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In the career of Mr. Brunson in Oklahoma there are other matters of interest relating to the early days of the Coal County region. For instance, while he was city attorney, he prosecuted before the Coalgate city council the case wherein Jim Thompson, city marshal, and a United States deputy marshal were charged with failing to make a report on occupation taxes collected, and under the Arkansas law, prevailing in Indian Territory at that time, he was subject to removal by the council. When the trial began, Mayor Theodore Von Keller, City Attor- ney Brunson and each of the eight members of the council were armed, as were also attaches of the court and friends of Thompson. Mr. Brunson, his right hand on the trigger of a revolver concealed in his coat pocket, faced Thompson on the witness stand and plied questions that brought out the undeniable guilt of the latter. The situation was tense and every man in the council cham- bers feared bloodshed. When the vital question was put, Thompson confessed and made a move as if to fire, but was instantly reminded that the concealed revolver of the city attorney was in near proximity. The council voted to discharge Thompson, who, a few hours later, under the influence of liquor, rode along the street armed and looking for some member of the municipal govern- ment on whom to get revenge. City Marshal England was the first approached. His revolver was in his hand and he was an expert shot. A twirl of the weapon on his finger and the ball passed through Thompson's heart. As city attorney, Mr. Brunson also prepared the ordinance that provided for the establishment of the first public school system at Coalgate, in 1902. Four years later he was elected mayor, and during his administration the artesian water supply for the municipal water system was established and the system installed. Mr. Brunson is at present the incumbent of the city attorney 's office.
David D. Brunson was born at Rome, Georgia, Novem- ber 29, 1873, and is a son of D. T. and Fannie F. (Cheves) Brunson. His mother, a native of Georgia and a descendant of the French Huguenots, now lives at Glenwood, Arkansas. The father, who is a veteran of the Confederate army, in 1862 attended Mercer Univer- sity of Georgia, as a schoolmate of Doctor Murrow, of Atoka, Oklahoma, one of the editors of this work. The elder Brunson, at the age of twenty-one years, entered the Confederate army with one of the professors of Mercer University and a negro servant named Richards, and the three served together during the war, being at the close among the six of the company of 106 that survived. After the surrender of the Southern forces at Appomattox, Federal soldiers asked black Richard to whom he belonged and he replied, pointing to his master: "I sho' is Mas Dad's niggah." There were several children in the family of D. T. and Fannie F.
Brunson, of whom two survive: David D., of this notice and Thomas R., a graduate of the University of Arkan- sas, who is employed by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission as a civil engineer.
Early in the life of David D. Brunson, his father moved to Stephens County, Texas, which was then a sec- tion of the great livestock region of the Lone Star State. Little law prevailed there then and the free range be- longed to every man, and each carried weapons of defense. Naturally, school facilities were poor and Mr. Brunson was nine years old before he had an oppor- tunity to attend an institution of learning. After com- pleting the high school grade, he went to Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, and attended part of a term, and during the next few years he alternated between teaching and attending school until 1901 when, with $3.00 in his pocket, he opened a law office at Mm- freesboro, Arkansas. He remained there six months, being successful in the handling of the few cases that came to him, and then changed his field of operation of Coalgate. The next year he entered a partnership with George A. Fooshee and the firm of Fooshee & Brunson has since continued. This firm has probably tried more cases involving Indian lands than any other in the eastern part of the state. It is the oldest firm in that section and in avoirdupois probably is the largest, Mr. Fooshee weighing 285 pounds and Mr. Brunson 210 pounds.
Mr. Brunson was married in October, 1904, at Arka- delphia, Arkansas, to Miss Mattie C. Herring, and they have three children: David D., Jr., aged five years; William T., aged three; and Mary, who is two years old. Mr. Brunson is a member of the Baptist Church, of the local lodge of the Masonic order, of the Coalgate Com- mercial Club and of the county, state and national organizations of his profession. He has been an active worker in the ranks of the democratic party, having par- ticipated on the stump in every campaign since the advent of statehood, and a member of every state con- vention. He has been chairman of the Senatorial Dis- trict Committee and a member of the Democratic Central Committee of his congressional district. He is con- siderably interested in the development of oil and gas in his section of the state, and his firm owns some of the most valuable business property at Coalgate and 1,000 acres of fine agricultural land. He has had a hand in the establishment of the municipal, social, industrial and educational resources of the town, and is an active, pro- gressive spirit in all avenues of public progress.
