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 24

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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Mr. Beck and the men associated with him are twen- tieth-century men. They take an important part in every movement intended to advance the educational, commer- cial and agricultural interests of the city, county and state. The company pays one-sixth of the taxes im- posed for the expense of the city government and the condnet of the schools. They are advancing the cause of agriculture in the county through demonstration ac- tivities on their own land. In 1915 they planted forty- five acres in wheat, sixty-five acres in oats, forty acres in corn and fifty acres in alfalfa, all of which were treated by the most improved methods, which demon- strated the high character of the soil for agricultural purposes. They have three large silos, the ensilage from which is fed to a fine bunch of mules. Poland-China logs of the highest breed are also raised, and in the office of the company may be found accurate information relating to every phase of the lines of agriculture and stockraising in which they are engaged, as well as all details necessary for instructing and urging the proper and varied nses of cement.

WILLIAM S. CADE. A former United States marshal of Oklahoma, long prominent as a lawyer and in politics both in Kansas and Oklahoma, William S. Cade is now living retired at Oklahoma City. He has lived in Okla- homa for the past thirteen years, and is a brother of Cassins M. Cade, whose name has been so prominent in Oklahoma political life and banking at Shawnee.

Born in a log house on a farm in Noble County, Ohio, Jannary 27, 1849, William S. Cade is a son of Samuel and Emeline (Roe) Cade. Samuel Cade, who was born in Hancock County, Virginia, August 7, 1826, was a son of William Cade, a native of Virginia and of French ancestry. Samuel Cade died at Shawnee, Oklahoma, in 1910. In 1848 he married Miss Roe, daughter of David and Mary (Miller) Roe. She was born at Millersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1823 and died at Anthony, Kansas, in 1899. She was closely related to the noted border char- acter and Indian fighter, Lewis Wetzel, who was an associate of Daniel Boone in the exploration and settle- ment of the country west of the Alleghenies, and for whom a county in West Virginia is named. William S. Cade is one of a family of five children, three sons and two daughters, being the eldest. The others are: Bethemus M., who was born in 1850 and died in 1882; Ceola Virginia, who was born in 1853 and is now the wife of Henry Shaw, a farmer at Burton, Nebraska; Cassius Marcus, born in 1856 and is now a banker at Shawnee; and Mary L., born in 1858, the wife of George E. Clark of Shawnee.

Reared on his father's farm in Noble County, Ohio, William S. Cade has depended on his own exertions

largely to advance him from the position of a farm laborer. He attended the public schools, and in addition to a public school education he completed a teacher's course in the Southwestern Normal at Lebanon, Ohio, and spent thirteen years in the active work of education both in Ohio and West Virginia. He more than paid his way all this time, and besides attending to the duties of the schoolroom he read law at every opportunity and finally in 1874 entered the Unversity of Michigan at An Arbor, where he finished his law studies.

In 1875, at Pomeroy, Ohio, Mr. Cade began his prae- tice after admission to the Ohio bar, and was a resident of Pomeroy, Ohio, until 1879. In that year he moved out to Kansas, locating at Anthony and becoming a mem- ber of the original townsite builders. In 1882 he was elected on the republican ticket probate judge of Har- per County and was the third man to fill sneh an office in that county. He enjoyed a large practice as a lawyer, made a fine reputation on account of his abilities and his professional services, and remained at Anthony until 1903. In that year he moved his law offices to Shawnee, Oklahoma, and remained in practice until 1907. He was then appointed postmaster of Shawnee and filled the office four years. In 1911 he was appointed United States marshal for the Western District of Oklahoma, and re- signed the office in 1913. He has since lived retired at 903 West Thirteenth Street, Oklahoma City. Mr. Cade is an active Mason and a member of the Presbyterian Church.

On April 11, 1883, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, he mar- ried Miss Elizabeth Sarah Hagenbuch, third daughter of Benjamin and Lavina (Thornton) Hagenbuch, both of whom are natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Cade was born at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, August 21, 1855. They are the parents of two children, one son and one daugh- ter. Boyd Maurice, who was born at Anthony, Kansas, February 6, 1884, and is now living at Quincy, Illinois, was married in 1905 at Shawnee to Miss Nellie Bly Newport, and their two children are named William N. and Nettie Elizabeth. Lavina Emeline, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cade, was born September 3, 1885, at Anthony, Kansas, and on July 25, 1904, married Guy T. Templeton, an insurance man at Oklalfoma City, and they live at the home of Mr. Cade.

