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 107

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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the next twenty-two years was surgeon in a successful practice at Greeley.

It was almost a matter of chance and circumstance that Dr. Delos Walker became permanently identified with the destinies of the young City of Oklahoma at the time of its founding. He took part in the rush into the district on April 22, 1889, and something in the euthusiasm and excitement and the promise of future opportunities caused him to decide to remain as one ot the first citizens of Oklahoma City. His long experience and recognized ability soon brought him distinction as one of the first physicians, and he was also prominent in many other activities which were closely related with the upbuilding of that community. He helped organize the first public schools and became the first president of the school board of Oklahoma City. For five years he was health superintendent of Oklahoma County and was the first president of the board of health of Okla- homa City, holding that office five years. He was also one of the organizers and the first president of the "klahoma Medical Society. He also served as president lateof the pioneer association known as Oklahoma Eighty- Niners. Dr. Delos Walker was married in Pennsylvania o Miss Emeret Greenfield. Their only daughter, Maud, lied at the age of nineteen. Mrs. Delos Walker was born in 1842 and died in 1905.

Dr. Harry Walker, whose individual attainments have brought him such distinction that he does not stand in he shadow of his father's eminence, was born at Con- leautville, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1861. He also attended he University of Michigan, where he was both a literary etober Penn ington And medical student, and in 1884 was graduated M. D. rom the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New Sally York City. He also had the benefit during his earlier areer of almost constant association with his father, nd they were together in practice both at Greeley, er war Kansas, and at Oklahoma City. In 1900 Dr. Harry service Walker accepted appointment as Government surgeon or the Osage Indian Agency at Pawhuska. After leav- Ander e when educa ng that service he continued in private practice at Pawhuska, and in point of residence is one of the oldest hysicians in Osage County, and easily one of the blest in this part of the state.

Doctor Walker is a member of the Osage County and ge with ted H ter th ergeau antville 62, an iversity as cap Oklahoma State Medical societies aud the American Medi- al Association. While devoted to his profession, he has lso acquired many interests on the outside and for ears has been a student of Indian customs and lore. [is interesting articles on the romantic features of sage Indian history have appeared in a number of apers, particularly the Kansas City Star. He has elped to preserve in permanent form some of the Thirtyinteresting records in connection with the Roy family ttles of Osages and also has written of the famous Chouteau d othe amily of St. Louis regarding its transactions as traders and anwith the Osage tribe.

In politics Doctor Walker is a republican. He has filiations with the Masonic order, the Knights of ythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the sylva Woodmen of the World. His wife before her marriage Distrie Gener as Miss Villa McFadden. She was born in Illinois. heir three sons are Roscoe, Joseph and Delos, Jr. ch memoctor Roscoe is now associated in practice with his nsylva ather at Pawhuska, and is a young surgeon of brilliant onel du romise. He was born at Greeley, Kansas, in 1885, r a fingraduated Bachelor of Science from the University of practice surg klahoma in 1909, then entered Columbia University at City New York City, where he took his degree of medicine in 011, and after two years as surgical interne in the 1867 Post-graduate Hospital of New York, returned to Paw- , and Ed iska to begin practice with his father. The son Joseph,

born at Greeley, Kansas, in 1888, completed his education in the Oklahoma City High School and is now at home. The younger son, Delos, born in 1892, attended the Pawhuska High School, spent three years in the State University, and is now a newspaper man, being a reporter on the Denver Express.

