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E DWARD F. GOULD. Nearly all of the states east of Oklahoma have contributed citizens to this territory, and the first native- born son of Massachusetts to prove up a claim taken in Kingfisher county was the subject of this article. He is of English descent, and his paternal ancestors were located in Boston prior to the Revolution. Rev. Thomas Gould, pastor of the First Baptist Church in that city, was the first of his line in this country, as far as known. Our subject's great-grandfather Gould went to Ireland as a civil engineer and died at Dublin, and his grandfather, Thomas Gould, was born in Ashland, Mass., in 1783, and resided in Boston during the greater part of his life. He served in the war of 1812 and for many years was an influential member of the city council of "the Hub." Following his calling of contractor and builder he erected scores of residences and public structures in Boston, and of the number the noted Tremont Temple is one. He departed this life in 1872 at the advanced age of eighty- nine years.
Samuel L. Gould, father of E. F. Gould, was born in Boston in 1814, and resided in that city until the close of the Civil war. For nearly twenty years he was principal of the Franklin school and was actively identified with educa- tional affairs from the time that he was gradu- ated in Brown University until his removal to the west in 1865. For several years thereafter he was engaged in prospecting and mining in Gilpin county, Colo., and owned considerable mining property. besides acting as agent for the Sterling Gold Mining Company, and later for the Boston & Colorado Gold Mining Company, the New York & Colorado Gold Mining Com- pany and the Monitor Mining Association. Sev- eral of these companies he represented at one time, and besides was one of the organizers and the first manager of the Boston & Colorado Smelting Company at Black Hawk, Colo. His long and busy life came to a close at Fremont in 1874. Prior to the Civil war he was one of the stanch Abolitionists of New England, and never did he neglect the high duties of citizen- ship.
For a wife Samuel L. Gould chose Frances .1. Shelton, whose ancestors came to Boston from Kent. England. Her maternal grandfather. John Truman, was one of the patriots who took part in the famous Boston "tea-party" prior to the
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Revolution, and her paternal grandmother, Lydia Pierce, of old Puritan stock, was one of the first settlers and owners of the site of West . They have four children, namely: Robert Law- Cambridge (now Arlington), Mass., and the name of the family is not extinct there yet. Her father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and fought in the battles of Concord and Lex- ington. To the marriage of Samuel L. and . Frances Gould three sons were born. The eld- P ROF. J. R. HALE, who enjoys the dis- tinction of having taught the first public school in Oklahoma territory after it was opened to settlement, is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of Kingfisher county. Pos- sessing, as he does, large experience and general information, he has maintained a firm faith in the ultimate outcome of this territory, and has done everything within his power to promote its prosperity. ยท est, Rev. Ezra P. Gould, D. D., won honors in the Civil war, and held the rank of major of the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. For a long period he was a professor in the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, of Philadelphia, Pa. Samuel Shelton Gould, the second son, was killed at the battle of Antietam, in the Civil war. The loving wife and mother passed to her reward in her home at Melrose, Mass., in 1881, when she had attained the age of three-score years.
Edward F. Gould was born in Boston, July 12, 1852, and was educated at home by his father until he was fourteen, when he entered Phillips Academy, at Andover, Mass., and re- mained there until called home by the illness of his senior. Accompanying him to Colorado, he there pursued his studies under private tutors at Central City, with special reference to mining and engineering work. The death of his father Mit an end to his collegiate work and from 1874 to the fall of 1883 he gave his attention to the live stock business, keeping a large herd, and making a specialty of high grade and short- horned cattle. During this period he owned a ranch and made his home in Rosita, county seat of Custer county, Colo. In 1883 he sold his cattle and, going to Fremont county, same state, located on a ranch situated about sixteen miles from Canon City, and operated the farm and raised horses extensively. At the end of five vears he went to Wichita, Kans., and was em- ployed in the office of the Burton car works until the early part of the following year. On the 22nd of April, 1889, he made the race into this territory, from Buffalo Springs, and on the 10th of May filed a claim to his present home- stead. Here he placed ninety acres under culti- vation, made substantial improvements, and has been engaged in general farming and stock-rais- ing. meeting with good returns for his labors.
