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In 1900 Mr. Drake purchased a general store situated five miles southeast of Hitchcock, Blaine County, Okla- homa, and after conducting this rural store one year he removed, in 1901, to Hitchcock, becoming virtually one of the founders of the town, in which he erected the first building and in the same opened the first stock of merchandise. He named his establishment the Pioneer Store, and conducted the same from August, 1901, until the following February, when financial circumstances compelled him to abandon the enterprise. In the same spring, however, he opened the first drug store in the village, and after conducting the same four years he
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sold the stock and business and turned his attention to the handling of real estate, in which he has since con- tinued with distinctive success, his operations having been of broad scope and importance and having been potent in furthering the settlement and development of this section of the state.
In October, 1908, Mr. Drake purchased a half interest in the Hitchcock Clarion, and in the following year he acquired the full ownership of this newspaper property and business. As editor and publisher of the Clarion he has made the paper a most effective exponent of local interests and has made it a valuable factor in the directing of popular sentiment and action in the com- munity. In the editing and publishing of the Clarion Mr. Drake has an able coadjutor in the person of his son, Frank, though the latter gives the major part of his time and attention to the Stratford Tribune, at Stratford, Garvin County, of which he is editor and pub- lisher, the business at Hitchcock being conducted under the firm name of D. A. Drake & Son. Mr. Drake was assisted greatly in the movement that resulted in the founding of the Hitchcock Clarion, which dates its inception from March 27, 1908, and, as previously inti- mated, he soon came into control of the property and business, the paper being independent in politics and having an excellent circulation in Blaine and adjacent counties.
Mr. Drake has been one of the most vital, far-sighted and progressive of the enterprising citizens who have wielded great influence in the development and upbuild- ing of the town of Hitchcock, and he has served two terms as mayor of the village, besides which he here held the office of justice of the peace eight years. He has served two terms as clerk of the school board, and within his incumbency of this position he was one of the foremost in the movement that brought about the con- solidation of six school districts and the erection, at Hitchcock, of a substantial and thoroughly modern building for the accommodation of these combined dis- tricts, this action having made possible the bringing of the school work up to a far higher plane of efficiency
'an was previously maintained, this being one of the first of such consolidated school districts in this part of the state.
Mr. Drake has been a member of the Christian Church since he was a lad of twelve years, and amid "all the changes and chances of this mortal life," his abiding Christian faith has dominated his course and constituted a bulwark of defense and reconciliation. He was one of the founders of the Christian Church at Hitchcock and is earnestly and ably serving the same in the office of elder, his wife likewise being a zealous and valued member. Mr. Drake is affiliated with Watonga Lodge, No. 176, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Watonga, the county seat of Blaine County, and is an appreciative and popular member of the Oklahoma State Press Association.
In February, 1879, at Harrisonville, Cass County, Missouri, Mr. Drake wedded Miss Alma Robertson, whose father, William A. Robertson, was a merchant of that place, though he passed the closing period of his life as a farmer in Oklahoma. Mrs. Drake was summoned to the life eternal in 1892, in Jasper County, Missouri, and she is survived by five children, concerning whom brief mention is here made: Caroline is the wife of William E. Beard and they reside in the City of Claremore. Oklahoma, where Mr. Beard conducts a garage. Hattie is the wife of Ford O. Shoemaker, of Wichita, Kansas. Pearl is the wife of Oscar Burton, a merchant at Caldwell, Kansas. George is engaged in the grocery business at Wichita, Kansas. Florence is Vol. V-5
the wife of Harry Sumption, who is engaged in the jewelry business in the City of Seattle, Washington.
In February, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Drake to Miss Hattie Robertson, a sister of his first wife, and their only child is Frank, who was born in March, 1894, who was graduated in the Watonga High School, and who is associated with his father in the newspaper business at Hitchcock. He is one of the alert, successful and representative young newspaper men of Oklahoma, and has shown marked ability in his chosen field of enterprise.
DR. THOMAS JEFFERSON DODSON is one of the pioneer physicians and surgeons of Mangum, Oklahoma, having come here in 1900. He has been in constant practice here since that time, and has a high standing in the community and among his professional brethren. He is a native son of the state, born in Coriell County, Texas, on September 23, 1862, and his parents were William P. and Rachel G. (Green) Dodson.
