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The marriage of Mr. Carroll and Jessie Comp- ton occurred in Allen, Tex. Mrs. Carroll was born in Kentucky, and is a daughter of Dr. H. H. Compton, an old and respected physician of Allen. She is a graduate of the Nashville Fe- male Seminary, and the mother of one child, Alma. As a Mason. Mr. Carroll is associated with the lodge at McKinney, Tex., and with the Haggai Chapter of the same place, and also with the Council. In North Carolina he belonged to Eureka Lodge No. 7. I. O. O. F., in Newbern, and is now a member of the lodge in Texas. In the religious world he is a member of the Baptist Church, and was one of the organizers of the Shawnee Club. In national politics he is a Dem- ocrat.
ENRY APPLEGATE. This honored vet- eran of the Civil war resides in Moore, and has been actively associated with its welfare for the past decade. In his career he has had many adverse circumstances to contend with, and yet has conquered each obstacle, if of the kind that can be overcome, bearing the rest with fortitude worthy of emulation. All credit is due 1:im for the part which he played in the years of our country's peril, when, leaving his young wife and home and all of his business interests. he went to fight for the land of his love, giving almost five of the best years of his early man- hood to the holy cause. .
In following the history of Henry Applegate. it is learned that he is a son of Samuel and Nancy (Hancock) Applegate. His mother died in In- diana when he was two and a half years old, leaving a little one, now Henderson Applegate. of Grand Island, Neb. The father married again. and took his two boys to Lucas county, Iowa, in 1852, where he bouglit and entered some land. and became a pioneer farmer of that region. Henry Applegate was born in Owen county, Ind., October 16, 1840, and in his boyhood had
but limited educational advantages. At four- teen he commenced working in earnest, and during the winters attended school. Possess- ing a voice of more than the ordinary kind, he cultivated it after he had grown to manhood, and for some time taught vocal music.
February 12, 1860, Henry Applegate and Miss Mary J. Chapman, of Wayne county, Iowa, were united in marriage. She is a native of Putnam county, Ind., and a daughter of Isaac M. and Catherine B. (Pennebaker) Chapman, who re- moved to Iowa when she was eighteen months old, and there she was reared to womanhood.
In August, 1861, Mr. Applegate enlisted in Company I, Eighth Iowa Infantry, and was first under fire at Warsaw, Mo. Altogether, he par- ticipated in nineteen of the important battles of the war, including Pittsburg Landing, Vicks- burg campaign, Spanish Fort and Fort Blake- ley. The exposure to all kinds of weather brought on rheumatism and other illnesses, and for a short time he was in the hospital at Ham- burg, and again in one near Vicksburg. When campaigning in the neighborhood of Memphis, he was captured by Forrest's Cavalry, and was sent to Cahaba, Ala., there kept a prisoner for six weeks. Though his clothing often was pierced by bullets and his escapes were innu- merable, he served throughout the war without being wounded. On account of poor health, he was on detached duty for some time, serving as a clerk in the Freedman's Bureau at Montgom- ery, Ala., and also was in the government em- ploy as a detective, in the interests of the same bureau. He was not discharged from the service until April 19, 1866, about a year after the war had closed.
Returning to Iowa, Mr. Applegate purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land in Wayne county, and proceeded to develop the tract. which was in a wild condition. In 1871 he went to Saline county, Neb., where he took up a homestead, and continued to cultivate the place until he came to Oklahoma, in December, 1891. Building a hotel in Moore, he named it the Iowa Hotel, in honor of his boyhood's home state. He still owns the building, and for several years conducted the hotel, which has long been con- sidered one of the best in this county.
In everything tending toward the advance- ment of his community's interests; Mr. Apple- gate has been an active worker. Popular in the Republican party, he has twice been a nom- ince for the legislature. The first time, when the election returns showed that he lacked but nine votes of victory, he had been laboring under a disadvantage, as, on account of illness in his family. he had been unable to canvass or aid his own cause in any manner. In 1804. when he was known to comparatively few of the voters of
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this congressional district, his opponent was elected by seven votes majority. For six years he was the commander of Moore Post No. 17, G. A. R., and now is acting as its chaplain. Since his seventeenth year he has been an active mem- ber of the Missionary Baptist Church, and ever since leaving the army has been a great worker in the Sunday-school. He has been associated with the Mission Board, and has organized many schools. For years he was superintendent of Sunday-schools and has long been township president of the work engaged in here. Be- sides, he is moderator in the Baptist Association and has acted in this capacity for several years:
Though they have no children of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Applegate have been loving par- ents to seven little ones, two of whom they regu- larly adopted. Little Frankie Moser Appiegate died at the age of three years and seven months. Mattie B. Applegate became the wife of Kenneth McLennan, of Moore township, and has five children, as follows: Bessie, Angus A., H. Rus- sell, Gladys and Ersa A.
