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 9

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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Jesse P. Loving was born at Shipley's Ferry, on the Gasconade River, in Missouri, September 2, 1833, being one of twins. He had but little opportunity for an edu-

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cation, his schooling consisting of one year in Missouri and two years in Texas. In 1854 he engaged in the wagoning business, hauling lumber from the pine mills in Eastern Texas, merchandise goods from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Jefferson and Houston, Texas, and supplies for the army at Forts Belknap and Cobb on the frontier. For a short time thereafter he studied law with Messrs. Everts & Hendricks at Sherman and then accepted a position as clerk and bookkeeper for Mr. Frank Richards in a general merchandise store, continuing in the latter occupation until the outbreak of the war. He was elected treasurer of Grayson County in 1860 but resigned from that office and entered the Confederate army May 25, 1862, serving for three years. His first battle was that of Newtonia, in Southwestern Missouri, and on the second day of that conflict he was captured and held prisoner for the ensuing six months in the Cassville, Springfield, St. Louis and Alton penitentiaries, being eventually exchanged with 866 other prisoners at City Point, Virginia. He passed down the railroad towards Vicksburg and eventually arrived at Jackson, Mississippi, at which point cannon could be heard from Grand Gulf, where General Bowen was engaging the Federals. When General Bowen came up the Black River with his command he took charge of the ex- changed prisoners. After serving with the infantry and dismounted cavalry, Mr. Loving enlisted with the John Landis Missouri Battery from St. Joseph, Missouri, and took part in the battle of Baker's Creek and served throughout the forty-seven days' siege of Vicksburg. He was finally paroled by General Grant and returned home. Later he was detailed in the commissary department, under Maj. S. A. Blain, at Sherman, but after a few months joined his old regiment in Louisiana. This was on April 30, 1864, and that same day he was assigned as clerk in the quartermaster's department. He was with his regiment in its last battle, Yellow Bayou, and at the close of the war reached home in fairly good condition. Immediately after his return he was pre- vailed upon to run for county treasurer and he was elected to that office and served for one year, when he was removed by the reconstruction government. In 1872, however, he was again elected treasurer of Grayson County, and he served as such continuously for the next ten years, when he declined to run for re-election. He was then elected a representative in the lower house of the Nineteenth Legislature and after finishing his term as such refused further political honors.

He assisted the Farmers' Alliance in building their mill at Sherman and remained with that organization in running their mill as secretary and treasurer for two years, when he resigned. When the Old Settlers' Associa- tion, the oldest of its kind in Texas, met for its first picnic, in Mckinstry's grove, eight miles from Sherman, August 27 and 28, 1877, he was elected secretary and treasurer of the same and he has held those offices for the past thirty-eight years.

In politics Mr. Loving gives an unswerving allegiance to the democratic party and since November, 1863, he has been a member of Sherman Lodge, No. 45, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He has filled nearly all the positions in the subordinate lodge and encampment and has also served as grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment of Texas. He was grand master of the state and he assisted Grand Master B. F. Christian in organizing the first lodge of Odd Fellows in the Indian Territory.

December 20, 1859, in Grayson County, Texas, Mr. Loving married Miss Lydia E. Bomar, a daughter of Spencer E. Bomar, a blacksmith who removed from Tennessee to Sherman in 1853. William Bomar, brother of Mrs. Loving, was likewise a blacksmith by trade,

and he married Miss Angeline Chaffin; he died in 1866. There were nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Loving, as follows: Edmond Rife, now fifty-four years old, is a bachelor and lives in Sherman; Jesse P., Jr., married Miss Fannie Stegall, who died in 1893: she was sur- vived by two children, J. George, a sketch of whose career immediately preeedes this one, and Royce, a resi- dent of Sherman, Texas, where he is deputy county clerk. W. W. B. Loving, third child, is an osteopath at Sherman: he married Zylphia Freeman and they have one son, Frank A., also an osteopath, and a daughter, Fay Ellen, an accomplished singer and musi- cian. Sam Houston, fourth in order of birth of the Loving children, married Ila Freeman and they have two daughters, Lydia Ellen and Mary. Charlie Carlton married Louise Alexander, and to them have been born four daughters; he is engaged in the printing business at Amarillo, Texas. Robert F. married a French woman and lives in New Orleans, where he is express messenger for the Wells Fargo Company; they have five children; Martha Susan is the wife of E. D. White, agent for the Wells Fargo Company at Gaines- ville; they have one son, Jesse Egbert, a student in the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College; Georgia Ellen is a charming young woman and lives at home with her parents; and Knowles Shaw was district clerk at Sherman for four years and is now cashier in the State Bank at Celina, Texas; he married Mamie Rucker and they have one sturdy young son. In addition to raising nine children of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Loving also reared Jesse George and Royce Loving, after their mother's death. Although in her seventy-seventh year, Mrs. Loving is as amiable and capable as a woman of half her age. She is possessed of a most gracious per- sonality and is dearly beloved by all who know her. The married life of the Lovings has been ideal in all respects. They have lived in harmony for fifty-six years and have never had a quarrel. Mr. Loving is in his eightieth year and he and his wife number their loyal friends by the score. It is hard to find a more popular family and congenial home in any section than that of the Lovings.