William P. Dodson was born in Kentucky in 1824, and died in Paint Rock, Texas, in 1898. From his native state he came to Coriell County, Texas, in 1849, one of the pioneers of that time, and in 1879 he settled in Concho County, Texas, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a rancher and stock raiser, and was successful and prosperous. During the Civil war he served the South as a frontier guard in Texas. Mr. Dodson was a Methodist and was long a steward in the church. He was a Mason, and was past senior warden of his lodge. His politics were those of a democrat. His wife was a woman of Missouri birth and parentage, born in 1824, and she died in Paint Rock in 1907. They were the parents of a family of nine children. Adeline, the first born, married George Jackson, and lives on their farm in New Mexico; Mary Jane is de- ceased; she married C. A. Lewis, and he is now a resident of San Angelo, Texas; Jesse P. is a carpenter and builder in Oklahoma; J. F. is a stock farmer at Paint Rock, the old home of the family; Sarah married J. C. Oliver, a Baptist minister of Abilene, Texas; Casana died at the age of ten years; the seventh horn child was Thomas Jefferson, subject of this review; Sophronia married Edward Dozier and they live at Paint Rock; he is a stock farmer and has served as county sheriff ; Lucy married James Davis and they live in Paint Rock, where Mr. Davis is a farmer.
Dr. Thomas Jefferson Dodson was born and reared on his father's ranch in Coriell County. and in 1879, when he was seventeen years old, the family moved from that place to Paint Rock, Concho County. From then until 1887 he lived at home and in that year he entered Centenary College, Lampasas, Texas, and there completed a three years' course of study. In 1891 he was gradu- ated from the medical department of the University of Tennessee at Nashville, with the degree M. D. In 1891 Doctor Dodson began the practice of his profession at Bartlett, Texas, continuing until 1898, and then he engaged in practice in Sonora, where he remained until October, 1900. It was then that he came to Mangum, since which time he has been engaged in a general medical and surgical practice, harring one year. 1904, which he spent in the Chicago Post Graduate School in further preparation for his work.
Doctor Dodson has his offices in the Elliott Building. He is president of the Grier County Medical Society and is a member of the State and American Medical associations.
The doctor has always been ready and willing to give public service when it was required of him, and he has been health physician of Grier County on the democratic ticket. While practicing in Sonora he served as a mem-
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ber of the local school board, and he is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mangum.
Doctor Dodson is a Mason, and those Masonie bodies with which he is connected are as follows: Mangum Lodge No. 61, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is past master; Mangum Chapter No. 35, Royal Areh Masons, in which he served for nine years as high priest; Hobart Commandery, Knights Templar; Mangum Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, of which he is past patron; India Temple, Aneient Arabie Order of Nobles of the Mystie Shrine, Oklahoma City. He is also a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Doetor Dodson was married on October 15, 1890, in Sonora, Texas, to Miss Della Pool, of Bartlett, Texas. She died in 1894, leaving two daughters. Daphne, the eldest, is a graduate of the Mangum High School, and also studied music at Baylor University in Belton, Texas, and at Epworth University in Oklahoma City. She is now engaged in teaching musie in Mangum. The second child, Fay, died at the age of eleven years. In 1895 Doctor Dodson married Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Bart- lett, Texas, a daughter of Benjamin R. Smith, who was a well known farmer there, and who died in 1904. There are two daughters of this marriage: Thelma, a graduate of the Mangum High School in 1915, and Naomi, now a senior in that sehool.
DANIEL WILLIAM PEERY. In a record of the men who have taken an important part in the upbuilding and development of Oklahoma, it would be almost impossible to avoid extended mention of Daniel William Peery. A member of the First and Second Territorial legislatures, one of the founders of the state, subsequently elected to the State Legislature, the editor and publisher of a news- paper for eight years, and one of the organizers of the City of Carnegie, his name is indissolubly identified with the history of the commonwealth, where he has been prom- inent in business and political circles from the time of his arrival.
