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residences and public buildings in these and other towns.
In the pursuit of a favorable permanent loca- tion, Mr. Bartlett traveled over a considerable part of the country, and thus continually in- creased his knowledge on all subjects, which has been of incalculable benefit to him in the practice of his occupation. He was born near Beloit, Wis., January 19, 1863, and is a son of Herrick Bartlett, of Vermont, who early settled in Rock county, Wis., where he was among the first pioneers of that locality. He died in Wis- consin in 1898, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. The paternal grandfather, Nathan, was born in Vermont, and when arrived at years of discre- tion, took up his residence near Syracuse, N. Y., where he became a successful farmer. He came of an old New England family. The mother of H. N. Bartlett was formerly Nancy Duel, born in New York, and daughter of Reuben Duel, a farmer who early settled in Rock county, Wis. Her mother is at present residing on the old homestead in Rock county.
The boyhood days of Mr. Bartlett were prac- tically uneventful, and were passed on his fatlı- er's farm. He received the education of the public schools, and in 1880, was apprenticed for a year to learn the carpenter trade. In 1881 he sought the larger possibilities of the far west, and for a time his lines were thrown in the delightful climate and surroundings of Cali- fornia. He worked at his trade until 1884 in Los Angeles, and then went to Eldorado, Kans .. for a year, where he was successfully engaged as a contractor and builder. After returning to California, he lived in San Diego as foreman on job work, and later in Pasadena, going back and forth in southern California. In 1889 he re- moved to Denver, Colo., and remained until 1893, when, in September of that year he came to Oklahoma, and in Kildore, began to build and contract. About this time he erected the hotel at Lela.
In the spring of 1894 Mr. Bartlett located in Pawnee, and has since then prosecuted his life work to the satisfaction of himself and his fel- low townsmen. In January of 1896 he pur- chased a claim. on the Cimarron river, first and second bottom. This farm has since been im- proved, and is now one of the best in the town- ship. This has since been the home of the Bartlett family, and, aside from their residence. two others have been built, and are occupied by tenants who devote their time to the cul- tivation of cotton. One hundred and twenty- five acres are under cultivation.
September 10, 1801, occurred the marriage of Mr. Bartlett and Maud Whitehead, of Gilles- pie, Ill., and a daughter of Edward Whitehead,
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born in Ohio. He was a blacksmith by occu- pation, and early settled in Illinois in Shelby county, and successively lived in Macoupin county, again in Shelby county, Christian county, and Champaign county, and in 1884 removed to Eldorado, Kans., where he is now residing. During the Civil war he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry as a corporal, and was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain. The paternal grandfather, Isaac Whitehead, was born in New Jersey, and settled in Ohio, where he conducted à farm, and later removed to Illinois, where he eventually died. The mother of Mrs. Bartlett was Sarah (Hanley) Whitehead, of Claylick, Ohio, daughter of David Hanley of Virginia, who located in Ohio, where he died. Mrs. Whitehead is now living. Of her two children, Harry is a carpenter in Pawnee. Mrs. Bart- lett received a very superior education, and was for years interested in educational work in Ohio and Kansas. She has also developed a decided musical talent, and teaches the guitar and piano in Pawnee and near Jennings. She studied music in Illinois and Denver, Colo. On the farm is fitted out a schoolroom, and here Mrs. Bartlett conducts a private school, which is quite successful, owing to the shortness of the district school term. To Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have been born three children, Ellsworth, Ed- ward, and Charles. Fraternally Mr. Bartlett is associated with the Modern Woodmen of America. Politically he is a Republican. With his family, he is an ardent worker and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and con- tributes generously towards its maintenance.
