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 82

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. Avey was married at Charleston, Illinois, in 1902, to Miss Nellic I. Fancler, daughter of the late David Fancler, who was a stationary engineer for cotton mills, city water works, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Avey have one child; Paul K., who was born April 6, 1904.

WEST HOLLAND, cashier of the First State Bank of Brinkman, was born in Dexter, Kansas, on March 6, 1884. He has been identified with banks and banking since he began his independent career, one might say, and has held his present position since 1910, when he came to Brinkman and assisted in the organization of the bank of which he has since been cashier.

West Holland is a son of A. C. Holland, a family of Scotch ancestry that first became identified with America in Colonial days, when the first of the name to come to this country located in Virginia. From there a branch of the family migrated into North Carolina, and it was there A. C. Holland was born in 1850. Mr. Holland went to Winfield, Kansas, in young manhood and there married Mrs. Mary (Timmerman) Bott. Dexter, Kansas, was the next location of the Hollands, and in 1889 they came to Oklahoma, settling in Guthrie. They made their home there until the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1891, when they moved to Perry and there remained until 1901. During these years Mr. Holland had been en- gaged in farming, with good success. In 1901 he gave up that work and moved to Hobart, where he accumulated considerable property, and is now living there retired from active business. He served two terms as mayor of Hobart, and he is a member of Hobart Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is a democrat,

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aud has taken a prominent part in the political activities of his community. Hobart has found in him a man who has a high regard for his responsibilities in the matter of citizenship, and who has done mueh to pro- mote the civic welfare of the community during his resi- denee there.

To Mr. and Mrs. Holland were born three children. The first born was West, of this review. Edith married V. H. Eskridge, a cotton ginner of Martha, Oklahoma, where they live. Arthur, an employe of the Mangum National Bank, lives there.

West Holland attended the public schools in Perry, Oklahoma, graduating from the high school there in 1900, and was a member of the first high school elass ever graduated in that town. He was a student in the A. & M. College at Stillwater, Oklahoma, for a year, aud in 1901 went to Hobart, Oklahoma, where the family moved at that time. Two years later he entered the Farmers and Merchants Bank in that place as a book- keeper, continuing until 1905, when he became book- keeper and assistant cashier in the Mangum National Bank. He held that position until 1910, when he went to Brinkman, and here assisted in organizing the First State Bank, of which he sinee continued as cashier, as has already been said.

The president of the bank is T. S. DeArman; vice president, J. L. Dorham. The capital is $10,000, with a surplus of $1,000.

Mr. Holland is a demoerat and is now serving as town treasurer. He is a member of the State Bankers Assoeia- tion, aud his fraterual connections are with the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, Mangum Lodge No. 1169, and Willow Lodge No. 433 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

In 1910 Mr. Holland married Miss Sallie Van Maddox, daughter of J. M. Maddox, a retired stoekman, living in Jacksboro, Texas. They have uo children.

Mr. Herod .was born August 5, 1865, in a log house on his father's plantation in Smith County, Tennessee, and is a son of Benjamin Franklin and Judith (Haynie) Herod. His father was born in 1819, in the same eounty, a son of Dr. Peter and Rebeeea E. (Key) Herod, the grandparents being natives of North Carolina and pioneer settlers of Smith County, Tennessee, where Dr. Peter Herod was an early physician. Benjamin F. Herod was a stoek grower and plantation owuer on a large seale, and owned many slaves up to the Civil war. His entire life was passed in his native state, where he accumulated a handsome property, and where his death occurred, September 7, 1883, by accidental shooting, at Dixon's Spring. In 1842 Mr. Herod was united in mar- riage with Miss Judith Haynie, who was born in 1820, in Smith County, Tennessee, a daughter of Jolin and Mary L. (Beasley ) Haynie, uatives of North Carolina. She died in 1896, at Hartsville, Trouesdale County, Tennes- see. There were five sons and two daughters in the family, as follows: Clarkey Rebecca, born in 1847, who is the widow of the late W. H. Haile; George Washington, born in 1849, who for many years was engaged in the

practice of medicine and surgery in Tennessee, and is now living in retirement at Pleasant Shade, that state; Morton P., born in 1852, who is now a prominent planter at Dixon's Springs, Tennessee; John Franklin, boru in 1854, who is the owner of a hotel at Hartsville, Ten- nessee; William E., born in 1856, who died in 1882; Mary Louise, born in 1859, who died in infancy; and Casper W., of this uotice.