C. K. TEMPLETON was born iu Magoffin Couuty, Ken- tucky, May 10, 1877. He was the third son of Dr. James E. and Julia Q. Templeton. The family con- sisted of six boys: L. C., who lives in Morgan County, Kentucky; J. W., of Scott County, Virginia; C. K., of Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma; T. O. and R. C., both of Scott County, Virginia; and O. F., of Washington, D. C. His father and mother were native Virginians, his mother having died when he was eleven years old. His father was a Confederate soldier, and served throughout the Civil war under Lee and Jackson and when the war ended he returned to his home in Scott County, Virginia, and resumed the practice of medicine, which he has continued to the present day. C. K. attended the public free schools of Kentucky until sixteen years of age, when he started out as a teacher in that state, and from there went to Virginia, where he taught school for several years, and in 1898 graduated from Shoemaker College at Gate City, Virginia, having specialized in history and science. He continued to teach and study law, and in 1901 he entered the University at Valparaiso, in Indiana, where he was able to work his way through school, and completed the law class of nearly seventy, making a general average for the two years of a fraction over 98 per cent, and received the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the bar iu both Keutucky and Indiana, and went back to Virginia aud taught school and studied law in the office of Hon. W. S. Cox, then commonwealth attorney, at Gate City. Com- ing to Oklahoma Territory in April, 1905, he located at Pawhuska, worked in the "Old Red Store," for C. M. Hirt, until he was able to get acquainted and get into the practice of his profession. He worked in the store for about eleven mouths and has since been engaged in the practice of law. He was elected prosecuting attorney in the fall of 1910, on the democratic ticket by a large majority. His majority in the City of Pawhuska, in both the primary and general elections, was about seventy more than that of his opponents in the whole county, though they all lived in Pawhuska. He lost but few precincts in the county at either the primary or general election. He believed in and followed a strict enforce- ment of the laws. At the expiration of his term of office he formed a partnership with John W. Tillman, who was his assistant, and that partnership continued until Mr. Tillman was elected to the same office in the fall of 1914, and he is now assistant under Mr. Tillman. He also has a large civil practice which extends to Kansas, Missouri, Indiana and Texas, and is local attorney for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, and Wells Fargo & Company Express. He has been a democratic worker and speaker since the presidential election of 1906, and is at this time secretary of the Osage County Democratic Central Committee. He is also a member of his local bar, and treasurer of the Oklahoma State Bar Association and is rated amoug the best attorneys of the state.

Mr. Templeton is a great lover of Freemasonry. He was made a Master Mason when twenty-one years of age at Fort Blackmore Lodge No. 87, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Fort Blackmore, Virginia, and was master of that lodge when he left Virginia for his law course, in September, 1901. He is now a member of Wah-Shah-She Lodge No. 110, Ancient Free and Accepted

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Masons, Pawhuska, Oklahoma; Gate City Chapter No. 35, Royal Arch Masons, Gate City, Virginia; Palestine Commandery No. 35, Knights Templar, Pawhuska, Okla- homa; Oklahoma Consistory No. 1, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (thirty-second degree), Guthrie, Oklahoma; Akdar Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Chapter No. 63, Order of the Eastern Star, Pawhuska, Oklahoma. And he is also a Knight of Pythias, and member of White Hair Lodge No. 11, at Pawhuska, Oklahoma, being now (May, 1916) chancellor commander of that lodge. He married Miss Nellie Roberts, the daughter of Rush Roberts, then one of the council and head men of the Pawnee tribe of Indians, at Pawnee, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Templeton were married at Pawnee, Oklahoma, July, 1908. To their marriage have been born three children: Lena Myrtle; James E. R., and C. K., Jr.

JAMES ALBERT MCCOLLUM. Among the men who have risen to prominence in the law in Oklahoma during recent years, one of the younger generation whose abilities have gained him professional success and public honors is James Albert McCollum, county attorney of Pawnee County. His achievements have not been the result of happy chance, but have been fairly earned, for from the start of his career Mr. MeCollum has depended upon his own resources and has fitted his talents to his oppor- tunities.

Mr. McCollum was born in Berry County, Missouri, October 26, 1883, and is a son of William Wallace and Mary Ann (Fawver) McCollum. On the paternal side he belongs to an old family of Scotch-Irish origin, while his maternal grandfather was a native of Germany, and although the latter married a woman of American birth she was of German lineage. William Wallace McCol- lum was born in Tennessee, in 1849, and was three years of age when taken by his parents to Berry County, Mis- souri, where as a young man he followed school-teaching as a vocation. There he was married to Mary Ann Faw- ver, who had been born in Virginia, in 1853, and after their marriage they settled on a Berry County farm, where the father has since continued to be engaged in farming and raising stock. He has been active in demo- cratie politics, and he and Mrs. McCollum have been life- long members of the Methodist Church. Of their nine children, two died in infancy, the survivors being : Emma, who is the wife of G. W. Roller, of Wichita, Kansas; Etta, who is the wife of Frank Major, of Wheaton, Missouri; Jenna, who is the wife of E. M. Peter, of Boulder, Colorado; Augusta, who is the wife of Elliott Roller, of Rocky Comfort, Missouri; James Albert; Claude C., a practicing attorney of Pawnee, Oklahoma; and Earl C., who is in Boulder, Colorado, in the hardware business.

