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 19

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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the Confederate army in the early days of the war be- tween the states, later becoming division surgeon in the army of General Lee, still later a member of the General Assembly of Virginia For some years previous to his death he spent the summer months iu West Vir- ginia and the winter season at Nowata, Oklahoma. Twice married he is survived by his second wife and one daughter, Mrs. William B. Thraves, of Nowata.

Mary E., the eldest daughter of the family, was born in 1837. As long as her parents lived she gave them unceasing and tender care. A few years afterward she established her home at Prairie Grove, Arkansas.

William H. H. Campbell enjoyed the educational ad- vantages offered by the old Winchester Academy and other good schools and chose medicine as a career. He served faithfully as a soldier in the war between the states, later moved to McDonough Institute, Maryland, married Jessie Gorsuch and has seven children. Bean C. and Robert M. Campbell, third and fourth sons of the family, served prominently and faithfully through the war between the states and after the surrender of Gen- eral Lee returned home and engaged for a time in farm- ing and then removed to Missouri, Robert M. subse- quently settling on a fine farm in Kansas.

Nannie R. Campbell became the wife of W. W. Glass and they reared a family that has given a good account of itself. John Edwards Campbell was the seventh born in the family Emma, the next in order of birth, was married to Lincoln Maupin, and they have descendants. Roberta, the next daughter, married Henry Clay Magru- der and became the mother of a large family.

Herbert Campbell, the sixth son of the family was graduated in medicine at Baltimore but later joined his brother, John Edwards, in Oklahoma, and in the eighties was a cowboy. He is a resident of Nowata, Oklahoma, and is the owner of large and important interests here and also in Texas.

Allan W. Campbell was the last of the sons to leave the old homestead after some years as a farmer. He was prominent in church affairs and was a ruling elder in the Round Hill Presbyterian Church. After the death of his parents he removed with his family to Indian Terri- tory.

John Edwards Campbell, with his brothers and sisters, was given educational advantages including attendance at Winchester Academy. When the war between the states came on he desired to accompany his brothers into the conflict, but finally submitted to wiser counsel and continued his studies until he was declared competent to teach school, and during 1868 he taught the public school near Romney, Virginia. He was ambitious and as he realized that the crippled condition of his native locality would necessarily limit local opportunity for many years, he decided to leave the shelter of home and start out for himself, starting westward on September 18, 1869. When he reached Missouri he found a school that needed a teacher and remained in the same locality until early in April, 1870, when he made his way to Kansas, and in preempting a claim there, exhausted his resources. Mr. Campbell's stories of those days of deprivation, hardship and adventure are thrillingly interesting. Although some of his friends in Virginia had sought to discourage him when he announced his determination of seeking a home in the great West, he had assured them that he was con- fident that he could make at least fifty cents a day and that would sustain him. However, he sometimes found that a difficult matter at first, not from lack of will but from lack of opportunity and gratefully accepted such tasks as working in a sawmill, driving an ox team and cut- ting railroad ties. He had not been reared to manual labor but as he found no use for his educational abilities,

he was wise and courageous enough to accept any employ- ment that came his way. And thus, in great part, has Mr. Campbell built up his large fortuue, his lands and herds making him one of the wealthy men of the West, courage, enterprise and business foresight combining with recognized opportunity to lead the way to fortune.

When Mr. Campbell reached Kansas, which was in 1870, he located at a village in Wilson County that was then called ambitiously New Chicago, but the present town bears the name of Channte. As his fortunes grew a little better he was able to more satisfactorily' choose his occupation and after leaving Kansas went into the Osage country and for two years was employed as a clerk in a trader's store and afterward for about two years was with John Florer, a United States post trader, at Pawhuska. In December, 1875, he assumed the duties of manager of a store for J. H. Bartles, in the Cherokee Nation. This continuance of business experience proved very helpful and in 1880 he embarked in a mercantile business for himself at Lightning Creek, which he was later instrumental in having changed to its present poet- ical name of Alluwe. Soon after he became interested also in the cattle business and in 1887 he opened up a new enterprise, founding the first mercantile business at Nowata, Oklahoma, erecting what was the first store building. Mr. Campbell may justly be called the father of Nowata, for when he located here the only other building was the railway depot not then completed. In 1898 he established the Nowata bank, of which he was vice president, it later becoming the First National Bank of Nowata, with Mr. Campbell at its head. His interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the town continues and it is with pardonable pride that he has watched the place develop.