The early education of Casper W. Herod was seeured in the Masonic State Institute, at Hartsville, Tennessee, from which he was graduated in 1880. For a time he remained on the home farm, but some time after his father's death he embarked in a mereantile veuture at Hartsville, and subsequently accumulated a snug fortune out of handling blooded horses. His means were all swept away, however, in the financial panie of 1893, at Nashville, Tennessee, and in order to recuperate his for- tunes he decided to come to the West. In that same year he came to Woodward in order to attend the opening of the Cherokee Strip, eoming with the officials of the United States Land Office, to open it and make ready for the run of September 16th. He was subsequently appointed elerk of the Woodward United States Land Office, a position which he retained for four years, and during this time began the study of law in connection with his official duties, being finally admitted to the bar in 1897. Opening an office at Woodward he soon attracted to himself a practice that has continued to grow in size and importanee until at this time he is aecounted one of the leading legists of the county, familiar in every. department of his ealliug, a valued associate and a feared and respected opponent. In polities an ardent democrat, he has not beeu an office seeker, but at various times has been urged by his friends to allow his name to be used as a candidate. Unsolicited on two oceasions he has been nominated for county judge of Woodward County and onee for state senator. In 1914 he was a candidate for Congress from the Eighth Distriet, where there were five candidates for the nomination, but, although he received a majority vote in five of the twelve

CASPER W. HEROD. A leading member of the Wood- ward County legal fraternity, Casper W. Herod is another of the men who came to Oklahoma at the timo . counties composing the distriet, he met with defeat by of the opening of the Cherokee Strip, aud have sinee a small margin. In 1911 Mr. Herod was the leading factor in securing for Woodward the Wichita Falls & Northwest Railroad, by raising a subsidy, and was made loeal attorney for the road, a position which he still retains. In 1916 Judge Herod was a delegate from Oklahoma to the Democratie National Convention at St. Louis, Missouri. lived here to advance to positions of promiuenee and responsibility. Sinee his arrival here he has been an active factor in the life of the community, not alone as a professional man, but as the ineumbent of several important positions and as a citizen who has had the time and inclination to devote to the advancement of the city in which his own fortuues have been so materially advaneed.

On May 16, 1903, Mr. Herod was married at Wood- ward to Miss Nettie Vay Allison, who was born April 11, 1884, in Stafford County, Kansas, daughter of Edward R. and Elizabeth Allison, of Mutual, Oklahoma. She died August 4, 1906, leaving one child: Hollis Hayden, who was born March 22, 1904. Mr. Herod was again married, October 2, 1909, to Miss Pearl M. Maisehel, daughter of William and Mary C. Maisehel, of Harper County, Kansas. One son has come to Mr. and Mrs. Herod: Galen Woodrow, who was born October 7, 1914.

Mr. Herod is a member of the Masonie fraternity, and is a well known figure in the social life of Woodward. As a citizen he has been constant in his support of measures for the eivic, educational and moral welfare of the city of his adoption, and few men have lent sueh practical and valuable encouragement to enterprises mak- ing for progress and advancement. Both he and Mrs. Herod are consistent members of the Presbyterian Church.

CYPRIAN TAYRIEN. One of the old and honored resi- dents of the County of Osage, residing 31/2 miles south of Bartlesville, Cyprian Tayrien has lived on his present property for a period of forty-five years, and has seen the

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country grow and develop under the activities and in- dustry of the settlers. He was born in 1836, in Clay County, Missouri, a son of Enoch and Mary Louise (Bor- boney) Tayrien, the former a French-Canadian, and the latter a native of Missouri, and one-half French and one- half Osage Indian.

Enoch Tayrien was an employe of the American Fur Company, and spent the winter months in Missouri, while in the summer seasons he traveled through the Rocky Mountains in the interests of his firm, and built boats in which to ship the buffalo hides down the rivers and streams in the days when the western ranges were covered with great roving bands of bison. On one of his trips to Missouri he met and married Mary Louise Borboney, who died in Clay County, Missouri, in 1837. He survived her for some years and passed away at St. Joseph, Missouri, which was then known as Black Snake Hills. There were three children in the family: Cyprian, the youngest, who was but nine months of age at the time of his mother's death; Louise, who came to the Osage Nation after her marriage at Kansas City, Missouri, to A. B. Canville, a Frenchman, and died here about 1907; and another sister who was reared by an aunt in Missouri, and of whom all trace has been lost.

