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In 1866, in St. Joseph, Mr. Garrett married Miss Sarah E. Kelley, who likewise is a native of Kentucky. To this worthy couple four chil- dren have been born, viz .: William H., ot Mul- hall; Charles C.,.of Mulhall: Cora, who died in infancy, and Eva L., who died at the age of six- teen years.
M ICHAEL GOODNATURE. who occupies the southwest quarter of section 10, Lo- gan township. Garfield county, is exten- sively engaged in farming and stock-raising. He farms three hundred and twenty acres, which he owns, and one hundred and sixty acres, which he leases, besides buying and selling cattle on a large scale. He has always been an industrious man and a skillful manager, and his efforts have been crowned with success.
Mr. Goodnature was born in Freeborn county, Minn .. in 1865, and is a son of O. C. and Emily Goodnature. His father settled in Minnesota in an early day and became the largest farmer and stock-dealer in Freeborn county, where he owned some seventeen hundred acres. With no one to assist him, all that he acquired was the result of his own industry and individual ef- forts. He attained the age of eighty-three years, and died in 1800. His wife. Emily, was of Frenchi-Canadian descent and died in 1896. They were the parents of nine children, as fol- lows: Octave: Jennie: Peter: Nicholas: Eli;
Emily, wife of Louis Levalley; Rosella, wife of Auburn Pierier; Michael, and David.
Michael Goodnature was educated in the pub- lic schools of Minnesota and engaged in farm- ing upon his father's land until the spring of 1894, when he came to Oklahoma. Buying out the claimant on the southwest quarter of section 10, Logan township, Garfield county, he imme- diately set about improving the property. He erected a house of goodly size and put all the land under the plow but a small tract reserved for pasture. In 1897 he purchased the north- west quarter of section 15, in the same township, and now owns three hundred and twenty acres, in addition to which he rents one hundred and sixty acres of school land. His principal crop is wheat, and he keeps about one hundred head of cattle, fifty hogs and a number of horses. He buys and sells stock at all times, and during the winter fattens several carloads for the Kan- sas City market. Starting from an humble po- sition, he has worked his way to the front, and is one of the prosperous men of the community. A man of pleasing personality, he enjoys the friendship of a host of acquaintances. He is unmarried.
H ARRY N. HORNER has wielded an ex- tended influence in his locality since tak- ing up his residence on the northeast quar- ter of section 23. township 22, range 6, Gar- field county. Though comparatively a young man, he has been interested in various lines of endeavor, which have taken him into different parts of the country, thus enlarging his horizon and contributing to his fund of all around infor- mation.
Mr. Horner was born in Campbell county, Ky .. December 7. 1861, and is a son of Isaac and Sarah (Lock) Horner. His boyhood days were similar in nature to those of most other country-reared boys, and he received a good ed- ucation at the public schools. At the age of seventeen he entered the Queen City Commer- cial College, with the idea of fitting himself for future business life and responsibilities, and graduated from this institution February, 1878. At the time his father was engaged in a mercan- tile business in Newport, Ky., and the sor started in with him, and the association was amicably continued for five years. In 1880 he removed to Anthony. Kans .. and entered the employ of Poorman Brothers Milling Company. with whom he remained until 1889. his business taking him over the entire western country. With the opening of Oklahoma, he made the run with the vast army of others, and located a claim, which he afterwards sold. He then set- tled near Kingfisher. and became interested in
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municipal engineering and contracting, and while thus engaged took the contract for the water-works of Kingfisher, and also had the drainage contract. Previous to the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations, he surveyed the town site of Taloga.
In 1893 Mr. Horner settled on the claim which has since been his home. In February of 1894 he built a basement in the side of a bank of earth, with a barn above it, and in this structure he lived until his present house was erected, and into which he moved in the fall of the same year. Mr. Horner is justly proud of the improvements around his place, and especially of the fine trees. of which there are an unusual number set out. Ile has two rows of trees the whole length of the farm, and about five acres of forest trees, besides a fine and abundantly bearing orchard.
