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 80

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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Educated in the public schools of Martinsburg, reared on his father's farm until sixteen years of age, at that time Walter D. Martin began working for his father in the printing business in the office of the Martinsburg Journal, which later became the Hedrick Journal. From Martinsburg he moved to Hedrick in 1889, and conducted the Journal twenty years, and is still half owner in that paper. In 1909 he moved to Frederick, Oklahoma, buying a half interest in the Frederick Leader, which had been originally established in the winter of 1905 by Colonel Bayne, and afterward edited and published by Mayhall & Phillips. Mr. Mayhall sold his interest to Mr. Martin. The firm of Phillips & Martin continued eleven months. when John L. Newland bought the former 's interest, making the firm Martin & Newland, as at present. The Leader is a democratic paper, being the

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official organ of the democratic party in Tillman County. Its modern plant, equipped with the latest improved machinery and appliances, including fine presses for job work, is situated at 304 West Grand Avenue.

Mr. Martin is a democrat in his political views, and while a resident of Hedrick, Iowa, served as clerk of the board of education, and also as city clerk. He is widely known in fraternal circles, being a member of Lodge No. 1217, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Frederick Lodge No. 349, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Wood- men of the World and the Praetorians. An enthusiastic booster of his adopted city and county, he is active in the Frederick Business Men's Association, and all progres- sive and public-spirited movements have his hearty sup- port and co-operation, both individually and through the columns of his newspaper.

He married Miss Stella Fleener of Abingdon, Iowa, daughter of W. J. Fleener, who for a number of years has been a dealer in horses at Abingdon. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have no children.

John L. Newland, the junior member of the firm of Martin & Newland, and editor and half owner of the | Frederick Leader, was born at Chillicothe, Missouri, October 16, 1874, son of John G. and Mary (Lank- ford) Newland. Through the paternal line he is of Duteh stock and is Irish on his mother's side. His grandfather, Rev. William N. Newland, was for many years a minister of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church, holding various charges in Missouri and for a number of years being stationed at Chillicothe. John G. Newland, who was born in Pike County, Missouri, in 1848, as a young man was attracted to the mercantile business, in which he was engaged for many years at Chillicothe, Missouri, and at Guthrie, Oklahoma. In 1910 he removed to Frederick, where he has since been engaged in reporting for the Leader. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and of the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. J. G. Newland, who is a native of Kentucky, is also living and has been the mother of four children: William C., who is traveling for George Borgfeldt Company, importers, of New York City; John L .; Daisy, who died at the age of fifteen; and George B., dramatic and sporting editor of the Cincinnati Post, at Cincinnati, Ohio.

While he attended as a boy the public schools of Chillicothe, John L. Newland did not pursue his advan- tages in this direction long, leaving school at the age of fifteen and thereafter pursuing the courses of instruc- tion maintained by the university of experience and also by individual study and observation. While still in school he did his first newspaper work as carrier over a small route, and at the age of fifteen began working in the circulation department of the Chillicothe paper. Thus he learned every department of the business. In 1897 he acquired one-half interest in the Chillicothe Mail and Star, a daily and weekly, and this he and his partner subsequently consolidated with the Chillicothe Times. Taking a third partner, they bought the Chilli- cothe Constitution, a paper which had been founded in 1860, and was the oldest democratic newspaper in that section of the state. The consolidated papers adopted the veteran newspaper's name, and Mr. Newland con- tinued to be connected with this publication until 1910, when he sold his interest to his partner, William L. Watkins, and came to Frederick, Oklahoma. Here he bought George H. Phillips' interest in the Frederick Leader, and has been closely associated with its manage- ment ever since.

Like his partner, Mr. Newland is a man of progressive views and enterprising spirit, willing at all times to give of his abilities, his time or his means in the promotion

of movements for the civic and public welfare, and taking an active part in the activities of the Frederick Business Men's Association, of which he is a member. He is a stalwart democrat in politics, and was reared in the faith of the Christian Church, but recently has been an attendant of the Christian Science Church. His fraternal connections include membership in the Prae- torians, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World, and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen.