J AMES B. CULLISON, registrar of the United States land office at Enid, was born in Mount Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, Sep- tember 21, 1858, and is a member of an old Vir- ginian family that came to this country from England. His father, Elisha, a native of Ken- tucky, removed to Indiana in early manhood, and soon after his marriage settled in Iowa, which was still a territory. Settling on new. and raw land, at New London, south of Mount Pleasant, he began the improvement of a farm. His nearest market was Burlington, to which point he hauled his produce by wagon. At the beginning of the Civil war he settled in Kirks- ville, Mo., where he engaged in raising and selling stock, also in merchandising. Until the war he had supported Democratic principles, but he then became a Union supporter and an ad- vocate of Lincoln's policy. At the time of his death, in 1865, he was fifty-two years of age. Ilis wife, who was Matilda Mckay. a native of Indiana, and of Scotch-Irish descent, died five years after his death. They became the parents of five children, now living, viz .: Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, who is living near Kirksville, Mo .: W. R., now of Quincy, Ill., and who was a commis- sioned officer in the Twenty-first Illinois Infan- try during the Civil war; G. W., a prominent attorney in Harlan, Iowa; E. D., of Clarinda. lowa, who was formerly warden of the Iowa state insane asylum; and J. B. The last-named , was reared on a farmi near Kirksville, Mo., and attended the public schools near his home.
Returning to Iowa in 1874. Mr. Cullison at- tended the Bloomfield Normal School in Davis
county for two years, and, during vacations. taught school in order to earn the money neces- sary for his school expenses. After leaving the normal; he taught for two winters in Wayne county, lowa. In 1880 he was elected principal of the high school at Unionville, Iowa, which position he filled for two years. Afterward he spent a year in the Kirksville State Normal. From the age of nineteen he had been a student of law under his brother, and his teaching had been preparatory to the work of attorney, which profession he hoped to enter. However, lack of means forced him to relinquish his studies temporarily, but no discouragement changed his plans as to his ultimate intentions.
After one year at the head of a private normal school in Green City, Mo., Mr. Cullison was made superintendent of schools, in Ononwa. Iowa, and at the close of his first term in that place he accepted a position as secretary of the Muscatine Life and Endowment Association. Going to Muscatine, he opened the books and business of the company, and started the work upon a sound basis, but failing health prevented him from continuing in the position. In the spring of 1884 he settled in Pratt county, Kans., where he entered one hundred and sixty acres of government land and laid out the village of Cul- lison, on the Wichita & Western Railroad. For a short time afterward he engaged in the real- estate business there, but in the fall of 1885 he sold his property and removed to Hugoton, Stevens county, Kans., which town had been laid out and was owned by the McPherson Land Company. Having been admitted to the bar, he there engaged in the practice of law. Under Governor Humphrey, he was appointed justice of the peace. He was also appointel the first deputy superintendent of public instruction for Stevens county, which at the time was attached to Finney county. He took a very active part in the organization of Stevens county, and was elected clerk of the district court, which position he filled for two years.
During July, 1893, Mr. Cullison went to King- fisher. but as soon as Garfield county was open to settlement he made the race and secured one hundred and sixty acres six miles due east of Enid. The improvement of this tract took his attention and care for some time, but meantime he also became interested in the practice of law in Enid. His law office was in a small frame building, which was the first frame structure in Enid, and was erected on the public square. From September 18, 1893. he engaged in law practice. November 5, 1897, he received front President McKinley an appointment as registrar of the United States land office at Enid. which position he has since held. Meantime he has also had important real-estate interests. From
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his tract of eighty acres adjoining the city on the north he laid out into Cullison's first addition to Enid, the same being twenty acres in extent. In the summer of 1900 he laid out Cullison's second addition. Politic- ally, he has always been a Republican and is now territorial committeeman for Garfield county. He is connected with the Commercial Club and the Territorial Bar Association. As registrar, his district embraces Garfield and Grant counties. While the district is small. it has the largest money business of any land office in the United States, and the large success is due mainly to the efficient oversight of the genial registrar.