In no sense of the word is Mr. Gould a poli- tician, and at present his sympathies are with the Populists. He has not been desirous of pub- lic office, but has taken due interest in all things affecting his community. One of the charter members of the Farmers Alliance of Kingfisher county, he acted as its president for two years and also has been identified with the county and territorial alliance. Religiously he is an Episco- palian.
In 1882 Mr. Gould married Marie A. Sud- darth, who was born in Parkersburg, W. Va. rence, Arthur T., Edward F., Jr., and Mar- garet E.
The families of Hale and Dunbar, from whom the professor is descended, were originally sub- jects of the English crown, and many distin- guished men bearing these names have figured prominently in the history of the Anglo-Saxon race. Among those whose names are engraved in the annals of New England are Edward Ev- erett Hale, Nathan Hale, Senator Hale, of Maine, and John P. Hale. Our subject's father, William Hale, was a cousin of the two gentle- men last mentioned. He was born in New England in 1805, and for many years was a res- ident of New York state, devoting his attention to agriculture. He attained the venerable age of eighty-six years, and his devoted wife, whose maiden name was Caroline Dunbar, was three score and ten at the time of her demise. They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survive. William Hale, Jr., gave his life to his country at the age of seventeen, during the ter- rible seven days' battle in the Wilderness, in the Civil war. One son, James D., resides in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Thomas lives in South Da- kota.
The birth of Prof. J. R. Hale took place in New York, on his father's farm, in 1848. Here- ceived a liberal education in the public schools, and finished his higher studies in Cornell Uni- versity, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At twenty years of age he commenced to teach, and, to perfect himself in his chosen line of work, he subsequently pursued a course of training in the Cortland Normal. In 1871 he was ad- mitted to the bar of his native state, to which end he had made a study of law in Cornell Uni- versity, and for some time he was engaged in the practice of his profession in Auburn. N. Y.
After the second great fire in Chicago, and when material progress towards its rebuilding had been made, Mr. Hale established a law office of State street, and dwelt in the Phoenix city from 1874 to 1886. In the meantime he taught school, also, and for a period was principal of
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one of the large city schools. From time to time, as favorable opportunities for investment presented, he bought real estate, chiefly on State . street, the main business thoroughfare. Losing heavily by a fire in 1886, he then went to Mitch- ell, Dak. (now South Dakota), and pursued the practice of law until Oklahoma was opened. On the race for a location and secured a claim in section 27, Cimarron township, Kingfisher county. After improving this property he sold it to William Tennis for $3,000, and since that time has dealt considerably in real estate, sometimes owning four or more farms. He now resides in section 15, Cimarron township, and gives a por- tion of his time to the cultivation of his home- stead.
Actively interested in the success of the Re- publican party, Mr. Hale has been favorably mentioned for the office of congressman and other prominent public positions. He is a jus- tice of the peace, and has won the commenda- tion of all good citizens for his fairness and wis- dom. As previously stated, he taught the first school in this territory, and, moreover, was in- strumental in getting it organized. Fraternally, he is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and belongs to the Kingfisher Encampment. being past chief patriarch of the Grand Lodge of the territory. Religiously, he is undenominational in his attitude, but as sincerely believes in the uplifting influence of Christianity as in that of education, and therefore contributes liberally toward worthy enterprises. Scientific articles of great merit often emanate from his pen. and final a prominent place in the leading journals of the time.
H ON. THOMAS JENSEN. a prominent real estate dealer, was one of the founders of the city of El Reno, and always has been most active in furthering the interests of that city and Canadian county.
Mr. Jensen was born in Husum. Germany, November 26, 1845, and is a son of Carsten and Katherine (Kuhl) Jensen. His father also was born there, and served in the Danish army in the war against Germany in 1848, in which Den- mark was the victor. He followed the pursuits of an agriculturist, as did his father. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and died at the age of sixty-five years. He married Katherine Kuhl, who was born in that country, and was a daughter of Thomas Kull, a farmer by vocation. All of the five children born to them grew to maturity, namely: Jens, who is located at Ponca Agency, O. T .: Thomas; John, a farmer of El Reno township; Peter, who lives in Tama
county, Iowa; and Mary, who also resides in Tama county, Iowa.
