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The maiden name of Mr. Brasted's wife was Estella M. Gleason, and she was born and reared in Iowa, being a daughter of John and Helen (Myrick) Gleason, of Ida Grove, that state. They have three children : Nathan R. II, named in honor of his paternal grand- father, and Helene Estella and Fred, Jr.
WILLIAM F. RAMEY. Superintendent William F. Ramey, who is the efficient and popular head of the city school system of Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma, is consistently designated one of the representative figures in educational affairs in Oklahoma and is known alike for his high scholastic attainments and for his special ability as an executive. He has had long and varied pedagogieal experience and has held his present official position since the spring of 1908. His effective labors and progressive policies have inured greatly to the gen- eral advancement of the public schools of Chickasha in
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giving to them a standard that is not excelled by that of any other city in the state.
Mr. Ramey claims the historic "Old Dominion" commonwealth as the place of his nativity and is of a family found there in an early day. He was born in Scott county, Virginia, ou the 24th day of June, 1857, and in the same state were born his parents.
Mr. Ramey acquired his early education in the com- mou schools and certain academic institutious in his native state. In pursuauce of his higher academic studies he was matriculated in East Tennessee Wesleyan University, Athens, an institution that now constitutes the University of Chattanooga. Here he was graduated as a member of the class of 1881 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and through effective post graduate work received from his Alma Mater the degree of Mas- ter of Arts in 1883. Immediately after his graduation Mr. Ramey began his successful career as a teacher and continued to work in the public schools of his native state, with the exception of three years service iu the city schools of El Dorado, Kansas, 1885-8, until 1893 when he removed to Carlisle, Kentucky, where he continued the able and valued superintendent of the city schools for the period of thirteen years. In 1906 he became Professor of History and Superintendent of the Young Ladies' Boardiug Department at Georgetown Col- lege, Georgetown, Kentucky. After remaining in tenure of these positions one year he passed a year in travel and recreation on the Pacific Coast.
On the 25th of May, 1908, Mr. Ramey was elected superintendent of the city schools of Chickasha, Okla- homa, where for the past eight years his administration has been attended with commeudable success. At the time when he assumed his present office Mr. Ramey found Chickasha provided with no adequate high school building. He promptly put forth vigorous efforts in the moulding of public sentiment to the end of making pro- visions for a suitable building commensurate with the demands of the community, though the city had already come to the realization of the necessity of a modern high school building. In 1909 the preseut attractive and commodious building was completed. Upon Superin- tendent Ramey devolved the work of formulating and perfecting the present admirable system of the high school of Chickasha, besides which he effected a very thorough and well ordered re-organization of the work of the various grade departments, with the result that the Chickasha Schools now take high rank and are known for their splendid efficiency.
The local high school has affiliation with the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges, an organization including the Northern and Central States of the uniou. Under the zealous regime of Mr. Ramey the high school has developed along vocational as well as academic lines. In amplification of its regular courses there are established departments of manual training, domestic science, domestic art, normal train- ing, athletics, and a commercial curriculum.
Mr. Ramey is an active and valued member of the Oklahoma Educational Association of which he is vice president for the electoral year of 1914-15, besides being chairman of its publicity committee. He is actively identified also with the Southern Educational Associa- tion and the National Educational Association, in which latter he served in 1912-13 as the Director for the State of Oklahoma. He has been an influential figure in edu- cational work practically the entire period since Okla- homa has been enjoying statehood, and during the sum- mer vacation periods his services have been much in demand in normal institute work in this state as well as in Kentucky and Virginia. His political allegiance is
given to the democratic party, in the faith of which he was reared, his father having been one of its staunch supporters, and having been a valiant soldier of the Confederacy during the entire period of the Civil war.
