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 15

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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JOHN D. APPLEBY. The subject of this sketch was born near Alberton, in Henderson County, Tennessee, on March 6, 1878, being the oldest of eight children, only three of whom are now living. His father, A. R. Appleby, was married to Dona Roberts in 1876, and to this family were born: John D .; William F .; Addie; James A .; Elizabeth; Luther; Mary Beth and Emmons.

John D. Appleby attended the summer schools of his county and when sixteen years old stood the teachers' examination and was granted a certificate to teach school but because of his age did not begin the active teach- ing of schools until he was seventeen years old. He con- tinued to teach school and go to school until he was twenty-one, at which time he graduated from the Southern Normal University, located at Huntingdon, Tennessee, taking the LL. B., B. S., and B. A. degrees the same year.

After having been admitted to the practice of law, he went to Henderson, Tennessee, where he opened an office and there practiced his chosen profession during the year 1900. Being politically inclined he took a very important part in the Mckinley campaign of that year making many speeches throughout that and adjoining counties.

In January, 1901, Mr. Appleby left Henderson, Ten- nessee, and came to Oklahoma, locating at El Reno, where he resided until the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche countries, when he came to Hobart on August 5, 1901, and where he has since resided. During the time that Mr. Appleby has been in Hobart he has at all times taken a leading part in everything that went for the betterment and upbuilding of his community.

For the time being at least Mr. Appleby has not fol- lowed up his chosen profession, but has interested himself in other vocations. He was deputy county clerk for a number of years, and iu 1912 was appointed postmaster at Hobart by President Taft, his appointment being a personal one. He served in that capacity until December 7, 1914, at which time he tendered his resignation to take up private business.

On March 4, 1904, Mr. Appleby was married to Miss Madge L. Osterhout, to which union one baby now graces their home, John D. Jr., three years old. Mrs. Appleby is one of those versatile, helpful personages who takes

keen delight and pleasure in all the activities of her husband.

Always more or less politically inclined, Mr. Appleby has at all times been found doing what he could for the advancement of the republican party, in an houorable way. He was the campaign manager for Hon. James A. Harris of Wagoner, Oklahoma, for National committee- man, and was successful in having his man elected National committeeman for Oklahoma in what was one of the most stubborn political fights that has ever been waged in the state. On April 22 of this year he was unanimously elected secretary of the State Central Com- mitteee.

JAMES D. OSBORN, JR., M. D. One of the native-born sons of the Southwest who has contributed his ablest efforts to the progress of his community and labored faithfully in its behalf is James D. Osborn, Jr., M. D., who has been engaged in practice at Frederick, Okla- homa, since 1906. He has been remarkably successful in his profession, his skill having won for him a fore- most place among the physicians of Tillman County.

Doctor Osborn was born at Cleburne, Texas, Decem- ber 22, 1878, and is a son of Dr. J. S. Osborn, Sr., and a member of a family which migrated to America from England prior to the Revolutionary war and settled in Virginia. Dr. J. D. Osborn, Sr., was born at Greens- boro, Hale County, Alabama, in 1846, and was reared in his native community, where he began the study of medicine. Graduated from the University of Virginia with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he was engaged iu practice for several years in Alabama, but for the past forty years has followed his professiou at Cleburne, Texas, and is one of the well known and highly esteemed physicians and surgeons of that part of the Lone Star State. The high regard in which he is held professionally is shown by the fact that he has served in the capacity of president of the Texas State Medical Society, and his standing among his professional brethren iu the various other organizations of his calling, while as a citizen lie has taken a constant interest in civic affairs and has served as mayor of Cleburne for many years. He has likewise been a member of the Texas State Examining Board, is one of the leading and influential democrats of his locality, and is prominent in the Knights of Pythias and other social and fraternal orders. During the Civil war, Doctor Osborn served as captain of a company under the redoubtable Forrest, of the Con- federacy, and was wounded in the shoulder iu one of the numerous battles in which he participated. He married Miss Julia Pittman, who was born in Palmyra, Missouri, in 1851, and died at Cleburne, Texas, in 1904, and they became the parents of four children, namely : Dr. E. B., a graduate of the University of Texas, who is engaged in the practice of medicine with his father at Cleburne, Texas; Hattie Lu, who died unmarried in 1895 at the age of twenty-two years; Irene, who married Frank Blair, a wholesale grocer of Wichita Falls, Texas; and Dr. James D., of this notice.

