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Six years ago the Dunlap Brothers Bank was established by them at Ledyard, and it was not until 1899 that A. J. Dunlap sold his interest in that institution, though in November, 1897. he had located in Shawnee. Here he organized the Oklahoma State Bank, of which he has been the president since its inception. In December. 1898, the private bank, now the First National Bank of Holdenville, was organized by himself and brother at Holdenville. I. T. A. B. is the president and A. J. Dunlap the vice-president of the bank, which was incorporated under its present name in April, 1900, with a capital stock of $50,000. In June, 1809, the Washita County State Bank, now the First National Bank of Mountain View, Okla., was organized, with our subject as president, and his brother, A. B., as vice-president. In April, 1900, when the Valley State Bank at Cloud Chief, Okla., was founded, A. J. took the presidency of the same, while A. B. Dunlap was made its vice-president. The Cotton National Bank at Oakland, I. T., was organized in June, 1900, with a capital stock of $25,000, A. B. being chosen as president of the enterprise, while our subject contents him- self with being a director. All of these banks are substantial institutions, possessing the con- fidence and liberal patronage of the public, doubtless owing to the fact that the Dunlap Brothers are conservative and thoroughly re- sponsible parties with whom to transact busi- ness. Their enterprises are almost legion, for they are men of great public spirit, neglecting no opportunity of promoting the welfare of their communities. Among others which might be mentioned. the Rankin & Dunlap Lumber Com- pany, of Holdenville, is one of the thriving con- cerns in which they are financially interested. In politics they are identified with the gold- standard Democrats. In the Oklahoma Bankers Association they are influential members.
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C HARLES DAY. Of the many who have come from the east and lent their enthu- siasm and ability toward the upbuilding and development of the promising land of Ok- lahoma, few have been more conspicuously identified with its best and most substantial in- terests than has Charles Day, of Blackwell.
The interesting and useful life of this eminent pioneer began in Ohio, where he was born April 7, 1828, a son of William and Nancy Day, na- tives respectively of Newark, N. J., and Ireland. The paternal grandfather saw much of the very early history of the century, and served huis coun- try during the war of the Revolution. William Day took his family to Brown county, Ind., when his son Charles was eleven years of age, and after two years removed to Morgan county, the same state. Here the youth received an ex- cellent home training, and was educated at the public schools, and, as an aid to future inde- pendence, learned the trade of carriage ironer at Indianapolis.
The war record of Mr. Day forms an impor- tant event in his life, and is prolific of more than ordinary devotion to his country. At the out- break of the rebellion he organized a company in Morgan county, known as Company K, Sev- enth Indiana Infantry, of which he was first lieutenant. At the expiration of the three months' service he re-enlisted in Company C, Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry, of which he was the organizer, and served as captain of the com- pany. They participated in the principal battles of the war, and were captured by Bragg at Thompson's Station, with thirteen hundred oth- ers, and taken to Libby prison. After two months' imprisonment he was exchanged with the last lot of prisoners at Libby, and rejoined his regiment near Chattanooga, under General Sherman. He received his discharge at Atlanta September 22, 1864.
After the expiration of his term of service Mr. Day returned to the Hoosier state and worked at his trade until January 3, 1888, when he came west to Winfield, Cowley county, Kans., and temporarily retired from active life. With the vast army of others he made the run to Okla- homa April 22, 1889, and located in Guthrie, where he lived for four and a half years, engag- ing in the money-loaning and real-estate busi- ness. He became prominent in the history of Guthrie, and served as the first city treasurer, and as councilman, and was a member of the committee which secured the legalization of Guthrie's charter. September 16, 1893, Mr. Day took up his permanent residence in Black- well, and has since been one of its firmest ad- herents and wisest councillors. He at first se- cured a quarter section of land west of the town, which has since been demoralized by the cross-
ing of four different railroads. Sixty acres of this ground has been platted, and is known as the Day addition. Two hundred of the lots are still the property of the original owner, and who, among other fine and disinterested acts, gave twenty acres to the Baptist College, which is in process of construction, and which promises to be a splendid seat of learning.