HON. WILLIAM B. ANTHONY. Though a resident of Marlow, where his business activities are as a newspaper publisher and real estate man, William B. Anthony has been prominent as an Oklahoman since statehood, and in his present duties as state capitol commissioner, to which he was appointed by the Legislature, maintains offices in the State National Bank Building at Oklahoma City, and for the past two years has been giving close and faithful supervision to the monumental task of construct- ing a state capitol, which when completed will be the pride of every Oklahoma citizen.

William B. Anthony was born in Bedford County, Ten- nessee, January 9, 1871, a son of Jacob L. and Martha (Bruce) Anthony. Both parents were also Tennesseeans, and his father was a farmer and mechanie. His early education came from the country schools of Bedford County, with a finishing course in Terrell College at Decherd, in the same state. In the office of a Tennessee lawyer he studied law, and though admitted to the bar of Tennessee in 1892, has never practiced the profession, though the knowledge has proved exceedingly valuable to him in many ways. After two years as a school teacher in Tennessee Mr. Anthony in 1893 identified him- self with old Indian Territory, locating at Duncan, where for one year he taught school, and in 1894 removing to Marlow, in what is now Stephens County. There he eon- tinued his work as a teacher one year, and then engaged in the newspaper business as the publisher of the Marlow Review, and also opened a real estate office. Mr. Anthony has thus been engaged in business in Oklahoma twenty

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years and his long experience and familiarity with conditions and the people of the state have given him exceptional qualifications for the various public respon- sibilities entrusted to him.

When the Town of Marlow was incorporated in 1899, he was elected its first mayor, serving as such seven years, from 1899 to 1906. In 1907, at the time of statehood, Mr. Anthony was elected a member of the House of Representatives from Stephens County, and by re-election to the second and third Legislatures served from 1907 to 1913. He was speaker of the House of Representatives during the extraordinary session of the third Legislature. In the first Legislature he was chair- man of the committee on taxation and revenue, and dur- ing his entire legislative career devoted himself to the subject of taxation and revenue. One of the modern provisions of the Oklahoma constitution is that which wisely entrusts to the Legislature, with only general restrictions, such modifications of the taxing scheme which may be conformed with the constantly changing requirement of the state and its subdivisions. Thus the taxation problem is one that is continually before the Legislature, and during the first five years of Oklahoma statehood it is conceded that no one man performed a greater service as a taxation expert and legislator than William B. Anthony. During the first three Legisla- . tures he was author of every revenue law placed on the statute books.

From December, 1908, to January, 1911, Mr. Anthony was private secretary to Governor Haskell. July 11, 1910, when the state capitol was removed from Guthrie to Oklahoma City, with its attendant excitement, Mr. Anthony carried the great seal of the state. In 1913 he was chosen by the Fourth Legislature as one of the state capitol commissioners and in that capacity has been vigilant, progressive and exceedingly capable in for- warding the great enterprise now in course of construc- tion at Oklahoma City. Outside of these official honors Mr. Anthony has never been a candidate for any politi- cal office.

Fraternally he is prominent in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being past grand of Marlow lodge and grand representative to the Grand Lodge. He was grand marshal of the Grand Lodge of old Indian Territory, and for two years grand marshal of the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma. He is also a Mason and is a past chancellor of Marlow lodge, Knights of Pythias, and a representa- tive to the Grand Lodge. His church is the Methodist Episcopal, South.