While at Unionville, Iowa, Mr. Cullison was made a Mason, and he is now a member of the blue lodge and chapter at Enid. He was one of the organizers, and is now a trustee of the Ma- sonic Temple Association, which is building the new Masonic Temple. An active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he is a trustee in the same, and a member of its buildling com- mittee. He is interested in educational matters and served efficiently for one term as a member of the school board.
During his residence in Iowa, Mr. Cullison married Miss Mary Sharp, who was born in Wayne county, that state. She is the daughter of the late Senator A. W. Sharp, of Towa, who was a soldier in an Iowa regiment during the Civil war and afterward became a prominent farmer and statesman, but is now deceased. Judge (for by this title he is best known) and Mrs. Cullison are the parents of six children. namely: James B., Jr., who is a student of the Wentworth Military School of Lexington, Mo .; June, Irene, May, Douglas and Janie. May was born in October, 1893, and has the distinction of being the first child, now living, who was born in Garfield county, after the opening of the same to settlement.
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J. H. WOODS. Occupying a foremost place in the ranks of the legal profession in Okla- homa, J. H. Woods, of Shawnee, is desery- ing of special mention. He is a native of Liver- pool, England, his birth having taken place April II. 1851. His father, William Wood, born in Yorkshire, came of an old and highly honored family of that section of England, and the mother, whose name in girlhood was Mary Spencer, was a native of Liverpool. The father. a builder and contractor of ability, pursued that line of business in the city mentioned until 1853. when he crossed the ocean and established a home in Toronto. For several years he devoted his attention to the building of portions of the Grand Trunk Railroad, in Canada, taking and
executing contracts for the same. In 1858 he removed to Dubuque, Iowa, afterwards settling in Linn county, same state, continuing his usual vocation. At length he went to Mills county, Iowa, and engaged in the manufacture of lime. also quarrying stone, and subsequently carried on the same business near Omaha, Neb. His last years were quietly passed upon a farm sit- uated five miles from Nauvoo, Ill. In 1868 he was summoned to the silent land, and twenty- two years later his widow passed away, in Colo- rado. Two of their nine children are deceased. William, the eldest son, enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry in 1864, and served until the close of hostilities. His home now is in Oregon.
J. H. Woods was reared in Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois, remaining in the state last named from 1864 to 1873. Having gained a liberal education, he took up the study of law in the office of Walter Simons, of Osage Mission (now Judge Simons, of Fort Scott, Kans.), and was admitted to the bar in 1875. As a member of the firm of Cox & Woods, and later alone, he practiced law at Osage Mission until Oklahoma was opened. From April 22, 1889, to Septent- ber, 1891, he carried on a general practice, at the latter date being appointed by Governor Steele as county attorney of Pottawatomic county. That office lie resigned in August, 1892, and was elected as county attorney of Oklahoma county, being the only one on the Republican ticket who was elected there that year, and the first one holding that position for the regular two-year term. As might be expected, his la- bors in that new country were extremely ardu- ous, and it is a notable fact that Milligan, whom he prosecuted, and who was hanged as a mur- derer, is the only man who has paid the extreme penalty under the law of Oklahoma. His case was carried to the supreme court, where the verdict was sustained. For about two years subsequent to the expiration of his term, in Jan- mary, 1895, Mr. Woods was identified with the Oklahoma City bar, steadily rising to greater distinction. Since 1897 he has lived in Shaw- nee, where he has built up a large and remunera- tive practice, being the attorney for the National Bank, for the Oil Mill & Compress Com- pany, and other local firms.
l'olitically, Mr. Woods is a Republican. As a member of the Shawnee Club and in many other practical ways he has been striving to promote local interests. While in Oklahoma City he was initiated into Masonry, and held membership in Lodge No. 3. A. F. & A. M., of that place. There he was associated with the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows and En- campment, also.
In Osage Mission, Kans., Mr. Woods mar-
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ried Miss Athie Rockwell, who was born in Chi- cago, Ill., and departed this life in Oklahoma City in 1890. Rupert, the only son of this union, now living in Shawnee, was a volunteer soldier of the Spanish-American war, serving in the Third Missouri Engineers until lie was honor- ably discharged, his experiences including work in Cuba. Mrs. Marcia Jones, of Shawnee, and Crystal Woods, now a student in the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College, at Stillwater, com- plete the family. In Hutchinson, Kans., Mr. Woods married Miss Ada Lockhart, who was a native of Newcastle, Pa., and in the autumn of 1897 she was summoned to the silent land.