In the year 1882 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ramey to Miss Ella Hickox, who was born and reared near Athens, in the State of Tennessee, where she re- ceived a liberal education. Mr. and Mrs. Ramey are active members of the Baptist Church in their home city. They have three sons all of whom are honoring the name which they bear. Emerson E. was graduated in the University of Kentucky, with the degree of Bachelor of Mechanics, and is now employed as an expert in the executive department of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road with headquarters at Baltimore, Md. Horace P. was graduated in the great University of Michigan with the degree of Civil Engineer and is now a licensed struc- tural engineer, holding a responsible position with the Sanitary District of the City of Chicago. Carey F. was graduated in Georgetown College, Kentucky, with A. B. degree, and later took a special post-graduate course in chemistry and allied subjects in the University of Cali- fornia. He is now employed as a chemist iu the service of the Standard Oil Company in their refinery at Rich- mond, California.
EMMETT N. HOLLAND. When Governor Goebel of Ken- tucky breathed his last at the Capitol Hotel, Frankfort, Kentucky, there was a faithful lad at his bedside to witness the outward evidence of the transition of the spirit. The lad was a page in the Kentucky Legislature, and had been selected by J. C. W. Beckham, then speaker of the House of Representatives, now a member of the United States Senate, whose persoual messenger he was. Faithful to his superior who gave him his assignments, he stood as guard and messenger outside the door of the chamber occupied by the stricken governor. Today he has vivid recollections of many historic events and many historic scenes that transpired in those days. The lad is a man now and is practicing law in Oklahoma. He is Emmett N. Holland, one of the brightest and most active members of the bar in Southeast Oklahoma, and a member of the firm of Cutler & Holland, at Coalgate.
Mr. Holland was born at Murray, Kentucky, August 18, 1884, and is a son of E. G. and Albina (Skaggs) Holland. His father was a sergeant in the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, under General Forrest during the war between the North and the South, aud served during the last three years of that conflict. Both parents are natives of the Blue Grass State, and are now living in Calloway County, Kentucky. The paternal ancestry came to America in 1700 and Cordell Holland settled in what is now the State of West Virginia, being the father of eleveu sons, one of whom, the grandfather of Emmett N. Holland, settled in the western part of Kentucky. Mr. Holland was descended from a Skaggs who is men- tioned in history as a compatriot of Daniel Boone, their relationship being shown in the historic mark: "Boone and Skaggs Trace," near Harrisburg, Kentucky.
The public and high schools furnished the principal part of the early education that Mr. Holland received in Kentucky. Being financially unprepared to finish the remainder of his literary training, he began the study of law at home and with the aid of a correspondence course was enabled to complete a legal education that admitted him to the bar, in 1907, when he was licensed to practice before the United States District Court and the Supreme Court of the state. He began the practice of his profession at Murray, Kentucky, and remained there until October 1, 1914, when he came to Coalgate, Oklahoma, and entered practice as the partner of C. E. B. Cutler, this association having continued to the
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present time and being known as one of the strong legal combinations of Coal County.
Mr. Holland was married in November, 1906, to Miss Sadie Keys, of Murray, Kentucky, whose father was for many years one of the leading tobacco growers of West- ern Kentucky. An uncle of hers was judge of the County Court of Calloway County for a number of years, and a great-uncle, Ben C. Keys, now deceased, was a leader of the populist party in Kentucky during most of the years of that party's existence, having been the choice of the party for Congress in his district and hav- ing represented it as a member of the National Populist Committee. Another of Mrs. Holland's uncles, John H. Keys, who has been county clerk of Calloway County, is a prominent political leader and was formerly one of the managers of the Dark Tobacco Growers Association of Kentucky and Tennessee, Mr. aud Mrs. Holland are the parents of three children: Emmett N., Jr., aged seven years; Ledlie, aged six years, aud Thomas Richard, aged one year. Mr. Holland is a member of the Coal County Bar Association, and is fraternally associated with the Improved Order of Red Men and the Woodmen of the World. He and Mrs. Holland are consisteut mem- bers of the Christian Church.
CHARLES H. HUBBARD. One of the important indus- trial enterprises made possible through the natural resources and commercial facilities of Oklahoma is that which has been developed at Sand Springs, Tulsa County, by the firm of Kerr, Hubbard & Kelly, glass manufac- turers. The modern and well equipped factory of this firm has the best of facilities for the manufacturing of lamp chimneys, lantern globes and gas and electric globes, and a specialty is made of the manufacturing of lamp chimneys of the finest grade. The firm main- tains an eastern office in the Hearst Building, Chicago, and its trade is widely disseminated. They have won a reputation for making glass equal to any manufac- tured in the United States, Mr. Hubbard, as one of the interested principals, has been prominently identified with the upbuilding of this noteworthy manufacturing enterprise, he having served as its business manager from the time of its inauguration until the present, and is one of the substantial and representative busi- ness men of the state of his adoption.
