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 5

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 public schools of Marion, Crittenden County, Ken. tucky, furnished the foundation for the training which was to fit Charles E. Grady for educational work, and subsequently he went to the Northern Indiana Normal School, at Valparaiso, which he left in 1906. Two years later he was graduated from the University of Indiana, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1910 was given the master's degree by that institution. He holds membership in the Phi Delta Kappa Greek letter college fraternity, which he joined while attending the university. In 1910 Mr. Grady was appointed superintendent of schools at Iowa Park, Texas, and during 1911 and 1912 was president of the Western College, Cordell, Oklahoma. In 1913 and 1914 he was superintendent of schools at Granite, Oklahoma, and in the fall of 1915 came to Clinton as superintendent of city schools, an office in which he has charge of three schoolhouses, with twenty- two teachers and 1,000 scholars. In this, one of the most difficult of the learned professions, Superintendent Grady has won material success and position solely through the exercise of his own industry and native abilities. A born educator, with the happy faculty of being able to impart his own knowledge to others, he is also possessed of no small degree of executive ability, so necessary in such a position as he holds. He is a democrat, although not a politician, and with his family belongs to the Presbyterian Church. He is well and popularly known in fraternal circles, belonging to Clin- ton Lodge No. 339, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Clinton Lodge of Odd Fellows; the Brotherhood of Ameri- can Yeomen; the Woodmen of the World, and the Colum- bian Woodmen.

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In 1909, at Duckhill, Mississippi, Mr. Grady was united in marriage with Miss Winnie Lee Rose, daughter of the late James L. Rose, who was a merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Grady have two children: Charles Elmer, Jr., born January 13, 1910, and Robert L., born August 26, 1914.

DAVID D. DAVISSON. With twenty-five years of Okla- homa residence to his credit, David D. Davisson has well earned the privilege of retirement and comfort and ease, and is now living somewhat quietly with an ample competence for his declining years at Carnegie.

In the years preceding the original opening of Okla- homa Territory Mr. Davisson was one of the men most prominent in the political and civic affairs of the original Canadian County. He is an Oklahoma eighty-niner, and made the run on that eventful day, April 22, 1889. He found his claim in the old Downs Township, which at that time was part of Canadian County. Until he retired a few years ago Mr. Davisson was a practical farmer and has derived most of his prosperity from his work as an agriculturist.

As a democrat he was very active in the organization of Canadian County, and in 1890 was elected county clerk, being the first man to hold that office by popular election. He remained in office two years, and in 1893 was elected superintendent of Canadian County, a posi- tion he also held two years, and in that time did much in behalf of the establishment of the schools and de- velopment of the first schools established in that section of the state. At a later date Mr. Davisson served as deputy county clerk of Kingfisher County, and for a time was principal of the Banner School at Guthrie.

In 1901 Mr. Davisson participated in another grand opening, when the Kiowa and Comanche reservations were given over to actual settlers, but he subsequently located in Caddo County, where he still has extensive holdings.

David D. Davisson was born January 21, 1851, at Centerville, West Virginia, a son of Dr. D. D. Davisson, who was born in the same state. Mr. Davisson completed his early education in old St. Vincent College of Wheel- ing, West Virginia, and for twenty years altogether was a successful teacher, following his profession in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma.

In 1881, at McPherson, Kansas, he married Miss Sarah C. Horton. She was born in New York City in 1855. They have one son, Gilbert Horton, born November 26, 1885, at Pratt, Kansas. This son, who now lives on his father's original Oklahoma , homestead in Kingfisher County, married Miss Mary Johnson, and has one child, DeLon.

DR. KIAH RIX RONE. The Rones of Kentucky are well known to natives of that state, and men of the name have been history makers in the Blue Grass region through several successive generations. The family is of remote English ancestry, as is a good deal of the best blood in the land, and the first American representa- tives of the name settled in Virginia on coming from England, one branch continuing there and another, the one with which we are directly concerned in this review, locating in Kentucky. The Rones are closely connected by ties of blood with the well known family of Ran- dolphs, whose deeds have shed a bright light over pages of American history through many years.