When Mr. Campbell came first to the Cherokee Na- tion it was as a stranger, but ere long, through pleasing personality and fair and upright dealing, he ingratiated himself with the leading members of the friendly tribes and was virtually adopted by the Delawares, and on January 17, 1878, was united in marriage with Emeline Journeycake. She was born November 29, 1852, on the Delaware Reservation near Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, and is a daughter of Rev. Charles Journeycake, the last chief of the Delawares. Her ancestry may be traced in history as early as the sixteenth century, on down through the many changes until in 1870 the Delawares were incorpo- rated with the Cherokees. Mrs. Campbell is educated according to accepted standards and is an admirable woman in every way. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have had three children: Roberta Emma Jane, born October 31, 1878, was married to Eugene B. Lawson, October 31, 1901, and they have one son, Edward Campbell Lawson, born October 7, 1905; Robert Charles, who was born July 29, 1880, died September 30, 1881; and Herbert Lockhart, who was born July 25, 1885, is a merchant at Nowata, Oklahoma, and was married February 27, 1907, to Flora Dougherty and they have one son, John Edward Campbell, born July 5, 1908.

In his political affiliation, Mr. Campbell has always been a democrat. He has not chosen to accept public office, for the magnitude of his private interests have largely absorbed his time, but he has ever been generous in giving wise counsel and in forwarding every com- mendable business enterprise of this section as a private citizen. He belongs to Nowata Lodge No. 1151 Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, and his record in Masonry is probably unequaled in the state, belonging, as he does, to Sunset Lodge, No. 57 A. F. & 'A. M .; Chapter at Independence, Kansas; Muskogee Command- ery K. T .; Southwestern Consistory, Kansas City, Thirty- second degree; Ararat Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., Kansas

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City, Missouri. Prompted by the pnrest of family affec- tion, he has been the means of making others comfortable in their surroundings and enjoys, as he deserves, their tender attachment.

HON. JOSEPH J. CLARK, M. D. For several generations there has been a tradition among physicians that the average doctor is a poor collector and the story cites the example of a village doctor who always, if possible, avoided meeting a debtor for fear that latter might feel the doctor was going to "dun" him. This tradition is mentioned only to point the contrast to the case of Dr. Joseph Clark, who was one of the first physicians and surgeons to establish a practice at the new Town of Milburn and who among many other activities is now a member of the Oklahoma State Legislature. While Doctor Clark does not classify with the type of doctor just mentioned, neither is he a gruff, obtrusive, exact- ing fellow who scares money ont of his clients. Early in his professional career he provided facilities for tak- ing care of calves, pigs and other livestock which he might take on debts, and the result is interesting in that his accumulations of livestock instead of coin of the realm almost drove him involuntarily from his pro- fession into the livestock business. Near Milburn he operates a ranch of 5,000 acres, growing fine breeds of livestock. The two lines of activity have kept him pretty busy, but he found time in 1914 to be elected to the State Legislature and time the following year to devote four months to legislative duties at the capital.

A Kentnekian by birth, Doctor Clark was born in Crittenden County, December 17, 1874, a son of Dr. J. R. and Nannie (Johnson) Clark. In the several genera- tions of the family there has been a large number of physicians. His father was for many years one of the leading doctors of Kentucky and served one or more terms in the State Legislature. His mother, who is a native of Tennessee and is still living in Kentucky, is descended from patriots of colonial and revolutionary periods. She had the distinction of having two sons elected to the Legislature from two different states at the same time, J. J. Clark, from Oklahoma, and W. H. Clark, from Sheridan County, Kansas, who had been serving two terms as prosecuting attorney as a democrat from a republican county.

