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BENJAMIN MOSSMAN.
Benjamin Mossman is a partner in the firm of Roach & Mossman, one of the leading law firms of Tulsa. He comes to the southwest from New England, his birth having occurred in Lowell, Massachusetts. April 9, 1879. His parents were Alvaro E. and Mary Ann (Eacott) Mossman, the former a native of Cali- fornia, while the latter was born in England. The father was a physician who practiced for many years in Lowell and in Westminster, Massachusetts. He was prominent in his community, and belonged to the Masonic fraternity. He passed away in 1913 and is still survived by the mother. Their family numbered six children, all whom are living.
Benjamin Mossman was a pupil in the Cushing Academy in his youthful days and afterward attended Williams College, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1902. This constituted an excellent foun- dation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional learning when he decided to become a member of the bar and began preparation for the practice of law. He was admitted to the bar upon examination before the federal court at Muskogee in 1907. In the meantime he had been principal of the Blees Mili- tary Academy which is located at Macon, Missouri. For four years he was active as an Indian agent, representing the United States government in Indian affairs, and in 1909 became associated with the Gulf Pipe Line Company. He was also connected for a time with the Gypsy Oil Company but at present is concentrating his efforts and energy upon law practice and his clientage is ot an important character. The firm of Roach & Mossman ranks with the promi- nent legal firms of the state and the partners enjoy an enviable reputation by reason of their fidelity to the intersets of their clients, which with them, how- ever, never overshadows the fact that they owe a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. Mr. Mossman is a member of the Muskogee Bar Associa- tion, the Oklahoma State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. While at Muskogee, Oklahoma, he was secretary of and active in the work of the Red Cross, secretary and counsel of the County Council of Defense; and secretary and treasurer of the Local Canteen. He was congressman from Mus- kogee, representing the third congressional district, and was a member of the Indian Territory Military Guard.
In 1905 was celebrated the marriage of Benjamin Mossman and Miss Myrta
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Bixby. He is interested in athletics, to which he turns for diversion, and is well known as a representative of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the lodge, chapter and commandery, while in the consistory he has attained the fourteenth degree of the Scottish Rite. He has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of Bedouin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He votes with the re- publican party and keeps well informed on the vital questions and issues of the day. He belongs to the Petroleum Club and thus his activities and interests cover a wide range, for he keeps in touch with the trend of modern thought and progress and at all times is ready to give his aid and support to every plan and measure for the general good.
FREDERICK ROBERT HALLIBURTON.
Frederick Robert Halliburton is the secretary-treasurer of the Halliburton- Abbott Company, owning one of the leading dry goods houses of Tulsa. His life has been dominated by a progressive spirit, his labors have been most intelligently directed and by his thoroughness and capability he has gained a prominent position in the commercial circles of his adopted city. Missouri numbers Mr. Halliburton among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Linneus, January 16, 1876. His father, Thomas Halliburton, was also a native of that place and devoted his life to merchandising. He wedded Mollie C. Russell, a native of Virginia, and they became the parents of three sons: Frederick R., Russell Boyd and James Cole. Both parents have now passed away. The father was a merchant of Brookfield, Missouri, from 1887 until the time of his demise, which occurred on the 8th of June, 1917, while the mother survived until the 26th of November, 1920. She was a very active factor in business circles as well as in social life. Mr. Halliburton was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was also a consistent follower of the teachings of the Presbyterian church.
Frederick R. Halliburton obtained a public school education and passed through consecutive grades to the completion of a course in the high school of Brookfield, Missouri. He likewise attended the Gem City Business College and early in his career was connected with banking. He afterward became associated with his father in merchandising at Brookfield and in the year 1917 removed to Oklahoma, where his brother had located in May of the previous year. Through the intervening period he has been identified with mercantile pursuits in this state and is now the secretary-treasurer of the Halliburton- Abbott Company, of which L. E. Abbott is the president and James C. Halli- burton the vice president, his brother, Russell Boyd. of Oklahoma City, is the secretary and treasurer. Thus the three brothers of the family figure promi- nently in connection with commercial interests in Oklahoma and at all times have been actuated by a most progressive spirit.