March 21, 1883, Mr. Horner married Anna French, a native of Newport, Ky. She is a daughter of John and Sarah (Moulder) French. and has a fair common-school education. To Mr. and Mrs. Horner have been born five chil- dren: Stanley, born in Campbell county, Ky., November 2, 1883: Harry N., born in Anthony, Kans., May 27. 1886: John Truman, born in AAnthony, Kans .. July 29, 1888; Loraine Lock, who was born on the Oklahoma farm February 14. 1895, and died at the age of four years and twenty days; and Clifford C., born May 9, 1900.
Quite recently Mr. Horner has gone into the cattle-raising business quite extensively, and usually has about seventy head. In politics he is affiliated with the Republican party, and has been active in the politics of his locality, and lias served as delegate to several conventions. Ile voted for Blaine in 1884. He was appointed chief clerk in the territorial council in 1899, and in that capacity had the keeping of the journal.
In 1895 he entered the treasurer's office as deputy treasurer, the term of service covering two years. He has recently assumed the man- agement of the Hunter Realty Company, at I'nid. Fraternally, he is associated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, at Enid. and has filled all the chairs of that organiza- tion. He joined the order at Kingfisher.
J. W. HUDSPETH, M. D., now of Enid. whose home for some years was upon a farm in El Reno township, Canadian county, has successfully engaged in farming and stock-raising, and also in the practice of medicine. He was born in Henry county, Tenn., of which county his parents, Thomas and Mary ( Ballard) Hudspeth, were also natives. being representatives of prominent families of that section. There his maternal grandfather owned a large plantation and was extensively
engaged in tobacco raising. He always took a very active part in religious matters. The pa- ternal grandfather, Elijah Hudspeth, was born in Giles county, Tenn., but in early life removed to Henry county, where he engaged in the prac- tice of medicine for a great many years. He. too, owned a large plantation, which was oper- ated by slaves. He died at the age of eighty- five years, while his wife lived 'to the extreme old age of one hundred and six years. His an- cestors were originally from England, but the family was founded in this country at an early day in its history. The father of our subject continued his residence in Henry county. Tenn., throughout life, and was one of its most prom- inent citizens. He had sixty slaves and owned and operated a large plantation. He died at the age of forty-five years, and his wife later moved to Missouri, where her death occurred. Of their seven children, only two are now living, namely: J. W., our subject; and James, a resident of Jasper county, Mo.
Dr. Hudspeth was reared on a plantation in his native county, and received a common-school education. At the age of eighteen years he commenced reading medicine with Dr. John Porter, and two years later opened an office in his native county, where he successfully engaged in practice for fifteen years. On leaving the old home in 1868, he spent a few months in Hunt county, Tex., and then located in Benton county. Ark., where he was engaged in practice for six years. Later he removed to Berry county, Mo., where he purchased a farm and engaged in ag- ricultural pursuits for ten years. He removed to western Kansas in 1885 and took up land, which had recently been purchased from the Indians and opened up for settlement. On the 22nd of April, 1889, when Oklahoma was opened, he was one of the first to enter the terri- tory, and settled upon a claim in Canadian county, between twelve and one o'clock that day. Afterward he placed one hundred and twelve acres of his quarter-section under culti- vation, planted a good orchard, erected build- ings, and made many other improvements which add greatly to the value and attractive appear- ance of the place. Although this was practically his first farming experience, he met with suc- cess. His specialty was wheat, and he gave con- siderable attention to the raising of Durham cattle and a good grade of hogs. Politically the doctor is a stanch supporter of the Demo- cratic party, and has been an efficient member of the school board in his district, for some time serving as chairman and clerk of the same.
Before leaving Henry county, Tenn., Dr. Hud- speth married Miss Martha Holley, a daughter of Nicholas Holley, a prominent planter and stock-dealer of that state and a representative of
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one of its old families. The doctor and his wife have four children: John, proprietor of Caddo Hotel of El Reno; Enima, wife of B. M. Hous- ton, of Enid, Okla .; Edna, wife of E. Log. ston, of the state of Washington; and Laura, wife of George Shiffler.
In April, 1900, Dr. Hudspeth sold his farm to a good advantage and moved to the thriving city of Enid, where he is now engaged in con- ducting a lodging-house.