The literary education of Doctor Clark was obtained from the common schools of Kentucky and from the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Lexington in that state. In March, 1896, he graduated from the medical department of the University of Lonisville, and several years later, in 1901, he took post-graduate work in the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis. His prac- tice began at Marion, Kentucky in 1896, and while liv- ing there he was surgeon for the Illinois Central Rail- road, and also served on the state and connty boards of health. In 1901, owing to failing health, he removed to St. Louis, lived there several months, and then re- turned to Marion, Kentucky, which city he left for the Indian Territory in 1903. He located at Milburn which had been founded only a few months previously, and in connection with his early practice conducted a drug store, and as already related began the foundation of his present extensive ranch interests.

While a physician of the ability and popularity of Doctor Clark has abundance of employment in his pro- fession, he has shown his versatility in his active rela- tions with many local movements and with politics. He served as the first chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee after statehood, and for eight years has been a member of that committee. He has been a member of the Milburn City Council, city physician, and

during the administration of State Health Commissioner Dr. J. C. Mohr was county health commissioner.

On entering the halls of the Legislature at Oklahoma City, Doctor Clark was appointed chairman of the Committee on Public Health, Pure Food and Drugs, and was the author of several measures relating to public health. He was a member of the committees on Public Roads and Highways, Elections, Practice of Medicine, and Initiative and Referendum. Some of his important accomplishments were in securing an adequate appropri- ation for the Murray School of Agriculture, which is lo- cated in his home county, and he also assisted to secure appropriations for the Central State Normal School at Edmond, of which his brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Evans, is president. In 1912 Doctor Clark was named by Gover- nor Lee Cruce, his old neighbor back in Kentucky, as a member of the board of commissioners to the Southern Congress on Tuberculosis at Waco, Texas.

In 1896 at Marion, Kentucky, Doctor Clark married Miss Frances B. Blue, who is a woman of thorough cul- ture and of a prominent Kentucky family. She was educated in the public schools of Marion and in St. Louis. Her father, Hon. John W. Blue, was for many years one of the most prominent lawyers in Kentucky, and served in the State Legislature. He was born in Union County, Kentucky, graduated from Princeton Col- lege, and his own attainments have been continued by members of his family. Mrs. Clark's brother, John Blue, a prominent lawyer and a graduate of the Louis- ville Law School, was the first mayor of Marion, has held the position of judge in his county, is president of the Bank of Marion, three times has attended as a dele- gate the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church and was once delegate to the Pan-American Assembly of that denomination. One of Mrs. Clark's sisters is Mrs. Charles Evans, wife of the president of the Central State Normal School at Edmond; another is Mrs. E. B. Krausse, wife of a St. Louis manufacturer; and still another is Miss Nora Blue of St. Louis.

Doctor and Mrs. Clark have four children: John Ken- neth, aged fifteen; Johnson Blue, aged twelve; Joseph Stanley, aged nine; and Francis Marion, aged five. Doc- tor Clark is a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Pres- byterian Church, the Milburn Good Roads Club, and belongs to the county and state medical societies.

HON. CHARLES FRANKLIN BARRETT, senator from the Thirteenth Senatorial District, comprising Pottawatomie and Lincoln Counties, has attained to many distinctions in the domain of the law, politics and journalism. From the time he learned the printer's trade in Kansas thirty- five years ago, he has had a career which for versatility and varied incident few newspaper men in the United States have surpassed, and as a class they are noted for the variety of their associations with men and affairs. Mr. Barrett has been identified with Oklahoma since the early territorial days, and is a recognized authority on questions of its politics and civil government.

A native of Southern Ohio, he was born at Galion January 1, 1861, a son of John E. and Charlotte (Rey- nolds) Barrett, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. In 1869 the family moved out to Kansas, and thus Senator Barrett grew up practically on the frontier of the Middle West and as a boy imbibed the atmosphere of a new and progressive country. His early education was acquired in the country schools of Washington County, Kansas, and in 1880-81 he took a special course in the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, and while there learned the printer's trade. After leaving the State school he taught one year in Washington County, and then entered upon his real life work as a journalist.