On September 2, 1897, Mr. Newland was married in Chillicothe, Missouri, to Miss Temperance Broaddus, daughter of Judge E. J. Broaddus, who is now a resident of Kansas City Missouri. Judge Broaddus has served several years as circuit judge of Chillicothe circuit, and in 1900 was elected a member of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, serving for twelve years iu that capacity. He is now engaged in the private practice of law at Kansas City. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Newland: Maryann and Elbridge John, both of whom are attending the public schools of Frederick.

FRANK P. SEE. With realty operations covering Gar- vin, McClain and Grady Counties, as well as other parts of the state, Frank P. See, of Lindsay, is justly accounted one of the leading real estate dealers of Central Southern Oklahoma. He is likewise one of the men who have put Lindsay on the map as a city of progress and prestige, and in numerous ways has contributed to its growth and development. F. P. See, like many other prominent busi- ness men of Oklahoma, is a Kentuckian by nativity, hav- ing been born in Gallatin County, in the Blue Grass State, September 15, 1855, a son of F. M. and Atlanta (Webber) See. The family came from Ireland about the time of the Revolutionary war, the original emigrant, the great-grandfather of F. P. See, settling in Kentucky.

F. M. See was born in Gallatin County, Kentucky, in 1829, was there reared, educated and married, and carried on farming and stockraising operations there until 1890, when he came as a pioneer to Garvin County, Oklahoma, then Indian Territory. Here he continued his active agricultural operations until shortly before his death, which occurred at Lindsay, in 1911. Mr. See was a democrat and took a good citizen's interest in politi- cal affairs. A member of the Christian Church, in his latter years he took an intense interest in its move- ments, which he supported liberally. Mr. See was married in his native state to Miss Atlanta Webber, who was also born in Gallatin County, and who died near Lindsay, at Erin Springs, Garvin County, in 1895. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. See, namely: Wesley, who is a farmer and trader of Lindsay; Frank P .; John William, who is a machinist of Cincinnati, Ohio; Ann Mary, who is the wife of Emmet McCaughey, a one- sixteenth Choctaw Indian who owns much of the land adjacent to Lindsay; Almeda, who is the wife of Noah Stephenson, a railroad employe of Cincinnati, Ohio; Bettie, who is the wife of Zeno Stephenson, brother of Noah, and also a railroad man of Cincinnati; Richard, a medicine salesman of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma; George, who resides at Lindsay, and is a partner of many of F. P. 's business enterprises; Charles, who is engaged in farming at Lindsay; and Addie, who is the wife of Dr. W. A. Ewing, a practicing physician and surgeon of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma.

The public schools of Gallatin Connty furnished F. P. See with his education, and until he was twenty- three years of age he remained on his father's farm. In 1878 he went to Denison, Texas, as a pioneer, and while there kept books for the jail for one year, in 1879 going to Montague County, Texas, and engaging in farm- ing. After two years he gave up agricultural pursuits to become the proprietor of a livery stable, but after five

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years disposed of his interests and in 1887 came to No Man's Land, the neutral strip that is now included in Beaver County, Oklahoma. There he handled cattle for one year, and in 1888 came to the Washita Valley, now Garvin County, where he continued to handle cattle. At the founding of Lindsay, in 1902, he sold his ranch and came to this town, where for four years he was engaged as a buyer and shipper of cattle. Since that time he has carried on an extensive real estate business, with opera- tions in McClain, Grady and Garvin Counties, and in other parts of the state. He is the owner of 300 acres in Garvin and Grady Counties, city business buildings, numerous city lots and his own and other residences.

Mr. See is a democrat, and is serving as district trustee. He is a steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and fraternally is affiliated with Lindsay Lodge No. 196, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, in which he has been frequently called upon to fill the office of chaplain. Mr. See is a director of the International Oil Company, is ex-president of several other oil companies, and has various other interests of a business and financial character. He has had much experience in opening up new territory. He and his partner, Kirg Williams, a well-known pioneer, stakcd ont one-half block on the north side of Main street, in Oklahoma City, all except one lot, and handled this very successfully. Mr. See helped to build some of the first buildings in Oklahoma City. He made the run at the opening of the Cherokee Strip and obtained lots at Enid, and also staked out a farm, but did not prove up on the latter. He also took part in the Pottawatomie and Comanche runs.