GEORGE LOVELL SNEED. When General Morgan, the noted Confederate raider, following some brilliant mili- tary manoeuvres in Indiana and Ohio, was captured by Union troops, the four men who had accompanied him on the particular expedition that resulted in his capture made good their escape and their flight of 300 miles back into Virginia is a matter of heretofore unrecorded his- tory. One of these four men was J. H. Sneed, the father of George Lovell Sneed, county attorney of Marshall County, Oklahoma. The early part of the flight the men made mounted, but, fearing that their chance of escape would be greatly hazarded by this means of transporta- tion, abandoned their mounts and took to the woods on foot. For weeks they journeyed through the most se- cluded regions, occasionally passing through gaps in the Union lines, and finally reached a detachment of the Confederate army which they joined and with which they continued fighting until the close of the great war.
Raider Sneed rode an obstreperous and contrary gray mule when the flight began. The little party approached the Ohio River at a point where no crossing was in evi- dence and, fearing to turn either to the right or left to
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the state at large. He is at present judge of the County and Probate Court of Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
Mr. Cox is a member of the Cherokee County and Okla- homa Bar Association, and was first vice president of the state association from 1910 to 1912. His fraternal affiliations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows and the Knights of Pythias, and he has filled chairs in both lodges and is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. October 2, 1884, Mr. Cox married Miss Sarah E. Hawkins at Mountain Home, Arkansas. She died May 22, 1907. Their three children were: Mrs. J. I. Coursey, wife of a prominent young lawyer of Tahlequah; Mrs. Arch Fulcher, whose husband is an abstractor at Tahle- quah; and William Grover Cox, now completing his education in the Northeastern State Normal School at Tahlequah. October 1, 1913, Mr. Cox married Miss Carrie Lee Akers, who for a number of years was engaged in the millinery business at Paoli, Kansas, and is a cousin of Earl Akers, state treasurer of Kansas. Mr. Cox has three brothers and four sisters: William N. Cox, a half-brother, who is a veteran of the Civil war and was with General Lee at the surrender at Appomattox, now lives at Westminster, South Carolina; F. F. Cox lives at Mountain Home, Arkansas; E. H. Cox is a California resident; Mrs. John Williams of Cumi, Arkansas; Mrs. Jane Karnes, of Heart, Arkansas; Mrs. John Duke, of Texas, and Mrs. Malinda Briggs, of Kingston, Tennessee.
PORTER C. BURGE. Prominent among the men whose activities have lent encouragement to the agriculturists of Woods County is found Porter C. Burge, manager of the Hopeton Elevator Company, at Hopeton. This con- cern, a farmers' co-operative enterprise, reflects the untiring zeal of Mr. Burge, who, from a modest begin- ning, has advanced its fortunes to the prominence of a necessary commercial adjunct.
Mr. Burge was born December 23, 1865, on a farm in Bureau County, Illinois, and is a son of Reuben and Eliza (McDonald) Burge. His father, born in 1833, in Ohio, went as a young man to Illinois and settled in Bureau County, where he passed the remaining years of his life in successful agricultural operations and died in 1867. He was married in 1863 to Miss Eliza McDonald, who was born in 1840, in Bureau County, Illinois, daugh- ter of Thomas and Martha (Perkins) McDonald, and to this union there were born two children: Porter C .; and John E., born September 9, 1867, who is now a resi- dent of Los Angeles, California. In 1872 Mrs. Burge was married to Levi Renner, and to this union there were born six children: Chester; Frederick; a son who died in infancy; Clarence; Myrtle, who died at the age of sixteen years; and Manuel. Mrs. Renner still survives and resides at Nickerson, Kansas.
