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 88

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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On June 24, 1903, Mr. Hansen was married at Anadarko, Oklahoma, to Miss Blanche Benight, daughter of a prosperous farmer of Caddo County. Two sons have been born to this union: Charles A., who is ten years old; and Oscar B., aged six years, both attending the graded schools. Mrs. Hansen is well known at Perry, where she is active in the work of the church, and where, like her husband, she has many warm friends.

HON. WARREN H. BROWN, In the history of the judi- ciary of Oklahoma the name of Hon. Warren H. Brown is strongly entrenched. His experiences as a jurist have been varied and interesting and include participation in the exciting events that marked the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche country, in 1902, when only men of the most courageous character were chosen for the bench to settle the numerous disputes that arose between men of the most dangerous and reckless nature. Later he served as county judge of Creek County for four years, leaving that office in 1914 to resume his practice as a lawyer, and at this time he is junior member of the firm of Mars & Brown, one of the leading concerns of Sapulpa.

Judge Brown was born August 21, 1865, at Tinney's Grove, Ray County, Missouri, and is a son of Caleb and Martha (Fortune) Brown, the former a native of Rich- land County, Ohio, and the latter of Georgia. The father was still a child when taken to Ray County, Missouri, in a wagon by his parents, and there his subsequent life was passed in agricultural pursuits, his death occur- ring February 16, 1915. The mother was two years old when her parents left their native state and made their

way by flatboat to Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1840, from which point they moved into Ray County, and there Mrs. Brown's subsequent life was passed, her death occurring October 9, 1890. There were three children in the family : Warren H .; Etta May, who is the wife of John F. Hanna, of Tinney's Grove, Missouri; and John P., of Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

Warren H. Brown was reared on his father's farm, receiving his early education in the common schools and the State Normal College, at Warrensburg and Avalon, Missouri. He then began his career as a teacher, his first charge being in Missouri, Ray County, and he taught the first school at Texas, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, and his second at Okland, the present site of New Walla. Deciding upon a professional career, he began the study of law under H. H. Haward and Judge C. B. Ames, at Oklahoma City, where he was admitted to the bar, but to further prepare himself went to Highland Park College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Return- ing to Oklahoma, in October of the same year he was nominated for county attorney of Oklahoma County on the republican ticket, but was defeated by Judge W. R. Taylor, and subsequently was made chairman of the republican city campaign committee, his capable direc- tion in that campaign leading to the election of C. G. Jones as mayor of Oklahoma City. At the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche country, Mr. Brown was ap- pointed probate judge by Governor Jenkins, and took the oath of office August 6, 1902, his first court held in a large tent in the absence of a courthouse. At that time that part of the country was overrun with outlaws, bad men and desperadoes, who defied the law and the of- ficers, and Judge Brown's first act in an official way was the swearing in of thirty-six deputy sheriffs to pre- serve the peace. Among these were such noted characters of the day as Hec Thomas, Bill Tillinan, Ed House, S. W. Fenton and Warren Bennett. The law provided that an individual had to be a resident of the county six months before he was eligible for jury service, and, although there were 10,000 people in the city, and more than that in the county, it was extremely difficult to find twelve men to serve, and Judge Brown recollects one jury in particular that contained five ex-convicts. Many men who have since become prominent in state, and even in national, history appeared as practitioners in Judge Brown's court, including Scott Farris, L. P. Ross, B. M. Parmenter and Wash Hudson, while U. S. Senator Gore tried his first case in Oklahoma with Judge Brown officiat- ing on the bench. Numerous thrilling scenes were enacted in his court, but he was at all times master of the situa- tion and his service in this difficult capacity was one that demonstrated his fine abilities and power over men. In passing, it may be noted that Judge Brown married the first couple to be joined in Comanche County.

In 1903 Judge Brown moved to Oklahoma City, where lie engaged in the insurance business in partnership with Hon. W. L. Alexander, now state treasurer. He was sub- sequently appointed city auditor bv Dr. J. F. Missen- baugh, mayor, and held that office until coming to Sapulpa, in 1907, to resume his law practice. Forming a partnership with L. J. Burt, under the style of Burt & Brown, he enjoyed a large and profitable legal business until 1910, when he was elected county judge of Creek County, and, receiving the re-election in 1912, served ably and conscientiously in that judicial position for four years. Since his retirement from the bench he has been engaged in practice as Mars & Brown, his partner being Frank L. Mars, and the firm enjoys a leading practice in estates, land titles and corporation law. Judge Brown is a member of the Creek County Bar Association and the American Bar Association and enjoys the esteem and

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friendship of his fellow practitioners. He is a fourteenth degree Mason.