Dr. K. R. Rone, of Vici, Oklahoma, was born in War- ren County, Kentucky, on June 28, 1865, and he is the son of J. B. Rone, born in Butler County, Kentucky, in 1824. The latter died in Warren County, Kentucky, in 1895. All his life he had been a successful farmer and stockman in his native state, and he was a man of Vol. V-2

prominence in his chosen field of activity. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was a deacon and a member of its official board through many years. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity, a democrat in politics, and a man esteemed of all who shared in his acquaintance. He married Eliza- beth McGinnis, a Warren County girl, born there in 1833, and she died in her native community in 1897, the mother of two children. The first born was Kiah Rix Rone of this review, and the second was J. B., a graduate of the Louisville Medical College in Kentucky and now a practicing physician and surgeon in Oklahoma City.

Dr. K. R. Rone attended Ogden College for two years and was graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nash- ville, Tennessee, in the class of 1889, at that time receiving the degree M. D. He followed his training there with a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic in physical diagnosis and surgery, spending the year 1890 there, and in later years he took post- graduate work in the Chicago Polyclinic and in the Mayo Brothers' Institution at Rochester, Minnesota. His Chicago training he took in 1895 and his work under the celebrated Mayo brothers he took in 1914. While there he was elected president of the Mayo's Surgical Club, of which he is a life member.

In 1889 Doctor Rone began the practice of his pro- fession in his native county. He continued there, enjoy- ing a good deal of prosperity in his work, until 1893 when he moved to Logan County, Kentucky, in search of a wider field. He spent seven years there and in 1900 came to Oklahoma City, in which city he conducted a general practice up to March 1, 1911, when he located in Vici, and here he has since conducted a large general practice. He has, in recent years, been making some- thing of a specialty of surgery, but in a community like Vici deems it best to'conduct a general rather than a special practice. He has enjoyed a generous measure of success in all the years of his practice, and especially has he prospered in recent years.

While practicing in Oklahoma City Doctor Rone for two years held the chair of instructor in genital, urinary and rectal diseases, in the Oklahoma City College. He gave up the post in order that he might have more time for the demands of his practice. At present Doctor Rone is local surgeon for the Wichita Falls & North- western Railroad. He is president of the Dewey County Medical Society, and is also a member of the State, American and Southwestern Medical associations. While a practicing physician in Logan County, Kentucky, Doc- tor Rone was county health officer, as well as city physician of Russellville.

In 1895 Doctor Rone was married, in Warren County, Kentucky, to Miss Minnie Taylor, daughter of William Taylor, a well known farming man there, now deceased. Five children have blessed the home of Doctor and Mrs. Rone. Lucille, the eldest, married Claude Taylor, cashier of the German State Bank at Elk City, Oklahoma. Caryee is an instructor in dancing at Medicine Park, Oklahoma. Guthrie is a druggist, located in California. The two youngest children, Martrie and Jack, are stu- dents in the local high school, and are bright and promising young people, popular in school circles and with many friends throughout the town.

ROBERT C. MCCREERY, M. D., F. A. C. S. In the diffi- cult field of surgery, the importance of which is daily being . brought forcibly to mind by the achievements of its devotees in the great struggle now raging in Europe, Dr. Robert C. McCreery has won distinction among Okla- homa practitioners. Since his arrival at Erick, in June, 1909, he has held an increasingly significant position in

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the life of the community, his fine abilities entitling him to mention among the leading men of the state who are exponents of a profession that must be rated as one of the greatest triumphs of human intelleet, energy and resource.

Doctor McCrecry belongs to a family which originated in Scotland and was founded in New York in Colonial days, and was born at DeSoto, Jefferson County, Mis- souri, March 18, 1869, being a son of Charles E. and Plotina (Hollensbeck) MeCrcery. His father was also a native of that county, where he passed a long and successful career as a farmer and raiser of livestock, and died March 17, 1913, in the faith of the Baptist Church, in which he was a deacon for many years and an active worker throughout his life. During the Civil war he fought as a Union soldier in the Sixth Regiment, Mis- souri Volunteer Infantry, and was once wounded in action. Mrs. McCreery, who was likewise born in Jef- ferson County, died there in 1895, aged fifty-two years. She was the mother of the following children: Laura, who is the wife of W. E. Jones, of Chicago, Illinois, superintendent of a fruit growers' ear association; Adelia, who died in 1903 as the wife of G. W. Showers, of Bryan, Texas, general foreman of railroad car service; Dr. Robert C .; Hester, who is the wife of A. M. Lane, a contractor and builder of Sacramento City, California; G. E., a manufacturer of Los Angeles, California; Nellie G., who is the wife of J. J. O'Keefe, of Crystal City, Missouri, a traveling representative for milling products; and Jeannette, the wife of J. E. Hart, of St. Louis, Missouri, holding an important position with the United States Government.