C ASSIUS MARCELLUS CADE. The ca- reer of a self-made man possesses much of inspiration and interest to the general pub- lic in America, a land where individual worth is the paramount standard, and in reviewing the history of C. M. Cade, vice-president of the First National Bank of Shawnee, one is impressed anew with the genius and independence of the typical American, for this he is, beyond question.
On the paternal line, Mr. Cade is of French descent, his grandfather, William Cade, having been born in Alsace, whence, with two brothers, he emigrated to the United States, settling in Virginia. There he became a wealthy planter, his home being near the Natural Bridge, and at one period he owned a large and valuable tract of land on the Kanawha river, and an interest in Blenerhasset Island. At the advanced age of ninety-three he passed to his reward. His son, Samuel, father of C. M. Cade, was born on the old homestead near the Natural Bridge, and in his early manhood mastered the trades of cabi- net making and building. Removing to Mari- etta, Ohio, he pursued his calling, and later re- sided in Noble county, sante state. His home subsequently was in the vicinity of Ironton, Ohio, and now he is living retired in Anthony, Kans. His beloved wife. Emeline, was sum- moned to the silent land February 20, 1900. A daughter of David Rowe, a native of Maryland. she was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, and by her marriage was the mother of five children. one of whom is deceased. Mrs. Mary Clark lives in Topeka, Kans., and Mrs. Ccola V. Cade and' WV. S. Cade, an attorney, are citizens of Anthony, Kans. David Rowe married Miss Miller, of a good old Pennsylvania family, and her mother bore the maiden name of Dodcheiffer.
Cassius M. Cade was born near Harriettsville, Ohio, August 4, 1856, and was reared in his na- tive state. When nine years old he removed with the family to Lawrence county, and com- pleted his education in the Lebanon (Ohio) Nor- mal school. When only sixteen years of age he
commenced teaching, thus obtaining the means for his collegiate course, and much of the time until he was in his twenty-third year he con- tinued to teach in the district schools.
The attractions of the great west appealing to his imagination, the young man made a trip to the Black Hills in the Centennial year, pro- ceeding by teams from Fort Laramie. Then. after an interval spent at home, where, as for- merly, he was a school teacher, he returned to the west permanently. In 1879 he located in Anthony, Kans., where he carried on a flourish- ing real-estate business for about four years, having purchased considerable land in Harper county at Sio per acre, the values rapidly rising. In 1881 he went to Silverton, Colo., where he engaged in mining for a year, after which he prospected and mined in the Navajo Mountains, in the canyon of the Colorado and throughout that region. The warlike Indians thereabouts rendered the task extremely hazardous, and he and his fifty or more comrades not only kept well armed, but posted guards and exercised every precaution against attacks. The party discovered valuable copper mines, which were disposed of at a good price to speculators. After thus spending some three years in Arizona, he returned to Anthony, where he continued in the real-estate business until 1885, when he went to Coldwater, Comanche county, Kans. As sec- retary and treasurer of the Southern Kansas Town Company, he laid out Coldwater, now the county-seat, and was prospered in his enter- prises there. In 1886 he again made his head- quarters at Anthony, and was ready for the opening of Oklahoma.
Going to Kingfisher, April 22, 1889. Mr. Cade attended to some business there until the fol- lowing year, when he became the first county clerk and register of deeds in Kingfisher county. under appointment of Governor Steele. Then elected city clerk of Kingfisher, he held the office until the Choctaw Railroad was being built, when he resigned, in order to become that corporation's town-site manager at Shawnee. Besides handling this business, he also had charge of Earlsboro and Choctaw City until 1896, when the railroad installed him as its com- mercial agent. At the end of a year's service in that capacity. Mr. Cade resigned, his connection with the First National Bank of Shawnee dating from that time. At its organization, October 27. 1808, he wasmade assistant cashier anda director. and in the ensuing year was promoted to the vice-presidency, his present position. His finan- cial interest in banking institutions is not lim- ited to this one, however, for he also is a director in the Citizens Bank of Holdenville. I. T .. the Bank of Geary. Okla., and the Bank of Wa- tonga, Okla. One of the organizers of the Shaw-
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nee Oil Mills, built at a cost of over $50,000, and a successful enterprise, hie now is a director and vice-president of the company. Actively inter- ested in the founding of the Shawnee Compress Company, he served as its treasurer until re- cently, when he sold out. He also assisted ma- terially in the organization of the Shawnee Ice Company, whose fine plant is valued at $28,000, and in this concern he is a stockholder.