CLINTON F. CLARKE. As a member of one of the oldest families in America, Clinton F. Clarke traces his ancestry to Thomas Clarke, a native of old England and a mate on the maiden voyage of the Mayflower to this country. Thomas Clarke settled at Harwieh, Massachu- setts, and it is worthy of note here that Clarke Island in Plymouth Harbor was named after him. Among his numerous descendants are many patriotic Americans who have served illustriously in onr various wars. William Thomas Clarke, father of the subject of this sketch, was for four years a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war. IIe enlisted in the First Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry, from which he was later transferred and promoted to the rank of assistant adjutant general, under General Clinton B. Fiske, with headquarters at St. Louis, Missouri. He saw considerable active service and participated in a number of important battles. He was born in Maulius, New York, in 1833, and passed to eter- mal rest at Arnold Park, Dickinson County, Iowa, August 15, 1890. IIe was reared to adult age in his native place and as a young man journeyed west to Omaha, Nebraska. Later he married Kate Crippen Fisk, a native of Coldwater. Michigan, where her birth of- curred in 1843. Iu 1879 Mr. Clarke removed, with his family, to Des Moines, Iowa, and there he was most successfully engaged in the insurance business until his demise at his summer home, Arnold Park. He was a

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republican in politics, was affiliated with the time- honored Masonic fraternity and in religious matters was a devout communicant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of Des Moines. His devoted wife survived him for more than a score of years, her death occurring at Des Moines in the spring in 1912. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarke: William Thomas is western representative of the Home Insurance Company of New York, his home and business headquarters being at Des Moines; Clinton F., of this notice; and Robert Lincoln, who died in infancy.

In the City of Omaha, Nebraska, June 7, 1869, occurred the birth of Clinton F. Clarke, who was ten years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Des Moines, Iowa, in which latter place he received a good common-school education. For three years he attended the Shattuck Military School, at Faribault, Minnesota, and in 1896 he entered the banking business in Des Moines as a clerk in the Citizens National Bank, with which concern he was connected for the ensuing five years. In 1900 he became assistant cashier of the Citi- zens National Bank at Winterset, Iowa, continuing as such until 1906. He then engaged in the real-estate busi- ness in Des Moines and devoted his attention to that line of enterprise, with marked success, until 1911, when he re-entered the banking business as special clerk for the Towa National Bank. In the fall of 1913 he came to Anadarko, representing a syndicate of five banks, as collector, his offices being at No. 123 Broadway. He owes political allegiance to the republican party, is an ex-member of the Masonic fraternity, and belongs to the U. S. Grant Lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America, at Des Moines. Mr. Clarke is a capable business man and he is a loyal and public-spirited citizen, giving a stalwart support to all matters projected for the better- ment of his home community.

In the fall of 1896, in Des Moines, Iowa, was solem- mized the marriage of Mr. Clarke to Miss Edna G. Sedwick, a daughter of William C. Sedwick, who is a traveling salesman with residence at Hiawatha, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke have two daughters: Mary Ethel, a sophomore in high school at Anadarko; and Henrietta Catherine, a seventh-grade pupil in this city.

GEORGE A. FITZSIMMONS. A rising young attorney with high ideals and growing influence and clientele, George A. Fitzsimmons is a western man by birth and training, a graduate in literature and law from the University of Nebraska, and has life certificates as a teacher both in his native state and in Oklahoma. His membership in the Oklahoma City bar covers five years.

Born in Butler County, Nebraska, May 21, 1879, he is a son of John and Nancy C. (Moss) Fitzsimmons. His father was born in Ireland, came to the United States in 1846, locating first at Muscatine, Iowa, and in 1869 be- came a pioneer in Butler County, Nebraska. Besides his regular business as a farmer, he was for eight years a justice of the peace and for twenty-five years a member of the school board of Butler County.

