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 106

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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Oran J. Logan was born at Morganton, Faunin County, Georgia, March 19, 1870. His father, John Cal- houn Logan, was a Confederate soldier, and a native of Tennessee, representing one of the pioneer families of that state. Senator Logan, like many successful men, had an early environment of comparative poverty. His parents were too poor to send him to college, and his education while a boy was acquired in the common schools. In 1883 his parents removed to Erath County, Texas, locating on a farm. That part of Texas was then almost on the western frontier, and Oran J. Logan has seen much of the rough and active life of the old range country and his mind and character are impressed with the freedom and movement of the western prairies. He worked as a farmer in Erath County until 1887, and then found a position with the Texas Express Company, which operated over the Santa Fe lines. After one year he left the railroad and went to work on a ranch in west Texas. This experience was gained chiefly in Fisher County, far out on the western plains, and he became a typical cow- boy possessing the vigilance and the hardy qualities so often associated with plainsmen, and acquired some note as a "broncho buster." For three years beginning in 1889 Mr. Logan was employed at Alvarado, Texas, by D. T. Lyon Lumber Company, and afterward was with the Alvarado Cotton Company.

In 1894 he was selected as deputy county clerk of Johnson County, serving under Samuel P. Ramsey, of the prominent Ramsey family of Texas. While living at Cleburne, he was elected justice of the peace in 1896, and having in the meantime taken up the study of law was admitted to the Texas bar in 1898. After several years in practice in Texas Mr. Logan was drawn to Okla- homa by one of those several historic events known as "openings," and thus was on the ground at Hobart when the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Reservation was opened to settlement in 1901.

On November 17, 1901, Senator Logan married Mar- garet Falkenburg, of Cleburne, Texas. They have one child, Oran Beulah, now twelve years of age. Mr. Logan is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and has affiliations with the Masonic, the Modern Wood- men and the Ancient Order of United Workmen lodges. In his own career he has exhibited some of the hardy qualities for which his ancestors were noted. The Logans in the early days were merchantmen and traders who traveled over the hills of the Carolinas with their freight wagons and long teams, years before the introduction of railroads and other modern methods of transportation.

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1892, when he espoused the cause of James S. Hogg for governor during the famous Hogg-Clark campaign. After coming to Oklahoma he was the first chairman of the Democratie County Central Committee of Kiowa County, after the organization of that county. In 1904 he acquired his first legislative experience as a member of the Territorial Legislature, representing Kiowa County. In 1910 he was elected a member of third State Legis- lature, and in 1914 was elected to the Senate from the Sixth Senatorial District, which includes several counties in the southwestern part of the state. During the extraordinary session of the third Legislature he was chairman of a committee on capitol location, and as a result of the labors of that committee and of the Legis- lature the capitol was removed from Guthrie to Okla- homa City. Senator Logan's legislative record also includes authorship of a law during the third session which brought an end to the apparently much abused privilege of county division. Since taking his seat in the Senate Mr. Logan has been chairman of the committees on commerce and labor and a member of the committee on code revision, revenue and taxation, public service corporations, roads and highways, education, insurance, oil and gas, Indian affairs, and drugs and pure foods. It should also be recalled that Senator Logan was a con- spicuous figure in the noted fight in the Territorial Legis- lature in 1905, during the consideration of the proposed fellow servant law. Two members of the committee of the House that were favorable to the bill were sent to Fort Supply as members of a committee to investigate the feasibility of the territory taking the buildings at the fort for an insane asylum. During their absence lobbyists against the bill thought to kill it. The plan and hope of the lobbyists was that in the absence of these two members it would be possible to muster a majority vote against the proposition. Logan, as a mem- ber of the House, who was favorable to the bill and sensed what was going on, took the floor in debate on the measure and held' it for four hours. At the conclu- sion of his speech supporters of the bill had enough strength to postpone a vote until the two committee members could return from Fort Supply.