Robert C. McCreery attended the publie sehools of DeSoto, Missouri, where he was graduated in 1891 from the high school. His medical studies were commenced at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, where he spent one year, the following year being passed at the Kansas City University of Medicine. In 1908 he was graduated from the medieal department of the Uni- versity of Arkansas, with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine, although prior to this time, from 1903 to 1907, he had been engaged in practice at Kansas City. Until 1909 he carried on his practice at Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was physician for the athletic association of the district, and June 5, 1909, eame to Eriek, where he has carried on a general practice, although specializing in surgery, a field in which he has taken a command- ing position. In 1914 he took a post-graduate course in gynecological surgery at Tulane University, New Orleans. In 1910 Doctor McCreery founded a hospital, a modern institution, accommodating twenty patients, which is located at No. 120 East Broadway, his offices being in the Erick State Bank Building. He belongs to the Beekham County Medical Society, the Oklahoma Medieal Society and the American Medical Association, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. A democrat in politics, he has served as health officer at Erick, and has taken an interest in all beneficial civic, educational and moral movements. With his family, he attends the Baptist Church, of which he is a member, and at present is superintendent of the Sunday School. Doctor McCreery is also well known in fraternal circles, belong- ing to the Modern Woodmen of America; Lodge No. 1144, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Elk City, Oklahoma; Far West Lodge No. 1, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Little Rock, Arkansas, of which he is past noble grand, and to the Encampment and Canton of Odd Fellowship.

Doctor McCreery was married at DeSoto, Missouri, in 1899, to Miss Nannie J. Gowan, daughter of the late Capt. Reason E. Gowan, who was a captain in the Union army during the Civil war, and for many years a Mis-

souri farmer. Two children have been born to Doetor and Mrs. McCreery : Glenn A., who married S. J. Har- rell, engaged in farming at Liberal, Kansas; and Robert W., who is attending the Eriek publie sehools.

PORTER N. MCCALLUM. In spite of what the great majority of individuals would consider a most discourag- ing handicap, Porter N. McCallum, of Devol, Oklahoma, has attained a most desirable and satisfying success. Only one possessed of energy, perseverance and de- termination could have saved himself from total failure, but Mr. McCallum has so directed his energies that he now occupies an established place among business men of his community, and is well known for a number of large transactions in real estate.

Porter N. McCallum was born in the City of Dallas, Texas, August 21, 1881, and is a son of J. N. and Maggie (Porter) McCallum, natives of Tennessee. The father, now a resident of Devol, was born in 1852, and in 1880 removed from his native state to Texas, settling first at Dallas, moving to Denton in 1894, and in 1907 coming to Devol. In his early years he learned the trade of painter and gradually developed into a contractor in that line, also following for a number of years the business of railroad surveying. At the present time he is county weigher of Cotton County. In political matters Mr. McCallum is a staunch democrat. He and Mrs. McCallum are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder. They have been the parents of two children: Porter N., of this notice; and J. D., who is the proprietor of a cigar store at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The public schools at Denton, Texas, furnished Porter N. MeCallum with his education, and when he left the high school in 1899 he became a telegraph operator for the Texas & Pacific Railroad. Later he took a position as brakeman with the same road, and held this employ- ment until 1901, in which year, while in the performance of his duties, he slipped and fell beneath two cars, one of which passed over him and severed his left leg. Thus handicapped, when he had recovered, Mr. McCallum was forced to face life anew, and resolutely set about to learn the business of paper hanging, and followed that vocation at Denton until 1907, at that time accompanying his parents to Devol. He continued to carry on the same line of business here until 1912, when he established himself in business as a real estate dealer, and has so continued . to the present time. Mr. McCallum has an interest in several properties, and now owns his own resi- dence on Wichita Avenue. He received an indemnity from the railroad company on whose line he was in- jured.