Among Mr. Day's various activities is his re- sponsibility as director of the First National Bank of Blackwell, for the further promotion of which he has just purchased a corner lot for the erection of a new bank building. In addition, he is the owner of a fine residence, which adds to the aspect of the town. . With the cause and undertakings of the Masonic order he has ever had a vital interest, having joined the organiza- tion in 1851, and since been active in the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery. He organized the lodge at Blackwell and is Grand Master of the territory. In political faith he has always been associated with the Repub- lican party, and was a national delegate to the St. Louis convention. With his family he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In Morgan county, Ind., January 26, 1851, occurred the marriage of Mr. Day and E. V. Fesler, a daughter of William and C. E. Fesler, members of an old Virginia family. Of this union there have been five children, four of whom are deceased, William G., connected with the New York Life Insurance Company, at Win- field, Kans., being the remaining son. Mr. Day is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. His unostentatious, kindly and disinterested en- thusiasm for the welfare of his adopted town have met a ready response in the hearts of his fellow townsmen, and he is appreciated for the many traits of character and mind so essential and admirable in the promoters of new localities.
E. L. FRANKLIN holds the palm as Okla- homa's best horseshoer, and certain it is that he has few superiors in the west in his line of business. For nearly eleven years he has lived in Hennessey, where he is well and favorably known, but his reputation has brought to him more than a local patronage, and few, indeed, are the fine trotting horses of this ter- ritory which he has not shod.
Mr. Franklin is of Scotch descent, his great- grandfather Franklin leaving the land of the heather in the early days of United States his- tory, in order to become a citizen of the young republic. His son, Col. William T., grandfather of E. L. Franklin, was born in New England, and won his title by gallant services in the war of 1812. He was one of the first settlers in Wyoming county, N. Y., where he followed his
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trade as a shoemaker, and also conducted a farm. His death occurred in Iowa, when he had reached the age of ninety-four years.
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The parents of our subject are natives of Wy- oming county, N. Y. The mother is of Holland- Dutch descent, and for many years her father, William Veeder, was a farmer of the western part of the Empire state; he lived to a good age, his death occurring when he was about eighty- seven. In his youth Daniel Franklin, our sub- ject's father, learned the blacksmith's trade in a carriage shop at Colesville, N. Y., and subse- quent to his removal to Lee Center, Ill., he car- ried on a business of his own for years. He al- ways was greatly interested in fine horses, and himself trained and drove many noted trotters. In 1872 he located in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he followed his usual occupations, and later went to Tama, Iowa, where he was foreman of the Union Plow Company's works. He next be- came a resident of Guthrie county, Iowa, owning and carrying on a farm near Herndon, and mak- ing a business of raising standard-bred horses. In 1885 he located a claim in Cheyenne county, Kans., and in his endeavors to develop a farm lost heavily financially. In the spring of 1890 he came to Hennessey, and for a period was associated with his son, E. L., in the blacksmith business. He now lives in Carthage, Mo., and August 2, 1900, celebrated the seventy-fifth an- niversary of his birth. His wife is in her sixty- sixth year, and both enjoy good health. Their only daughter is Mrs. Kate Newton, of Car- thage.
E. L. Franklin was born June 7, 1854, in Colesville, N. Y., and was educated in Illinois. At fourteen he commenced learning the black- smith's trade and followed it for a few years, but at twenty-one he turned his attention to photography, and for about a year carried on a gallery at Monticello. Then, for three years, he was the proprietor of a photograph gallery at Tama, Iowa, then selling out and turning his attention to other pursuits. For a period he de- voted himself to farming and stock-raising in Guthrie county, Iowa, and for two years was occupied in buying grain for the firm of Rugg, Bryan & Co., of Peoria, Ill., which concern owned an elevator at Herndon, Iowa. In 1885 he homesteaded a quarter-section of land in Cheyenne county, Kans., but, not liking that region, he accepted a position as agent for the Western Home Investment Company, and em- barked in the real-estate business at Bird City, Kans. That place was the county seat as long as he remained there, and then he deemed it adyisable to embark in business at St. Francis.
In February, 1890, Mr. Franklin established the first blacksmith shop in Hennessey, and has carried it on ever since. Making a specialty
of fine horseshoeing, he has commanded the representative trade, not only of this locality, but of all parts of the territory., He even ships shoes to Texas for horses whose peculiarities he is acquainted with, and the large cabinet which he owns, and which contains every va- riety of horses' shoes, is the finest collection to be seen in the territory. Personally he is inter- ested in raising thoroughbred horses, and he usually owns several fine animals.