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W MCKAY DOUGAN, M. D. For a quar- ter of a century Dr. Dougan occupied an important position in the United States service, that of physician and surgcon to the Indians. In June, 1871, he received his first appointment, and for more than eight years was medical officer for the Osage Indians and sol- diers stationed among them for the purpose of protecting human life and property. He mas- tered the language of the tribe, and for a number of years was kept very busy trying to learn the varied tongues of the different tribes of red men, for he was transferred from one nation to another. At his first location there were thirty- six hundred Great and Little Osage Indians on the government rolls, and, even though he was a young and comparatively inexperienced physi- cian at that time, he had no occasion to worry over a scarcity of patients. ITis time and patience were severely taxed from the outset, but he faith- fully attended to his duties and won the genuine
esteem of his superiors in the government em- ploy, as well as the gratitude and friendship of the primitive people with whom he had dealings. While there were some features in the life that possessed much interest, and opportunities for uplifting the ideals of the children of the plain and forest were numerous, there also were many attendant hardships which few, besides our sub- ject, were willing to endure. Not the least of these was his frequent transference from one point to another, and sometimes he was located cast, and sometimes west, of the Rocky Moun- tains. Certainly few, if any members of the medical profession in the United States have a record of longer and more efficient service among the red race.
The youth of Dr. Dougan, or his early man- hood, rather, also had an unusual feature in it, which will be mentioned later in this sketch. For several generations the Dougan family was iden- tified with North Carolina, and the first of the name in this country was Thomas Dougan, a na- tive of Scotland, who became a planter in that state, his home being near Buffalo Ford, on Deep river, Randolph county. He married Mary Kerr, soon after her emigration from Ire- land, her native land. He was accidentally killed, while assisting in raising a log cabin, when he was in his prime, being but forty-one years of age. He had a daughter, Mary or Polly, and another daughter. Four of his five sons were heroes of the Revolutionary war, and the other son, Joseph, who was a man of peace, became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Three of the sons were commissioned officers in the colonial army, namely: Col. James, Col. Thomas and Capt. John Dougan. A younger son, Robert. Dougan, the great-grandfather of our subject, was a private soldier during the Revolution, and was one of the representative planters of Orange county, N. C. His son, Wil- liam, next in the line of descent, was born on the old plantation, and when he arrived to manhood he became a wealthy planter himself, owning large estates near Asheboro, Randolph county, N. C. .
The doctor's parents, Williams A. and Su- sanna (Miller) Dougan, were natives of Ran- dolph county, N. C. The latter's father, John Miller, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and until his death was engaged in agricultural pur- suits in North Carolina. Williams A. Dougan was a rich and influential planter of Randolph county, N. C., and during the unsettled period of the Civil war he joined a company of home guards in order to protect his family and prop- erty. Both he and his wife died at their old homestead, respected and honored by all. Their younger son, John Thomas, is an architect, re- siding in the vicinity of his birthplace, and the
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only daughter, Sarah Emeline, Mrs. N. Farlow, also dwells in that locality.
Born August 19, 1846, and reared upon the parental farm, Dr. Dougan received his educa- tion in private schools. Both he and his father were opposed to the secession of the south, but strong local pressure was brought to bear upon them, and the young man, when only seven- teen years of age, was practically forced to join the depleted ranks of the Confederate army, for its conscription agents possessed very persuasive arguments, at least to the mind of a youth of seventeen. He was rewarded by being elected as second lieutenant of Company F, in what was known as Colonel Broadfoot's regiment, and served in that capacity from May, 1864, to Feb- ruary of the following year. At that time he was exempted from further service in the army, in virtue of having been elected to the office of constable, by a large majority of the few remain- ing voters left at home.
Returning to the old homestead, Dr. Dougan immediately began the study of medicine under the guidance of Dr. A. C. Bulla, and subse- quently was graduated in the medical depart- ment of the University of Kentucky, at Louis- ville. He then returned to Guilford county, and opened an office at Center, where he continued to dwell until June, 1871, when, as previously stated, he entered upon his long and successful career among the Indians of the west. Twenty- five years later, when the position which he had occupied was abolished by the "powers that be," he returned to the private walks of life, and though afterwards tendered a post in the Internal Revenue department, he declined. In 1899 the doctor came to Perry, where he now enjoys a very large and remunerative medical practice.
Dr. Dougan is a valued member of the Okla- homa Medical Association and of the American Medical Association. In the fraternities he is well known, being a Mason, a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Bank- ers' Union, the Knights of the Maccabees, and the Home Annuity Association. He was initia- ted into Masonry at Asheboro, N. C., and retains his membership in Niobrara (Neb.) Lodge No. 87, A. F. & A. M., also belonging to the Council and Lodge of Perfection in the same state. He is physician to the local lodges of the Maccabees and Bankers' Union. In his political standing he is an uncompromising Republican. He would like to have the old flag float on every continent and England a member of the United States.