When he was eight years of age, Porter C. Burge was taken by his mother and stepfather to Reno County, Kansas, and there was reared to manhood and completed his education in the public schools. He was brought up to agricultural pursuits, and remained in Kansas en- gaged in farming until 1893, in which year he came to Oklahoma and located on government land in Woods County. He is still the owner of his original homestead, located one mile from Hopeton, in addition to which he has other valuable land, all of which is under a higlı state of cultivation. In 1898, feeling that the agricul- turists of his community needed better representation, and protection of their interests, he, with others, organ- ized the Farmers' Federation of Alva, the first farmers' grain and coal company organized in Woods county. He was identified with this enterprise until 1904, when he, with others, was the organizer and promoter of the Hopeton Elevator Company, at Hopeton, of which he
has since been manager. It is probable that no one enterprise of the county has done more to raise the standards of agriculture or to encourage agricultural development. The enterprise has won the confidence and support of the farmers of this locality, as evidenced by the fact that in 1914 the Hopeton Elevator Company shipped about 30,000 bushels of wheat. In addition to his duties as manager of this concern, Mr. Burge conducts an agricultural implement business on his own account, at Hopeton, and under his able direction this has also proven an unqualified success.
Mr. Burge was married December 23, 1888, at Nicker- son, Kansas to Miss Eliza E. Gillock, born in 1873, in Greene County, Indiana, a daughter of Jackson Gillock, a farmer of Indiana and Kansas. While Mr. and Mrs. Burge have no children of their own, their hearts have gone out to the little ones, and two children, Roland and May Dowell, have been reared in their home to honorable man and womanhood.
HENRY GARWOOD, SR. The first drug store and the second business house established at Beggs in Okmulgee County was started by Henry Garwood, Sr., who for the past fifteen years has been very closely identified with that flourishing town and is now, besides being proprietor of the Garwood Drug Company, one of the leading capital- ists of the village, has done a great deal of constructive work in many ways, and his position as a leading citizen is well indicated by the fact that he served several years as mayor. He was born in Pennsylvania, January 8, 1854, a son of, James S. and Susan (Smith) Garwood. His parents were natives of New Jersey. His father, who was born in Port Republic of that state was for many years an active railroad man, and had first learned the trade of blacksmith. He died in New Jersey about 1875 at the age of sixty, while his wife passed away in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of eighty-three. Their six children were: Helen C., who lives in Kansas City, Missouri, is the widow of Dan P. Stewart, who died at Springfield, Missouri, while serving in the office of sheriff; Henry; Rebecca, wife of C. D. Reed, who lives in New Jersey and for forty-six years has been connected with the Erie Railroad; Joseph Summers of New Jersey ; W. D., who died at Amarillo, Texas, in 1915; and Millard of New Jersey.
Henry Garwood lived in his native town until ten years of age. His parents then went to Scranton, Pennsyl- vania, and later to Phillipsburg, New Jersey. After acquiring his education in the common schools, he found railroad work under his father with the Morris & Essex Railway. About 1870 the family moved out to Utah Territory, and for a year and a half Henry Garwood was fireman on a railway locomotive out of Ogdeu. Return- ing to Scranton, Pennsylvania, he continued as a loco- motive fireman for eight months, and then came to Springfield, Missouri, and became a fireman with the Frisco Railway. He did that work at a time when the Frisco locomotives still used wood as fuel. After two or three years he was promoted to engineer, and his service as a locomotive engincer aggregated about thirteen years altogether. In 1883 he left the Frisco and was with the Memphis for two years.
In November, 1886, Mr. Garwood having resigned from the railroad business, engaged in the drug trade at Thayer, Missouri, and for the past thirty years has made that his chief line of business. In 1897 he was for eight months in the drug business at Newburg, Missouri, spent two years at Springfield, and two and a half years at Fairplay, Missouri, and on May 1, 1901, arrived at Beggs, Oklahoma.
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one of the men who supplied enterprise to the new com- munity. For fifteen years he has conducted the drug business which he established as the pioneer institution of its kind, but his son Henry, Jr., now has active charge of the Garwood Drug Company. In 1911 he built the present drug store, a two-story brick, 25x100 feet, at the corner of Main and Choctaw Avenue. He also constructed the brick building on the opposite corner, occupied by the First National Bank and the postoffice, this being also a two-story brick, 90x25 feet. These are two of the most substantial and attractive business structures in the town. In 1902 Mr. Garwood put up a home of his own, built from native rock. His interests are now of a varied nature, and extend to farming, cotton gins and other enterprises.