Like his father Mr. McCallum is a strong democrat, and has taken something more than a passing interest in political affairs, as he is now chairman of the Demo- cratic County Committee of Cotton County and is ae- counted to possess a wide influence in party circles. He has never allowed partisanship, however, to keep him from aiding in every way the best interests of his com- munity. Mr. McCallum belongs to Camp No. 11,823, of the Modern Woodmen of America, at Devol, and is very popular with his fellow members. He also holds member- ship in the Devol Commercial Club, and eo-operates loyally in the movements of this publie-spirited organi- zation. .

Mr. McCallum was married in 1902, at Denton, Texas, to Miss Effie Anderson, daughter of the late J. F. Ander- son, who was a well-known financier of Denton, owning a chain of banks which ineluded institutions at that place, Ardmore, Durant, and other Oklahoma and Texas points. Mr. and Mrs. MeCallum have no children. Mr.

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McCallum comes of sturdy old Scotch stock, his grand- father, Neill McCallum, having been born in Scotland. He was eight years of age when brought to the United States by his parents, the family settling first in Virginia and subsequently moving to Tennessee. The graudfather was engaged principally in buying and selling mules, rounded out a long and successful life, and died in 1886, at Pulaski, Tennessee, aged seventy years.

HARRY C. LACY. The progressive and financial stand- ing of a city is indicated as much by the type of busi- ness men who conduct its affairs as by its institutions. Harry C. Lacy, cashier of the well known Bank of Hydro, is an astute financier and a citizen whose loyalty to his home community is of the most sincere order. He has been a resident of Hydro since 1901 and has been engaged in the banking business since 1909. He also owns a splendidly improved farm of one-half section, iu Caddo County, Oklahoma, and the same is devoted to diversified agriculture.

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Harry C. Lacy was born January 2, 1870, and he is a son of Henry D. aud Lestine (Betts) Lacy. The father was born iu Vermont, in 1847, and he is of Irish stock, his father having settled in the Green Mountain state from Ireland about 1835. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil war H. H. Lacy jourueyed west to Des Moines, Iowa, and in 1861 he enlisted for service in the Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He took part in many important couflicts marking the progress of the war and after Lee's sur- render was mustered out of service as an officer. He then returned to Des Moines, where he married and where he entered iuto business as a merchant. Later he removed to Shelby County, Iowa, and turned his attention to farming; thence he removed to Western Kansas. In 1893 he made the run at the opening iu Garfield County, Oklahoma, and obtained a fine homestead of 160 acres. He lives on this farm now and has increased it to 320 acres. Much of his attention is given to stock raising. He is a republican, is affiliated with the Masonic fra- ternity, and in religious faith is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Lacy, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1849, is a woman of most gracious personality and she aud her husband are held in high esteem by all who know them. They became the parents of eight children, concerning whom the following brief data are here inserted: W. J. is a resident of Detroit, Michigan; Harry C. is the subject of this review; Edith married M. J. Lambert and died in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of twenty-six years; Louis is a farmer in Idaho; Frank is at home with his parents; Weaver is a railroad man in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Rex is an auctioneer and farmer in Garfield County, Oklahoma, as is also Ray.

Harry C. Lacy attended the public schools of Des Moines, Iowa, until his sixteenth year, when he went to Anthony, Kansas, where he engaged in the livery and bus business for the following four years. In 1893 he came to the Cherokee Strip and secured a claim, and he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1901, which year marks his advent in Hydro, where he was engaged in the implement business for the ensuing seven years as a member of the firm of Pope & Lacy. Disposing of his interest in the above concern, he purchased a farm in Cotton County, Oklahoma, and developed the same for one year, when he turned it over to tenants and entered the Bank of Hydro, of which he is now cashier. This bank was established as a state bank in October, 1903, by G. W. Snapp and W. H. Henke, and a new brick building was erected for it on the corner of Main Street and Broadway, in 1910. The official corps of the

bauk is as follows: F. R. Miller, president; M. E. Scott, vice president; H. C. Lacy, cashier, and A. J. Arbes, assistant cashier. The bank has a capital stock of $10,000 and its surplus and profits amount to $5,000.