In his carly manhood Dr. Dougan was mar- ried in Kansas to Miss Lillie Walton, a native of Ohio. She departed this life in, Nebraska, and left two. children to mourn her loss, namely: Blanche, who now is successfully engaged in teaching school; and Robert W., who is an em-
ploye of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany. The lady who now bears the doctor's name formerly was Miss Clara B. Hayes, of Mar- shalltown, Iowa, where their wedding took place. She is a native of Warrensburg, N. Y., received an excellent education and is a member of the Episcopal Church. A son and a daughter bless the union of our subject and wife, their names being Emma S. and James H., respectively. The family has an attractive home in Perry, and number many of our leading citizens among friends.
TI THOMAS M. FUNK. . Not many men of three score and ten years are as ambitious as was the subject of this sketch, when, in 1893, he undertook a race into Pawnee county for a homestead, and within the past six years has developed an excellent farm. As an industrious, patriotic citizen, he deserves a high place in the history of his community and country, and his children have reason to be proud of the record he has made.
The parents of our subject were Gabriel and Mary (Murphy) Funk, the former a native of Tennessee. The mother's father came to America as a soldier in the British army during the war of the Revolution, and never returned. so it was believed that he was killed in battle and fills an unknown grave. As early as 1815, a date very early in the history of Illinois, Gabriel Funk settled in Crawford county, and there oc- curred the birth of Thomas M. Funk eight years later. In his boyhood, his advantages were necessarily poor, and, in order to obtain even an elementary education, he had to go four miles to school.
One of the most important events in the life of our subject was his marriage, in 1844, to Elizabeth D. E. McGill, a daughter of James and Louisa McGill. of Kentucky. Of the four children born to them, three survive, namely: T. J., who is a wealthy stock dealer of the Osage Nation, is married and has four children: James WV., who lives with our subject; and Dr. G. H. Funk, who is a graduate of the medical depart- ment of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and for six years has been engaged in practice at Blue Ridge, Tex.
In July, 1862, another important step in life was taken by Thomas M. Funk, who then en- listed in Company F. Ninety-first Illinois In- fantry, being mustered in at Springfield, III. 1 great misfortune befell the entire regiment, carly in its service. as in December. 1862, the famous Confederate officer, General Morgan, captured the force. Mr. Funk and his comrades were forthwith sent to St. Louis, Mo., where they were held until July, 1863, being released after
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they were held captive for six months. The regi- ment was sent to the front, and, among other campaigns, took part in the great battles of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakeley, sustaining heavy loss of men. Our subject faithfully stood at his post of duty until the close of the war, and was mustered out in July, 1865, and honorably discharged at Camp Butler.
Returning to his Illinois home, Mr. Funk con- tinued to carry on his farm there until 1880, when he removed to Kansas. For eleven years he lived in Winfield, Kans., and in Elk county, same state, and from 1891 to 1893 in Osage county. He was ready to make the race for a home in "the strip," and waited until the law allowed his entrance into the territory in ques- tion. He found every claim taken, apparently by those who had not been as conscientious as he, and, disheartened, he returned. In the fol- lowing spring he leased the southeastern quar- ter of section 2, township 23, range 5 east, Paw- nee county, and proceeded to build a cottage and fences, gradually adding other improve- ments. The property is considered one of the best improved places in the county, and every year a fine crop is harvested. The wheat fields annually yield, on an average, thirty bushels to the acre.
. The first presidential ballot of Mr. Funk was cast for J. C. Fremont. He was one of two voters from his entire township that had the independence and .courage to vote for Fremont, and they were threatened on account of their action. Mr. Funk has adhered to the Repub- lican party ever since its organization. For many years he was identified with the Odd Fel- lows order, and, with his wife, holds member- ship in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
J. N. HOLT is a resident of Hennessey, where he owns three acres of land desir- ably located, being only four or five blocks east of Main street. His improvements are of the best and most modern order. He also owns two hundred acres of land located six and a half miles from Hennessey, in Union township, sec- tion 18, range 6.