Senator Logan's father, James Calhoun Logan, was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, August 21, 1828, a son of J. J. and Mary (Withrow) Logan. The Logan family is of Scotch origin, and was established in America many generations ago. The great-great-grand- father of Senator Logan, a native of South Carolina, served throughout the war of Independence, and after- ward became a pioneer in Rutherford County of North Carolina. James Logan, the great-grandfather of Sena- tor Logan, lived a quietly active career on the old home- stead in North Carolina and at that place was born J. J. Logan. Mary Ann Withrow, who married J. J. Logan, was also born in North Carolina, a daughter of . John Withrow whose father, Capt. James Withrow, won his title by service in the Revolutionary army and afterward represented his home county in the State Leg- islature for thirty successive years. J. J. Logan, Senator Logan's grandfather, was a farmer and lived in Ruther- ford County, North Carolina, until 1832. He then took his family to the Cherokee Nation in Northern Georgia. In 1834 he went still further west, becoming a resident of Gibson County, Tennessee, where his first wife died in 1840. She was the mother of six children, and four of the sons reached a good old age. J. J. Logan married again and had five children. He died at the age of ninety years in 1893.

James C. Logan was reared on a frontier farm, and had very limited opportunities to gain an education. He lived with his father until he was twenty-two, and in

1851 he married Nancy E. King, whose father was a citizen of Cherokee County, North Carolina. Soon after- ward Mr. and Mrs. Logan left North Carolina and started for California, making the journey by way of the Isthmus of Panama and spending eighty-eight days en route. After trying the mines in California he went north to the Klamath River, and for six years was a miner and prospector in that region. He then returned to his native county, followed farming and the business of tanning until his removal to Texas. In. 1883 James C. Logan brought his family out to Erath County, Texas, and he purchased a tract of wild land at Morgan Mill. He developed a farm, but in 1889 he sold out and estab- lished a drug store at Morgan Mill, and thenceforward was one of the leading merchants and most influential citizens of that locality. His affiliations are those of a democrat, a Mason and member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South.

In the summer of 1862 James C. Logan enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of Company B, Georgia Cavalry, under Col. John R. Hart. The com- mand went to Tennessee and accompanied Kirby Smith into Kentucky and afterward was with Bragg at Chicka- mauga and with J. E. Johnston at Atlanta and with Hood in Tennessee, where he participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. Mr. Logan surrendered with his company to General Sherman at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 25, 1865, being then a part of General Johnston 's army.

The ten children of James C. Logan and wife were named as follows: J. D., who became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Jennie, who married Mr. Davidson, who is now deceased; Josa, wife of W. S. Dobbs of Georgia; Emma, who married A. J. Davis; Della, widow of J. M. Taylor; Dr. M. H .; Dr. W. H .; Mark, who took up the law as his profession; Oran J .; and John M. The mother of these children died in 1882 at the age of fifty-two. She was survived by her husband and ten children, and her death was the first in the fam- ily in a period of forty-five years.

L. C. HEADLEY. The editor of the Ponca City Courier, L. C. Headley is now dean of Oklahoma journalism and has been identified with Ponca City since the famous rush of September, 1893. He is a newspaper man of broad and varied experience, both in Kansas and Okla- homa, and through the daily and weekly issues of the Courier has a valuable influence throughout Kay County and Northeastern Oklahoma. The Ponca City Courier was first published and edited by Mr. Hoyt of Lyons, Kansas, and Mr. Headley bought out the plant in 1901. He and his sons now look after the general editorial and business management of the Courier. It is a repub- lican paper and has always stood strong in support of original republican principles. Mr. L. C. Headley has been identified more or less actively with newspaper busi- ness for fifty years. He is a practical printer of the old school and wields a trenchant pen as an editor. The circulation of the Courier has reached 3,000. The paper advocates every material improvement, and stands not only for business progress, but for a better diffusion of prosperity, means of intelligence, and general enlight- enment throughout Kay County.