Mr. Pcery was born at Edinburg, Grundy County, Mis- souri, August 16, 1864, and is a son of Dr. Arch and Elizabeth (Kirk) Peery. The family is of Norman origin, the name having been originally spelled Perie, and was founded in the Colony of Virginia in 1717 by the American aneestor, a native of the North of Ireland who located in Augusta County. From that county, William Peery, the great-grandfather of Daniel W. Pcery, moved to Tazewell County, Virginia, in 1775, and enlisted from the latter county as a soldier in the Amer- ican army during the War of the Revolution, As a soldier in the Revolution he served with Gen. Roger Clark in his expedition against old Fort Vincennes and was one of five men who were with General Clark from Tazewell County. His son, George Peery, was born in Tazewell County, from whence he migrated in 1835 as a pioneer to Northern Missouri, where he rounded out a long and active career in the pursuits of farming.
Arch Peery, the father of Danicl William Peery, was born in Tazewell County, Virginia, in 1818, and was a lad when he accompanied his father to Missouri, He grew up amid pioneer surroundings and was reared on the home farm, but was granted good educational advan- tages, and after thorough preparation enrolled as one of the carly students of the old Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, where he was duly graduated with his degree. He became one of the pioneer physicians and surgeons of Grundy County, Missouri, and for many years practiced at Edinburg, where he died, honored and respected, in 1888. Doctor Peery married Miss Eliza- beth Kirk, who was born in Giles County, Virginia, in 1826, a daughter of Maj. Thomas Kirk, of Giles County.
who was an officer in the American army during the War of 1812. Mrs. Peery died in Grundy County, Missouri, in 1898, having been the mother of eight children, as follows: Horaec J., who at the time of his death at. Albany, Missouri, in 1911, was register of decds and county clerk; Florence H., who is the wife of John H. Peery, a distant relative, of Jamesport, Missouri; Nash A., now a practicing attorney of Portland, Oregon; Dr. T. P., a graduate of the Missouri Medical College, and now engaged in the practice of medieine and surgery in Yuba City, Sutter County, California; Mary C., who has been for thirty-three years a teacher, and for twenty-two years of that time at Portland, Oregon; Arch, who is engaged in farming and resides in the vicinity of Apache, Okla- homa; Daniel William, of this notice; and John T., who is now living on the old homestead farm at Edinburg, near Trenton, Missouri.
Daniel William Pecry received his education in the public schools of Grundy County and Grand River Col- lege, an institution which had been founded by his family and chartered by the Legislature of Missouri in 1852. He was brought up to farming pursuits, and remained on the homestead until reaching the age of twenty-four years. He came to Oklahoma April 22, 1889, and filed on a homestead of 160 aeres a few miles southeast of Oklahoma City. Mr. Peery has been present and assisted at every opening of publie land in the state, and has taken part in all the runs, ineluding the opening of the Sae, Fox, and Pottawatomie reservations, September 19, 1891; the opening of Cheyenne and Arapahoe counties, in April, 1892, the Cherokee Strip, September 16, 1893, and the drawing of the Kiowa and Comanche reserva- tions, and in the latter assisted in loeating many of the settlers,
On August 6, 1890, Mr. Peery was eleetcd one of five representatives from Oklahoma County to the First Ter- ritorial Legislature, and in that eapaeity assisted in the organization of the great State of Oklahoma. He was sent to the Second Legislature, in 1893, and in that year removed to El Reno, where, with William Clute, he founded the El Reno Globe, a newspaper which became one of the prominent and influential publications of the state, and which he edited until 1901. In that year Mr. Pecry came to Carnegie, Caddo County, as agent for the Townsite of Carnegie, a eapaeity in which he sold the land and helped to found the town. In 1910 he was again elected to the Oklahoma Legislature, representing the counties of Caddo, Canadian and Cleveland. In that body he was known as one of the most active and prom- inent members, having charge of the bill which located the capital at Oklahoma City, and also taking an active part in educational legislation, in assisting in loeating the agricultural college at Stillwater, the university at Norman and the normal sehool at Edmond. A leading democrat, he was a delegate from the Territory of Okla- homa to the Kansas City National Convention of his party, which nominated William Jennings Bryan for the presidency, and from the State of Oklahoma to the Denver National Convention, which also chose that states- man as the leader of the party. He has been active in state and county democratic conventions, nearly every one of which he has attended since the organization of the state, and over several of which he has presided. In 1911 he became a candidate for Congress from the North- west Distriet, becoming the seventh candidate in the field, but met with defeat undoubtedly because he only presented his name twenty-six days before the primaries, when the greater number of his friends were already pledged.