To Mr. Holt belongs the distinction of hav- ing the largest cotton plantation in Kingfisher county. One hundred and twenty-five acres are thus employed. The crop is uniformly large and satisfactory, $2,500 worth of cotton being marketed from one hundred acres. Since he came to Oklahoma in 1801, the land has under- gone changes which render it hardly recogniz- able at the present time. The improvements instituted by the owner are of the best possible kind, and include a good house and out-build- ings, fences, water supply and a five-acre or-
chard wherein are grown a variety of large and small fruits; a direct contrast surely to an orig- inal dense timber land. A great deal of time and attention are devoted to the raising of horses, cattle and hogs, which form a decided source of revenue.
Mr. Holt's father, P. M. Holt, married Eliza Donaldson in Tennessee. After their marriage they moved to Callaway county, Ky., where they became the parents of ten children, five of whom are living: Rebecca Henley, of Kentucky; J. N., of Oklahoma; William W., of Butler county, Kans .; J. M., of Mulhall, Okla., and A. B., of Butler county, Kans. J. N. Holt was born July 7, 1836, in Callaway county, Ky. When he was fourteen years of age, his parents moved to Johnson county, Ill., where his mother died in 1849. In 1851 his father married Rebecca Gar- rett, who became the mother of four children. In 1860 they moved to McCracken county, Ky., where he died soon after. The parental grand- parent, Peter Holt, who came of old Revolu- tionary stock, was born in Virginia and became one of the very early settlers of Tennessee.
J. N. Holt was reared as are most farmer lads and received fair training in the public schools of his district. He grew to manhood in Illinois, where, April 17, 1855, he married Nancy C. Crider, who was a native of Kentucky. To them were born six children, three of whom are living: Mrs. William Miller and Mrs. Grant Miller of Beaver county, Okla., and W. A. Holt of Kingfisher, Okla. After marriage Mr. Holt settled in Kentucky, where he lived until 1871. He then moved to Butler county, Kans., where he led a practically uneventful life, for at that time it was exceedingly wild, unimproved and very lonely to the newcomer, owing to the ab- sence of neighbors, and visible signs of activity.
Taking up government land Mr. Holt pro- ceeded to improve a farm, upon which he lived for ten years. In 1881 a change of location was made to Sumner county, Kans., where he was engaged in farming and stock raising. Here his wife died in 1889. In 1890, on New Year's day, he married Mrs. Augusta L. Wilkinson, his present wife, who is the eldest daughter of Bond WV. and Sarah A. Warlow, of Bloomington. Ill. In 1868 Augusta L. Warlow was married to A. C. Wilkinson, by whom she had six children: Don. D., of Juneau, Alaska: Alle V., Mrs. J. A. Roberts and Mrs. Jessie F. Maloney, all of Hen- nessey, Okla .: Clay R., of Waynoka, Okla., and Lew E., of Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Holt have one daughter, Ina Neil, born January 10, 1891. In April of 1891 Mr. Holt availed himself of the bright prospects of Oklahoma and settled in Kingfisher county.
In politics Mr. Holt is associated with the Populist party, with a strong leaning toward in-
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dependence in the matter of voting. He has served as superintendent, member of school board, and has held several offices within the gift of the township. Fraternally he is a mem- ber of the Masonic order at Hennessey, and the Odd Fellows at Winfield, Kans. With his family he is interested in church work, as a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a liberal contributor toward the support of the gospel and for a number of years served as Sun- day school superintendent.
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C. W. DRIESBACH, M. D. For seven and a half years physician at the Pawnee In- dian agency, under appointment of the Department of the Interior of the United States, Dr. C. W. Driesbach, now a citizen of the town of Pawnce, is well known throughout this re- gion, and is held in high esteem, wherever known. He resigned his position in the sunner of 1900, in order to embark in his present busi- ness. As a member of the firm of Webber & Driesbach, he has conducted a model drug store in this place since July 1, 1900, and is building up an extensive business. The firm may well be congratulated upon the handsome, thor- oughly stocked drug store which is under its management, the room occupied being centrally situated, also, and being 25x100 feet in dimen- sions.