On November 25, 1914, Judge Brown was married to Miss Edith M. Henderson, of Topeka, Kansas.

ELMER W. DILLING. Cashier and the responsible exec- utive of the Fletcher State Bank, Elmer W. Dilling has had a progressive career and experience in banking, and for the past thirteen years has been identified with dif- ferent institutions in the territory and state, having begun as a clerk at Guthrie, and being promoted from time to time until he now has the care of a substantial institution in the southwestern part of the state and is well known among banking men generally.

His paternal grandparents were German people who emigrated about 1847 and settled in Erie, Pennsylvania, going from there to Fremont, Seneca County, Ohio, where his grandfather was a farmer. Mr. Dilling's father is Martin Dilling, who was born in Erie County, Pennsyl- vania, in 1848, soon after the family was established there, was reared on his father's farm in Seneca County, Ohio, and in 1876 removed to what was then a frontier town, Abilene, Kansas, which only a few years before had been the notorious center of the southwestern cattle trade. Near Abilene he bought railroad land, and has since continued as a farmer and stock raiser, and now has his home in Abilene. He is independent in politics, is a steward in the United Brethren Church and is one of the highly esteemed old timers in that section of Kansas. Martin Dilling married Alice Scouten, who was born in Seneca County, Ohio. Elmer W. is their first child, and the second is Orva M., who lives on the old homestead arm at Abilene, Kansas.

Elmer W. Dilling was born at Abilene January 8, 1880, attended the public schools of his native city, grad- ating from high school in 1900, and followed that with business course. Coming to Oklahoma, on March 1, 902, he became bookkeeper in the David Telephone Exchange at Weatherford, Oklahoma, but after five nonths went to Guthrie and became clerk in the Guthrie National Bank. He was with that institution one year, nd then entered the Logan County Bank at Guthrie and vas associated with W. H. Coyle, the well known banker, 'or about five years. He was connected for a time with he American National Bank at Oklahoma City, but in March, 1908, removed to Fletcher, Oklahoma, to accept is present office as cashier of the Fletcher State Bank. The Fletcher State Bank was established in 1903 by files and John Kennedy. It started with a state charter, nd its home on Bateman Avenue was erected in 1905. The present officers of the bank are: W. T. Clark of pache, Oklahoma, president; D. W. Hogan of Oklahoma 'ity, vice president; Elmer W. Dilling of Fletcher, ashier; and C. H. Hogan of Fletcher, assistant cashier. 'he capital stock is $10,000, and the substantial charac- er of the business is indicated by surplus and profits of 20,000.

During his residence in Fletcher Mr. Dilling has served s treasurer of the town. He is independent in politics, a member of the First Baptist Church, is affiliated ith Fletcher Lodge No. 363, Ancient Free and Accepted [asons, and was formerly identified with the Modern Toodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World. On December 14, 1904, at Guthrie, he married Miss 'mza L. Swisher, daughter of J. B. Swisher, who is now retired contractor and builder living at Gypsum City, ansas. Mr. and Mrs. Dilling has one daughter, Alice ane, born August 16, 1913.

BARROIS AUGUSTUS HOWARD. In the comparatively rief space of fifteen years three successive generations Vol. IV-20

of the Howard family have been identified with Western Oklahoma. Barrois Augustus Howard, who is of the third and youngest generation, is a very talented and capable young educator, and is now principal of the Moorewood public schools in Dewey County.

His grandfather, Mordecai S. Howard, who was born at Orange Court House, Virginia, in 1833, moved to Columbus, Mississippi, in 1834, and is also well remem- bered in Beckham County, Oklahoma, since he moved to the locality of Erick as a farmer and stock man in 1901, and resided there until his death in 1903. Grandfather Howard made a record as a soldier in the Confederate army for four years, and was a member of General Forrest's gallant cavalry. He was once wounded. He married in New York State, and his wife was of French descent.