James Albert MeCollum resided on the home farm until twenty-one years of age, receiving his education in the country schools and Marionville Collegiate Institute, at Marionville, Missouri, where he spent three profitable years. After his graduation, in 1905, he went to Western Kansas, where he remained three years, proving up on a homestead, and in the meantime taught one term of school. He had had former experience in the latter line, as when he was a youth he had taught three terms of school in order to gain the means with which to com- plete his studies at the institute. In the fall of 1908 Mr. MeCollum returned to Missouri and entered the law school of the University of Missouri, where he was gradu- ated in 1911 with the degree of Doctor of Laws, and in July of that year came to Pawnee and opened an office for the practice of his profession. Not long afterward,

he formed a law partnership with V. H. Biddison, and the firm of Biddison & MeCollum continued in existence one year, when the senior member disposed of his inter- est to Mr. McCollum's brother, Claude C. McCollum, at which time the concern of McCollum & MeCollum was founded. This subsequently became one of the formid- able combinations of Pawnee, and continued as such until the fall of 1914, when James A. MeCollum was elected county attorney for Pawnee County. Mr. McCollum is the only republican in his family, and it is worthy of note that, in a democratic county, he was elected by a majority of 643 votes, thus demonstrating his popularity, as well as showing that his talents were recognized and appreciated. He has established an excellent record in office, has acquitted himself ably and honorably in a number of important cases, and has won and held the full confidence of the people who elected him to his important position. While a student at the University of Missouri, he was a member of the Athenaeum Society, organized in 1841, and the oldest student organization west of the Mississippi River. He also showed himself a master of debate, taking part in numerous interstate contests, and won high honors therein, never losing a con- test, a record that has never been equalled in that insti tution. In the year 1910 the State Republican Commit tee of Missouri employed four university men to stump the state during the campaign, of whom Mr. McCollun was one, and during the thirty days that he was sc engaged, he made two speeches each day. He is consid ered one of the ablest orators of Pawnee County, and his services are in constant demand during the campaigns of his party, of which he is a leader in this part of Okla homa. Mr. MeCollum is a Mason. With his family, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. MeCollum was married July 23, 1911, to Mis Lillian McCann, born in Berry County, Missouri, in 1887 daughter of Frauk McCann, and to this union there have been born two children: Mary and Mildred.

J. L. HUDSON. In the First National Bank of Fairfax which is the oldest and most substantial institution o. its kind in that flourishing town of Osage County, J. L Hudson has filled the office of cashier for the past thre years. The other officers of the bank are J. C. Stribling president, and J. H. Ward, vice president, all well know business men in that section of Oklahoma. Though MI Hudson has been a resident of Fairfax as a town onl; a few years, he formerly operated as a cattle man an rancher over the very site now occupied by Fairfax.

A native of Southern Texas, J. L. Hudson was bor in Fayette County, January 1, 1875, a son of D. W and Eugenia (Loman) Hudson. His father was bor in Tennessee, and at the age of three years was brough to Texas by his parents, who located at Rutersville one of the old educational centers of Southern Texas Mr. Hudson's mother was born in Fayette County i 1854, a daughter of Upton Loman, who had come as pioneer from Illinois to Texas, and was extensivel engaged in the cattle industry until his death. M Hudson's mother died June 24, 1914, and his father j now residing at Fairfax, having retired from an activ career as a cattleman and farmer. For eighteen year D. W. Hudson lived on one ranch in Llano County, Texa J. L. Hudson is the older of two sons, and his brothe W. M. Hudson, has for the past seven or eight year been located at Tampico, Mexico, where he has a larg ranch, and is also engaged in the oil and real estat business ..