James D. Osborn, Jr., attended the public schools of Cleburne, Texas, and was there graduated from the high school with the class of 1896. He next became a student at the military school at Forney, Texas, where he remained one year, this being followed by two years of attendance at the University of Texas. Doctor Osborn then passed a like period at the University of Louisiana, where he was graduated in 1901 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and this has since been supplemented by post-graduate work at the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College, where he prepared him- self for specializing in diseases of these organs. He began practice at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1901

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and remained in that city until 1906, when he came to his present field practice, the City of Frederick, where lie maintains offices in the McFaddeu Building, at 21412 Grand Avenue. He carries on a general medical and surgical practice and has been successful in building up an excellent business, and at this time is surgeon for the Frisco and Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroads at Frederick. Doctor Osborn continues as a careful student, keeping fully abreast of his profession in every way, and is a valued member of the Tillman County Medical Society, the Oklahoma Medical Society and the American Medical Association. A democrat in poli- tics, he served Tillman County as its first coroner, but has not been a seeker after public preferment, the exacting demands of his calling having taken his entire time and attention. His religious connection is with the Episcopal Church, and fraternally he belongs to the Praetorians and to Frederick Lodge No. 1217, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is past exalted ruler.

In October, 1902, Doctor Osborn was married at Cleburne, Texas, to Miss May Brown, daughter of John C. Brown, a retired citizen of Texas. One child has been born to this union: Pauline, who is attend- ing the public school.

WILLIAM MASON COTT, M. D. In point of continuous residence and practice Doctor Cott is now one of the old- est physicians and surgeons of Okmulgee County, where he has had his home since 1900. Professionally lic stands among the leading physicians in the state, and las ac- complished a great deal of service in Okmulgee during the past fifteen years, and has been rewarded propor- tionately in a business way.

Doctor Cott came to Oklahoma with considerable experi- ence in his profession acquired during his residence in Missouri. He was born in Saline County, Missouri, December 1, 1869, a son of Jackson Washington and Mary Jane (Wilhite) Cott. His father was born at Knightstown, Indiana, January 10, 1829, and the mother was born in Saline County, Missouri, October 7, 1834. The Wilhites were among the pioneer settlers in Saline County. The parents were married in that county in 1856 and they continued to make their residence on one farm there until about ten years ago, when they moved to Okmulgee, where they are now spending their declin- ing years. The father is at this writing eighty-seven years of age. He was a soldier in a Missouri regiment during the Civil war. There were seven sons and three daughters in the family, with Doctor Cott as the sixth in order of age.

His early life was spent on a farm, and his education came from the rural schools supplemented by two years in William Jewell College at Liberty, Missouri. He earned a large part of the money necessary for his own education, and in 1896 graduated M. D. from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons. Then fol- lowed four years of practice in his home state, two years in Cooper County and two years in the Sweet Springs Sanitarium.

He arrived at Okmulgee April 29, 1900, and has since looked after a large general practice and since statehood has been county superintendent of health and county physician. For fourteen years his offices have been in the Bell Building, ever since it was constructed. At this writing he is completing a handsome new country home a mile and a half northeast of the city. In politics he is a democrat, and he was the first secretary of the chamber of commerce at Okmulgee. Fraternally he is a Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks, and charter member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His church is the Baptist.

On October 9, 1897, Doctor Cott married Mary Louise Wing, who was born in Cooper County, Missouri, daugh- ter of D. Warner Wing. Doctor Cott and wife have three children: Dorsey Wing, Marian Elizabeth and William Warner.