In addition to his other enterprises, Mr. Franklin is interested in lead and zinc mines in the Joplin (Mo.) district, where he owns some valuable property. In his political views he is a Democrat, believing in "free silver," and when the first convention of this party assembled in Kingfisher county, he was sent to it as a dele- gate. For one term he served as a justice of the peace in Hennessey, and won the respect of the general public by his fairness and justice. Fraternally he is a member of the Odd Fellows order and belongs to the Red Men.
The pleasant modern house which Mr. Frank- lin built in Hennessey is the abode of a happy family, himself, his wife and their four children. Mrs. Franklin bore the maiden name of Clara Dagner, and at the time of her marriage she was living in Tama, Iowa. She is a native of Cleve- land, Ohio, and her father, Fred Dagner, late employe of the Northwestern Railroad in Iowa, was a hero of the Mexican war, being an Ohio volunteer. The elder son of our subject, Claude, is an enterprising young man, and is his father's chief assistant in business. The younger chil- dren are named, respectively: Ned, Katie and Bessie.
C HARLES H. HANNUM. A pioneer of Yukon, Mr. Hannum has been an active factor in the development and growth of the village, which owes not a little of its pros- perity to his untiring and intelligent efforts. At the time Oklahoma was opened, in 1889, he was among the thousands who sought a home in the territory. Securing a claim in Canadian county, two miles from the present site of Yukon, he commenced the clearing and improving of his property. He had been on his farm about three years when the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad was built and the village of Yukon was established on the line of the road. Moving into town, he opened a mercantile establishment, which he conducted for four years and then soldi. For two subsequent years he carried on a gro- cery and implement business, and on selling that he took up the real-estate and loan busi- ness, in which he has since engaged. Not only is he the leading real-estate agent in the village. but it is said that during the past three years
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(1897-1900) he has done a larger proportion of business than any other real-estate man in the county. At the same time he has been prominent in local movements in the Repub- lican party and in educational work. Few have done more than he for the promotion of the school interests of Canadian county. He was a member of the first township board appointed by the governor to disburse the funds appropri- ated by the government for educational pur- poses. For six years he was also a member of the school board of Yukon, during which time he sold the bonds for the school building in the village, and placed the finances upon a solid and permanent basis, greatly to the interests of local taxpayers.
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In an early day, James F. and Emma (Lewis) Hannum, natives, respectively, of Ohio and Kentucky, settled in Missouri, where he fol- lowed the occupation of contracting bricklayer. During their residence in that state, their son, Charles H., was born. He spent his boyhood years in Missouri. His father, during the Civil war, served in the Union army as a member of the Missouri state militia for three years, and saw considerable active service. Though en- titled to a pension, he has never applied for one, as it is a matter of principle with him that he should receive no subsequent payment in re- turn for doing his duty to his country in her time of need. In politics he is a strong Republican. He and his wife were charter members of the Christian Church in Quincy, Ill., which society has since become one of the strongest organiza- tions in that city. He is now living in Texas; his wife is deceased.
In 1887 Mr. Hannum moved from Missouri to Wichita Falls, Tex., where he bought three hundred and twenty acres of land. This he later sold at a fair profit. He then embarked in the mercantile business, in which he continued until his removal to Oklahoma in 1889. Like his father, he is stanchly Republican in political belief, and supports, with ardor, the principles of the party. While living in Missouri, he mar- ried Miss Emma Yater, daughter of C. A. and Louisa (Ballinger) Yater, natives of Missouri, the former a soldier in the Confederate army. Mr. and Mrs. Hannum are the parents of eight chil- dren, Edgar L., Lena, Charles, Lulu, Ollie, Guy, Frank and Marie.