E. . W. HUNT. The Hunt family claims old and distinguished ancestry, the first to emigrate to America being one Hunt who came over in the Mayflower and settled in Massachusetts. Ilis descendants have, with few exceptions, been interested in farming, and have been successful and influential men in their re- spective localities.
E. W. Hunt was born in Steuben county, N. Y., and is a son of Samuel R. and Mary F. (Hardy) Hunt, natives of Allegany county, N. Y. Samuel R. Hunt has been a successful farmer in Marion county, Kans., whither he moved from New York in 1870. Of late years he has engaged in the produce business at Pea- body, catering almost entirely to the wholesale trade. A prominent man in several directions. he is noticeably so in his church connections, being an ardent worker in the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and an elder in the same. Mrs. Hunt is of English descent, her father having come from England many years ago. She is the mother of eight children, seven of whom are living, two being in Oklahoma, E. W. and Sam- tiel R., Jr.
Until his eleventh year. E. W. Hunt lived on his father's farm in New York, and was taught the best way of conducting a farm, and educated in the public schools. After moving with his family to Marion county. Kans .. he continued about the same kind of a life, and later entered upon an independent undertaking in farming. At the opening of the territory he made the run from Buffalo Springs, and was fortunate in se- curing the location in Kingfisher township. Kingfisher county, which is his present home. His early conditions in the territory were of a decidedly primitive nature, and pending the erec- tion of a more substantial habitation he lived in a dugout. This original purchase was but the nucleus of later acquisitions, and he also leases eight hundred acres of Indian land. On the home farm he raises mostly wheat, and there are ninety acres under cultivation. The leased land is devoted to wheat and stock-raising, five hundred and fifty acres being under wheat. There is always a good-sized herd of cattle, one
hundred and fifty at a time in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country, where is located the leased land. In addition, Mr. Hunt raises a great many horses and mules. The farm is one of the best in the township, and has all the appoint- ments of which its owner is justifiably proud. There is an orchard and a vineyard, and in 1895 he erected a brick residence, 34x34 feet in di- mensions. There is an abundance of water on the place and numerous wells.
In 1881 Mr. Hunt married Maggie M. Mc- Clure, who died in 1888, leaving two children, Nina and Edna. Mr. Hunt's second marriage was to Mrs. Ellen D. Crismore, who, at the time of her marriage to Mr. Hunt, had one child, Roy. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunt has been born one boy, Elmer. A Republican in politics, Mr. Hunt has been interested in the undertakings of his party, and as an ardent worker in the cause of education has served on the school board here, and in his former home in Kansas. He also served as township treasurer for one term, and has been a delegate to various county con- ventions.
Mr. Hunt has, like many others, worked his own way in life, and is justified in attributing his success to his own indomitable courage and perseverance. Ile is a charter member of the Farmers' elevator at Kingfisher, and helped to organize the Kingfisher Skimming Station, and was one of the directors of the enterprise for one term. With his family, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and contrib- utes liberally towards its support. He has won the confidence and esteem of all who know him. and is an enterprising citizen and a successful farmer.
ISAAC NEWTON HORNER was born in Campbell county, Ky .. January 4. 1837, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Christy) Hor- ner. natives of Lynchburg. Va. The parents wore married in their native county in Virginia. and soon after removed to Kentucky. Their son Isaac was reared to agricultural pursuits. and early acquired a liking for the tilling of the soil. and he received good educational advan- tages in the district schools. About 1864 he began in the mercantile business at Newport. Ky., and after ten years of this occupation he changed his location to Cincinnati, where he engaged in the retail and wholesale grocery business. About this time Mr. Horner was so unfortunate as to lose his health. and by his physician's advice took up his residence in Eton. Ohio, where he lived for three years, then moved to Harper county, Kans., where he en- gaged in the stock business on quite a large scale. This change proved beneficial. the differ-
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ent comlitions and open-air exercise bringing about the desired results.