Mr. Lacy is a republican in his political allegiance and although not an office seeker he is serving at the present time as city treasurer. His fraternal connections are with Hydro Lodge No. 230, Ancieut Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is past master; Valley of Guthrie Consistory No. 1, fourteenth degree; Hydro Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and the local lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Brother- hood of American Yeomen.

Iu Garfield County, Oklahoma, in December, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lacy and Miss Katy Pope, a daughter of John Pope, who is living retired in Enid, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Lacy have one son: Perrin, born February 10, 1904, and a pupil in the Hydro public schools.

JUDGE JAMES B. RUTHERFORD. One of Oklahoma 's ablest lawyers, and one whose practice had extended over old Indian Territory when the Federal courts for this jurisdiction were maintained at Fort Smith, was the late Judge James B. Rutherford, who died at his home in Sapulpa March 18, 1916. As a criminal lawyer he had few peers, and because of his varied abilities and liis active participation in many of the notable cases tried iu Eastern Oklahoma from pioneer times down to the present, his record is one of special significance in the history of Oklahoma.

He was born at Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, November 3, 1859, a son of Bayless and Mary (Curtis) Rutherford, both of whom were natives of Tennessee. His father was born in 1815 and was about fifteen years old when his family moved in 1830 from Tennessee to Arkansas Territory, which was not admitted to statehood until about six years later. Bayless E. Rutherford became one of the prosperous agriculturists and stock growers of Arkansas, and was for many years prominent and influential as a citizen in Washington County, where he resided until his death in July, 1900. At that time he was eighty-five years of age and one of the venerable pioneer citizens of Northwestern Ar- kansas. His widow passed away September, 1913, aged seventy. Of their ten sons and five daughters all reached maturity and most of them are still living.

The fifth among the children in age, James B. Ruther- ford acquired his early education in the common schools of Arkansas, and made such good use of his advantages that for six years he was a popular teacher in the public schools. At the age of twenty-nine . he married Miss Mary Etta King, who was born in the State of Missis- sippi, a daughter of James K. and Nancy King, who removed to Arkansas when she was a child. Mrs. Rutherford is still living.

A few months after his marriage Judge Rutherford took up the study of law and in 1890 was admitted to the bar of Arkansas. For ten years his practice was largely confined to the Federal courts of Fort Smith, though he also achieved a reputation in the cases which he presented before the various state courts. In Sep- tember, 1902, with the high prestige he had acquired as a criminal lawyer, he came to Indian Territory and established his home in Claremore, now the county seat of Rogers County. There he continued to practice be- fore the Federal Court of the Territory until Okla- homa was admitted to the Union. Soon after statehood he removed his family to Sapulpa, where he kept his home and office until his death. Judge Rutherford ap- peared in many of the most important criminal cases

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tried in old Indian Territory and the new Oklahoma, and his career as a lawyer is this section covered fully a quarter of a century. At the time of his death he was senior member of the well known law firm of Ruther- ford & Blackmore. It is significant that three of his former partners have served as United States district attorneys.

Judge Rutherford particularly excelled in defense. During his active career he defended more than one hundred murder cases in Arkansas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and capital punishment was not inflicted on a single one of his clients, and the extreme sentence im- posed was not more than ten years in the penitentiary. He was always a loyal advocate of the republican party, but found his professional duties too exacting to consent to participation in a campaign for any official honors himself. He was a member of the Baptist Church, be- longed to the Oklahoma State Bar Association and the Creek County Bar Association, and was affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was widely known in professional, civic and business affairs and acquired some interests in the oil districts of Okla- homa.

Mrs. Rutherford became the mother of eight children : Mamie B., Lona, Ruby, James A., Alden B., Marcus, Dudley, and Mary Aileen. The daughter Mamie is the wife of William Graham of Sapulpa, and Ruby is the wife of Albert Hancock of the same city.

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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