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In 1882 he became editor of the Journal at Green- leaf, Kansas, remained in charge about two years, then for a year turned his attention to farming and the rais- ing of blooded stock in Washington County, but in the fall of 1884 acquired a half interest in the Post at Washington and subsequently was sole editor and pub- lisher of that newspaper four years. His newspaper work has always been characterized by an aggressive forcefulness, a command of ideas and language in which to express them, and his editorial pen has always been respected and sometimes feared. He has always been on the democratic side whether in politics or in newspaper work.

While running a newspaper at Washington he also read law, and in 1888 retired temporarily from news- paper work and engaged in the National Building Loan business as state agent for an investment company of Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1889 he visited a number of the cities in the South, but on returning to Kansas City took up metropolitan newspaper work. During the same year he went out to Denver, Colorado, and combined news- paper correspondence and political activities, and in 1891 participated in the great rush and early events at Creede aud other mining camps in Colorado. In 1892 he became editor of the Star at Leadville, and during the same year the State of Colorado went over to the populist party, and he then sold his newspaper interests and for a time was employed on the daily papers of Salt Lake City, Utah. From there he went to Helena, Montana, but on account of hard times resulting from the panic remained only a short time; was also located at Evanston, Wyoming, but in 1893 returned to Denver, where he resumed newspaper work.

On July 4, 1893, Mr. Barrett arrived in Oklahoma City and at once formed a connection with the Daily Press-Gazette, at that time the leading democratic paper of the territory. He was editor until its consolidation with the Daily Oklahoman, which occurred after a bitter newspaper war between those two journals. He then became managing editor of the consolidated paper and remained in charge until just prior to the election of 1894.

In the spring of 1895 Mr. Barrett was admitted to the Oklahoma bar and at the opening of the Kickapoo country and the establishment of Shawnee he moved to Pottawatomie County, locating first at Earlboro, where he practiced law until 1896 and then established his home at Shawnee.

In the long fight for statehood for the twin territories Senator Barrett was an active factor and frequently rep- resented his city and territory on committees chosen to appear before Congress to present the cause of Single Statehood.

At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war Mr. Barrett was captain in a Shawnee company of the National Guard, but owing to the fact that only volun- teers were accepted resigned his commission and en- listed as a private in Company K of the First Terri- torial Regiment. He became first sergeant, and while the regiment was encamped at Albany, Georgia, he had his right leg broken while in line of duty at the rifle range. He was mustered out with his regiment February 13, 1899, and on returning to Oklahoma, after a long period of convalescence he located at Perry. There for one year he was associated in the practice of law with Hon. Thomas H. Doyle, later presiding judge of the Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma.

While at Perry on September 26, 1900, he married Miss Capitola E. Millard, daughter of Captain Reece J. and Jane (Fowler) Millard, both natives of Pennsyl- vania. Mrs. Barrett was born May 15, 1881, at Dun-

lap, Kansas. To their marriage have been born three children: Charles F. Jr., born January 19, 1903; and Helen Jane and Wanda Charlotte, twins, born July 1, 1905.

In 1901 Senator Barrett established the Shawnee Herald, first as a weekly and later as a daily, and con- tinued its editor and manager until 1906. During the Constitutional Convention he served as a clerk, and in the campaigu of 1907 for the adoption of the consti- tution he was manager of the Democratic State Press Bureau. In March, 1908, he was chosen secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, and in organizing and per- fecting the service of that state department he deserves the greatest credit. On June 1, 1910, he resigned from his office as secretary of the Board of Agriculture to be- come publicity agent for a Shawnee development com- pany. It was in 1900 that he made his first campaign and was elected a member of the State Legislature from Pottawatomie County, and in 1912 he was elected to the State Senate from the Thirteenth District. In both houses he was easily recognized as a leader, not only on the floor but in committee work. His long and varied acquaintance with men and affairs iu this state gave him more than an individual influence, and his impress is on many departments of the state's life. At the present time Senator Barrett is manager of the Democratic State Press Bureau, with headquarters at Oklahoma City.