Charles H. Hubbard was born at Odon, Daviess County, Indiana, on the 5th of December, 1879, and is a son of Thomas J. and Esther (Alishouser) Hubbard, the former of whom was born in Virginia in 1846 and the latter in Ohio in 1848. Thomas J. Hubbard was a child at the time of the family removal from the his- toric Old Dominion to Indiana, where his parents, Wil- liam and Matilda Hubbard, became pioneer settlers in Daviess County, the remainder of their lives having been passed in that section of the Hoosier state. Wil- liam Hubbard served as a soldier in the Mexican war, and later gave further evidence of his patriotism by his service as lieutenant in an Indiana regiment in the Civil war. .
Thomas J. Hubbard acquired his early education in the schools of Daviess County, and that he made good use of the advantages thus offered is indicated by the fact that when a young man he was a successful teacher in the schools of that part of Indiana. He eventually turned his attention to the manufacturing of lumber, and in addition to operating a sawmill he was engaged also in the mercantile business for many years, at Odon. He served as postmaster of that village for many years. In 1902 he moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where his death occurred in 1914, his widow being still a resident of that city. Of their seven children all but one are living, Charles H., of this review, having been the
third in order of birth. Thomas J. Hubbard was a stalwart republican, and was prominent in party coun- cils in his county. He was affiliated with the Sons of Veterans, and through this medium paid tribute of honor to the patriotism and loyal military services of his father.
After having duly profited by the advantages of the public schools in his native village Charles H. Hub- bard learned the art of telegraphy, in the local station of the Evansville & Richmoud Railroad, though when but thirteen years of age he had gained practical experience through becoming an employe on the farm of his maternal uncle, Grant Alishouse, and still later was employed in a general store by A. Diefendorf & Company, of Odon. As a telegraph operator he was eventually employed by the Southern Iudiana Railroad Company as operator and agent at various points. He then entered the employ of the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern Railroad Company, being for some time in the general offices of the company aud later serving as agent at various points on its lines. He finally became station agent for this railroad at Matthews, Grant County, Indiana, where he remained thus engaged for five years.
At the expiration of the period uoted above Mr. Hubbard initiated his association with glass manufac- turing, by assuming the dual office of secretary and treasurer of the American Lamp Glass Company in the City of Evansville, Indiana. After holding this posi- tion about two years he removed to Peru, Chautauqua County, Kansas, where he held a like position with the Swartz Glass Company, this association continuing about three years. In 1909 Mr. Hubbard and Mr. Joseph C. Kelly established a glass factory at Tyro, Kansas, and at the same time he became assistaut manager of the Kerr Glass Compauy, at Altoona, that state, but still retaining his position as business manager of the fac- tory at Tyro, in which he was interested.
In 1913 Mr. Hubbard came to Oklahoma, and in com- pany with his former partner, Mr. Kelly, erected at Sand Springs a glass factory, the same being placed in operation under the firm name of Kelly & Hubbard. Later Alexander H. Kerr and A. W. Kerr, of the Kerr Glass Manufacturing Company, became interested in the enterprise, and the firmn name was changed to Kerr, Hubbard & Kelly. Under the vigorous and well ordered control of these progressive business men the enter- prise has been developed to large and substantial pro- portions and constitutes a valuable addition to the indus- trial activities of Oklahoma. In connection with his own interests iu the Kelly-Hubbard Glass Company, Mr. Hubbard was also manager for the Alexander H. Kerr & Company Glass Factory, which was moved from Al- toona, Kansas, to Sand Springs about the same time the Kelly-Hubbard factory was established. The Alex- ander H. Kerr & Company manufacture the "Kerr"' Economy Fruit Jars, also the "Kerr" Self Sealing Mason Jars, the only fruit jars in the world that seal without a rubber ring. They also manufacture jelly glasses.