Mr. See was married in 1886 in Montague County, Texas, to Miss Mattie Fry, of West Virginia, daughter of the late Peter Fry, of that state. They have an adopted son, Cland P. (Bradshaw) See, now a senior at Lindsay High School. His father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was his paternal grand- father, while his maternal grandfather, Rev. A. C. Pickens is presiding clder in the East Oklahoma Metho- dist Episcopal Conference. It is the earnest wish of Mr. Scc that the son follow in their footsteps.

JOHN H. REBOLD. During a residence of ten years at Okmulgee John H. Rebold has become very influentially identified with the business and industrial history of the city and surrounding country. He is an official and active in the management of several oil and lumber com- panies, is president of the Okmulgee Chamber of Com- merce, and also a director in the First National Bank of Okmulgee.

A Pennsylvanian by birth, when only a boy he became familiar with the work and activities of the eastern oil fields of the state, and it was his experience as a prac- tical oil operator and producer that led him into Okla- homa when the fields abont Tulsa had just come into prominent notice.

He was born on the Allegheny River at Mosgrove in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1872, a son of Henry and Margaret (Collar) Rebold. His father was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1848, and the mother in Armstrong, Pennsylvania. The mother died there May 16, 1910, at the age of fifty-five. Henry Rebold came to this country with his parents, locating at Bradys Bend in Pennsylvania, where he assisted his father in handling ore. Then with a brother John he went to Oil City at the time of the inauguration of the oil industry in that section of Western Pennsylvania, and secured a contract to haul oil at $4.25 per barrel and to haul coal · at $1.25 per bushel. Much of these products of the wells and mines in Pennsylvania he rafted up and

down the rivers and hauled across rough country to market. Subsequently he bought a farm in Pennsyl- vania and has lived a life of comparative qniet for many years.

John H. Rebold is the only one of six children living in the West. He grew up on his father's farm, acquired a country school education, but left his studies at the age of fifteen. He then went into the oil country and handled teams in contract work, and from the age of seventeen to twenty was a tool dresser. He then bought a saw mill and engaged in the lumber business, cutting timber for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for three years. Once more he engaged in the oil and gas busi- ness, and his interests in this direction led him to come to Oklahoma and he arrived at the new Town of Tulsa on November 10, 1905, and since 1906 has lived in Okmulgee. For a number of years he has been a pro- ducer and contractor in the oil and gas district. While in Pennsylvania he did some extensive drilling for the Philadelphia Gas Company of Pittsburg, the American Natural Gas Company and the People's Gas Company. Since coming to Oklahoma he has operated on his own account.

He is a director and treasurer of the Pine Creek Oil Company and Bradys Bend Oil Company; is director and treasurer of the Rebold Lumber Company. This company has its own mills and retail lumber yards situated at Okmulgee, Boynton and Morris. The source of lumber and the mills are in the mountainous district of McCurtain and Pushmataha counties, there being two mills and planing mill and cotton gin in those sections. From forty to fifty men are employed in this important lumber industry and Mr. Rebold also has the manage- ment of about the same number in his work as a con- tractor and oil producer.

In 1914-15 Mr. Rebold built one of the finest honics in Okmulgee County, at a cost of about $75,000, situated a mile east of the Frisco Depot. He has been president of the local Chamber of Commerce since it was organized and in politics is a democrat.

On September 28, 1894, he married Miss Laura Corn- man. She died in Pennsylvania May 25, 1910. The seven children of their marriage are: Grant O., Jesse, Bryan, Annie, Joe, Harry and Catherine. On December 25, 1912, Mr. Rebold married Anna Bricken.

PERCY CORNELIUS comes of a family that was estab- lished in the Carolinas in Colonial days. His people were of Scotch and Irish ancestry, and pioneered to Kentucky in an early day. He was born in Russelville, Logan County, Kentucky, on April 4, 1878, and is a son of H. F. and Kate (Morrow) Cornelins.

H. F. Cornelins was born in Logan County, Kentucky, in 1845, and all his life was passed within the borders of that state with the exception of two years which he spent in New Mexico in early manhood. He was a farmer and stock raiser all his life, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving on its official board through many years. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias but had no other fraternal affilia- tions. His wife was born in Logan County, Kentucky, in 1855, and their two children arc Percy of this review and Cecile, who married James W. Rice of Adairsville, Kentucky, where he conducts a coal and feed business.