After recovering from the injury sustained in the Spanish-American war, he re-enlisted in the Oklahoma National Guard, and was advanced through the various grades until in 1907 he was commissioned major, but in 1914 was relieved from active duty iu the field and has since been judge advocate of the department. For twenty years or more he has shown a commendable zeal and activity in behalf of Oklahoma, is loyal to every enterprise for the public good, and his activities deserve permanent record in the annals of the new state.

HARRY GILBERT JOHNSON. As a strong, energetic and capable business man, Harry Gilbert Johnson has proven a distinct addition to the realty interests of Oklahoma City since his arrival here in 1914. During his active ca- reer he has been identified with journalism, politics and various business enterprises, and in each field in which he has been engaged has displayed the possession of qualities which have at all times given him stauding and influence with men who are accomplishing things.

Mr. Johnson was born at Marion, Marion County, Ohio, in October, 1876, and is a son of Newton Mes- senger and Ellen (Casey) Johnson, the former born at Marion, Ohio, and the latter at Stalybridge, County Cheshire, England. The Johnson family on coming to America during colonial days, settled first in Rhode Island, from which state the grandfather, of Mr. Johnson removed to Ohio about the year 1820. The early mem- bers of the family participated in the various early wars of American history, and Newton Messenger Johnson fought for three years in the Union army during the Civil war, being a member of the Sixty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at Story (Murfreesboro) River and sent to the hospital for some time, but upon recovery rejoined his regiment and served until stricken with sickness, when he was honorably dis- charged because of disability.

He was a brave and faithful soldier and his war record was an excellent one.

When Harry Gilbert Johnson was seven years of age, his parents removed to Winchester, Tennessee, where, in Franklin County, the father engaged in farming. There the youth had the advantages to be gained at the public schools, and subsequently attended Winchester Academy

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until the family moved to Oklahoma, in 1891, and located at El Reno. His education was completed at Kingfisher College, and during the period of his course there he served in the capacity of editor of the college paper. Having shown an inclination for journalistic work, when he left college Mr. Johnson entered the office of the Kingfisher Free Press, which at that time was edited and published by the late Jake Admire, Mr. Johnson continuing there for four years and learning the printer 's trade. He then returned to El Reno and entered the postoffice as assistant, continuing in the Government service for six years, and in 1907 established and became editor of the El Reno Republic, a republican paper. After three years of hard work he sold this newspaper, in 1910, and it was removed to Weatherford, Oklahoma. For two years after retiring from the newspaper business, Mr. Johnson served as undersheriff of Canadian County. He had always been an active republican worker in Oklahoma and a great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, and in 1912, after doing faithful work to secure the support of the state for the Colonel for the presidency, he went to the convention at Chicago to "boost" for his ideal American. When the revolt came after that convention, Mr. Johnson joined the progressive move- ment, returned to Oklahoma and worked with the pro- gressive state committee in the capacity of assistant secretary, having complete control of the speakers for the party throughout the state.

In the early part of 1914 Mr. Johnson financed and established the Oklahoma Oil and Gas News, at Oklahoma City, and published this organ until it was purchased by parties at Tulsa and its headquarters removed to that city. This journal is today broadly recognized as one of the leading oil and gas journals of the country. In November, 1914, Mr. Johnson joined E. M. Butler, of Oklahoma City, in organizing the Arkansas Land Com- pany, which concern has obtained at a low figure a large amount of Arkansas property, which will be converted into fertile and productive land, and has since given his entire attention to the colonization plans of this enter- prise, seeking to develop the holdings of the company. The offices are maintained at 810-14 Insurance Building, Oklahoma City. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, being identified with El Reno Lodge No. 743.

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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