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. V, Part 102

Author: Thoburn, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradfield), 1866-1941
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 644

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In 1854 the Hume family, including Charles R., who was then seven years old, moved out to Medina in Lenawee County, Michigan. The farm which the father bought there was the family homestead for a period of forty years. It was in that region of Southern Mich- igan that Doctor Hume grew to manhood. He attended the common schools and also acquired an academic course in the Oak Grove Academy in Medina, where he finished in 1870. He continued his education in the University of Michigan, where he was graduated M. D. in 1874.

Thus more than forty years have passed since he began to render service to humanity in the capacity of physician and surgeon. In earlier years before taking up active practice he followed farming and teaching and paid the expenses of his university course through his own earnings. Reared on a farm, and a practical farmer before he became a physician, Doctor Hume has always kept up his interest in agricultural affairs and has owned farms in connection with his professional business. However, he has allowed nothing to interfere with the studious and active devotion to his real calling.

In 1874 after leaving the University of Mich- igan he began practice at Perrysburg in Wood County, Ohio. Later he was at Tontogany in the same Ohio county, and from there went out in 1881 to Caldwell in Sumner County, Kansas. He was one of the early physicians in that then sparsely settled district of Kan- sas, and remained there, growing up with the country and enjoying a large practice for ten years.

In 1890 Doctor Hume came to the Indian Agency of Anadarko as agency physician. He continued in the United States Indian service from December 1, 1890, to February 28, 1902, as resident physician for the Kiowa and Comanche Agency, and performed all the services connected with that office until after the opening to white settlement of the Kiowa and Comanche country. He then opened an office for general practice, and is now the dean of the medical fraternity of Anadarko. For years the demands upon his professional time and energy have been all that he could satisfy.

For the past seventeen years Doctor Hume has been local surgeon for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company; from 1901 to 1914 was president of the Board of Pension Examiners of Caddo County; was superintendent of public health of Caddo County from 1901 to 1907, was district councillor of the State Medi- cal Society five years; was vice president of the State Medical Society in 1914; and in May, 1916, was elected president of the State Medical Society. While living in Kansas he became a director of the Citizens Bank of Caldwell in 1887. In politics he is a republican and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

At Perrysburg in Wood County, Ohio, December 27, 1876, Doctor Hume married Annette Ross. She was born in Perrysburg on March 8, 1858, daughter of James White and Catherine (Darling) Ross. Her father was a prominent factor in local affairs in Wood County, Ohio. Mrs. Hume has been a home maker and a social leader, has served as president and secretary of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Okla- homa and recently retired from the office of president of the Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs. To their marriage were born five children, three of whom died in infancy. C. Ross Hume, one of the surviving sons, married Verne Gossard, and has a family of one son and two daughters; Raymond R. Hume, the other sou, is unmarried. The older son is an attorney, has served for four years as county judge of Caddo County, while the other is a practicing physician and is located at Minco, Oklahoma. Both sons are graduates of the Oklahoma State University and took their professional degrees in the University of Kansas and the University Medical School of Kansas City, respectively.

OSMAN A. GILBERT. Perhaps no family in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, has a more historic ancestry than has the family represented by Osman A. Gilbert, successful druggist and former postmaster of Cleveland. They are in the direct line of descent from Sir Humphrey Gilbert, well known in English history, and Sir Walter Raleigh, equally prominent in history and literature. On the mother's side there is known relationship to General Grant, whose tomb on Riverside Drive is one of the most interesting objects in New York City. The family came to New York in Colonial days, and Rev. Joseph O. Gilbert, grandsire of the subject, was a well known circuit rider of the Methodist Church in his day.