Percy Cornelins attended the public schools in Russel- ville, Kentucky, and he later entered the Vanderbilt Training School at Elton, Kentucky, which was followed by a course of training in the Cherry Brothers Business and Normal College at Bowling Green, Kentucky. He was graduated from the commercial department of that institution in 1899, and in 1900 he came to Mangum and

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engaged in the bakery and coufectionery business. He was fairly successful in this enterprise, and when the Cherokee Strip was opened he went to Lawton and invested in a number of business lots at that place. Returning a little later to Mangum he was engaged by J. C. Gilliland & Company, and he kept books for them for two years. He was next connected with the Rock Island Railroad in their offices for a year, and then spent a year with the Mangum Wholesale Grocery Company. In 1905 he entered the City National Bank, now the City State Bank, as assistant cashier, and one year later he was promoted to the cashiership, which position he still holds.

The bank was first organized as a loan company, and in 1901 or thercabouts it became the Farmers State Bank. In 1903 it was nationalized and in 1907 it became the City State Bank. T. S. DeArman is president of the bank, with J. D. Carruthers vice president, Mr. Cornelius cashier, and W. C. Terry assistant cashier. The capital stock of the bank is $25,000, with a surplus of $10,000. Its building is situated on Oklahoma Avenue, corner of Commerce Alley.

Mr. Cornelius has served as city treasurer of Mangum, aud he is a member of the Christian Church. He is a member of Mangum Lodge No. 61, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Chapter 35, Royal Arch Masons, and Lodge 38 of the Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancellor. He is a member of Lodge No. 1169, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks of Mangum, Mangum Camp No. 110 Woodmen of the World, Mangum Lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America, and of the Fraternal Union. He was at one time a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He has membership in the Oklahoma State and American Bankers Association.

In 1903 Mr. Cornelius was married in Mangum to Miss Nora G. Campbell, daughter of James W. Campbell, a tinner and hardware merchant of Mangum, now deceased. Two children have been born to them,-Kathleen and Frances Eugenia, both attending school.

CLYDE H. WYAND. Presiding with characteristic ability on the bench of the county court of Woodward County, Judge Wyand is one of the representative Okla- homa lawyers and jurists who can revert to the fine old Hoosier state as the place of his nativity, and by his achievement is doing honor alike to the commonwealth of his nativity and that of his adoption. He is one of the liberal and progressive citizens of the City and County of Woodward, where he established his permanent residence in 1903.

Clyde Hiram Wyand was born at Hillsboro, Fountain County, Indiana, on the 27th of September, 1873, and is a son of Hiram C. and Elizabeth (Rynearson) Wyand, whose marriage was solemnized in that county in 1859.

Hiram C. Wyand was born in the State of Maryland, in 1836, and there he was reared and educated, besides which in his youth he became skilled as a carpenter, the earlier part of his independent career having been given principally to work as a carpenter and builder. At the age of nineteen years he removed to Indiana, and eventually he engaged in the mercantile business at Hillsboro, that state, where he continued his residence until his death, and where he long held prestige and honor as one of the sterling and influential citizens and representative business men of Fountain County. He served one term, 1896-1900, as county clerk, and for eight years held the office of postmaster at Hillsboro.

In politics he was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the republican party, and he was one of the prominent and influential representatives of his party in Fountain County. He passed to the life eternal on the 24th of January, 1914. Mrs. Elizabeth (Rynearson) Wyand was

born iu Ohio, in 1839, and was a child at the time of the removal of her parents to Indiana, where they became pioneer settlers in Fountain County. She was a daughter of Ezekiel Rynearson, who became one of the substantial and prominent citizens of Fountain County, where both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. Mrs. Wyand was summoned to eternal rest on the 13th of April, 1881, a gentle and gracious woman, whose memory is revered by all who, came within the sphere of her influence. Of the five children the first born was Arthur, who died iu infancy; the next being Annette, who was born in 1869, and whose death occurred in 1892; Frederick C., who was born in 1871, is now engaged in the hotel business at Connersville, Indiana; Judge Clyde H., of this review, was the next in order of birth; and Lena May, who was born in 1875, is the wife of Louis Wood, a successful merchant at Hills- boro, Indiana.