A. H. JACKSON, M. D., a prominent physi- cian and surgeon of El Reno, where he has made his home since 1889, was born in Shelbyville, Ind., a son of William and Esther (Copeland) Jackson, natives of Ohio and Penn- sylvania, respectively, though his ancestors were · originally from Kentucky and of English ori-
gin. His father was a cousin of Stonewall Jack- son. William Jackson was born in Cincinnati and became quite a prominent and influential man of that city. He spent much of his life in Page and Taylor counties, Iowa, where he was extensively engaged in farming and stock-rais- ing. He always took an active and prominent part in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and attended all conferences. He died in Iowa, in 1892, aged seventy-four years, his wife in 1890, aged seventy-one. Of the nine children born to them, eight are still living, namely: W. E., an extensive stock-raiser of Wyoming, and ex-sheriff of Sheridan county, that state, and Lincoln county, Kans .; A. C., a merchant of Iowa .; D. W., a prominent physician of the same state; Anna, wife of A. C. Snow; James S., an attorney of Iowa; C. L., a physician of Sheridan county, Wyo .; Mary, widow of E. J. Spaulding; and A. H.
Dr. A. H. Jackson was reared in Iowa, and at the age of seventeen went to Lincoln county, Kans., where he served as deputy county clerk, and the first postmaster at Lincoln Center for two years. In 1870 he began the study of medi- cine under Dr. Vernon and Dr. A. N. Galliday, of Iowa, and in 1872 entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, lowa, from which he was graduated in 1875. After practicing one year in Pawnee county, Neb., he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1876, and was graduated in 1877. He again engaged in practice in Nebraska two years, and then went to New Mexico, being appointed con- tract surgeon for the government at Fort Stan- ton, where he remained a year. In 1878 he re- turned to Nebraska, where he engaged in prac- tice until the fall of 1879, when elected to the state legislature from the nineteenth district, and was re-elected in 1880, so acceptably had he filled the office. In 1883 he was appointed United States Indian agent at Maricopa, Ariz., and held that position three years, after which he was appointed Indian inspector, but soon resigned. In 1886 he was appointed United States timber inspector for northern Michigan, with headquarters at Marquette, but declined to serve.
For two years the doctor was engaged in practice at Pleasant Plains, Okla. In 1888 he and his family started by wagon en route for northern Colorado, but were obliged to stop at Fort Reno on account of a crippled horse. Here he was called upon to render his services as a physician, and it was not long before he had built up such an extensive practice that it seemed almost impossible to leave, and he de- cided to remain. At the opening of that sec- tion for settlement he filed a claim on the south- west quarter of section 9, El Reno township,
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Canadian county, and erected one of the best houses in the county at that time. His one hundred and sixty acres now lie within the city limits of El Reno, but he donated one-half of the amount to the Rock Island Railroad Com- pany in order that a station might be established there. He has done more for the development and upbuilding of the town than any other of its citizens, and can now look with pride and satis- faction upon the result of his labors. He is still successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, but also gives some attention to farming and stock-raising, and has upon his place a fine orchard of twelve acres.
In 1875 Dr. Jackson married Flora B. Reeder, who died in 1894, leaving five children: Mabel, now the wife of E. E. Gaynor; Edward C., who is with the Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry in the Philippines; Jessie, Laura I. and A. H., Jr. For his second wife the doctor married Jean- nette E. Mason, whose two children are: Mag- gie, wife of E. E. Munda; and Henry M., who is now at home, but was with the Rough Riders at Santiago during the Spanish war, and was shot at San Juan Hill.
Dr. Jackson has been a member of the Ne- braska Medical Society, of which he was presi- dent in 1885; also a member of the Arkansas, California, Arizona and Oklahoma Medical So- cieties, and the Canadian County Medical Soci- ety, of which he was the first president. He is a prominent Mason, having taken the Scottish Rite degrees, and now holds membership in El Reno Lodge No. 9, A. F. & A. M. In politics he is a Republican, and takes an active and prominent part in the work of the party, having served two terms as chairman of the county central committee and a member of the territo- rial central committee two terms.
S AMUEL GOFF, a progressive farmer of Canadian county, resides on the northwest quarter of section 30, township 13. range 6 west, his postoffice being El Reno. He was born in Greene county, Pa., February 2, 1833, and is a son of Jacob and Mary A. Goff. When he was a small boy, his parents moved to Chi- cago, in which vicinity his father owned one hundred and sixty acres of land. After a pe- riod of one year he traded it for one hundred and sixty acres in La Salle county, Ill., where both of his parents died.