Mr. L. C. Headley was born at Columbus, Ohio, June 25, 1848. His father, David Headley, was a member of the same family of the noted historian Headley, author of Headley's History of the Civil war. Davis Headley was born in New Jersey, and saw service as a soldier during the war with Mexico. Two of his sons were soldiers in the Civil war. Edward G. Headley was in the Third Iowa Battery until his death, while Alfred

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Headley was killed in the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Davis Headley married Sally Williams, who was born in New Jersey, daughter of William Williams and of Welsh ancestors. Davis Headley and wife moved out to Mitchell County, Kansas, locating on a homestead near Beloit. He died there at the age of sixty-nine, while his wife passed away in Smith County, Kansas, at the age of eighty. In politics he was first a whig and later a stanch republican, and the church affiliation of the family is Methodist.

L. C. Headley was educated in the public schools and acquired his better education as an early apprentice and worker in a printing shop. He also took up a homestead in Mitchell County, Kansas, near Beloit, and for a time was employed on the Beloit Democrat, when that paper was first established. Later he went to Gaylord, Kansas, and was a publisher and editor there for twenty-five years. He next came to Ponca City, Oklahoma, and he and his sons have since brought the' Courier to a condition of splendid prosperity.

Mr. Headley was married at the age of twenty-three in Waterloo, Iowa, to Eliza W. Davis, who was born and reared and educated in Illinois, afterwards going to Iowa with her father, Joshua Davis, who was one of the early settlers and one of the business leaders in Water- loo. To Mr. and Mrs. Headley have been born the following children: Edward, a member of the firm 01 Headley & Sons, proprietors of the Ponca City Courier ; Henry, who for three and a half years was postmaster at Ponca, and also was one of the leading members of the House of Representatives; William, another mem- ber of the firm of publishers; Bert, who edits the Smitlı County Pioneer at Smith Center, Kansas; one daughter is now deceased, leaving a son Paul, a bright boy of four years who lives at home with his grandparents at Ponca; another daughter, whose home is in Bucklin, Kansas; and Mildred, a graduate trained nurse at Kansas City, who has practiced her profession in all the lead- ing hospitals and in many of the towns and larger cities of the Southwest. Mr. Headley and family are mem- bers of the Methodist Church, and his fraternal affilia- tions are with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

D. A. MILLER. In the practice of medicine and surgery one of the best known firms in Oklahoma is Dr. D. A. Miller and his wife, who is also a capable physician. They located at Blackwell, April 11, 1901, and their practice is now one not circumscribed by terri- tory, but extending pretty well over all Northern Okla- homa. Dr. D. A. Miller is a specialist in diseases of the eye and ear. He is a graduate from the Hahnemann College of Medicine with the class of 1901, and during 1904 was a post-graduate student in the medical depart- ment of the College of New York, one of the oldest medical schools in the country. He also took special work in the Philadelphia Medical and Surgical College, where he was associated with the well known surgeon, Doctor Knapp. Doctor Miller is one of the few medical men of Oklahoma who have been honored by election to the American College of Surgeons, an honor bestowed only for special merit in the field of surgery, and thus giving a special distinction apart from the possession of the usual degree Doctor of Medicine. Doctor Miller and wife have a fine suite of offices in Blackwell and.one of the best medical libraries to be found in the state. He also has an office at Ponca City, where he has a large clientage.

Doctor Miller first became acquainted with Northern Oklahoma during the rush for homes in September, 1893. He rode into the state on the opening day, looking for

a homestead, and though failing to secure one, he spent a week or more in touring about the country, and was so pleased with the soil, climate and future possibilities that he then and there gained a definite direction as to his future honie.

Dr. D. A. Miller was born in Brown County, Kansas, on the old homestead of his father, a few miles south- east of Hiawatha, on April 23, 1867. The Miller family is numbered among the prominent pioneers in the settle- ment of Northeastern Kansas. His father was Charles Miller, Jr., who was born in Germany, and was brought to the United States when a child. Charles Miller, Sr., was a pioneer settler in Wisconsin, later in Illinois, und eventually took up a homestead in Northeastern Kansas, where subsequently about 2,000 acres were under the ownership of this one family. Charles Miller, Jr., was born in Germany in 1838, and died in 1909. He came of a Lutheran family. The wife of Charles Miller is still living, and has her home at Blackwell. Charles Miller, Jr., was a prosperous farmer and stockman, and in the early days did a great amount of freighting across the plains, much of the time in the employ of the United States Government, engaged in carrying supplies to the Goverment forts. He made a number of trips through the West to Salt Lake and Denver and other points. In his business relations he was noted for his honesty and upright character, and in every way was a man above reproach. Charles Miller, Jr., married Sarah Miller, of the same name, but not related. Her father was Dan Miller. Charles and Sarah Miller were the parents of five sons and one daughter.