JAMES S. Ross. During his professional career at Oklahoma City, in the last five years, Mr. Ross has enjoyed a large and growing practice mainly in the field of corporation law, and his associations and connections are those enjoyed by the leaders of the bar. Mr. Ross is a Tennesseean, a descendent of the Scotch clan of Ross, and his father was a successful Tennessee lawyer.

James S. Ross was born at Fort Donelson, Stewart County, Tennessee, in 1878, a son of Ambrose B. and Missouri (Gray) Ross. His father died in 1882 and his mother in 1908. The former was for thirty years con- nected with various county offices in Stewart County in addition to his practice as a lawyer, and was well known in local affairs.

Educated in the public schools of his native county, Mr. Ross read law in a private office, and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1899. After practicing a short time in Tennessee he moved to Paducah, Kentucky, and during the ten years of his residence in that city enjoyed a prosperous business. In 1909 he located in Oklahoma City, where much of his practice is in handling the legal affairs for various corporations, both of Oklahoma and other states. He is a member of the County and State and American Bar associations.

Active iu the democratic party, Mr. Ross was one of the candidates in 1912 for the democratic nomination to Congress from his district, but the peculiar conditions that prevailed during the primary campaign put him among the losers.

A member of the Masonic fraternity, he has taken fourteen degrees in the Scottish Rite, and his church home is with the First Christian Church of Oklahoma City. In 1901 Mr. Ross married Miss Emma Halloway, daughter of C. M. Halloway of Tennessee. Their three children are Virginia, James A. and Myra. Mr. Ross resides at 544 West Thirty-second Street, and his offices are in the American National Bank Building.

JUDGE PRESLIE B. COLE. While the present genera- tion of lawyers in Oklahoma will have no difficulty in identifying Judge Cole on account of his long established position as a member of the McAlester bar, there is no question that he deserves the grateful remembrance of a later generation, particularly on account of splendid record while on the District Bench, from which he retired early in 1915 after eight years of capable service as judge. Judge Cole represented the best quality of the judiciary and in his official capacity set some high stand- ards of service for his successors to follow. For fully a quarter of a century he has given all the energy of his nature to a profession which represents to him the dig- nity and service associated with the law.

He was nearly thirty years of age when admitted to the bar and his earlier career has been one of struggle and hard work to support himself and gain the object of his steadfast ambition. He was born at Turin, Georgia, December 6, 1862, a son of Monroe W. and Nancy (Russell) Cole. His father was born at Danville, Virginia, of German lineage, while the mother was a native of South Carolina and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Judge Cole's parents were married in Georgia, where they afterwards lived until their death. His father was an architect and building contractor, and during the war between the states he made a fine record as lieuten- ant of his company.

Reared in Georgia, Preslie B. Cole accepted such

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advantages as were presented by the local schools where he spent his boyhood, but most of his liberal and broad education and knowledge of men and affairs have come as a result of his varied experience since leaving school and becoming dependent upon his own resources. When nineteen he left home and undertook to make his own way in the world. From Georgia he removed to Arkan- sas, and at this stage of his early career was not too proud to accept any honorable means of earning a living. He finally became clerk in a small store at Hackett City, and later developed as a traveling salesman. His head- quarters at first were at Fort Smith and later at St. Louis. With this experience back of him he realized that his real talent pointed in another direction and he quietly but determinedly took up the study of law while in Arkansas.

Judge Cole was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1891, but in the same year moved to Indian Territory and established his home and began practice at McAlester. That city has been his residence ever since, and in a few years his abilities had gained him recognition as one of the leading attorneys of the old territory. His experi- ence and other qualifications made him the logical candi- date when Indian Territory became merged with Oklahoma Territory as the new state, for the office of district judge, and he was nominated and elected judge of the Fourth Judicial District. In that office he served eight years, his term ending in January, 1915.

While Judge Cole sat on the District Bench more than 1,000 criminal cases came before him, 100 or more of them being murder trials. It is a supreme tribute to his judicial temperament, his fairness and impartiality, and his sound knowledge of precedence and equity, that in only two instances were his decisions in criminal cases reversed by a higher court. At the same time a great number of civil cases were tried before him, and in that class of cases there resulted not more than half a dozen reversals altogether.