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In politics he is a democrat, is affiliated with the Masonic Order in the Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council and the Knight Templar Commandery, and elongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. On June 0, 1909, he married Miss Louise Fowler, who was born n Llano, Texas, and lived there until her . marriage. Her father is J. W. Fowler, a prominent cattleman and 'armer. To their marriage has been born one son, Wilson Lane.

L. H. WINBORN, M. D. When he was seventeen years ld Doctor Winborn, now successfully established in lis profession as physician and surgeon at Tuttle in Frady County, was drawn by a vision of opportunities or young men in the Southwest, and leaving his home n Mississippi sought employment in the Choctaw Nation f Indian Territory. There, while working for the Choctaw Coal and Mining Company and for other firms nd individuals, he developed his ambition for a profes- ional career. A young man of earnest purpose and nergy usually gets what he wants. With the savings rom his earnings he matriculated in the Louisville Hospital Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, and emained there as long as his funds permitted. He then eturned to the Indian country and began the practice f medicine. Settlements were few and sparse in those ays, and the majority of his patients were Indians. Hospital facilities were practically unknown, and the oung doctor faced conditions as primitive almost as did he missionary doctors who came into the Indian country thirty years before. Under such conditions his practice ras not lucrative and the outlook for the future was ot encouraging. He had a surplus of about $150, and ne day confided to a friend his disappointment at not eing able to finish his medical training. This friend as Robert Brewer, son of Dr. T. F. Brewer, of Wagoner. Without solicitation Brewer advanced the necessary honey, and on July 30, 1908, the young physician left he Louisville Hospital Medical College carrying a iploma which entitled him to the degree Doctor of Medicine. He settled at Quinton, Indian Territory, and ontinued his practice among the Indians. He became amily physician for Hon. Green McCurtain, principal hief of the Choctaw Nation, and his practice was among hany of the old and noted families of the Choctaw Tribe. Ie lived there until 1911, when he removed to Tuttle,

where he now has a handsome home and enjoys a sub- stantial and profitable practice.

Doctor Winborn was born in Hernando, Mississippi, June 25, 1873, a son of Francis Marion and Amorette (Doyle) Winborn. His father was a graduate of the medical department of the University of Alabama, and for thirty-five years did a successful practice in Missis- sippi and Arkansas, and during the Civil war was a Confederate soldier. Doctor Winborn's grandfather was a successful planter in Mississippi. Doctor Winborn has two brothers and a sister: R. L. and Doctor Winborn, both of whom are farmers and stock men at Farris, Oklahoma; and Mrs. Ollie Smith, wife of a farmer at Bristow.

After finishing his education in the public schools of Mississippi, Doctor Winborn studied mechanical engineer- ing, a vocation which he followed after coming to Indian Territory. His first course in medicine enabled him to pass the federal examination for practice in the Indian Territory. As already explained he was in very humble financial circumstances at the outset of his career, and has made his own way to standing and prosperity in the profession. While living in the mountains of the old Choctaw Nation he became a fast friend of some of the noted men of the tribe. Among them was Richard Locke, Sr., father of the present principal chief of the Choctaw Nation. He was with the elder Locke in a historic fight that took place at Antlers, the present county seat of Pushmataha County. The present Chief Locke was then a boy in knee trousers.

Doctor Winborn was married October 1, 1901, to Miss Mary Heck of Denison, Texas. Her father was a pioneer contractor and builder who helped to found and build the Town of Colbert, Oklahoma, and also had the dis- tinction of erecting the first house on the site of Denison, Texas, when that became the terminus of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway during the early '70s. He was a man of prominence in the country about Denison and in the southern part of the Choctaw Nation, where he had lived prior to the building of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, which was the first railroad that traversed the Indian Territory.