Always an active man, Mr. Garwood suffered a severe affliction recently when as a result of blood poison his right leg was amputated just above the ankle on August 25, 1915. In politics he is independent, though usually he has voted in support of the republican candidate in national affairs. His service as mayor of Beggs was for two years before statehood, and since statehood he has been a member of the village board. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, in the lodge, chapter, commandery and temple of the Mystic Shrine, with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of Pythias.
On December 11, 1879, he married Miss Mollie M. Moore who was born May 12, 1864, in St. Louis County, Missouri. To their union were born four children: Mil- lard F., who died at the age of one year; the second died in infancy; Henry, Jr .; and James M., who died when nineteen years of age. Henry Garwood, Jr., who was born in Rogers, Arkansas, January 17, 1883, has devel- oped into a capable young business man and is now assuming many of the heavier responsibilities formerly carried by his father. He married Natta Clark, and they are the parents of two sons named James and Henry, Jr.
CARVER CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE. Vertebral adjusting by specific intention, was discovered at Davenport, Iowa, on September 15, 1895, by D. D. Palmer, a magnetic healer.
The system of vertebral adjusting devised by him at that time was named chiropractic, meaning, "done with the hand." The science of chiropractic was not then in existence and was not in existence for ten years subse- quent thereto.
Willard Carver, LL. B., D. C., now president of Carver Chiropractic College at Oklahoma City, is the constructor and formulator of the Science of Chiropractic. He began the study in December, 1895, and it came into existence in permanent form with the publication in a concise and organized treatise of "Carver's Chiropractic Analysis," published in Oklahoma City in December, 1909. The basic principle of the science is that interference with the transmission of nerve stimulus causes all functional abnormality. The science and art of chiropractic con- sists in adjusting displaced or disrelated tissue to remove interference with the transmission of nerve stimulus. It is purely mechanical and is connected in no way with therapy, being based upon an entirely different law than osteopathy, magnetic healing, massage, etc., and has nothing in common with medicine and surgery.
Willard Carver was born at Maysville, Scott County, Iowa, July 14, 1866, but two years later his parents, John Waterman and Eliza M. (Nutting) Carver, moved to Mahaska County in the same state, two and a half miles from Agricola. There on the farm of his father Doctor Carver was reared to the age of eighteen. His
education was obtained by attending a country school a mile and three-quarters distant from home during the winter months. The remainder of the year was spent in farm labor. In the spring of the year which marked his eighth birthday he drove a team at putting in the crops and from that time was reckoned as a regular hand about the farm. He early evinced a dis- position to find out why certain animals had died, and because of his many post-mortems and the general care of the health of the stock he was soon dubbed "Doctor" by his brothers and sisters. In 1884, at the age of eighteen, a broader horizon of opportunity was opened to him when he entered the Oskaloosa Col- lege at Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he was to remain to complete the course of two years. Then followed two years of school teaching, after which he entered the Drake University at Des Moines, and at the end of three years was graduated with the degree of LL.B and at once took up the practice of law. From 1891 until 1905, Doctor Carver was a practicing lawyer in Iowa, enjoyed a large practice and left the profession only to take up the still greater and broader field to which he had already given years of study.
In December, 1895, he began the study of chiropractic, and in 1897 began lecturing upon that subject through- out Iowa and the states adjoining and writing for magazines that would permit a publication with refer- ence to the subject. Many of these articles appeared in . the "Chiropractor," a journal published at that time in Davenport. In this manner he became gener- erally known as an authority on chiropractic many years before he entered a school for the purpose of studying the "Art of Adjusting.' Finally in 1905 he entered the Parker School of Chiropractic at Ottumwa, Iowa, and finished the course the following June. Since then he has devoted his time exclusively to lecturing upon chiropractic, teaching it to clases, writing text books on the science and practicing the profession.