Judge Cole has long been an active democrat, and was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1912, where he served as a member of the committee on credentials. He was an ardent sup- porter of the candidacy of Champ Clark for president, and served as a member of Clark's advisory committee.

ROBERT H. LOOFBOURROW. Judge Loofbourrow re- tired from the distinguished office of associate justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma on the 1st of January, 1915, after having declined nomination for a second term, and his incumbency of this position fully estab- lished his prestige as one of the leading lawyers and jurists of the state within whose borders he has main- tained his home since 1890. The judge is a scion of a staunch old Scottish family that is of patrician lineage and that was founded in America prior to the War of the Revolution, the name having been promineutly and worthily identified with the civic and industrial develop- ment of various of the sovereign commonwealths of the Union. The genealogy is traced back to Lord Loofbour- row, whose descendants immigrated to America in the colonial days and established a home in North Caro- lina, where they became citizens of marked prominence and influence. Representatives of a later generation became identified with the pioneer history of Kentucky, and from the old Bluegrass State went forth members of a still later generation to become sterling citizens of Ohio. Judge Wade Loofbourrow was long one of the most honored lawyers and jurists at Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, and by his will he devised to that attractive little city, the judicial center of the county, his extensive and well selected law library, which is still maintained as a public law library at that place,

the bequest having been the valuable nucleus around which has been gathered one of the best technical libraries of its kind to be claimed by any of the non- metropolitan counties of the Buckeye State. Judge Wade Loofbourrow served on the bench of the Circuit Court and was a lawyer of specially high attainments, so that his great-grandson may consistently be said to have as a natural heritage a predilection for the pro- fession iu which he has achieved marked success and distinction.

Judge Robert H. Loofbourrow was born on a farm in Marion County, Illinois, on the 29th of January, 1873, and is a son of Orlando J. and Sarah T. (Wilson) Loof- bourrow. The judge was a boy at the time of the family removal to Missouri, and a short time thereafter removal was made to Kansas, where his father became a success- ful agriculturist and stockgrower and where he remained until 1890, when the family came to Oklahoma Territory and settled in Beaver County. Orlando J. Loofbourrow was born at Washington Court House, Ohio, but was reared and educated in Illinois, and it was his to gain a full quota of pioneer experience in the West. After coming to Oklahoma he became one of the representative exponents of the agricultural and live-stock industries in the territory.

To the public schools of Kausas Judge Loofbourrow is indebted for his early educational discipline, and in preparation for his chosen profession he entered the Iowa College of Law, in the City of Des Moines, from which institution he withdrew prior to graduation. Thereafter he continued the study of law under effective private pre- ceptorship, at Beaver, Oklahoma, where, in 1896, he was admitted to the territorial bar, upon examination before the District Court of Beaver County. He initiated the practice of his profession at Beaver, where he has since continued to maintain his home and where he soon gained place as one of the leading members of the bar of Beaver County, besides proving one of the most loyal and pro- gressive citizens of that section of the present State of Oklahoma. From 1897 to 1899 he served as county attor- ney, and for the ensuing two years his services continued to be enlisted in the position of assistant county attorney. In 1904 he again became county attorney, and of this office he continued the valued incumbent until the admis- sion of Oklahoma to statehood, in 1907. Higher honors then became his, for under the new state regime he was elected to the bench of the Nineteenth Judicial District. He gave a most able and effective administration and his possession of exceptional judicial acumen gained to him further and distinguished recognition, since, on the 1st of September, 1913, he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the state, to accept which pre- ferment he retired from the District Court bench. As associate justice of the Supreme Court his earnest and admirable services are now an integral part of the history of that tribunal, from which he retired in January, 1915, owing to his desire to resume the private practice of his profession at Beaver, the judicial center of the county of the same name.

Judge Loofbourrow is a member of the directorate of the Bank of Beaver and is the owner of valuable real estate in his home city and county. In the Masonic fraternity he has attained the eighteenth degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides which he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias, in which last mentioned he is past chancellor of Beaver Lodge, No. 7.