In brief, it may be said that Mr. Cade directly or indirectly has supported most of the leading industries which have been the making of Shaw- nee. Active in Masonry, he belongs to Shawnee Lodge No. 27, A. F. & A. M. In the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and in the Shawnee Club he is equally popular, and in the ranks of the Republican party in this territory he is justly considered a leader.
In 1884 Mr. Cade married Miss M. E. Kitchen, who died in Coldwater, Kans., in 1885, leaving an infant son four weeks old. This son, Cas- sius Marcellus. Jr., was the first white child born in the town of Coldwater, Kans. A very prom- ising youth, he was educated in the University of Oklahoma and in a private naval academy at Annapolis, Md. In February, 1900, he was lion- ored by appointment as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and was admitted there June 15, 1900. In the town of Enid, Okla., our subject married Miss Lizzie Hartz, one of the native daughters of Wisconsin. The family residence, at the corner of Eleventh and Louisa streets, was erected under the direc- tion of Mr. Cade and wife.
H. B. DEXTER. Shawnee has been fortu- nate in many respects, not the least of which in the character of its founders, men of great energy and commercial ability. H. B. Dexter, a leader among them, has had an abounding faith in its future and has spared neither means nor effort to advance the interests of the citizens. One of the "forty- niners" on the Pacific coast, he has experienced the hardships incident to a frontier life, and is thoroughly versed in the vicissitudes of the miner, the farmer and the general business man. To-day, standing at the head of many a prosper- ous enterprise, and commanding wealth which years of industry have brought to him, he still recalls many a time when poverty was his por- tion, and when his fortitude and pluck were taxed to the utmost.
The paternal grandfather of H. B. Dexter was a native of Germany and an early settler in Connecticut. where he carried on a farm. and during the war of 1812 enlisted in the de- fense of the land of his adoption. The parents of our subject, John and Minerva (Burroughs)
Dexter, were natives of Connecticut and New Hampshire, respectively. The mother, who died in Pennsylvania, was a daughter of Sam- uel Burroughs, a native of New England, and of Scotch descent. He, too, participated in the second war of this country with England, and lived and died upon his farm in New Hamp- shire. For several years John Dexter operated a farm near Rutland, Vt., and then, removing to Warren county, Pa., devoted the remainder of his life to the cultivation of his homestead there, liis death taking place when he was in his sixty- fourth year.
One of eight children, H. B. Dexter and two brothers are in the west. Oscar resides in the western part of Oklahoma, and Andrew lives in the state of Washington. Both served in a Pennsylvania regiment during the Civil war. The birth of our subject took place February 28, 1830, in Rutland county, Vt., whence he went to Warren county, Pa., when seven years of age. Supplementing his log-cabin school- house education by a year's course in Albion (Pa.) College, the youth then learned the trade of a millwright and found employment at that call- ing until 1850, when he formed the determina- tion to try his fortune in the gold mines of California. Proceeding to the far west by the Istlimus of Panama route, he engaged in placer mining on the American river, later on Feather river, and still later on Yuba river, there doing both placer and hydraulic mining. During the six years of his experience in the El Dorado he met with success, on the whole, and, return- ing to the Keystone state by the Nicaragua route, he built sawmills in the oil region, and became much interested in the business soon des- tined to reach enormous proportions. Once, during the Civil war, he was drafted, but upon responding was rejected.
In 1865 Mr. Dexter came across the Missis- sippi, and after carrying on a mercantile busi- ness at Belle Plaine, Iowa, for a period, became a citizen of Blair, Neb., making his home there while he executed contracts for building quartz mills in different parts of his county .. In 1894 he came to Pottawatomie county, and lived in old Shawnee until the new town was started. Here he burned the first brick, built the first brick dwelling and the first brick business house. the well-known Dexter Block, at the corner of Main and Union, 50x140 feet in dimensions. From that time to the present he has been act- ively occupied in building residences and bisi- ness blocks, and is by far the most extensive builder of the place. Having laid out Dexter's addition to Shawnee, a tract of forty acres on the north, nearly all of the property has been sold, and another tract of three hundred and twenty acres, also on the northern side of the
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