The second generation of the family is represented by M. A. Howard, now living at Erick. He was born in Mississippi in 1859, moved from that state into Ten- nessee, later to Alabama, spending twelve years alto- gether in Tennessee and Alabama, and in 1901 he came to Beckham County, Oklahoma, as a pioneer and acquired a homestead of 160 acres southwest of Erick. He still owns that farm, though his home is now in the Village of Erick. In addition to farming and stock raising he spent four years as owner and operator of two cotton gins and a threshing machine outfit. He is a member of the Baptist Church and was a member of the Masonic fra- ternity. M. A. Howard was married in Alabama to Miss Nannie Hancock, a native of that state. Their children are: Professor B. A .; Frank, a farmer and stock raiser at Erick; Luther, in the same business at Erick; Woody, also a farmer and stock man at Erick; Annie Maud and Jessie May, who are in the high school at Erick; Corinne, in the seventh grade of the public schools; Lucile in the fifth grade; and Walker, in the second grade.

Barrois Augustus Howard was thirteen years of age when he came to Oklahoma and lived on the old home- stead near Erick until he was twenty-two. In the mean- time he had profited by attendance at the common schools, also the State Normal School at Edmond and the Southwestern State Normal at Weatherford. In 1910 he began teaching, spending the winters at that vocation, while the summers and falls he was engaged in managing his father's threshing machine and cotton gin. This was his line of work until 1914. In 1913 he became principal of schools at Moorewood. He now has 100 scholars under his supervision, and the school is conducted in a modern school building, with excellent equipment, and under his direction it is taking high rank among the public schools of Custer County. His home has been in Moorewood since August, 1913.

Mr. Howard is a democrat and a member of the Baptist Church. In May, 1913, at Erick he married Miss Augusta Blair. Her father, D. S. Blair, lives on a farm southeast of Texola. Mr. and Mrs. Howard have two children, Barrois Augustus, Jr., and Jean Stephen.

CREED TAYLOR HUDDLESTON. During his twelve years' residence at Okemah, Mr. Huddleston has taken rank among the ablest and most successful lawyers of Okfuskec County. His position is well deserved. He began his career in old Indian Territory as a teacher, and he accordingly knows not only the law but the people with whom he has had his professional and civic associations. He has been in active practice in the territory and state for more than fifteen years.

He comes of a prominent old family of Tennessee, in which state at Byrdstown in Pickett County he was born

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March 15, 1875. There is extant a book known as "The Footprints of the Huddleston Family," a lineage which includes the uames of many men of more than ordinary promineuce, and a specially noteworthy fact is that the family line is traced directly back to Alfred the Great of England. Mr. Huddleston's parents were Martin Van Buren and Mary (Richardsou) Huddleston. His mother was a third cousin of Hon. James D. Richardson of Memphis, Tennessee, who resigned a position as member of Congress from Tennessee to accept the Masonic honor of grand commander of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree. Both Mr. Huddleston's parents were natives of Tennessee, and his mother resides at Byrdstown. Martin Van Buren Huddleston was boru in 1832 and died in 1901. In 1895 he came to the Stonewall District of Indian Territory, and lived there until his death. He was a farmer and stockman, but for some time back in Tennessee le conducted a considerable busi- ness in the buying of timber and rafting of logs down the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers to Nashville. Dur- ing the war between the states he was for four years a private soldier in General Lee's army. In the family were two sous and six daughters, and all are still living except two of the daughters.

Creed Taylor Huddleston spent the first nineteen years of his life at the old homestead in Tennessee, being reared as a farmer's son, and completing his early liter- ary education in Mount Vernon Academy at Burrville, Tennessee. On leaving home to seek his fortune in the world he first went to Texas, spending one year at Mc- Kinney, Collins County, and he both attended and taught school while there. Coming to Indian Territory, he located at Stonewall, and for five years was one of the successful teachers, being in charge of a subscription school for a time aud for one term in the Indian school department. In the meantime he continued his educa- tion, attending for a term or so the American Temperance University at Harriman, Tennessee. While teaching he also studied law and having familiarized himself with the fundamentals of jurisprudence aud with methods of prac- tice in Indian Territory he was admitted to the bar at Ardmore before the United States Court in 1899. His practice began in the same year and also on August 17, 1899, he married Miss Lena Willie Sehon. She was born at Monterey, Tennessee, a daughter of John F. Sehon, and she spent all her early years in her native state until her marriage. She and her husband returned to Indian Territory, but after a short time they went back to Tennessee where Mr. Huddleston entered the law department of the Cumberland University at Lebanon, where he was graduated LL. B. with the class of 1901. He was also admitted to the bars of both Kentucky and Tennessee.