It was in the country district of Butler County that George A. Fitzsimmons grew to manhood, with the whole- some environment of a farm to give him a sturdy out- look on life. His education in the country schools was supplemented at the Fremont Normal, and for three years he was employed as a teacher, and during that time received a life certificate entitling him to teach anywhere in the state. In 1904, entering the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, he was able to complete the lit- erary and law courses, usually requiring six years, in five years, and was graduated A. B. in 1908, and LL.B. in 1909. Immediately after his admission to the Ne- braska bar on June 11, 1909, he came to Oklahoma City,

For six months he was employed in the local schools of the state and has a life certificate from this state. Mr. Fitzsimmons took up active practice as a lawyer in March, 1910, and has since shown exceptional skill in the handling of cases both as counselor and advocate.

During 1914 he served as a member of the Demo- cratic County Campaign Committee, and is a member of the Young Men's League of Democratic Clubs of Okla- homa. He is past master of Myrtle Lodge No. 145, A. F. & A. M., of Oklahoma City, and is a member of the Christian Church. His law offices are at 10516 West Main street. /

WILLIAM P. THOMPSON. Among the men whose abil- ity, industry and forethought have added to the wealth, character and good government of Oklahoma, one of the best known is William P. Thompson. Mr. Thompson is a .lawyer, not only by education and long practice, but by temperament and preference. He has been engaged in prac- tice in Oklahoma for more than a quarter of a century and since 1899 has been located at Vinita. Political tendencies and executive ability have conduced to add to his possibilities of professional compensation and have broadened his efforts into the channels of public service, in which he has gained an established reputation for conscientious and capable performance of duty.

Mr. Thompson was born on his father's farm in Smith County, Texas,. November 19th, 1866, and is a son of James F. and Caroline E. (McCord) Thompson. The paternal great-grandparents of William P. Thompson were William and Mary (Johnson) Thompson, who came to America from their native county of Tyrone, Ireland, and located in Abbeville, South Carolina, where they reared their family of ten children, the former of whom died in Georgia in 1836 and the latter in 1860 in Dela- ware District of Indian Territory. Among them was Johnson Thompson, the grandfather of William P. Thompson, born in South Carolina, who married Mariah Lynch, a native of Georgia, and had two children, of whom James F. was the elder. In 1836 the grandpar- ents located on Beatties Prairie, in Delaware District. now Delaware County, Oklahoma, and in 1837 the grand- father erected a home which is still standing. James F. Thompson was born in the Cherokee Nation, Cass County, Georgia, May 4, 1831, and was still a small lad when taken to Indian Territory by his parents, and resided there until going to Smith County, Texas, at the age of eighteen years. There during the next twelve years he was variously engaged in farming, sawmilling and merchandising, and continued to be so occupied until the outbreak of the war between the states. In 1861, at Overton, Texas, he enlisted in Granberry's Brigade, Pat Cleburne's Division, which was attached to the army of General Hood, with which Mr. Thompson fought in many noted battles, including Franklin, Chattanooga, Mission- ary Ridge and Dalton, establishing a brave and honor- able record as a soldier. On his return from his military experience he engaged in the cattle and cotton business and continued operations in those lines until his death, which occurred in 1874. He was a democrat politically and took a good citizen's part and interest in public affairs, and was generally known as a man of integrity and public spirit. Mrs. Thompson, who was born in Lafayette County Mississippi, in 1837, died in 1892, the mother of four children, of whom all are dead with the exception of William P., who was the third in order of birth,

On the maternal side Mr. Thompson traces his an- cestry from a branch of the McDonald family back to Sir James McCord, who was born in 1620 and fell at the battle of Killiecrankie Pass, in 1689, under "Bonny Dundee" or Grahame of Claverhouse, who fell in the

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moment of victory. His son, John McCord, moved from Scotland to Ireland, and the latter's three sons, John, William and David McCord, came to America in 1707 and located in the settlement of Pennsylvania. His other son, Ben McCord, left Ireland in 1732 and located in South Carolina, at McCord's Ford. The maternal great-grandparents of William P. Thompson were John and Mary (McDougal) McCord, both born in County Tyrone, Ireland. Four generations of Mr. Thompson's ancestors are buried in the Cherokee Nation. The ma- ternal grandparents of Mr. Thompson were William P. and Lucinda A. (Miller) McCord, both born in Abbe- ville, South Carolina, who later moved to . Mississippi and finally to Henderson, Texas. They were the par- ents of ten children.