In 1906 Doctor Carver came to Oklahoma City and with Dr. L. L. Denny organized and incorporated the present college under the name "Carver-Denny Chiropractic College." In 1908 Doctor Denny went to California, and was succeeded by Dr. A. C. McColl, at which time the name of the college was amended to its present form, Carver Chiropractic College. This college was started with the idea of establishing in the South an institu- tion solely devoted to the teaching and propagation of simon-pure chiropractic. It was located at Oklahoma City in order to get away from the territory of all other schools that had then been established.
Since the organization of the Carver College it has had the longest course and the most extensive curricu- lum of any school of chiropractic. Its first class com- prised fifteen students, while the student body now regularly numbers into the second hundred. The Carver College has never made a bid for the largest student body, but has been particular in the selection of the character of its students.
In 1906, at the time of the college's incorporation, the science of chiropractic had never been formulated and what was known of it was taught by word of mouth, and indeed there was very little known. In his work as dean and instructor, Doctor Carver rapidly developed the science of chiropractic, and presented it to the world for the first time in his "Analysis, "' pub- lished in 1909. No other work is in print at this time which assumes to give the science of chiropractic, all other books on the subject being devoted to the "Science and Art of Adjusting." The revision of the analysis (1915) brings its scientific phases down to date and is comprehensive of the subject.
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Doctor Carver is president and dean of the faculty of the college and has been such since its organization. The faculty is composed of men and women of his per- sonal standing and ability who are constantly making many sacrifices in order that the science of chiropractic may come into its own. The school now has an inter- national reputation and is an institution of which all citizens of Oklahoma are justly proud.
When Doctor Carver came to Oklahoma there existed a very drastic law prohibiting any practice except medi- cine. In the first legislature of the state, after an in- structive and ably conducted fight, Doctor Carver pro- cured the repeal of the existing law and the enactment of a statute permitting the practice of chiropractic in Oklahoma. For the first time there was placed in statu- tory law a definition defining the practice of medicine to be the prescription and adminstration of medicine and that only. Doctor Carver, while succeeding to this extent in securing a fair definition of the practice of medicine and securing a recognition for chiropractic, also sought at that legislature to have a law passed regulating the practice of chiropractic. But on account of adverse factions and bitter opposition of the medical organizations he did not succeed. Since then he has continued the effort and has expended about six thou- sand dollars out of his own pocket for the accomplish- ment of this purpose. It is believed that the present ·legislature of 1917 will finally pass a law substantially as it was first drawn up by Doctor Carver in 1907.
Doctor Carver is a member of the Federated Chiro- practic Associations of the United States of North America; a member of the Oklahoma State Association of Doctors of Chiropractic; a member of the organized alumni of the Carver Chiropractic College, in which as- sociation he is president of the advisory board and membership committee, and also editor of the Chiro- practic Record, a magazine published by that associa- tion. He was the organizer of these different associa- tions. He was president of the advisory board of the Oklahoma Chiropractic Association from its inception in 1907 until 1910, when the association went out of existence to permit the organization of the above named association. Doctor Carver has the distinction of having been one of the first delegates of the new State of Oklahoma to the International Tuberculosis Congress in 1908, and the first member of his school of doctors to receive official recognition or appointment for any pur- pose whatever.
In addition to numerous literary articles on chiro- practic, Doctor Carver is author and publisher of Car- ver's Chiropractic Analysis, 1909; Applied Psychology, 1914; and Carver's Chiropractic Analysis, revised 1915. He is president of the D. D. Palmer Memorial Hospital and its consultant doctor. For years he has served as legislative counsel for the chiropractors of Oklahoma and counsel for many state associations. He was attorney for the Chiropractor Association of Kansas in its mandamus of Governor Hodges, and is almost constantly engaged in the defense of chiropractors who are being perse- cuted by legal prosecution in different parts of the country.
In 1893 Doctor Carver married Clara Beatrice Blain of Montezuma, Iowa. She died in 1895, leaving a son, Ronald L. Carver. In 1897 he married Miss Ida Mae Smith of McGregor, Iowa, at Spirit Lake, Iowa. His home is at 419 West 29th Street, Oklahoma City, and the offices of the college are in the Majestie Building.
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