Thomas Jensen was reared in Germany and received an excellent education in the public schools of that country. In 1864, with his brother John, he came to America by way of Hamburg and New York City. His brother. that memorable 22nd of April, 1880, he made . Jens, had come to the United States in 1861 and fought in a Wisconsin regiment during the Civil war. He located in Davenport, Iowa, and en- gaged in farming in that vicinity, and in 1865. after his father had located on a farm in Scott county, went to live with him. In the fall of 1867 he went to Lincoln, Neb., which had just been laid out, and located on a farm in Butler on the Blue river, to the northwest of Lincoln. He had two sections of raw prairie land, which he converted into an improved farm, and en- gaged in cattle raising and shipping, sending to the Chicago market. He also engaged in the grain business at Octavia, Neb., and at Surprise on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway. Selling out, on April 22, 1889, he located a quar- ter section of land in Oklahoma, and that sum- mer helped to lay out El Reno, giving a portion of his land, as did Mr. Foreman and Mr. Thomp- son. The next winter the railroad came through, and he engaged in the real estate business. The southeastern part of the town being located on his quarter section, he has since continued in. this business with good success.
Mr. Jensen was united in marriage in Butler county, Neb., with Sarah Chamberlin, who was born in Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of Christian Chamberlin, one of the pioneers of Butler county. They have five children: Nellie, a graduate of the El Reno high school, is the wife of Henry Hicks, of El Reno; Thomas and Frank, twins, entered upon their business career at the age of twelve years. The former is assist- ant treasurer of the Fort Worth Division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, and the latter is in the auditor's office at Fort Worth. Harry is living at home, and Mabel is the wife of Horace Humphrey, proprietor of Kingfisher hotel.
Mr. Jensen was appointed by Governor Steel to the board of county commissioners to organ- ize the county and actively participated in the county-seat fight between El Reno and Frisco. In Nebraska, he was elected to the Legisla- ture in 1880, on the Republican ticket, and was a member of the session in 1881 which elected Van Wyck. He was again chosen for the same office in 1882, and in the session of 1883 aided in the election of Manderson. Ile refused to run for a third term. Fraternally, he is a member of El Reno Lodge No. 7. A. F. & A. M., and also belongs to the chapter. Ilis wife is an active member of the Methodist Church, and he
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j. a Lutheran in his religious belief. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the El Reno Club.
J. E. JONES. The history of the subject of this article, of his father and brothers, pos- sesses many points of interest and inspira- tion to young men of ambition, just starting out upon independent careers. His home for the past seven years has been in El Reno, where his influence has been constantly used for the up- building and permanent welfare of the place.
In tracing the history of J. E. Jones it is learned that he was born in Monmouthshire, England, and that his father, David, and his grandfather, Thomas Jones, were natives of Gla- morganshire. Both were successful farmers and the father was extensively connected with the stock raising business during his residence in Monmouthshire. He was the proprietor of a large sheep farm, and at the time of his death, in his fifty-fifth year, left a goodly fortune. His wife, a native of Breconshire, Wales, was Gwen- fred, daughter of Walter Edwards. He, also, was of the agricultural class of his country, and liis age at the time of his death was eighty-four years. Mrs. Jones accompanied her children to America after the death of her husband and her demise occurred in the vicinity of Topeka, Kans. Of her eight children, only one, Edward, has passed to the silent land, his death having taken place in Leadville. Colo. Thomas, David, Jo- sephi and John are extensively engaged in the cattle busines: in Texas. They are wealthy and highly respected in their several communities. Thomas and John Jones are ranked among the finest financiers and leading cattlemen of the Panhandle region, and the other brothers are about equally prominent at Hansford, Tex. The sisters are Mrs .. Annie Duffy, of Topeka, Kans., and Mrs. Cecelia Wright, of Canadian, Tex.