Cyprian Tayrien was taken to rear at the time of his mother's death into the home of an aunt, Loraine Trubley, at Kansas City, Missouri, but after his sister Louise was married he went to live with her there. In 1850 he was sent to school at the Osage Mission, in what was then the Osage Nation but is now Neosho County, Oklahoma, and attended three years in all. He was eighteen years of age when he started upon his career as a clerk in the store of his brother-in-law, A. B. Can- ville, who was a merchant, and during the ten years that he was thus employed he gained an excellent mastery of the Osage Indian language. Mr. Tayrien was married the first time, in 1860, to Mary Louise Revard, who was one-quarter Osage, sister of Joseph Revard, who was mixed French and Osage as was also his wife. After his marriage he started farming, but his operations were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil war, during which he rendered service as a scout for the Home Guards. When he had completed his military service, he again took up farming, and also worked in various stores kept by those who traded with the Osages, in which capacities his knowledge of the language stood him in good stead. He continued thus employed until the year 1870, when he settled on his present home on Sand Creek, 31% miles west of Bartlesville, where he accumulated 500 acres of good land and placed 200 acres of this under a state of cultivation. After the granting of the allot- ments, Mr. Tayrien was left with 160 acres, with some surplus and alloted land, and now has about fifty acres under cultivation. His children now own as their allot- inents the land which was formerly included in their father's homestead. When he first came to this prop- erty, Mr. Tayrien built a small log cabin, which continued to be his home for a long period, but as the years passed he put up other buildings, including a comfortable frame house, which has been his dwelling place for thirty years. He now has a modern farm, with good improvements of all kinds, and is looked upon as one of the practical, progressive and substantial agriculturists of his com- munity.

Mr. Tayrien's first wife died in Neosho County five years after their marriage, leaving two children: Thomas, of Pawhuska, Oklahoma; and Leona, who is the wife of Mr. Young and resides three miles northwest of Bartlesville. About the year 1870 Mr. Tayrien was mar- ried to Miss Susan Captain, who was one-fourth Osage and three-fourths Frenel, and she died after bearing him

five children : Andrew, who is engaged in cultivating a farm in the same neighborhood as his father; Charles, a resident of Bartlesville; Jennie, who married Alexander Beggs, and is deceased; Ellen, deceased, who was the wife of John Himer; and Rena, who is the wife of John Michaels, of Bartlesville. In 1880 Mr. Tayrien was again married, being united with Emma Higbie, a native of Indiana. She was born in 1861 and was fifteen years of age when she came to Oklahoma with her father, who was a widower. Four children have been born to this union: John, who carries on farming near his father's homestead; Mary, who married Ben Haney, of Pawhuska, Oklahoma; Lilly, who is the wife of James McCoy, a farmer of the Sand Creek locality; and William, who lives at home and assists his father.

CHARLES MINTER PRATT, M. D. In the field of medi- eine and surgery in Garvin County, one who is winning well deserved success is Dr. Charles Minter Pratt, of Maysville. Doctor Pratt commenced practice in 1905 at Maxwell, after a long aud thorough training in preparation for his chosen work, but in 1908 moved to his present location, where he is known as a thoroughly reliable physician and a public-spirited citizen.

Doctor Pratt was born at Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, January 16, 1878, and is a son of W. T. and Dink ( Todd) Pratt. The Pratt family had its origin in Ireland, from whence, in colonial times the American founder came to this country, settling in South Caro- lina, where W. T. Pratt was born in 1841. He was there reared and married and subsequently went to Navasota, Texas, later, in 1884, going to Eddy, Texas, and in 1899 to Blevins, Texas, his present home. He has been a farmer and stockman all his life, and through industry and good management has accumulated a competence. A democrat in politics, he takes some interest in public affairs and has served as county commissioner of Falls County, Texas. His fraternal connection is with the Masonic Order. Mr. Pratt married Dink Todd, who was born in 1847, in Florida, and they became the parents of eight children: Robert, who is with the Chester Rubber Tire and Tube Company, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; J. T., who met an accidental death at Madill, Okla- homa, when forty years of age; Henry, who died at the age of forty years, at Temple, Texas; Charles Minter; Neale, who died of typhoid fever, at the age of sixteen years; Belle, who married Mr. Henry, a farmer, and resides at Blevins, Falls County, Texas; Walter, also a farmer of Blevins; and William, a merchant of Mays- ville.