Doctor Winborn is a member of the Christian Church and has fraternal affiliations with the Masons, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite, and his Blue Lodge is at Quinton, and he is a member of the Consistory at McAlester. He has occupied head positions in local lodges and at present is consul com- mander of the Woodmen of the World. He is examining physician for fourteen life insurance companies and is assistant county health officer of Grady County. I'ro- fessionally he is a member of the Grady County Medical Society, the Oklahoma Medical Society and the Tri-State Medical Association and the American Medical Associa- tion. No sketch of Doctor Winborn would be complete without reference to his civic enthusiasm and leadership. He is a member of the Tuttle Commercial Club, and has been one of the leading workers in behalf of a project for building a section of the proposed state highway between Oklahoma City and Fort Sill. This project involves the erection of a bridge over the South Canadian River near Tuttle at a cost of approximately $100,000. Doctor Winborn is a liberal contributor of time and money in carrying out all plans for the commercial, indus- trial, educational and social upbuilding of his locality.

MICHAEL J. FOLEY. One of the best hotels in a town of its size in Oklahoma is the Hotel Ponton at Fairfax, of which Michael J. Foley has been proprietor and

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manager for the past eight years. Mr. Foley is an old- timer in the hotel business, having formerly been identi- fied with the first business enterprise and hotel at Ralston in Pawnee County. Many years ago, long before Indian Territory was merged into the State of Oklahoma, he was identified with the Osage Nation, and it was a return to old friends and earlier associations when he sold out his business in Ralston in August, 1907, and on the 15th of October following moved to Fairfax in Osage County and bought the Hotel Ponton. This is the only commercial hotel of the town, and he has extensively remodeled the building and has brought its service up to a high standard.

Since early boyhood the career of Michael J. Foley has been one of varied activities and experiences. He was born in Ireland, April 29, 3849, and when two years of age came to America with his parents, Cornelius and Julia (Lynch) Foley. The family lived in Rochester, New York, for two or three years, and then settled in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Cornelius Foley enlisted with the Seventh Michigan Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war and served as a soldier from 1863 to 1865. Michael J. was the fourth iu a family of eight children, as fol- lows: Julia Madigan, deceased; Mary Madigan, of Kala- mazoo; Ellen, who died at the age of sixteen; Daniel, who died when four years old; Michael J .; Cornelius, of Kalamazoo; Patrick, who died in Kalamazoo in 1913; and Kate, of Mill City, Oregon.

With only the rudiments of a common school educa- tion, Michael J. Foley as a boy left home and removed to Chicago, where he learned the trade of plasterer. The great fire of 1871 in that city furnished abundant employment in all branches of the building trade, and for several months after the fire he was employed by the eity in a relief corps. For two years he was in the employ of his brother, engaged in the liquor business on Canal Street in Chicago, and subsequently engaged in the railroad service, a work to which he gave his time for a number of years, though not continuously. His first eighteen months of that work was as brakeman, and then for three years he was a conductor on one of the eastern railroads leading out of Chicago. While in charge of his train he met with an accident, and after returning to the service was put in charge of a local freight between Cleveland and Toledo on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. For a year he conducted his father's farm uear Kalamazoo, after which he returned to railroading on the Pan Handle route of the Pennsylvania lines in Ohio, working as a conductor for eighteen months. Re- turning to Chicago in 1879, Mr. Foley was again employed by his brother for a year and a half, and then found work in the construction of the West Side Waterworks of that city. It is also interesting to note that he assisted in erecting the old Panorama Building on Wabash Avenue in Chicago, a place known to many thousands of Chicago visitors during the decade of the '90s for the panorama of the battle of Gettysburg which was exhib- ited there. The building afterwards had a varied history of uses, and is still standing. Later Mr. Foley was employed in the construction of an. addition to Asylum No. 2 at St. Joseph, Missouri, and continued the work of his trade in Coffeyville, Kansas, and also in the locality of the present Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Thus he became introduced to the Indian country of the Osage Nation, and was not long in gaining a familiarity with the language of those Indians, and also won the good will of several of the influential chiefs. At Paw- huska he was employed for a time in butchering cattle allotted to the red men, but in the spring of the following year made a practical demonstration to the Indians of the use and wisdom of plastering their houses, and as

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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