Osman A. Gilbert is one of nine children born to his parents, Osman A. and Fanuie E. Gilbert. The father was born in Italy, New York, and died on January 6. 1899, near Geneseo, Illinois, at the age of seventy. His widow survived until 1905, and died near Geneseo, Illi. nois, when she was sixty-three years old. The senior Gilbert came to Michigan with his parents when he was two years old, and later when he was sixteen, they moved to Illinois. They were farming people practically all of their lives and the father owned the farm 01 which he died for a period of fifty-two years. He wa: a prominent citizen in his part of Illinois, and was activ politically, though he never cared to hold office. He wa twice married, and the subject of this review was th

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oldest child of the second marriage. Until he was twenty-three years old Osman A. Gilbert, Jr., lived at home with his parents and assisted his father as he grew to manhood in his extensive farming interests and cheese manufactory, which his father established at Cleveland, Illinois.

He secured a very good education, following his high- school training with two years at a normal school, and when he was twenty-three years old he came to Oklahoma on April 22, 1889. He first settled on a government claim near Edmond, which he held for two and a half years and then sold, and went to work in the drug store of Moore and Howard at Edmond. He was with that firm for eight months, when he entered into a partner- ship with them and purchased a drug store at Stillwater. He continued there for a year and a half, sold out his interest in the business and came to Cleveland on April 4, 1894, just five years after coming to the state. He opened his present establishment, which he has contin- uously operated since that time, with commendable suc- cess.

Mr. Gilbert is vice president and a director of the First National Bank since it was nationalized in 1900, and is interested in a number of oil projects in the county, as well as extensive farming interests. He was one of a company of three who organized the Cleveland telephone exchange, which the organizing company later sold to the Pioneer Telephone Company. For eight years Mr. Gilbert was postmaster during the Mckinley and Roosevelt administrations, and has twice served as mayor of Cleveland. He is a member of and one of the official board of the Christian Church at Cleveland, and is fra- ternally associated with the Knights of Pythias and the Masons.

On June 29, 1893, Mr. Gilbert was married to Miss Evie A. Powell at Edmond, Oklahoma. She was born at Vandalia, Michigan, and is the only daughter of Jason A. and Barbara A. Powell. She is of Welsh- English and German descent. On the paternal side she is directly descended from John Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Her husband smiles sional and says she is a consistent relative of her ancestor. versity Her father's people moved to Michigan in an early day from the State of New York and the relatives there claim Revolutionary fame. On the maternal side her grand- Pawneeanother came from Germany when she was thirteen years han hastold. Her parents afterward lived in Kansas, where ceessful she was educated, and in 1889 she came with her parents They co Edmond, Oklahoma. Her father was for many years umphreyengaged in the market and stock business. In 1900 her Walterparents moved to Cleveland to be near their daughter are. Omind purchased property in that town and vicinity. Jason General A. Powell died in Cleveland in 1910 at sixty-seven years the mostof age. His wife still survives him.

ily care Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert have no children. For fourteen seph Ofrears she assisted her husband in his store, was his as- I know istant pharmacist and was his assistant postmistress luring his incumbency of the postoffice. During the past ew years Mrs. Gilbert has been a leader in Maccabee ffairs in Oklahoma, and has served on state and national lelegations. The Ladies Review, the official paper of nty. Hi he Maccabee order, published at Port Huron, Michigan, eseo, Ilija- the October, 1913, number says: "Mrs. Gilbert is The senio ot only an excellent Officer but upon many occasions when f Maccabee Rallies has shown herself a brilliant and teen, the ble orator." In addition to the standing she has in practical he Maccabee order she holds an official position in the farm offrand Temple of the Order of Pythian Sisters in Okla- . He moma, and has received commendatory mention as a was aetiquent speaker and a thoughtful woman, in the leading e. He newspapers of the state. 7. ra to hi he father annary

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She is at present grand chief of the Pythian Sisters of the Grand Jurisdiction of Oklahoma; and had the honor of delivering the state address for that order at the joint public convocation of the lodges of that order at Convention Hall, Tulsa, Oklahoma, May, 1916.

Mrs. Gilbert is a member of the Christian Church, and has been an active worker in her home city, having been a teacher of a young ladies' class for several years, and for a number of years had charge of the choir, being an accomplished musician. During the last few years other duties which took her often from home have caused her to give up much of the local work.