A graduate of one of the best law schools of the Middle West and with some considerable experience as a lawyer and man of affairs in Indian Territory, Mr. Huddleston took part in the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation in 1901, and was one of the early settlers and first lawyers to locate at Lawton, where he became a partner of Senator Gore and the latter's father, and they did considerable business as lawyers during the regis- tration period in preparing papers for the homeseekers. Mr. Huddleston continued to practice in Lawton for two years, and then moved to Okemah where for the past twelve years he has enjoyed not only a large private prac- tice as a lawyer but has made himself a factor in local business and civic affairs. At Okemah Mr. Huddleston owns five store buildings on Broadway, and has also put on the market what is known as the Huddleston Addition to the town. He has also invested much of his capital in farming land, and has altogether about eight hundred acres.

He is an active democrat, though he has uot sough prominence in politics or as an office seeker. He is : lay leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, is : Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite and a Knight Templa Mason, having local affiliations with Okemah Lodge Nc 139, Ancient Free aud Accepted Masons, Okemah Chap; ter No. 61, Royal Arch Masons, and Indian Consistor. at McAlester, and is also a member of India Temple o the Mystic Shriue at Oklahoma City. Other fraternitie of which he is a member are the Woodmen of the World the Modern Woodmen of America, the Independent Orde of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. an Mrs. Huddleston are the parents of two children: Lorena born May 11, 1902, and Maggie Helen, born Decembe 28, 1907.

SHELBY E. BAILEY. In no community is there to b found a more certain and significant index of genera prosperity and progressiveness than through the mediur of banking institutions, their solidity, efficiency of servic and adequacy of executive control. The thriving littl City of Kiefer, Creek County, Oklahoma, is thus signall favored in having as sponsor for its civic and materia stability aud business vitality so excellent and admirabl conducted an institution as the Central State Bank, th efficient and popular cashier of which is Shelby F Bailey. This is the pioneer banking institution of th town and it dates its inception back to the year 1907 when it was established under the title of the Kiefe State Bank, its present name having been adopted afte the requisite amendment of its charter. A substantia and well appointed building was erected specially for th use of the bank and is owned by the institution, it location being on Indiana Avenue and in the center o the business district of the town. The Central Stat Bank, duly incorporated under the laws of Oklahoma an its affairs doubly protected through direct state super vision, began operations with a capital stock of $10,00( and this was later increased to the present figure, $15,000 The present cashier assumed his office about two year after the bank was founded, and within his administra tion as practical executive officer the deposits increase from $65,000 to $185,000, as indicated by the official statement of the bank in the autumn of 1915.

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Shelby E. Bailey was born in the City of Birminghan Alabama, on the 7th of October, 1884, and is a son o William J. and Sarah Elizabeth (Bailey) Bailey, both o whom were born and reared in Alabama, as representa tives of old and honored families of that commonwealth When the subject of this review was about ten years o age his parents removed to Texas and established the residence at Paris, the metropolis and judicial center c Lamar County, and there the father became one of th prosperous aud representative agriculturists of that ser tion of the state, as well as a substantial citizen of n little prominence and influence. His death occurred & Paris on the 12th of May, 1912, at which time he wa sixty-nine years of age, and his widow still maintains he home in that fine little city of the Lone Star State. C the family of eleven children six sons and five daughter survive the honored father, Shelby E., of this review having been the eighth in order of birth.

Though born in the City of Birmingham, Shelby ] Bailey was reared on the farm and remained on th parental homestead in Lamar County, Texas, until he ha ello attained to the age of twenty years. He not only receive rego the advantages of the public schools of that county bi through private study and well ordered reading } materially advanced himself along higher education: lines. He was employed at clerical work in Paris, Texa until 1909, when he established his residence at Kiefe inst Oklahoma, and assumed his present position as cashi(

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of the Central State Bank, which at that time still bore its original title. He has shown great discrimination and S lar progressiveness as an executive and his well directed efforts and personal popularity have done much to fur- ther the development of the business of which he has practical charge and in connection with which he proves a valued coadjutor to the honored president of the bank, hes Isaac F. Crow, who is one of the substantial capitalists laland representative citizens of Tulsa County. Mr. Bailey desis a progressive young business man and loyal citizen who takes lively interest in community affairs, both he and his wife being popular factors in the social life of Kiefer. He is a democrat in his political allegiance and s affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevo- ent and Protective Order of, Elks.