After securing his primary educational training in the old Cherokee Male Seminary at Tahlequah, from which he was graduated when only seventeen years of age, William P. Thompson engaged in teaching school for one year. He next entered Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tennessee, and after four years was grad- uated in both the literary and law courses, in 1889. At that time he was admitted to practice in all the courts. In June, 1889, he came to Indian Territory and located at Muskogee, being thus one of the nestors of the Eastern Oklahoma bar. In 1891 he removed to Tahle- quah, where he practiced in both the United States and Tribal courts until 1899. That year saw his advent in Vinita, where he has since engaged in a general practice which has brought to him, prominence and reputation as one of the foremost lawyers of his locality. His prac- tice is broad in its lines and he is at home in all branches of his calling, but it is probable that as a. trial lawyer he has gained his most substantial reputa- tion. He was introduced to public service as clerk of the assembly known as the Cherokee Council, was later clerk of the Senate, secretary of the treasury of the Cherokee Nation, and executive secretary, United States commissioner under President Cleveland, in addition to which he served for several years as attorney for the Cherokee Nation. He is a member of the Craig County Bar Association, the Oklahoma State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and is well known in fraternal circles, being a thirty-second degree Mason and member of Indian Consistory, and Vinita Lodge No. 1162, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His political support is given to the candidates and policies of the democratic party.

Mr. Thompson was married September 14, 1892, to Miss Elizabeth C. Morris, who was born at Dalton, Georgia, and they have two daughters: Sadie P. and Elizabeth C.

JOHN L. BOLAND. No other state in the Union may consistently boast of having as large a percentage of towns that possess or are seeking individuality as does the vigorous young commonwealth of Oklahoma. This statement is amply verified by men who have made a study of the economic features and phases of the pro- fession of the "booster" in Oklahoma, for it is the booster spirit that inspires the search for something new or distinctive to set out a town or community as indi- vidual-as something different or something ahead of its

neighbor. The thriving little City of Caddo, Bryan County, lays claim to being the only town in Oklahoma, and probably in the United States, that holds an annual corn carnival. It is certain that in Oklahoma the name of the Town of Caddo is as familiar to the people as those of some of its important cities. This pre-emi- nence rests largely upon the fact that Caddo is the seat of the corn carnival. From 10,000 to 15,000 persons annually attend this carnival, which attracts not only

citizens from all sections of this state, but also from several neighboring states. The above statements may not prove specially apropos in introducing John L. Boland as one of the representative members of the bar of Bryau County, but they are consistent by reason of his splendid work as secretary of the Caddo Corn Carnival, a position of which he has been the incumbent since the inception of the striking municipal and civic enterprise, in 1909. His ideas, policies, progressiveness, loyalty and industry have contributed much to the suc- cess of each successive carnival, and that success has been so great that, in the words of a member of the interested company that promoted the carnival, "all the people of southeastern Oklahoma want to know each year in advance the exact date of the carnival, so that due preparation may be made for attending the same."

Mr. Boland was born in the City of St. Louis, Mis- souri, in the year 1879, and is a son of Cornelius and Josie (Farrell) Boland. Cornelius Boland, who was a native of Virginia, early settled in St. Louis, in which city he served thirty-five years as drill master of the mounted police. He also was a member of a detachment of United States soldiers that gave excellent service in the restraining of Indian uprisings in the West. He thus served under Gen. Nelson A. Miles and was a member of the party that captured, in Arizona, the celebrated Apache warrior, Geronimo.

John L. Boland acquired his early education in the parochial and public schools of his native city, where he attended also the Jones Commercial College. His prepa- ration for the legal profession was accomplished largely through home study, and in 1910 he was admitted to the bar of the State of Oklahoma, having previously served several years as justice of the peace at Caddo, where he had established his home in 1902. Here he is successfully engaged in the practice of his profession, and he has been a vigorous figure in the progressive movements that have conserved the splendid development and advancement of this section of the state along both civic and material lines, the vital little City of Caddo having in the early days been the county seat of Blue County, of the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory. Mr. Boland is the owner of valuable agricultural land in Bryan County and takes the deepest interest in its improvement and cultivation, with a desire to exploit fully the best methods of agricultural industry as touch- ing the soil and climatic conditions in this section of the state. He is a member of the Bryan County Bar Asso- ciation, of which he served one term as district counsel of the state association and is identified also with the Oklahoma State Bar Association. His political alle- giance is given to the democratic party and both he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church. Mr. Boland has two brothers and three sisters, and all reside in the City of St. Louis: Edward A. is assistant superintendent of the parks of that city; Charles J. is an electrical engineer by vocation; and Misses Estelle, Bernedette and Amorita remain with their widowed mother.