In 1893 Mr. Anthony married Miss Sarah Shaw, daughter of Thomas J. Shaw, of Lynchburg, Tennessee, one of the pioneer preachers in the Christian Church in Middle Tennessee. To their marriage have been born five children: Shaw Anthony, who is a graduate of the Tonkawa Preparatory School and is a member of the class of 1918 in the University of Oklahoma; Curtis Anthony, a member of the class of 1913 in the Claremore Preparatory School; Gladys, Bruce and Mirian Anthony still at home and attending the local schools of Marlow.

ELVES T. HADDOCK. Because he leased a part of his land to a white man, Tommy Hijo, a Chickasaw Indian, was killed by a band of his own blood and his body thrown beside a trail and covered with his saddle blankets, where it was found several days later. Hijo paid the penalty of the unwritten law that prevailed among many full blood Indians a quarter of a century ago when ambitious young white men were being attracted to the Indian Territory. Hijo's lease was made to Elves T. Haddock, now a prominent real estate and loan man of Madill, who at the age of sixteen conceived the idea

of leasing lands from the Redmen along Red River and having them cleared and put in cultivation. Following the execution of the lease, Hijo was returning from a trip to Denison, Texas, and had just entered the river bottom on the Indian Territory side when he was killed.

The murder presumably was committed by a party of full bloods who, a few days later, with the firing of their Winchesters and much shouting, swept down upon the little house that was being occupied by Mr. Haddock, an older brother and their mother, who were armed only with a shotgun. Mr. Haddock, gun in hand, ran up- stairs and took his position at a window where he might get a good bead on the Redskins if it became necessary to fight them. His brother met them at the door. Their bravado disappeared when they entered the yard and the elder Haddock met them with a bold front. He saw that they were disconcerted, and the fact fully estab- lished his own composure. "I'll give you just ten min- utes to get away from here," said Haddock. The In- dians conferred a moment and the spokesman then asked: "Where is the road. We have lost it." Had- dock pointed toward Burney Crossing on the Washita, which was near the home of Governor Burney of the Chickasaw Nation. The Indians rode away in silence.

While the Indians made strong and ofttimes violent objection to the leasing of their lands to white men whose object was the development of the agricultural resources of the country, they. exhibited little concern over the presence of horse thieves, and these became so numerous that it was necessary that law-abiding citizens join hands with the United States officials in ridding the territory of this element of citizenship. Among the leaders of one of the bands of thieves was Curtis McElwreath, a hotel proprietor at the little Town of Cumberland, where Mr. Haddock was later engaged in business. McElwreath was a man of good repute in the community and was not generally suspected of being in collusion with the band until Deputy United States Marshal Davis of Colbert made a trip into Texas to recover some stolen horses. There he was given a de- scription of McElwreath and of two other men, McCan- dless and Criss. Two of them were arrested peaceably, but an officer found it necessary to shoot Criss' arm off before he took him in custody. The three men served terms of five years each in prison, the trial establishing the fact that for ten years McElwreath had been a leader of the band. The arrest and conviction of these three resulted in the ultimate breaking up of the band, which was the last of its kind to operate in that part of the country under such minute organization and with such success as it experienced for years.

Elves Haddock was born in Independence County, Arkansas, in 1877, and is a son of Jordan and Margaret V. (Harris) Haddock. Jordan Haddock was a native Virginian, a veteran of the Confederate army and a cotton ginner by trade. He died when the subject was but a few years old, so that the boy early found it neces- sary to shift for himself. He was thirteen years old when he went to Celeste, Texas, and there he lived until 1892, when he moved to the Indian Territory and began making ten-year leases on Indian lands. Much of this land he put under cultivation, hiring white men to get it in shape for cropping, and laying the foundation for its purchase at a later date. Much of it he did purchase a few years later, and in still later years he disposed of it and engaged in the mercantile business at Cumberland. In 1904 he moved to Madill and since 1906 has been here engaged in the real estate. loan and insurance busi- ness, as the junior member of the firm of Haddock & Lewis.

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tory, in 1897, to Miss Rosa Carter, who died two years later. He was again married in 1902, at Cumberland, to Miss Fannie Webb. They have three children: Law- rence, E. T., Jr., and Edward Lindsay.

