, spending two different summers in Chicago, one summer at Colorado Springs and one at Los Angeles. For four months in 1911 she studied the theory of education in the Metropolitan Business College and the Doolittle School of Chicago, and later in the Teachers' College in St. Louis.

While a student in Philadelphia in 1896 Miss Johnson taught in the Model School for Training Pupils there, and having passed the teacher's examination she was an instructor in the Philadelphia public schools for a time. Later she passed the civil service examination for Indian work, and was appointed a teacher at the Quapaw School of Oklahoma, spending one year there. She was next transferred to the Seneca Indian School at Wyandotte, Oklahoma, and during two years spent there was teacher of kindergarten and primary. Her next position was as advanced teacher in the new school at Rice Station, near San Carlos, Arizona. Little more than a year later she was advanced to the position of teacher on the United States Government payroll with an increase of salary. Until 1903 she was senior teacher in the Phoenix Indian School at Phoenix, Arizona, and was then transferred to the Pima Indian School at Sacaton, Arizona, being principal. During this time she was assigned to duty at the St. Louis Exposition, spending four months in the summer and having charge of the model primary kindergarten at the Indian Building, being the first Indian in charge of class-room work at any exposition. Following that assignment she resumed her duties at Sacaton, until February, 1905.

Then followed a period of recuperation, and she rested and studied at her mother's farm. 21 miles west of Shawnee. On re-entering the service she was engaged in the Indian schools at Albuquerque, New Mexico, until June, 1909. She then returned home to nurse her sister, Sarah Ann Goulette, who died November 2, 1909. With the exception of Phoenix her work was that of helping to build up run-down schools. Her next work was in assisting Supervisor Charles E. Dage- nett of the Indian Employment Bureau to organize an employment bureau for returned Indian students. This was her work from June 1, 1910, until January 27, 1911.

Mrs. Goulette took a prominent part in organizing the Society of American Indians, which held its fifth annual conference at Lawrence, Kansas, September 28-October 3, 1915. Of this organization Mrs. Goulette was made the vice president, in charge of the department of educa- tion.

A word should be said regarding the Society of American Indians. It has a membership of more than 1,500 Indians and white Americans. Many of the fore- most men of the country, scholars, educators, Government officials and men and women of prominence in other walks of life, have become allied with this organization and are actively eo-operating and supporting its work. However, the society is not connected with any other

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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