Dr. D. A. Miller spent his early life on a farm, and there developed the physical constitution which has stood him in such good stead during the strain of a profes- sional career. He attended public schools and was also a pupil of the Pardce Institute under Professor Reid, the famous educator, whose daughter he subsequently married. For eight years Doctor Miller was a teacher, and five years of this time had charge of the school in his home district in Brown County. Doctor Miller's father had two brothers who were soldiers during the Civil war. One of them was William Miller, in the Con- federate army, while Fred Miller was on the opposite side of the conflict. Doctor Miller has an interesting ancestor on his maternal side, a young woman of sixteen who risked her life to carry dispatches to one of the American leaders during the Revolutionary war.

Doctor Miller was married January 1, 1902, at Eureka, Kansas, to Miss Ethel Reid. Mrs. Miller is one of the best known women physicians in Northern Okla- homa, and comes of a family noted for its attainments in intellectual and professional life. Her father was Prof. John M. Reid, A. M. and M. D., of Eureka, Kansas. An interesting fact about the marriage of Doctor Miller is that the minister who performed the ceremony was Rev. C. E. Hastings, of Effingham, Kansas, a son-in- law of Rev. Pardee Butler, the famous abolitionist and early pioneer of Kansas, who was associated with John Brown in the memorable contest during the free state movement following the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854. John M. Reid was born in Kenton, Ohio, November 4. 1847, and grew up in Columbiana County of that state. His father, Isaiah Reid, was born July 20, 1820, a son of Manly Reid, who served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was in turn a son of Capt. John Reid, a minute-man of the Revolution. The Reids were one of the best families of Ohio, where they were settled in the early days. The mother of Prof. Jolin M. Reid was Eliza Houser, a daughter of John H. and Barbara Houser, who had settled in Hardin County, Ohio, as early as 1828. Professor Reid was educated in Ohio,

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and begau teaching school at the age of seventeen. He had a long and varied experience as au educator, and in 1876 took charge of the Pardee Semiuary in Kansas. Practically his entire life was given to the training of young men and women. He was honored by the attainments of his pupils, all of whom regarded him with special affection and credited his influence as being one of the most powerful factors in their lives. Many men successful in the professions might be mentioned, several of them prominent in Oklahoma, who were at one time students under Professor Reid. Professor Reid was also a graduate physician, from the Hahnemann College, and several others of the family were likewise physicians, including Mrs. Miller. Her brother is Dr. John L. Reid, a successful physician at Portales, New Mexico. Mrs. Miller began the study of medicine under the direction of her father when she was only sixteen years of age. She graduated from the Kansas City Homeopathic College with the degree M. D. on March 28, 1901, and previously her classical studies had brought her the degree A. B.

Doctor Miller and wife are .prominent in the Christian Church. He is superintendent of the Bible school class, and both have devoted their time so far as professional engagements would allow to the cause of church and practical charity. Doctor Miller has risen high in the Masonic order, belongs to the Lodge, Chapter and Knight Templar Commandery at Blackwell, has served as eminent commander of the Knights Templar and also belongs to the Tulsa Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He and his wife have had much of the examination work in connection with several fraternal orders.

J. C. Cox, D. V. S. Am important service has been rendered by Doctor Cox to the farming and stock raising community around Tonkawa in the capacity of veterinary surgeon and as proprietor of the Cox Veterinary Hos- pital at Tonkawa. Doctor Cox located in Tonkawa in 1913 in the month of May. " He brought with him a thorough skill as a practitioner, and that ability quickly brought him a reputation and practice, and he has done much to extend it through his frank and genial manner, his undoubted qualifications, and his readiness to work alongside and shoulder to shoulder with other citizens in promoting the local welfare.