At Caddo, Oklahoma, in 1906, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Boland to Miss Elizabeth Turnbull, daugh- ter of Turner B. Turnbull, who was one of the influential Indians of his day in the former Choctaw Nation. Mr. and Mrs. Boland have three children-Marguerite, Zuleika and Mary Adeline.

REV. WILLIAM PHILIP PIPKIN. Methodism profited and the fraternity of painters lost a valuable member thirty years ago when William Philip Pipkin severed relationship with the latter and gave his life to the former. Thirty years have wrought marvelous changes in the Indian country. It was at Vinita, Indian Terri-

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tory, that this pioneer Methodist gave his heart and hand to the Lord and the church, and he has been a fac- tor of no little consequence in the development those changes produced.

"I don't know just what the Methodist Church has gained, "' remarked Mrs. W. C. Patton, mother of Mrs. F. B. Fute, the wife of one of the poineer physicians of Indian Territory, who now lives in Muskogee, "but I do know that Vinita has lost its best painter." This was not literally true, however, for the young minister was paid only forty-one dollars by his parishioners the first year and it became necessary for him frequently to resort to his paint brush to earn enough for himself and wife to get the barest necessities of existence. While there has been no evidence of a lack of appreciation of his min- istry, it is perhaps significant of his devotion to his calling that in thirty years he has not accumulated any worldly goods, and not infrequently has gone without necessities in order that those dependent upon him might fare the better. However, he is a happy and contented superannuate.

Rev. William Philip Pipkin is the youngest son of Paris and Frances Elizabeth Pipkin. Paris Pipkin was the son of Philip Pipkin, who was a colonel of a Tennes- see regiment in the War of 1812-15, and took part in the battle of New Orleans. Paris Pipkin was born July 14, 1811, moved with his father from Tennessee to Missouri when seventeen years old, and on December 26, 1832, was married to Miss Elizabeth Frances Berry. To this union were born eight children, of whom William Philip was the youngest. When this son was six years of age his mother died, and when he was nine his father went to the war, remaining three years, and on his return moved to a farm in Crawford County, Missouri. After tho death of his mother the Rev. William P. Pipkin went to the home of a sister in St. Louis, where as a small boy on the streets he earned his first pennies selling the St. Louis Republie and the Missouri Democrat, working for his own support and to get what education he could. Ile was then with his father on the Crawford County farm for three years, and returning to St. Louis at the age of fifteen, learned the trade of a printer, serving three years and four months with Wilgus & Tackett.

In November, 1874, Reverend Pipkin came to the In- dian Territory to take charge of a coal mine seven miles northwest of Vinita for Hubble & Knott, of Springfield, Missouri, and it was there he met Miss Mary Elizabeth Wingfield, a daughter of Charles B. Wingfield. a veteran of the Mexican war and a pioneer of the Cherokee Na- tion, he having lived here before the Civil war. They were married on the 23d of September, 1875, and to the union five children were born, four of whom are living: Mrs. Bertha Wright, Charles Band, Paris and Mrs. Kate A. Wallace. In 1881 the Rev. Mr. Pipkin opened a paint shop in Vinita, and he continued that occupation for about six years.

It was in the fall of 1875, while visiting in Joplin, Missouri, that the Rev. William Pipkin was converted, and he afterward joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In August, 1884, he was licensed to preach at a Quarterly Conference held in Vinita, the Rev. E. R. Shap- pard being the presiding elder. At the conference held in Eufala in 1886 he was appointed by Bishop Charles B. Galloway to the Cabin Creek circuit, but as this charge paid him for the year's work only $41.75, he had to work at painting to supplement his salary. In the fall of 1887 he joined the Indian Mission Conference, where he was appointed by Bishop Galloway to the Sansboy circuit.

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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