Charles Minter Pratt attended the public schools and the high school at Eddy, Texas, and after his parents removed .to Blevins, in 1899, he remained with them only a short time, then going to Temple, Texas, where he secured employment as a clerk in a men's furnishing store, a position which he held one year. From youth he had been ambitious to follow the profession of medicine, but determined to make his own way therein. In 1902 he further prepared himself by attendance at Hill's Commercial College, at Waco, Texas, and when his course was completed entered Fort Worth University, which he attended for two years. His medical studies were prosecuted at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and in 1905 he was graduated with his cherished degree of Doctor of Medicine. After three years of practice at Maxwell, Oklahoma, Doctor Pratt came to Maysville, where he has since built up a large and important prac- tice in general medicine and surgery. His offices are located in the Farmers National Bank Building, and his clientele includes the representative people of the city. A democrat in politics, Doctor Pratt has served as a

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member of the school board. He belongs to Maysville Lodge No. 232, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Garvin County Medical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank and has various other interests.

Doctor Pratt was married at Maxwell, Oklahoma, in 1908, to Mrs. Mattie (Flemming) Garvin, widow of Robert H. Garvin, and daughter of J. T. Flemming, deceased, who was formerly clerk of the court at Indian Territory. Mrs. Pratt has two sons by her former marriage: Robert H., a senior at the Pauls Valley High School; and Vashti, a junior at Kidd Key, Sherman.

DR. WILLIAM O. DODSON. Oklahoma has proved itself a splendid field for the younger professional men of the Southwest, and Dr. William O. Dodson of the Town of Willow has found success in his chosen work in the nine years of his residence here. Doctor Dodson is a Texan, born in Coryell County in September, 1881, and he is a son of W. T. Dodson, who was born in Kentucky in 1840.

W. T. Dodson came of a family of Kentucky pioneers. He was a young man when he left his native community and went to Arkansas for a brief period, thence to Mis- souri, and still later to Texas. He married there and settled on a farm, where his children were born. In 1889 he eame to Grier County, Texas (now Oklahoma), and settled in the vicinity of the present Town of Man- gum. There he took up the merehandise business, and continued successfully for some years. He retired in 1902, took up his residence in Mangum and there lives at this writing. He was a soldier of the Confederacy and served through the greater part of the war. He was taken prisoner in Arkansas, and was held until the close of the war. Mr. Dodson has been a lifelong member of the Baptist Church, in which he has long served as a deacon, and he is republican in politics. He is a member of the Masonie fraternity, with Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons and Royal Arch Mason affiliations.

W. T. Dodson married Jane Shelton, born in Alabama in 1841. She died in Mangum in 1900 at the age of fifty-nine years, loved by all who knew her. Seven chil- dren were born to them. Nannie married C. V. Northant, who died at the age of thirty-five years. Mollie married T. R. Clay, and lives in Mangum. Her husband is dis- trict judge and is a prominent man in the county. Marion H. lives in Mangum and there operates a bus linc. Rhoda married Dr. A. D. Lewis, and died at the age of thirty-one years. The husband is also deceased. The fifth ehild was William O. of this review, and the sixth and seventh were daughters who died in infancy.

Following the death of the wife and mother, Mr. Dodson married Eleanor Nichols, of Illinois. No chil- dren have been born to them.

William O. Dodson attended the public schools as a boy and was graduated from the Mangum High School, after which he entered Louisville Medical College (Ken- tucky) and was graduated with the elass of 1904, with the degree M. D. In the same year he began the prac- tiee of his profession in Reed, Oklahoma, where he remained one year. In 1905 he took a western trip through Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho, spending a year in that pastime, and in June, 1906, he returned to Oklahoma and located in Willow, where he has since eontinued, having seen no spot on his western tour that was more inviting than the region he had left. In the past nine years Doctor Dodson has condueted a gen- eral practice and has prospered in a satisfactory manner.

Doctor Dodson is a republican and a man of great publie spirit. He served five years as mayor of Willow,

and concluded his service in that capacity in the year 1915. He has ably filled a place on the local school boards, and in many ways has demonstrated his citizen- ship to be of a high order.

Doctor Dodson is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is a Mason with membership in Willow Lodge No. 435, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is also an Odd Fellow, Willow Lodge 488, and is past grand of the lodge. He has membership in the County, State and American Medical societies.