He is a graduate of one of the best veterinary schools in the Southwest, the Kansas City Veterinary College, and in the class of 1912 with which he graduated stood among the first in the class. Doctor Cox is about thirty- six years of age. He was born near Carthage in Jasper County, Missouri, and his father was a well known farmer and stock raiser there, J. C. Cox, who is now deceased. The father was born at Ashland, Ohio, and during the Civil war served in the Second Ohio Cavalry, and made an excellent war record. He died in Kansas City, Missouri, at the age of seventy-seven, and his wife passed away in the same city, aged seventy-five. Doctor Cox was one of three children, and his two sisters are Mrs. E. Wait of Kansas City, and Mrs. Ober of Haleyville, Oklahoma.

Like the other children, Doctor Cox received a sub- stantial education during his youth. When he was a child his parents removed to Champaign, Illinois, and when he was six years of age they took up their home on a farm in Wilson County, Kansas. It was on that farm that he grew up, was taught the value of honesty and industry, and developed a physique that has fur- nished him strength for the varied occupations to which he has turned his attention. On leaving the farm Doctor Cox went to Kansas City, Missouri, and for several years was an employee in the Kansas City post-

office, and for ten years was a fireman on the Kansas City and Fort Scott Railroad. He made good in both occupations, was diligent aud faithful to duty, but finally turned his attention to the study of veterinary surgery and now has a permanent profession.

At Neodesha, Kansas, Doctor Cox married Everlo Ditto, who was born in Iowa, a daughter of John Ditto, who also made a soldier's record in the Union army and is now deceased. Doctor Cox and wife have two children: Agnes and Curtiss.

In politics Doctor Cox is a republican. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. Physically he stands six feet high, has an excellent physique, a strong mind, and is a man of broad and progressive views. He makes and retains friends, and being thoroughly versed in his profession, is already one of the successful citizens of Tonkawa.

HARRY WALKER, M. D. It is doubtful if any one family has contributed more distinguished services to the medical profession of Oklahoma than that of Walker. Dr. Harry Walker of Pawhuska is a son of the late Delos Walker, who from the opening of the original Oklahoma Territory in April, 1889, until his death in 1910, was one of the ablest physicians and most public spirited citizens of Oklahoma City. Representa- tives of three successive generations of this family have practiced medicine and surgery, in Oklahoma, since only a year or two elapsed after the death of Dr. Delos Walker before his grandson, a son of Doctor Harry, began his work as a surgeon in Pawhuska.

Dr. Delos Walker, who deserves a foremost place in any record of Oklahoma physicians, was born October 19, 1837. At that time his parents, William and Sally (Fisher) Walker, were living in Crawford County, Penn- sylvania. William Walker was a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and William Walker's father was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and saw service in the early Indian wars under General St. Clair. In 1866 the parents of Dr. Delos Walker moved to Ander- son County, Kansas, where they located at a time when that section was on the frontier.

Reared on a farm, Delos Walker gained his educa- tion in local schools and at Conneautville Academy, and in 1858 began the study of medicine at that village with Dr. James L. Dunn. He had not yet completed his studies when, on April 22, 1861, a few days after the firing on Fort Sumter, he enlisted as orderly sergeant in Company B of McLean's Regiment at Conneautville. After his first term he was mustered out in 1862, and then entered the medical department of the University of Michigan. Again he left his studies and as cap- tain of Company B of the One Hundred and Thirty- seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville and other engagements of the campaign through Maryland anc Virginia. He rose to rank of major in his regiment ir 1863, but soon afterward returned to the University of Michigan, where he was graduated M. D. in 1864. After a brief private practice, he went back to Pennsylvania to become surgeon for the Twentieth Provost District At Harrisburg he co-operated with Adjutant Genera Russell and organized eight companies, which were formed as the One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Infantry, with which he served as lieutenant colonel dur ing the spring and early summer of 1865. For a tim after the close of the war Dr. Delos Walker practice( at Conneautville, Pennsylvania, and in Union City o the same state, and at the latter place was surgeo) for the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. In 1867 h joined his parents in Anderson County, Kansas, and fo

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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