Mr. Hubbard is essentially liberal and public spirited as a citizen, and while he takes a loval interest in the welfare and progress of Oklahoma he has had no desire for official preferment, and is independent in his po- litical attitude. Iu the Masonic fraternity he was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in Fair- mount Lodge, at Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana, from which he was demitted to the lodge at Matthews, that state. From the latter he was demitted to become a charter member of Tyro Lodoe No. 386, at Tyro, Montgomery County, Kansas, with which he is still affiliated. In addition to his membership in the various
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Blue Lodge bodies he has received also the thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Ma- sonry, his affiliation being with the Consistory of Guthrie, Oklahoma.
On the 16th of August, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hubbard to Miss Eva Lindsey, who was born and reared at Fairmount, Indiana, and they have two daughters, Margaret E. and Katherine E.
HON. JAMES THOMAS MCINTOSH. The election of 1912 brought to the State Senate from Bryan County, as representative of the Twentieth Senatorial District, a thoroughly successful lawyer, a brilliant orator, and a tactful and efficient worker among his colleagues in the Senate. Senator McIntosh during his legislative career has been one of the most persistent workers in behalf of sound conservative legislation. Living in the county from which Governor Williams comes, he was in harmony with the administration program and has wielded an im- portant influence in maintaining harmony between the Legislature and the governor.
James Thomas McIntosh was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, July 23, 1879, a son of R. K. and Mary Bell McIntosh. His father was a planter and mer- chant and descended from a Scotch family that settled in America in early days. The grandfather, M. M. Mc- Intosh was a planter and slave owner in Mississippi be- fore the Civil war, and as a result of the war and the emancipation act had to release more than 100 slaves. Senator McIntosh's mother, Mary Bell Boone, was a great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone. Her father was killed in the battle of Vicksburg during the Civil war. Senator McIntosh has six brothers and sisters living: Murdoch, who is secretary-treasurer of the Hemingway Furniture Company at Alexandria, Louisiana; R. K., who is county superintendent of Bryan County and lives at Bennington; W. E., a pharmacist at Caddo, Oklahoma; A. E., an electrical engineer at Houston, Mississippi; Mrs. Kittie D. Foster, wife of a planter at Houston, Missis- sippi; and Mrs. Lorena Priest, wife of a physician at Houston. Senator McIntosh himself is unmarried.
His early education was acquired in the public schools, finishing with the high school at Houston, Mississippi, in 1896. Then followed two years as a teacher in public schools as principal at Louisville, Mississippi, and one year as principal of the high school at Okalona, Missis- sippi. In 1902 Mr. McIntosh graduated Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mississippi, and during his college career was a member of the Kappa Alpha frater- nity. In 1903 he completed a law course in the University of Texas, and later in the same year began practicing at Durant, Oklahoma. As an able lawyer and effective pleader, he was soon drawn into public affairs, and in 1907 was elected the first prosecuting attorney of Bryan County, and was re-elected in 1908. Mr. McIntosh was the choice of the Twentieth District for the State Senate in 1912. In the Senate he distinguished himself as a forcible public speaker. His discipline in this accomplish- ment began in college where, during his sophomere and junior years, he won medals in debate and oratory. His first assignment in the Senate was as chairman of Judiciary Committee No. 2. During that session he ad- vocated bills abolishing certain county offices and assign- ing their duties to other officers, besides other bills which would tend to reduce the expense of county and state government. In the Fifth Legislature Senator MeIn- tosh was chairman of Judiciary Committee No. 1, and a member of committees on constitution and constitutional amendments, appropriations, privileges and elections, fees and salaries, state and county officers, fish and game and legislative and judicial apportionment.
Senator McIntosh is a master Mason, is affiliated with Lodge No. 45 at Durant, a member of Durant Lodge No. 792 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Modern Woodmen of America at Durant, and his church membership is with the Methodist Episcopal, South. For ten years he has been identified with the Bryan County Bar Association and is a member of the State Bar Association.
JAMES ALVIS COWAN. A successful lawyer at Moore, James A. Cowan has been primarily identified with the growth and development of that town during the past fifteen years as a business man, and has had a prominent relation with some of the important first things both there and in other parts of the state.