In 1910 Mr. Dodson was married in Quanah, Texas, to Miss Flossie Skidmore, daughter of Mrs. A. F. Skid- more, a resident of Willow at this time. Mrs. Dodson was born in Kansas. They have no children.

CHARLES H. MARTIN. As cashier of the Central Exchange Bank of Woodward, the judicial center of the county of the same name, Mr. Martin is to be consistently designated as one of the representative business men and progressive and loyal citizens of this thriving community, where his eirele of friends is coinci- dent with that of his acquaintances. That he has exempli- fied most effectively the vital spirit of the West is but natural, for he has passed his life thus far in that vigor- ous seetion of our national domain and elaims the Sunflower state as the place of his nativity.

Mr. Martin was born in the City of Wichita, Kansas, on the 11th of June, 1871, and is a son of Dr. Henry C. and Mary F. (Ferrell) Martin. Doctor Martin was born in the City of Buffalo, New York, and was reared and educated in the old Empire state, where, as a young man, he admirably prepared himself for his chosen profes- sion. He removed to the South prior to the Civil war and therc engaged in practice. Upon the ineeption of the great conflict between the North and South he was soon called upon to give service as a surgeon in the Con- federate army, and he thus served during the entire eourse of the war, with the Second Louisiana Regiment of Infantry.

In 1869 Doctor Martin proceeded by boat up the Mis- sissippi and Missouri rivers to Westport Landing, a place that was the nucleus of the present metropolis of Kansas City, and from that point he made his way with a wagon and ox team to Wichita, Kansas, this unique journey hav- ing represented his wedding tour, and his bride having loyally accompanied him into the Western wilds to estab- lish a "honeymoon home" that should be of enduring order and prove the center of their devoted interests for many years. Doctor Martin entered elaim to a tract of government land in Sedgwick County and in addition to giving his supervision to its reclamation and improve- ment he engaged in the practice of his profession at Wichita, which was then a mere frontier village and in which he has had the distinction of being the first resi- dent physician and surgeon. The doctor beeame one of the most influential and honored pioneer citizens of that section of the Sunflower state, and had much to do with the shaping of publie affairs in his home city and county during those early days. In 1878 he removed with his family to Harper County, Kansas, where he became one of the organizers of the county, where he developed a large practice as a physician and where he accumulated a large and valuable estate. He was a democrat in his political allegiance and both he and his wife were zealous communicants of the Catholic Church. Doctor Martin passed the closing years of a long and useful life at Harper, Kansas, where he died on the 20th of May, 1902, his birth having occurred in the year 1845.

In the City of New Orleans, in 1868, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Martin to Miss Mary F. Ferrell, who was born in Ireland, in 1845, and who was a child

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at the time of the family immigration to the United States, her parents having been John and Mary Ferrell, both representatives of staunch old Irish stock. Mrs. Martin still survives her honored husband and continues to maintain her, home at Harper, Kansas. Of the six children, two died in infancy and of the four surviving the subject of this review is next to the oldest; two of the others, Emiel J. and Helen M., are still residents of Harper, Kansas, and William J. resides in Fairfax, Oklahoma.

Charles H. Martin acquired his preliminary education in the public schools of Harper, Kansas, and his higher academic education was obtained in St. Francis College, at Osage Mission, that state. After leaving college Mr. Martin passed eleven years in the State of Montana and other sections of the Northwest, where he gave his atten- tion to inining enterprise and to the cattle industry on the great ranges of that section.

In the year 1905 Mr. Martin established his residence at Woodward, Oklahoma Territory, where he purchased an interest in the Central Exchange Bank, of which he was elected vice president. In 1907, the year that marked the admission of Oklahoma to the Union, he became cashier of the institution, and as the incumbent of this office he has since continued the executive head of the bank, which has become under his effective adminis- tration one of the strong and popular financial institu- tions of Western Oklahoma. The Central Exchange Bank was established in 1904 and its affairs have been ordered along conservative and yet progressive lines, so that it wields large influence in connection with the furtherance and maintenance of general prosperity in the community which it serves. Mr. Martin is interested in banks at May, Moreland, Sharon and Gray, Oklahoma. He is liberal and loyal in his support of measures and enter- prises tending to advance civic and material progress and prosperity and is one of the leading business men and popular citizens of Woodward County. He still permits his name to be enrolled upon the list of eligible bachelors.

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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