At the present time Mr. Peery is a member of the real estate firm of Peery & Crose, his partner, L. P. Crose, being the present mayor of Carnegie. Among the men
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who, as public servants, have made enviable records for their faithful, earnest and successful efforts in securing beneficial and wise legislation, none is better or more favorably known than is Dan W. Peery. An earnest worker for the advancement of his party's interests, he yet has never allowed his partisanship to interfere with his efforts in the advancement of what he has considered best for the interests of his coustituents as a whole. And in every walk of life, whether public or private, the same high principles have been found to govern his actions.
POSETHIA L. SANDERS, M. D. The pioneer physician aud surgeon of Carnegie, Oklahoma, Dr. Posethia L. Sauders, has been engaged in practice here since 1903, and has been successful in building up a large and im- portant professional business. Prior to coming to this city, he had secured a thorough and comprehensive train- ing in the line of his calling, and the newly-opened com- munity offered a prolific field for the display of his talents. Doctor Sanders was born in Christian County, Illinois, February 11, 1877, and is a son of F. M. and M. A. (Fultz) Sanders.
The Sanders family originated in Scotland, and from that country the American progenitor came to this coun- try long before the outbreak of the War of the Revolu- tion, settling in the colony of Virginia, from whence the family spread to various of the southern states, and particularly to Keutucky, where the name is well known. Members of the family have been well known in public life, in business, agriculture and the professions, and have always been men and women of substance and standing, honored by and honoring their communities. F. M. Sanders, the father of Doctor Sanders, is a member of the branch of the family which went to Kentucky, and was born in that state in 1838. He received a common school education, and was brought up to agricultural pursuits, .so that when he entered upon his career he adopted farming as his vocation. From his native state he removed to Greene County, Illinois, and in 1860 went to Christian County; in the same state, where he settled on a farm. There he continued successfully engaged in farming and stockraising operations for many years, but in 1892 removed to Sumner County, Kansas, where he has since made his home. He continued to be occupied as a tiller of the soil until a few years ago when advanc- ing years caused his retirement and he moved to Welling- ton, Kansas, where he is living quietly in his comfortable home, enjoying the fruits of his many years of honest toil. Mr. Sanders has been a lifelong democrat, but has been content to remain a farmer, and has not let public life lure him from his home. For many years he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity, and is now a mem- ber of the Royal Arch Chapter of that fraternity. Both he and Mrs. Sanders are consistent members of the Bap- tist Church, in the faith of which their children have been reared. To Mr. and Mrs. Sanders there were born three children : Dr. Posethia L., of this review; Mattie M., who is the wife of L. A. Boory and resides at Wellington, Kansas, where Mr. Boory is engaged in the plumbing and gasfitting business; and Arleigh G., whose death occurred at the age of twelve years.
The carly education of Dr. P. L. Sanders was secured in the district schools of Christian County, Illinois, in the vicinity of his father's farm, on which he worked as a lad and youth during the summer months. He was fif- teen years of age when the family moved to Sumner County, Kansas, and there he continued his publie train- ing, attending both the graded schools and the high school at Mayfield, Kansas. He had always cherished an ambition to engage in the practice of medicine, and to gratify this wish took up the study of the profession at
the University of Kansas, where he was duly graduated from the medical department with his diploma and degree, in 1901. His studies did not end there, however, for he has continued to be an assiduous scholar, and has taken several post-graduate courses, including a course in 1906, at the New York Medical School, of the University of New York, and courses in 1911 at the Chicago Poly- clinic and the Chicago Post-Graduate School.