Born July II. 1851, in the town of Pont-y- pool, England, J. E. Jones spent his boyhood in that locality, and received a good education in the public schools. In 1868 he set his family an example which they subsequently followed- coming to America, where he rightly believed that a young man stands a better chance to make his way in the business world. After working in the coal mines of Pennsylvania and Maryland for about a year he returned to England on a visit and in the fall. when he again sailed for this country, his family accompanied him. He went to Shawnee county, Kans., and carried on a farm in that locality for about five years. After his marriage, December 21, 1873. he removed to the neighborhood of Boulder, Colo., where he opened and operated a coal mine, the town of Davidson being the nearest base of supplies. In
1880 he disposed of his property there, and lo- cating in the Panhandle, in Texas, settled upon what was known as the "J. E. J. Ranch," which was gradually enlarged until it comprised some five sections .. Beautifully situated on the banks of the Sweetwater, it afforded splendid pastur- age for cattle, and the owner embarked in the cattle business extensively. The first section of land on which he placed fences, and all of his first expenditures were extremely high, as it cost him over a thousand dollars to fence the land, wire being fourteen cents a pound, and the first one-hundred-and-forty-pound-sack of corn, bought in Mobeetie, cost five dollars and sixty cents. Altogether he fenced about thirty thou- sand acres of land-some seventy-five miles of fencing, and the average cost was seventy-five dollars per mile. In the early part of the 'Sos Mr. Jones often had to pay fifty cents a pound for butter and one dollar for a dozen of eggs, other necessaries being in proportion. At the end of thirteen years he sold all but one section of the ranch and took up his abode in El Reno. He was one of the first men to introduce fine blooded stock into the Panhandle region, and his high grade Durhams have commanded the best market prices at all times, his special brand, "J. E. J.," on the left side, always being a guar- antee of superiority. From 1893 to 1896 he was occupied in furnishing beef to the United States troops and to the Indians, on government con- tracts, having four markets, El Reno, Darling- ton, Fort Supply and Fort Reno. For the past four years he has been engaged in managing his one hundred and sixty acre ranch, which adjoins El Reno on the northern boundary. He makes a specialty of feeding about two hundred cattle for the market each year, and is prospering in this enterprise.
While a resident of Wheeler county, Tex., Mr. Jones served as a county commissioner several terms, and for many years, or until he left that state, was a member of the Northwestern Texas Live Stock Association. Since that time he has been affiliated with the Territorial Cattlemen's Association. Since the spring of 1894 he has been one of the school directors from the third ward of El Reno, and largely to his energy and public spirit the present facilities, buildings and fine system of education here must be attributed. Fraternally, he is a member of the Woodmen of the World and of El Reno Lodge No. 7. . F. & A. M., while in his political faith he is a zealous Republican.
The marriage of Mr. Jones and Miss Ella Kibbe took place in Shawnee county, Kans., in 1873. She was born in Ohio, and resided in that state until she was fifteen years of age. when she removed to Kansas. Roy, the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, is an enterprising young
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business man, now engaged in managing a meat market in' El Reno. Cecelia, who possesses marked musical ability, is employed as a sten- ographer by the firm of Blake & Blake, of this city. Clyde is a high school student, and the younger sons are named respectively, Ira and Verne. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Congre- gational Church, and the whole family is held in the highest regard by this community.
P ROF. II. H. KELLOGG, superintendent of sehiools of Canadian county, is one of the foremost educators of Oklahoma and has made a record for efficient work in con- neetion with the progress of the common schools. He was first eleeted to this office in the fall of 1896 and entered upon his duties in Jan- uary, 1897. In 1898 he was re-elected on the Republican ticket, against the fusion candidate. The legislature having extended the term of office, he will retain his position until July, 1901. Under his able supervision many changes have been made in the management of the county schools. The standard of instruction has been raised greatly, salaries have been advanced about $12 per month, and the grades have been changed so that now a public school graduate is entitled to admission, with examination, to any high school and also to the preparatory de- partment of the University of Oklahoma, the Territorial Normal School and the Agricultural and Mechanical College. The diploma used by the territorial board for grammar school gradu- ates is the product of his own pen, the design being original- with him. In December, 1897, he began the publication of the School Visitor, which has since been changed from a monthly to a quarterly, and is published in El Reno, in the interests of the public-school teachers. He has been an instructor and lecturer in every in- stitute held by the territory, and the value of his work in this connection cannot be over- estimated. In addition to his duties as super- intendent, he is ex-officio president of the board of health of Canadian county, whose jurisdiction extends beyond this county and includes all of the Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache res- ervations.