He is a Kentuckian by birth, but most of his early youth and manhood was spent in Missouri before he came to Oklahoma. He was born in Christian County, Ken- tucky, April 4, 1866. He comes of a family which emigrated out of Scotland to Virginia during colonial times, and his grandfather, William Cowan, was born in Virginia in 1793. From Virginia he moved into Ken- tucky and died in Christian County of that state in 1880. While a resident of Kentucky Grandfather Cowan acquired a tract of Government land in Ray County, Missouri, close to where his son, the father of James A. Cowan, subsequently established his home. William Cowan was a farmer and stock man.
James Henderson Cowan, father of the Moore attor- ney, was born in Virginia in 1837 and died in Ray County, Missouri, in 1887. He was only a child when he accompanied his parents to Kentucky, and when a young man in 1857 went to Ray County, Missouri, and looked after his father's landed interests in that county for a number of years. While in Missouri he married Martha Shumate, who was born in Indiana in 1845 and is still living in Ray County. After a few years James H. Cowan took his wife back to Kentucky, but in 1871 returned to Ray County, where he lived until his death. He was a farmer and stock man, also a carpenter and builder. During the war he served with a Kentucky regiment as a volunteer, was an active democrat, a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and be- longed to the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife were the parents of five children: Marion A., in the real estate business at St. Joseph, Missouri; James A .; Elizabeth Minnie Bird, wife of Charles Ramsey, a carpenter and builder at Richmond, Missouri; William A., who lives on the old homestead farm in Ray County; and Lydia, wife of Perry Kelly, a farmer and stock man in Ray County, Missouri.
James Alvis Cowan was five years of age when his parents returned to Ray County, where he grew up on a farm and acquired his education in the country schools and high school at Richmond, the county seat. For many years he was a capable' educator in that section of Mis- souri, teaching for twelve years altogether in the public schools of Missouri. It was as an educator that he was first known on coming to Oklahoma in 1895, and for two years was principal of a school in Oklahoma County and for another two years in Cleveland County. While in Oklahoma County he put in the first public school library, and in Cleveland County he served as deputy county superintendent of schools.
Since moving to Moore in 1900 he has been chiefly interested in business affairs. In that year he opened a hardware and harness business, and conducted it until he sold out in 1904. In the latter year he built the two-story brick building at the corner of Broadway and Main Street, a structure that he still owns and in which his offices are situated. Also in 1904 he engaged in the
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farm loan business at Moore. Meanwhile he had begun the study of law, taking a correspondence course with a Chicago correspondence school of law, and in 1908 was admitted to the bar. During 1909-10 he continued his education by two years' work in the Oklahoma State University in the law department, but has been in active general practice at Moore since 1908, specializing in real estate law. He has served as secretary of the State and County Bar Association and is a member of the Okla- homa State Bar Association.
In politics he is a democrat, and in 1908 was elected mayor of Moore. He belongs to the Baptist Church, and is very active in Masonry. He is affiliated with Myrtle Lodge No. 145, Capitol Hill, Oklahoma City, a lodge first organized at Moore and of which Mr. Cowan was one of the organizers and charter members and in which he is past master by service. He is also past high priest of Lion Chapter No. 24, Royal Arch Masons, at Norman. In the Valley of Guthrie, Consistory No. 1, he has attained eighteen degrees of Scottish Rite. He was one of the appointive Grand Lodge officers, being grand pursuivant of the old Oklahoma Territory juris- diction until that jurisdiction was combined with the territory jurisdiction in 1908. Mr. Cowan is also affili- ated with Moore Camp, Woodmen of the World, with Moore Camp No. 6898, Master Workmen's Association, and with the Woodman Circle. Since identifying himself with the community of Moore he has served on the school board.
April 4, 1912, at Oklahoma City, he married Miss Rachel Siler, daughter of the late John L. Siler, who was a farmer near Moore, and had homesteaded a place three miles west of Moore, but sold that and subsequently bought a farm seven miles southwest of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Cowan have one daughter, Edith, born Febru- ary 2, 1913.
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