Mr. Haddock, it should be said, has one brother and four sisters. W. J. Haddock, the brother, is engaged in farming at Madill. Mrs. H. P. Turnstall is the wife of a farmer at Abilene, Texas. Mrs. J. P. Dorr is the wife of a physician in Dota, Arkansas. Mrs. C. L. Moore married a merchant and farmer at Charlotte, Arkansas, and Mrs. J. M. Hurley is the wife of a farmer at Charlotte.

Mr. Haddock is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and has been a steward in the Madill church since he came here. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Maccabees, and of the Madill Commercial Club, a wide awake and progressive organization, as well as of the Madill Civic League and the Good Roads Club. He is one of the town's most active, substantial and pro- gressive business men and owns probably the handsomest home in Marshall County.

HENRY TURNER MILLER. Early in 1889, before the original opening of Oklahoma Territory, Henry T. Mil- ler, now a well known business man of Oklahoma City, had brought in a pioneer printing and newspaper plant from his former home in Kansas and had established it at Purcell, Indian Territory. There he began the publi- cation of The Territorial Topic, which had the distinc- tion of being the third newspaper ever printed in the old Chickasaw Nation.

That was the beginning of Mr. Miller's influential career as an Oklahoma journalist and citizen. The Ter- ritorial Topic espoused and was an ardent supporter of the interests of the intermarried disfranchised citizens of the Chickasaw Nation, and for this fact, and also because it was an excellent medium of news, the paper attained a wide and influential circulation. By its cham- pionship of the cause of intermarried citizens, it became a power for the development of the old Chickasaw coun- try. Mr. Miller quickly took his place as an individual factor in the life of the nation, attending all the Indian and political conventions, and in a few years he took up and argued valiantly for the cause of single statehood.

While his first location was at Purcell, he is also a real Oklahoma eighty-niner, having made the run'at the opening on April 22d from Purcell and securing a claim adjoining the Townsite of Norman. In 1894 he removed his newspaper plant from Purcell to Norman and it was subsequently merged with The Democrat under the name Democrat-Topic. His original claim has since beeu platted and is now a part of the Town of Norman.

In 1890, while still a resident of Purcell, Mr. Miller issued the call for the first meeting of newspaper men of the Oklahoma and Indian territories, and as a result of this call the First Territorial Joint Press Association was organized April 30, 1890. Mr. Miller was chosen president, and that honor is not least among the grati- fying distinctions he has gained during his residence in Oklahoma. He was also secretary of the first commer- cial club ever organized in the old Indian Territory, the organization being effected at Purcell. Since 1906, when he located in Oklahoma City, Mr. Miller has given his time and attention to the real estate and insurance business.

Henry Turner Miller was born December 17, 1860, on a farm in Howard County, Missouri, and belongs to a family of fine old pioneer stock in that section of Central Missouri. His parents were John and Mildred Elizabeth (Boulware) Miller. His father was born in Virginia in 1813, and the grandparents were natives of the same

state. In 1831, at the age of eighteen, he went out to Missouri, then a frontier state, and took charge of the plantation of his uncle, John Miller, in Howard County. This uncle gained distinction as governor of Missouri from 1826 to 1832. Mr. Miller's father continued a resi dent of Howard County where he prospered as a farmer and breeder of blooded stock until his death on April 2, 1870. Prior to the war he had owned a large number of slaves, and conducted a real plantation in the Missouri River Valley. He was an ardent southern sympathizer, and in many ways took an active part in public affairs. He was married in 1842 to Miss Mildred Elizabeth Boul- ware, daughter of William Boulware, a native of Vir- ginia. She was born in 1827 and died in 1872. The Okla- homa newspaper man was the youngest of their eight children, five sons and three daughters. The others are briefly mentioned as follows: Ernest, who was born in 1844 and died in 1848; William Lindsey, who was born April 21, 1846, was under General Shelby and in General Price's Confederate army during the war and is now a farmer in Cass County, Missouri; Downing, who was born in 1848, died in 1907; Rose Catherine, born in 1850 and died in 1910; Junietta, born in 1852 and died in 1914; Jackson, who died in infancy; Fannie Emily, who was born in 1857 and is the widow of J. W. Woolery of Kansas City, Missouri.

Henry Turner Miller spent his early youth on his fa- ther's large farm in Howard County, Missouri, and as was the custom of the old and well-to-do families of that sec- tion, a private tutor was engaged for the instruction of the children of the household. He also attended a very noted institution of education in that state, Pritchett's Institute at Glasgow, Missouri. When twenty years of age, Mr. Miller began the study of telegraphy, and from 1880 to 1884 was in active service in charge of different stations along the Missouri Pacific Railway in Missouri and in Kansas.