At that time but eight years of age, our sub- ject afterward made his home with his oider brother until he reached the age of twenty-one. He had to go three or four miles to attend school and his education was very limited. In I857 he went to Kansas and settled on government land in Bourbon county. In 1861, at the first
call for three months' soldiers, he enlisted in Company B, First Kansas Infantry, as corporal, C. W. Blair being captain. The regiment was never regularly organized in the United States service. Returning to Illinois, he enlisted in Company B, Second Illinois Cavalry, as com- pany blacksmith, which trade he had learned when twenty-one and had followed for ' some years in Kansas, and two years in Iowa. He was with that regiment for three years, and volun- teered to carry a gun and fight in the battle of Belmont, soon after being given special duties in the ranks. He served regularly as a soldier and was in the battles of Forts Henry and Don- elson, Pittsburg Landing, evacuation of Corinth and the battle of Corinth. He was body guard for "Uncle Dick" Oglesby at the time he was wounded, and was sent away with a dispatch. Although in many skirmishes, he was never wounded, and though he was sick, he would not go to the hospital.
After his time of service was ended, Mr. Goff was mustered out at Baton Rouge, La., and returned to Kansas, resuming work at his trade in Bourbon county. In 1865 he married Mar- tha A. Williams, who died in Bourbon county, and by whom he had four children: Mrs. Inez Hulbert, who lives on an adjoining farm; Mrs. Clara Smith, who lives in Canadian county; Charles, of Oklahoma; and Harry, who lives in New Mexico. Mr. Goff remained in Bourbon county until 1885 or 1886, then moved to Cald- well, and while there joined Payne's Boomers, who came to Oklahoma and started to open the country. To them is really due the credit for the opening of the territory.
April 22, 1889, Mr. Goff made the rum with the others, but was unfortunate and did not se- cure a claim. However, after a year in Kansas, he returned to Oklahoma and located where he now resides, at first living in a dugout, but now having a nicely improved property. January 7, 1893, he married Mrs. Anna Lamb, nee Kearns, who lived in the neighborhood. She was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, and is a daughter of John and Rose Kearns. She was nine years old when her parents came to America and io- cated in Herkimer county, N. Y., and they sub- sequently moved to Saratoga county, N. Y. After her marriage to R. H. Lamb, she moved to Elk county, Kans., where her husband died. She has four children living: Mrs. Dora Nel- son, who lives in Kay county, Okla .: Clarence, who is foreman on a ranch near Meeker. Colo .: Mrs. Abbie Shaw, who lives in Canadian county; and William Lamb, who makes his home in Reno township. She came to Oklahoma to cook for railroad men the year after the opening, and in December, 1880. she took a claim and made that her home.
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In 1856 Mr. Goff cast his first vote for Bu- chanan for president, and in 1864 voted for Lin- coln. He is independent in local politics, but Democratic in national. In Bourbon county, Kans., he joined Lodge No. 115, A. F. & A. M., filling all of the chairs except master and first warden. He was also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
B. F. HAMILTON, M. D., of Shawnee, en- joys the distinction of being the pioneer physician of this immediate locality, and few of the citizens have displayed more interest than he in the upbuilding of this now flourish- ing place. Throughout this portion of the great west he is well known, and his prominence in his · profession may be indicated at the beginning of this sketch by the mere statement that he is the president of the Territorial Board of Medical Examiners, having been honored by election to that responsible position in January, 1900. He is vice-president of the Territorial Board of Health, under appointment of Governor Barnes in the fall of 1899. Moreover, he is the ex-sec- retary of the Territorial Medical Association and belongs to the American Medical, the South- ern Kansas Medical and the Pottawatomie County Medical and Surgical Associations. At present he also holds the office of president of the Board of Pension Surgeons of Pottawatomie county, and is ex-grand medical examiner of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Okla- homa and Indian Territory.
The paternal grandfather of our subject, Hon. Justin Hamilton, born near Buffalo, N. Y., was one of the pioneers of Mercer county, Ohio, and, indeed, was employed as a surveyor of that lo- cality, aiding in the work of laying out the county and the town of Mendon, among others. By force of character and sterling qualities which inspired the esteem of his associates, he rose to distinction, and served in the Ohio state general assembly. He was of Scotch-Irish de- scent, his father and uncle having emigrated from the northern part of the Emerald Isle to this country prior to the War of Independence, in which conflict he loyally participated. He settled in the then new portion of the Empire state, his home being near Buffalo, and in that locality several generations of his family have been born. The death of Hon. Justin Hamilton occurred when he was in his sixty-seventh year.
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