Together with her father she did much to secure the building of the first church erected in Cleveland, and was a charter member of the board of trustees and the first clerk of the church. Mrs. Gilbert is the possessor of a one hundred and sixty acre farm located three miles from Cleveland, purchased with her own earnings, and says she is prouder of this than of any other achieve- ment. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are pioneers in the State of Oklahoma and have been-en rapport with the activities of the state from the beginning.

Mr. Gilbert who was present at the famous opening of the "strip" in 1893, tells many interesting stories of the rush at that time and of the early days of Oklahoma. He was one of sixty who made the race from Stillwater to the location of the present Town of Pawnee, a distance of thirteen miles, and of that company only eight arrived, he being one of them. This distance was covered in thirty-nine minutes.

EDWARD ANDREW ROWLAND, M. D. Two members of the Rowland family have gained a sccure place in medi- cal circles in Oklahoma, and both for a time were located at Shawnee. Dr. Edward A. Rowland is now the lead- ing physician and surgeon at Maud, and his older brother still resides and enjoys a large practice at Shawnee.

The Rowlands are a Mississippi family. The great- grandfather of Doctor Rowland immigrated from Wales and settled in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary war. He became a farmer and planter. There were two brothers who came with him from Liverpool and one of them settled in New York State and one subse- quently went to Illinois. Dr. Edward Andrew Rowland was born at Falkner, Mississippi, January 5, 1884.

His father, A. J. Rowland, was born in Mississippi in 1846 and now resides at Mobile, Alabama. He was reared and married in his native state and during the last year of the Civil war served on the Union side. Following the war he removed to Falkner, Mississippi, engaged in merchandising, and in 1888 went to Pon- totoc, Mississippi, and became identified with the rail- way postal service. In 1907 he removed to Mobile and is now transfer clerk in the railway mail service. In politics he is republican and at one time served as tax assessor of Tippah County, Mississippi. He is a mem- ber of the Christian Church and the Masonic fraternity. A. J. Rowland married Martha Annie Northcross, who was born in Mississippi in 1847. Their children are Dr. T. D. Rowland of Shawnee; C. W. Rowland, a farmer at Haskell, Texas; R. E. Rowland, who con- ducts a cotton compress and ice factory at New Albany, Mississippi; and Dr. Edward A.

Dr. Taswell D. Rowland, the oldest of the brothers, was born at Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi, Novem- ber 3, 1870. He attended public schools in his native locality, graduated from high school at Salisbury, Tennessee, in 1889, and for two years was a teacher in Tippah County. He then entered the railway mail service, the same line which his father has followed

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for so many years, and continued in that work for ten years. In the meantime he had been looking ahead and planning upon a professional career. In 1899 having left the railway postal service, he entered the Medical College at Memphis, Tennessee, and was grad- uated M. D. with the class of 1903. He subsequently took post-graduate work in the same college in 1906 and 1910, and did post-graduate work at Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1907 and 1913. In May, 1903, he located at Shawnee, Oklahoma, and since then has enjoyed a large and profitable general medical and surgical practice, his offices being in the Mammoth Building. He is a deacon in the Christian Church, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, and has served as president of the Pottawatomie Medical Society and is a member of the State Society and the American Medical Association. He has been a vigorous citizen at Shawnee, and his name is usually found associated with any movement for the public welfare. In politics he is a republican.

At Jackson, Tennessee, Dr. T. D. Rowland married Miss Hattie Barnett, a daughter of the late Sam B. Barnett, who was court clerk of Madison County, Ten- nessee, for many years. Doctor Rowland and wife have four children: Barnett, who graduated from the Shawnee High School in 1913 and is now taking special courses in commercial art in Chicago; Annie, who graduated from the Shawnee High School in 1914, is a freshman in the State University at Norman; Eliza- beth, who is in the fourth grade of the public schools; and Louise, who has not yet reached school age.