Judge Wyand is indebted to the excellent public schools of his native town for his earlier educational discipline, and his higher academic training was acquired in DePauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, in which institution he was graduated in 1896, having had the dis- tinction of being chosen valedictorian of his class. After leaving the university Judge Wyand devoted four years to effective service as a teacher in the public schools of Indiana, and in the meanwhile gave close attention to the reading of law, with the definite intention of prepar- ing himself thoroughly for the profession in which it has since been given him to achieve marked success and high honors.

At Covington, Indiana, the judicial center of his native county, Judge Wyand was admitted to the bar in the year 1898. At that place he opened an office and served his professional novitiate, and that he impressed himself and his ability upon the barricades that protect and foster success in the law business needs no further voucher than the statement that in 1900 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the Twenty- first Judicial District of Indiana, as a candidate on the republican ticket. Of this office he continued the efficient incumbent for two years, and soon after his retirement therefrom he severed the ties that bound him to his native state and cast in his lot with the people of Oklahoma Territory. He came to Oklahoma in 1902, and established his residence at Woodward, the judicial center of the county of the same name. Here he continued in the active practice of his profession until his election to his present office, and before his elevation to the bench he had gained secure vantage-place as one of the leading members of the bar in the western part

of the state, even as he had become known for his civic loyalty and insistent public spirit. He was elected to the bench of the county court in 1910, and by suc- cessive re-elections, in 1912 and 1914, he has since con- tinued his services as judge of this tribunal, the affairs and work of which he has administered with great dis- crimination, circumspection and efficiency, his rulings having at all times shown the mark of true judicial wisdom as well as comprehensive knowledge of law and precedent.

Judge Wyand has been unfaltering in his allegiance to the republican party and has been an influential factor iu connection with the directing of public thought and action during the period of his residence in Woodward County. He has been affiliated with the Masonic fra- ternity since 1894, and both he and his wife hold member- ship in the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has served as a member of the official board of the church at Woodward during the entire period of his residence in Oklahoma, besides which he has served eight years as superintendent of its Sunday school. He has also

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served as president of the local Epworth League and as president of the Methodist Episcopal Brotherhood of the Woodward church. He was elected a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Church, which convened at Saratoga Springs, May 1st, 1916.

On the 16th of April, 1893, was solemnized the mar- riage of Judge Wyand and Miss Tessie May Hesler, who was born on her father's homestead farm, near Hillsboro, Fountain County, Indiaua, on the 17th of November, 1874, and who is a daughter of Jacob T. and Nancy J. (Bever) Hesler, old and honored citizeus of that section of the Hoosier state. Judge and Mrs. Wyand have two children: Russell Sage was born February 20, 1894, and was graduated in the University of Oklahoma as a member of the class of 1917; and Hesler Hiram, who was born July 17, 1898, graduated from the Woodward (Oklahoma) High School, in 1916. 2

JAMES CURTIS MATHENEY, M. D. The most progres- sive principles of medical and surgical science find expression in the career of Dr. James Curtis Matheney, a general practitioner of Lindsay, since 1908, president of the Garvin County Medical Society, and a potent influence in securing to the children of this community the best possible educational opportunities. Doctor Matheney 's professional ambitions unfolded on the farm near Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee, where he was born June 29, 1880. He is of French descent, the family having originated in France, where the name was spelled Mathenee, and from whence it moved to Ire- land. From the latter country three brothers emigrated to America, settling respectively in Pennsylvania, Vir- ginia and North Carolina, and all their families later coming to the West. Doctor Matheney is a descendant of the last named branch.

David Houston Matheney, grandfather of Doctor Matheney, was a farmer in Putnam County, Tennessee, until the outbreak of the war between the states, at which time he enlisted in the Confederate army. He died at the age of thirty-five years, probably while a prisoner of war. L. D. Matheney was born at Cookeville, Ten- nessee, August 28, 1856, and has spent his entire life in that locality, having devoted his energies to farming and raising stock. He is one of the well known and public- spirited men of his community, a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a demo- erat in his political views. Mr. Matheney married Rhiba Alice Gross, who was born at Albany, Kentucky, April 14, 1856, and to this union there have been born six children: William Porter, principal of the Vanderbilt Training School, at Elkton, Kentucky; Nancy Lula, deceased, who was the wife of Mr. Elrod, a telegraph operator: Dr. James Curtis; Harva Jarvis, who resides on the farm at Cookeville with his parents; and Haskell and Paschal, twins, who are students at the Vanderbilt Training School.

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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