On the 16th of May, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Loofbourrow to Miss Bertha L. Groves, daugh- ter of Ansel Groves, of Beaver, and they have three sons, Harold, Bernard and Hale.

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CHARLES A. HOLDEN. Among the men who are win- ning success at the bar of Western Oklahoma, one who is rapidly coming to the forefront is Charles A. Holden, city attorney of Clinton, and one of the energetic and influential young democrats of Custer County. Mr. Holden was born at Walhalla, Oconee County, South Carolina, September 23, 1887, and is a son of A. P. and Anna P. (Conley) Holden.

The Holden family originated in England, from whence one John Holden came to America about the year 1700 and settled near Williamsburg, Virginia, where he was a planter, a vocation followed by many of the family. Among his descendants were three who fought as soldiers in the Revolutionary war, John Holden, Wil- liam Holden and Capt. John Holden. The last named was a captain of militia in the patriot army, and, like the others, a planter. The son of Capt. John Holden, also named John, was the great-grandfather of Charles . A. Holden, and in 1805 located in the Pendleton Dis- trict, South Carolina. He passed his life in planting and died in 1856, leaving a family of twelve children. Five of his sons were in one company in the Second Regiment, South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil war, and another son was a captain in another regiment under Wade Hampton. The oldest of the twelve children of John Holden was the grandfather of Charles A. Holden. He was born in Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1813, and followed the family voca- tion of planting. When he attained his majority he left home and secured a plantation of his own in the vicinity of Pine Mountain, Georgia, and there his death occurred May 31, 1893.

A. P. Holden was born at Pine Mountain, Georgia, in 1860, and about the time of his marriage moved across the state line to Walhalla, South Carolina. There he was engaged as a lumberman until November, 1907, when he came to Cordell, Oklahoma, where his death occurred February 1, 1908. He was a stanch and unswerving democrat and a member of the Masonic fra- ternity. Mrs. Holden, who survives and resides at Cordell, is a native of Macon County, Georgia. There were three children in the family, as follows: Charles A., of this notice; W. S., who is a merchant and resides at Cordell; and Bessie, who died February 17, 1908, at Cordell, aged sixteen years.

Charles A. Holden received his early education in the public schools of Walhalla, South Carolina, being graduated from the high school there in the class of 1906. The next two years were spent at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, and three years were then passed at the University of Missouri, at Columbia, where he was graduated in 1911 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was admitted to the bar in that same year and in September began practice at Cordell, Oklahoma, from whence he came to Clinton in July, 1913. This city has continued to be his field of practice, his offices being located in the Welch Building, on Frisco Avenue. He has built up an excellent general practice, being equally at home in all branches of his profession, and is the representative of some large interests. A stanch democrat, he has taken an active part in county and state convention work, having attended every county convention since coming to Oklahoma and being a cam- paign speaker of note, whose services are always in demand. In 1914 he was the successful candidate of his party for the office of city attorney, a position in which he is rendering his adopted city valuable service. Mr. Holden is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Greek letter college fraternity, and is generally popular in social circles of the city.

On April 15, 1914, at Pawnee, Oklahoma, Mr. Holden

married Miss Jennie B. Berry, daughter of George M. Berry, who was a member of the Oklahoma Constitu- tional Convention and is now a well known banker of Pawnee.

JAMES R. CALLOWAY, M. D. The pioneer medical prac- titioner of Paul's Valley is Doctor Calloway, who located in that small village in October, 1889. That, it will be remembered, was only a few months after the original opening of Oklahoma Territory, and at the beginning of the epoch of modern development and civilization in the present state. For more than twenty-five years Doctor Calloway has carried his skill and counsel to hundreds of homes and families in that city and surrounding country. In the early days he underwent all the hardships and privations of a pioneer doctor, traveling for miles to visit his patients, being quite regardless of his own health and comfort in the performance of his professional duties. In later years his practice has become more and more an office practice, and confined to a smaller radius of country. He is a specialist in diseases of children and in that department of the profession is regarded as sec- ond to none in this part of the state.

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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