Edward Andrew Rowland, whose successful work as a physician is being done at Maud in Pottawatomie County, received his early education in the public schools of Pontotoc, Mississippi, and graduated from high school there in 1902. For a time he was employed in the super- intendent's office of the M. J. & K. T. Railroad at New Albany, Mississippi, and was from there transferred to Mobile, Alabama, in the employ of the same railroad. That was his line of work up to 1907 at which time he invested his savings in a professional education, entering the Medical Department of the University of Aabama, from which he was graduated M. D. with the class of 1910. He is an alert student, and has accepted every opportunity to fit himself for proficient and skillful work. From January to May, 1915, he took post- graduate work at Tulane University in New Orleans and also at the University of Alabama at Mobile. He is a member of the Phi Beta Pi College Fraternity.

In 1910 Doctor Rowland located at Shawnee, where his brother had been established in practice for a number of years, but after one year he returned to Mobile, Alabama, remained there a short time, practiced a year at Creola, Alabama, and in April, 1913, established himself per- manently at Maud, Oklahoma, where he now has a promising medical and surgical practice, with offices in the Tribbey Drug Store Building. In politics Doctor Rowland is a republican, is a member of the Christian Church, and is a member of the county and state medical societies. The only fraternity to which he belongs is the Modern Woodmen of America.

CHIEF CHARLES JOURNEYCAKE. In the annals of the Delaware tribe of Indians there is no name more con- spicuous than that of Chief Journeycake. He was not only a political leader of his people but also one of their spiritual pastors, and some years ago when the Federal Government published one of its important reports on the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory the portrait of Rev. Charles Journeycake, chief of the Delawares, was

given an appropriate place of honor in that portion of the bulletin devoted to the Delaware people.

Chief Journeycake was the first person baptized in what is now the State of Kansas, where he lived with his people for many years, the Delawares moving into Indian Territory after 1868. His life of splendid integ- rity and Christian virtue gained him the highest respect of all who came in contact with him, and his memory is reverenced by all his people. He was their guide as well as their pastor, and was chiefly instrumental in convert- ing the Delawares to the Christian religion, He was a master of the various Indian dialects, including the Shawnee, Wyandotte, Seneca, Ottawa as well as the Delaware dialect. It is said that during the Civil war when 80 per cent of his men had enlisted, it was his statesmanship that held the tribe together. He led the Delawares from Kansas into Indian Territory, and throughout he was the master spirit of his people. As an ordained Baptist clergyman he did missionary work all over Indian Territory, but never accepted one cent for his services, making his own living by farming.

Chief Journeycake died in 1894, and his wife, Jane (Sancia) Journeycake, passed away in 1893. A brief record of their children is as follows: Mary E., de- ceased, who married Charles H. Armstrong; Rachel, the deceased wife of N. J. Tanner; Nannie M., widow of the late Col. Jacob H. Bartles of Bartlesville; Lucy Jane, deceased, who married Henry Armstrong; Baron Stowe, who died when three years old; Emeline, wife of J. E. Campbell of Nowata; Adeline, deceased wife of Samuel Love; Anna, who also married Henry Armstrong and is now deceased; Cora Lee, who died after her marriage to William Carey; and one that died in infancy.

DAVID RATNER. Ten years ago David Ratner came to Cleveland, Oklahoma, and established a mercantile business in which he has since continued successfully He has carried his activities into the adjacent Towr of Yale in recent years, and since 1914 has operated : general store there with the same success he has en joyed in Cleveland.

Mr. Ratner was born in Russia in 1863, Septembe: 11th being the day of his birth. He is a son of Mose and Esther (Ullman) Ratner, who came to America in 1884, bringing their family with them and settling in Kansas. For about four years these people lived on a farm and then moved to the Town of Wichita which move was followed no longer by their remova to Oklahoma about the time the famous "strip" wa opened in 1893. They had their home at Blackwel Moses Ratner died in Wichita when he was in th sixty-third year of his life, and his widow survive him until 1912, when she died in Cleveland, Oklahoma aged seventy years. They were the parents of thre, sons and four daughters, all of whom are living at thi time. They all lived under the paternal roof until th passing of the father, and the mother was living wit her son, David, when she passed away.