The Driesbach family originated in Holland, and among the early settlers of New York City and of the shores of the Hudson river, many of the name are recorded. Our subject's father, Jacob Driesbach, was born in Schoharie county, N. Y., and was orphaned when he was a mere boy. Thrown upon his own resources at a ten- der age, he somehow drifted into the unusual and highly perilous business of taming wild animals. Certainly, he must have had natural ability in that line, and a real love and under- standing of wild beasts, for he met with won- derful success in his chosen work, and "Herr Driesbach," as he was known, achieved world- wide fame. He traveled in all parts of Europe and America, and was quite a pioneer as a lion and tiger tamer, in the early part of this century. His last years were quietly spent upon his farm near Wooster, Ohio, and when death claimed him, he had nearly reached three-score and ten. He was a Mason of the Royal Arch degrec. His wife, Sarah, the mother of the doctor, was born and died in Wayne county, Ohio. Her father, John Waller, of German descent, was a native of Pennsylvania, and, with her mother, who was a member of the Society of Friends, became a pioneer of Wayne county, Ohio. .
Dr. Driesbach, the only one of the three
children of the parental family who lived to maturity, was born near Wooster, Ohio, January 20, 1867. For nearly twenty years the little neighborhood of Wooster and vicinity was the scene of his life, for he was reared upon a farm situated about three miles from the town, and his literary education was completed in the high school of that thriving place. In 1886 he took up the study of medicine under the tutelage of Dr. D. K. Jones of Canal Fulton, Ohio, and later, he matriculated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University. There he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1889, and commenced his career as a physician at Baltimore, Ohio, remaining there until he was appointed by the government to the important post of agency physician at the Pawnee Indian agency. He has constantly added to his laurels since coming to the West, and never has seen reason to regret his change of residence. He was initiated into Masonry since coming here, and at present is serving his second term as worthy master of Pawnee Lodge No. 17, A. F. & A. M.
In August, 1893, Dr. Driesbach married Miss Lena Lillie, in Bloomington, Ill. She was born in McLean county, Ill., the daughter of N. W. and Susan (Conant) Lillie, natives of Canada and Illinois, respectively. The father, now a resident of this place, was engaged in the mill- ing business in Bloomington for some time, served for four years in an Illinois regiment dur- ing the Civil war, and was a pioneer of Kansas. His elder son, Gordon W. Lillie, is familiarly known as "Pawnee Bill," and certainly needs no introduction to Westerners. A younger son. Albert, is a farmer of Kay county, Okla. A daughter, Mrs. Effie Judy, lives near Quincy, I11.
F RED UHL. As an architect, contractor, and builder, Mr. Uhl has been intimately associated with the fundamental prosperity of Pawnee. Evidences of his skill and handi- work are everywhere apparent, for the'greater part of the fine residences and buildings in the town have been constructed under his conscien- tious and painstaking guidance. Coming from a country whose architectural triumphs have adorned the centuries, and rendered Germany a mecca for the study of ecclesiastical and other monuments of architectural genius, it is not stir- prising that the sons of this studious and philo- sophical fatherland should find an appreciative and ever widening field for their many-sided abil- ities upon the western plains of their promis- ing sister country, America.
A native of Bavaria, Germany, almost within the shadow of the great cathedral of Cologne.
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Mr. Uhl was born in 1849, and is a son of Lewis and Catherine (Zimmerman) Uhl, also born in Bavaria. Lewis Uhl was a farmer during the years of his activity, and in his native land served in the German army, and participated in the Revolution of 1848. He came to America in 1851, and located in Cleveland, Ohio, where he engaged in the leather business, and where he died in 1860. He was a member of the Re- formed Church. His wife was a daughter of Fred Zimmerman, also a farmer," who, upon arriving in the United States, settled in Cleve- land, and later removed to Iowa, where he died. Mrs. Uhl died in Cleveland, Ohio. She was the mother of six sons and one daughter, of whom Fred Uhl is second youngest. Another son, Lewis, was in the navy during the Civil war.
Mr. Uhl's memories of his native land are necessarily indistinct, for when but two years of age he was brought to America in a sailing vessel, the voyage over consuming twenty-one days. In the city of Cleveland he received a fair education in the public schools, and when fifteen years of age was apprenticed to an archi- tect for four years. He subsequently engaged in contracting and building in Cleveland, and in 1886 took up his residence in Winfield, Kans., where for four years he continued his former occupation. He then lived in Arkansas City for three years, and in 1893 came to Oklahoma, and settled in Pawnee one month after his ar- rival.
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