In a very early day Benjamin Kellogg. the professor's grandfather, removed from near Sar- atoga, N. Y., to Pekin. Ill., settling on a farm. During the Black Hawk war be rendered active service. Ilis son, John J., a native of Pekin. and a carpenter and builder in that town, re- moved from there to a farm near Hawley, 111 .. and afterward was chief bookkeeper to the Haw- ley coal mines. For four years he was a mem- ber of Company B. One Hundred and Eighth Ilinois Infantry. He was four times wounded,
the last being the most serious. This was in the battle of Guntown, when a ball passed through both of his hips. He was captured by the. Confederates and for seven months lay at Andersonville, suffering untold agonies, and sus- tained only by his determination and will power. For years after he had left the army he sui- fered from this wound. He also suffered from another wound, caused by the bursting of a spent shell, which broke three ribs and for some years after formed an abseess that no treatment was able to relieve. It was this wound, coupled with the effects of his hip wound, that caused his death in 1891. Altogether he received eight gunshot wounds and to the day of his death he carried in his body three rebel bullets. After the war he worked as superintendent of the Hawley mine until the fall of 1869, when he removed to Vernon county, Mo., and engaged in farming there until he died. He was an active Republican and a Grand Army man. Seven days after his death his wife passed away. She was, in maidenhood, Jennie S. Stewart, and was born near Pekin, being the daughter of an eastern family, of Seoteli descent.
The only child of his parents, H. H. Kellogg was born in Pekin, Ill., December 10, 1862. He was reared near Nevada, Mo. From the time he was eleven years of age he had charge of the home farm, his father's health preventing him from doing manual work. He had no advant- ages in boyhood. Indeed, there seemed little prospect of his gaining an education. However, he had inherited his father's determination and would not allow adverse circumstances to daunt him. He taught school for a year and with the money thus earned entered upon a three years' course in the Western Normal College at Shen- andoah, Iowa. In 1885 he graduated with the first honors of the class. While there he took a special course in penmanship and became known for his superiority in that line. After graduating he taught penmanship and commer- cial branches in a business college in Minnesota. at the same time taking the regular course in the college, from which he graduated in 1887. Next he accepted a position as principal of the Moun- tain City Business College at Chattanooga, Tenn .. where he remained until 1890. lis father's illness then called him home and he looked after the farm until his parents died. In the fall of 18gt he went to Columbus, Ohio, and took a post-graduate course in the Zaneria Art College. In the fall of 1892 he accepted the principalship of the commercial department in the Afton (lowa) Normal College, of which in 1803 he was elected president. Resigning that position at the close of the school year in 1805. he came to Oklahoma, and settled on the south- cast quarter of section 24, township 12, range
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& west. This place be improved and has since operated.
In the fall of 1895 he accepted a position as teacher at Union City, and drove back and forth, a distance of twenty-one miles, each day. He was occupied in this way at the time of his nom- mation for county superintendent of schools. He is a member of the Territorial Teachers' Association, and has served on its executive committee. The meetings of the association have had the advantage of his assistance and counsel, and he has been in charge of the sum- mer institutes. Any plan for the advancement of the schools receives his earnest consideration and, when once convinced of its utility, he spares 110 effort to secure its adoption in his own county. While his attention is very closely given to educational work, he finds a pleasant relaxa- tion from official duties in the management of his farm, which he still superintends personally and on which he is engaged in breeding high grade and full-blooded Short-horn Durham cattle. In politics he is a stanch Republican; in religion, is connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally, he is identified with the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen. In Iowa, in 1889, he married Artie E. Hardman, who was born near Columbus, Ohio, and is the daughter of a minister in the Christian Church. They are the parents of two children, Myron M. and Anita l'earl.
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