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in 1914, in the month of October, he opened a general store in Yale. He has prospered in both these ventures, and in addition to his mercantile activities, has become the owner of a section of land in Jackson County.

Mr. Ratner, who is a democrat, was a presidential elector for his district in 1912, and has served on many important political committees in the years of his resi- dence here. He is a Mason of high degree, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He is unmarried, and has his home with his sisters in Cleveland. His brothers are Sam and Harry, the former a resident of Kansas City, and Harry a traveling salesman. Anna, the eldest sister of the subject, is a widow and makes her home with him. Rosa married Frank Stephens of Wichita, Kansas. Eliza- beth lives with her brother David.

WELDON MORRISON. In September, 1915, Mr. Morrison began his duties as superintendent of schools at Byars. With that work he entered upon his eleventh consecutive year as an Oklahoma educator. He has been connected with a number of schools in different parts of the state and the record of his efficient service has been impressed upon a number of communities where the people regard him with especial esteem.

Professor Morrison is still a young man. He was born at Hazlehurst, Mississippi, April 17, 1884. His Scotch-Irish ancestors came to South Carolina during colonial times. His father, R. S. Morrison, who was born in Alabama in 1857, and when a young man went to Hazlehurst, Mississipipi, where he married; even- tually became a pioneer in North Texas, locating at Vernon in the Red River Valley in 1888. By profes- sion he is an attorney, and has practiced in several of the large circuits in North and Northwest Texas. In 1898 he located at Warren, Oklahoma, but in 1907 re- turned to Texas and established his home and profession at Archer City, where he now resides. He is now serving as county attorney of Archer County. In poli- ties he is a democrat, is an active member and deacon of the Baptist Church, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also belongs to County, State and American Bar Associations. R. S. Morrison married Miss Nettie Wheeler who was born in Mississippi in 1867. Their children are: Professor Morrison; Mary Bell, who died at the age of five years; a daughter who died in infancy; Rubie, wife of Dave Anders, a farmer at Hobart, Oklahoma; Thomas, in 'the railroad service at Archer City, Texas; John, a railroad man at Orth, Texas; Ethel, who is living at home and employed in one of the stores at Archer City; Emma Joda, a junior in the high school at Archer City; Claud, Hazel, Percy and Maggie, all of them attending public school at Archer City.

S. Weldon Morrison completed the eighth grade of the public schools at Vernon, Texas, in 1901. During 1902 he attended the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- lege at Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the years 1903, 1904 and 1905 were spent as a farmer in Kiowa County of this state. He was just twenty-one when he began his career as an Oklahoma educator. His first school year 1905-06, was spent as principial of schools at Duke in Jackson County. His successive locations and terms of service have been: 1906-07, principal of schools at Cottage Hill, Jackson County; 1907-09, principial at South Greer, Oklahoma; 1909-11, principal of Center- view School; 1911-14, principal at Tipton, three years; 1914-15, principal of the Washington schools in McClain County; and in the fall of 1915 he became superin-

tendent of schools at Byars. During all these years Mr. Morrison has been attending the Central State Normal School at Edmond during the summer sessions and also for two fall terms and for two spring terms. He is now a member of the senior class in that insti- tution.

He has also identified himself with the work and interests of the County and State Teachers' Association. In politics he is a democrat, is a member of the Chris- tian Church, and is affiliated with Tipton Lodge No. 417, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. At Warren, Oklahoma, in 1905, Mr. Morrison married Miss Ethel Byrd. Her father, Thomas Byrd, who now lives at Edmond, Oklahoma, is a mechame in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad. Three children were born to their union : Orion and Harold, both in school; and Waldo.

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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: 644

Author: Thoburn, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradfield), 1866-1941
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 644