At the time of his graduation from the University of Kansas, in 1901, Doctor Sanders embarked in practice at Mayfield, Kansas, where he remained until 1903, at that time coming to Carnegie and opening an office as the pioneer physician and surgeon of the place. Important professional business was soon attracted to him by his undoubted talents, and as- the years have passed he has steadily advanced in professional prestige and public favor. His broad and general practice includes every branch of his calling, and in each he is recognized as a thoroughly capable and reliable practitioner. Doctor Sanders maintains well-appointed offices on the second floor of the Cole-Hugill Building. He holds membership in the various organizations and societies of his profes- sion, including the Caddo County Medical Society, the Oklahoma State Medical Society, the Southwestern Med- ical Society and the American Medical Association. That he is highly estecmed by his professional brethren is shown by the fact that he has served in the capacity of president of the Caddo County organization. Doctor Sanders has various financial and business interests at Carnegie, and is a director in the Benedict Oil Company, of Arizona. His fraternal connections include member- ship in Carnegie Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World, at Carnegie, aud the Fra- ternal Mystic Circle, at Mayfield, Kansas. He is a repub- lican in politics, but his only public office has been that of health officer of Carnegie. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of the board of trustees of that congregation.
Doctor Sanders was married in June, 1905, at Carnegie, to Miss Ethel Fredregill, daughter of G. W. Fredregill, who was a pioneer hardware merchant of Carnegie, but is now engaged in farmiug in Caddo County. One child has been born to Doctor and Mrs. Sanders: Vera Berna- dine, born in October, 1907, who is now attending the Carnegie public schools.
EUGENE D. POWELL. For a young man of twenty-four years Eugene D. Powell has covered a good deal of ground in the newspaper profession and is now editor and manager of the Times at Altus. He was practically reared iu the trade and profession of priuter and news- paper man, and cousequently knows all the ins and outs of the business, and since taking charge of the Times has succeeded in giving it a considerable impetus to increase circulation and influence.
The Powell family which he represents came originally from England and was settled in Virginia during the colonial days. Eugene D. Powell was born at Wilton, Arkansas, July 2, 1891, a sou of Rev. C. M. and Georgia (Walden) Powell. His father, who was born at Mineral Springs, Arkansas, in 1860, is now a resident of Bellevue, Texas. Rev. Mr. Powell was educated in the common schools at his birthplace in Arkansas and studied the- ology in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky. Since leaving the seminary he has been con- tinuously active in his profession as a Baptist minister, and his duties brought him in 1901 to Stillwell in Indian Territory. From there he moved to Afton in the terri- tory in 1904, subsequently to Eldorado, Oklahoma, and finally to his present place of residence at Bellevue,
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Texas, where he is pastor of the Baptist Church. While living at Wilton and also at Stillwell and Afton in Indian Territory he edited the newspapers of those towns in addition to his regular duties as a minister. He is a democrat in politics, and served ou the school board at Wilton and was mayor of Afton. His wife, who was born in Arkansas in 1866, died at Winthrop in that state in 1900. She became the mother of eight children: Ruth, wife of Charles Gallegly, of Lockney, Texas; Verda, wife of C. R. Carr, in the lumber business at Texarkana, Texas; Augusta, wife of A. C. Smith, a salesman at Erick, Oklahoma; Doyle, who is a graduate of the Afton High School and also attended Baylor University at Waco, Texas, and is now city editor of the Altus Times; Eugene D .; Mary, who was married in 1911 to Louis T. Tucker, a salesman at Eldorado, Oklahoma; Maude and Doris, both of whom are students in the Baptist College at Decatur, Texas.
Eugene D. Powell received his early education in the public schools at Wilton, Arkansas, and at Stillwell, Indian Territory, and was graduated from the Afton High School in 1905. Later in 1908 he took a business course at the Oklahoma Baptist College in Blackwell. Meantime, in 1900, when only nine years of age, he secured his first instruction in printing and newspaper work under the direction of his father, and from that age has seldom been long absent from a newspaper or printing office. In 1911-'12 he was employed to conduct a paper at Hale Center, Texas, and afterwards for one year was with the Beacon-Times at Idabel, Oklahoma. On September 1, 1913, he came to Altus and was associ- ated with the Altus Times, and during 1915 was editor and business manager of that paper. The Altus Times was established in 1900, is a democratic organ, has a general circulation throughout Jackson and surrounding counties, and lives up to the reputation that Altus has for a live and hustling town and business center. Mr. Powell is himself a democrat and is affiliated with Altus Lodge No. 62, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with Altus Lodge No. 134, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and with Altus Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 1226.
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