At the opening of Oklahoma Mr. Horner made the run from the west side, and located on a farmi near Kingfisher, upon which he lived until he came to his present farm in 1899. It is located on the southeast quarter of section 14. township 22, range 6 west, and was formerly homesteaded by his daughter, Bessie. March 21, 1861, Mr. Horner married Sarah Lock, a native of London, England, and a daughter of John Brown and Ann (Richards) Lock. When a mere child she came with her parents to Amer- ica and settled in Campbell county, Ky. To Mr. and Mrs. Horner have been born six chil- dren: Harry N. was born in Kentucky, is mar- ried, and lives near his father on a well-conducted farm; Ernest S., who was born in Kentucky, and is engaged in the mercantile business in Quincy, Ill., is married and has two children: Mrs. Annie L. Wheeler is a widow with one child, and lives with her father: Bessie is a stu- dent at Delaware, Ohio; Fannie C. and Alfred . C. are at home.
Mr. Horner is interested in all that pertains to the improvement of his locality. In politics he is connected with the Republican party, and cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln. In 1890 he was appointed township trustee, under Governor Steele, and helped to lay out Kingfisher county. He served in this capacity three terms.
L. M. KEYS, who has attained distinction as one of the ablest members of the Okla- homa bar, is now serving as assistant United States attorney. In this profession, prob- ably more than in any other, success depends upon individual merit. upon a thorough under- standing of the principles of jurisprudence, a power of keen analysis, and the ability to present clearly, concisely and forcibly the strong points in his cause. Possessing these necessary qualifi- cations, Mr. Keys is accorded a foremost place in the ranks of the profession in this territory, and stands to-day one of the most esteemed members of the Oklahoma City bar.
Ile was born near Noblesville. Hamilton county, Ind., November 6. 1859. and on the paternal side is of Scotch-Irish descent, his an- cestors having come to Pennsylvania with Wil- liam Penn, and later having removed to North Carolina. His grandfather, Joseph Keys, was born in Surry county, that state, but in early life went to Randolph county, Ind., and later became a pioneer of Iowa. He finally returned to Hamilton county. Ind., and in 1857 located in Emporia. Kans. He was a cooper by trade and followed that occupation more or less through- out his entire life. He took part in several of
the carly Indian fights in Kansas, and died in that state at the age of seventy-four years. Al- though reared a Quaker, he finally united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a rel- ative of General Greene, of Revolutionary fame, and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Lucy Smith, was a niece of General Henry Smith, of the war of 1812. Her mother belonged to the family that founded Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Henry L. Keys. father of our subject, was born in Randolph county, Ind., and on reaching manhood engaged in contracting and building in that state until the fall of 1862, when he went to Kansas, but did not locate permanently there until 1868. He followed farming in Lyons county until about two years ago, when he came to this territory and located in Oklahoma county, where he is now engaged in the same pursuit. In religious faith he is a Methodist. He mar- ried Susan Rich, a native of Hamilton county, Ind., who died when our subject was only four years old, leaving two children, the other being Albert V., a resident of Crutcho township, Okla- homa county. The Rich family was of English origin, and was carly founded in North Carolina. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Peter Rich, was born in Randolph county, that state. and was a pioneer both of Greene and Hamilton counties, Ind. He was a liberal Quaker.
The early life of our subject was spent in the county of his nativity, with the exception of the years 1862 and 1863, when the family lived in Kansas, and in 1868 they returned to that state, locating in Lyons county, where he attended the district schools. For about three years he was a student in the State Normal at Emporia, and for two years was a student in the law office of Isaac Lambert, the present United States attor- ney for southern Kansas. After his admis- sion to the Kansas bar, in 1883. Mr. Keys engaged in general practice at Emporia until 1887. when he removed to Rush county, that state. He took an active part in the county- seat fight between Rush Center and La Crosse. and favored the former, but his party lost. On the L4th of May, 1889, he came to Oklahoma, immediately after the term of court convened in Rush county, and established himself in the gen- (ral practice of law here. He was appointed clerk of the district court April 4, 1898, and filled that office until November 22, 1899, when appointed assistant United States attorney for Oklahoma by Attorney General Richards. He made his headquarters in Oklahoma City, though his office takes him all over the terri- tory. He now devotes his entire time and at- tention to the duties of his position, and is prov- ing a most efficient man for the place.