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On the 31st of December, 1911, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bailey to Miss M. Lelia Dalton, who was born in the State of Nebraska, and whose parents, Mr. And Mrs. William T. Dalton, now reside at Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have a

o be era ric ittl Winsome little daughter, Sarah Belle.

HON. JAMES C. NORMAN. The judiciary of Cotton County has a worthy, capable and dignified representa- ive in the person of James C. Norman, judge of the County Court, who, since his arrival at Walters in 1912, as built up a large and representative law business and as established himself firmly in the confidence of the people both as a legist and jurist. He is a native of Missouri, and was born in Oregon County, January 16,

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The Norman family in America traces its aucestry ack to Colonial days, when thirteen brothers of the name migrated to this country from England and settled in ulpeper County, Virginia. Later they settled vari- usly in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia, from hence they subsequently removed to Alabama, Ken- icky and Missouri, and Judge Norman is descended from the brother who went from Virginia to Tennessee. laj. M. G. Norman was born in Tennessee in 1829. He ent to Oregon County, Missouri, as a pioneer of 1849. e was engaged in farming, but was also a member of ie legal profession and a man well educated and well

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ghan formed as to important events and affairs. Just after on 0 oth o e days of the Reconstruction period, he was sent as the rst representative from Oregon County to the Missouri tate Legislature, was subsequently elected clerk of the istrict Court, an office in which he served eight years, and then was again representative of his county in the legislature for two terms. He did not again fill public

senta realth ars o 1 theil ter of fice, but remained as a prominent and active democrat of the at serle ring the remainder of his life and was considered one of r the strong and influential men of his party in Oregon bounty. He passed away there in 1907, aged seventy- zed a he wa ins he te. 0 aghter review łby on th he ha receive nty hu ing cation , Texas Kiefer eashie ght years. As a farmer, Mr. Norman made a success his ventures and always bore an excellent reputation business circles. During the Civil war he enlisted in Missouri regiment in the Confederate service, was ected to captain of his company, and through brave and ithful service was advanced to the rank of major, rving under Generals Price and Marmaduke. He was deacon in the Baptist Church and was fraternally "filiated with the lodges of the Masons and the Odd allows orders. Mr. Norman married Miss Mary Ann aits, who was born in 1830, in Alabama, and died in egon County, Missouri, in 1910, and they became the rents of seven children, as follows: Modena, who harried J. W. Johnson, a farmer, now deceased, and harried the second time Mr. Gravelle, a ranchman of inston, Montana; J. A. Felix, who is engaged in the rm loan and real estate business at Ozark, Missouri;

G. R., a practicing physician and surgeon of Luther, Oklahoma; Elizabeth, the widow of J. N. Pierce, who was a farmer, now residing in Oregon County, Missouri, with her son, Finis; L. P., who is an attorney of Oregon County, Missouri; Judge James C., of this review; and Albert, who resides on the old homestead farm in Oregon County, Missouri.

In the public schools in the vicinity of the home farm in Oregon County, Missouri, James C. Norman laid the foundation for his education. Subsequently he attended Salem (Missouri) Academy, where he was graduated with the class of 1885, and at that time received the appoint- ment to the position of deputy clerk of the Circuit Court, an office which he filled efficiently for eight years. This was followed by three years passed in farming, during which period he read law, and in 1900 was admitted to the bar. His first practice was at Alton, Missouri, but in May, 1901, he came to Lawton, Oklahoma, and there carried on a successful professional business until 1908. The next four years were passed at Randlett, Oklahoma, and in 1912 he came to Walters, where he has since con- tinued in a constantly growing general civil and criminal law practice, with offices in the courthouse. Generally conceded to be a thoroughly learned member of the legal profession, and a man of the highest integrity, in Novem- ber, 1914, he was the successful candidate of the demo- cratic party for the office of judge of the County Court of Cotton County, for a term of two years. Prior to this time he had been city attorney of Walters for one term, and while a resident of Lawton had been a member of the city council for a like period. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and is fraternally affiliated with Walters Lodge No. 225, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Caldwell Chapter No. 53, Royal Arch Masons, of Kirksville, Missouri.

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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