It was in 1885 that he entered the newspaper field as the founder and publisher of the Bee at East Lynne, Missouri. He edited and owned this paper for two years, and in 1887 he removed the plant to the new Town of Stockton, Kansas, where he established the Rooks County Democrat. After conducting this paper a year or so he removed the same plant to Purcell, and began his influential connection with affairs in old Indian Territory and Oklahoma.

On August 17, 1893, Mr. Miller married Miss Frances Electa Graham. She was born November 24, 1864, at Bancroft, Missouri, the oldest daughter of Robert M. and Marilis (Froman) Graham, both of whom were pio- neer Missourians. Her father was the first democratic sheriff of Livingston County, Missouri, after the recon- struction period following the war. The Grahams deserve special mention for their pioneer settlement in Old In- dian Territory, and it was in 1883 that the father brought his family to the Indian country. He continued to follow his business as a farmer and cattle man until his death at Norman in 1909. Mrs. Graham died in 1907. A brief record of their seven children, three sons and four daughters, is as follows: Isaac, now a merchant at Noble, Oklahoma; George F., a farmer in McClain County; Mollie, wife of E. B. Johnson, a well known banker of Norman; Callie M., a teacher in the United States Indian service; Harriet, who is also a teacher in the same service; Robert, who was burned to death in a prairie fire in 1884; and Mrs. Miller.

To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born six children, four sons and two daughters, namely: Robert Lee, who was born July 2, 1894, Richard Bland born May 11, 1896; Mildred Elizabeth Boulware, born July 26, 1898; Frances Emily, born July 18, 1900;

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Henry Turuer, Jr., born June 9, 1903; and June Pleasant, born September 2, 1905.

REV. SAMUEL H. RAUDEBAUGH. There are many inter- esting data to be noted in reviewing the career of this venerable and revered citizen, who is living virtually retired in the Village of Dacoma, Woods County, after haviug served all with consecrated zeal and devotion for nearly half a century as a clergyman of the United Brethren Church. He retired from the active work of the ministry in December, 1914, after having been a member of the Oklahoma conference of the denomination for the year that marked the admission of the state to the Union. His life has been one of signal consecration to the service of the Divine Master and to the aiding and uplifting of his fellow men, the while his fine intellectual powers and broad and varied experience have made him a potent force in connection with practical affairs. He is a native of the old Buckeye State and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families, and he represented that state as a valiant soldier of the Union during the Civil war, in which two of his younger brothers likewise took part. In the "piping times of peace" Mr. Raudebaugh has ever manifested the same intrinsic spirit of loyalty aud patriotism that prompted him thus to go forth in defense of the national integrity, and he has proved true to duty in all the relations of a significantly active and useful career.

Rev. Samuel H. Raudebaugh was born on a farm near Lancaster, the judicial center of Fairfield County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was September 29, 1842. He is a son of Rev. Abraham and Susana (Simons) Raude- baugh, both likewise natives of Ohio and representatives of worthy pioneer families of that commonwealth. Rev. Abraham Raudebaugh was born on the 19th of Septem- ber, 1820, and was reared and educated in his native state, where he became a prosperous farmer and an able and honored local minister of the United Brethren Church, his work in the ministry having been initiated iu 1854 and having terminated with his death, which occurred at Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, in August, 1859. His marriage to Miss Susana Simons was solem- mized in 1841, his wife, who was born in the year 1822, having survived him by more than a score of years and having passed the closing period of her life at Lawrence, Kansas, where she was summoned to the life eternal on the 18th of January, 1882, secure in the reverent affec- tion of all who had come within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence. Of the ten children, Rev. Samuel H., of this review, is the first born, and concerning the other children brief record is here given in respective order of their birth: Susan died in infancy; Peter O., who is a resident of Herington, Dickinson County, Kan- sas, where he established his residence in 1866, was a gal- lant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, as a member of Company K, Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Perry F., who now maintains his home in the City of Seattle, Washington, served in the Civil war as a mem- ber of the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Katherine resides in Huron County, Ohio, and Jane is the wife of Frank Wilson of that county; the next two children were twin daughters who died in infancy; Miss Rosa Ann Rebecca resides at Herington, Kansas; and Abraham W. died at the age of ten years.

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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