In Emporia. Kans .. Mr. Keys was united in marriage with Miss Elfleda N. Clark, a daughter
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of V. J. Clark, who was a contractor engaged in supplying forts in the west, and died there soon after the Civil war. She was born in Min- nesota, but was educated in Belleville. III. Of the five children born to our subject and his wife, one died young. Those living are: Darrell, Clyde, Leon and Norton. Mrs. Keys is an act- ive member of the Baptist Church, and also of the Twentieth Century Club, of which she is now secretary.
By birthright Mr. Keys is a member of the Society of Friends, and adheres to that faith. He is a member of Oklahoma Lodge No. 3. A. F. & A. M .: Cyrus Chapter No. 7. R. A. M., of which he is now high priest; the Odd Fellows Lodge, of which he is past noble grand: the Encampment, I. O. O. F .: the Daughters of Rebekah, and the Improved Order of Red Men, of which he is past officer. He also belongs to the Territorial Bar Association. As one of the prominent lawyers of Oklahoma City, he was called upon to serve as city attorney one term, in 1895; deputy county attorney in 1804. He was also police judge of Emporia three terms, and city attorney of Rush Center. The Repub- lican party has always found in him a stanch supporter of its principles, and he is now a mem- ber of the territorial Republican central com- mittee from Oklahoma county: a member of its executive committee: a member of the county Republican central committee, of which he has been chairman and secretary, and is now treas- urer: and a very prominent and influential member of the city Republican party, having been connected with these committees since the party was organized here. In Kansas he held similar positions, and now for over twenty years has been prominently identified with the work of his party as a member of some com- mittee.
C. S. HOOVER, whose home in Garfield . county is on the southeast quarter of sec- tion 2. township 22. range 5 west. was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., February 2. 1865. His parents were Jacob F. and Martha (Simonton) Hoover, who were prosperous farm- ers and worthy people. He was reared to agri- cultural pursuits, and received his education at the public schools of his native county.
About 1883 Mr. Hoover went to Stark county. Ill .. and earned his own livelihood through working by the month on the farms of the sur- rounding agriculturists. After five years of this occupation, he thought to better his condition by removing to the newly opened territory of Oklahoma,and, with this in view settled in King- fisher county, where he conducted a farm until the opening of the strip in 1803. September 16
of that year he located the claim which has since been his home, and, pending the erection of more comfortable quarters, lived in a dugout for about a year. In 1895 he built a good house, and further added to the comeliness and con- venience of his claim by erecting a bank barn. He devotes his energies to general farming and stock-raising, and his painstaking, industrious methods are apparent on his well-conducted property.
May 11, 1897, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hoover and Pearl Young, of Kingfisher, who was born in Nebraska, and came to Kingfisher county about 1890. To Mr. and Mrs. Hoover has been born one child, Floyd Vernon, whose birth occurred June 23, 1899. Mr. Hoover is a believer in the principles adopted by the Re- publican party, but has never been an office- seeker.
W ILLIAM THOMAS MCCARTER, one of the highly esteemed founders of Okla- homa, is a native of Rochester township, Fulton county, Ind., his birth having taken place November 6, 1853. His father, James McCarter, was born and reared in Ohio, and there married Maria Boring, likewise a native of the Buckeye state. They were honest, industrious people, striving to perform their whole duty to their relatives, their neighbors and community, and to their children they left the heritage of worthy records and untarnished names.
On his parental homestead in the Hoosier state our subject spent his boyhood, learning the lessons which have served him in good stead in later years. He became a practical farmer and well equipped as a business man ere he left home, and the sterling principles which were then in- culcated in him have been marked character- istics of his career. In 1882 he went to Kansas, and made a settlement in the southern part of Butler county, and there, assisted by his faith- ful wife, he gradually amassed a competence. Soon after Oklahoma was opened he came to this county and purchased a farm in the north- west quarter of section 10. Mustang township. his present home. Energetically commencing to improve the place, he soon made marked changes, and under his indefatigable labors about fifty of the seventy acres of timbered land have been cleared and placed under the plow. Ile raises excellent crops of wheat each year, having one hundred and twenty acres under cul- tivation, and is successful in raising live stock also. Substantial farm buildings and a thriving orchard, where numerous varieties of fruit may be found, add their due quota to the value of the property, which is considered one of the best in this section of the territory.
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