On the 25th of December, 1898, Frederick R. Halliburton was married to Miss Josephine Lamb of Brookfield, a daughter of Charles E. Lamb. They have become parents of two sons: Virgil F., nineteen years of age; and John J., seventeen years of age.
Mr. Halliburton is a Mason, belonging to Petroleum Lodge, No. 474, A. F. & A. M., and he has also taken the degrees of the York and Scottish Rites, belonging to the chapter, commandery and consistory. He is likewise a member of Akdar Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is well known in club circles, belong-
FREDERICK R. HALLIBURTON
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ing to the Petroleum Club, the Country Club, the City Club and the Automobile Club, and his personal qualities make for popularity wherever he is known, so that the circle of his friends is a very extensive one.
J. REA OWEN.
Through his connection with the Tulsa Realty Company, J. Rea Owen has become an active factor in the real estate circles of the city and has also been interested in oil in this section. He was born in Anniston, Alabama, December 2, 1889, a son of W. Thomas and Della K. (Simms) Owen, who were likewise natives of Alabama. In the public schools of his native city, in private schools and in the W. A. White preparatory school of Anniston, J. Rea Owen pursued his studies until qualified to enter upon an academic course in the Alabama Presbyterian College at Anniston. He later attended the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, where he studied architecture and mechanical engineering, and sub- sequently he engaged in the automobile business at Anniston as a dealer in Ford cars.
The year 1912 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Owen in Tulsa and here he engaged in the automobile business and was also active as an oil producer with the Sun Oil Company. He is president of the Union Realty Company and operates individually under the name of the Tulsa Realty Company, handling all kinds of real estate and building houses. He is active as a member of the Real Estate Exchange and is well known in the business circles of his adopted city.
Mr. Owen was married to Miss Gertrude Irwin and they already have won many friends in Tulsa. Mr. Owen belongs to Petroleum Lodge, No. 474. A. F. & A. M., and to Oklahoma Consistory, No. 1, A. A. S. R., of Guthrie. He like- wise has membership in Akdar Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Tulsa. His politi- cal allegiance is given to the democratic party and his interest in community affairs is indicated in his membership in the Commercial Club. He cooperates heartily in all the plans and purposes of this organization for Tulsa's benefit and upbuilding and the extension of its business relations and is particularly helpful where civic interests are involved.
JAMES W. WOODFORD.
James W. Woodford is a western man by birth, training and preference. He was born at Burlington, Kansas, his parents being J. E. and Ella (Pettigrew ) Woodford. The father was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1845 and was reared to farm life. He began teaching school in the Empire state and afterward removed to Illinois, where he met and married Miss Ella M. Pettigrew, who was born in Sterling, Illinois, in 1851. In 1875 they removed to Kansas, where Mr. Woodford engaged in the grocery business in Burlington. In 1885 he turned his attention to real estate dealing and grain buying and also established an insurance agency in connection with his real estate business.
James W. Woodford obtained a public school education in Burlington and afterward attended the State Normal School for a year. He entered the law department of the University of Kansas and was graduated with the LL. B.
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degree in 1905. He played baseball during his college days, winning three K's, was a member of the Beta Theta Pi, college fraternity, and the Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity.
Mr. Woodford entered upon the practice of law in Clay Center, Kansas, in 1905 and in 1906 he removed to Tulsa. In 1908 he became an associate of C. J. Hindman and this connection was maintained until 1914, when Mr. Wood- ford was elected county judge and took his place upon the bench, withdrawing from that position in 1916 to enter the legal department of Cosden & Company. He became one of the original stockholders and a member of the first board of directors of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company and has since figured prominently as one of the directing forces in the business of this corporation, being now vice president and trust officer. He was also one of the organizers and the first president of the West Tulsa State Bank and was elected to the presidency of the Oklahoma Association of Title Men for 1920-21.
In Gray county, Kansas, in 1908, Mr. Woodford was married to Miss Julia M. Slaughter, a daughter of J. M. and Emma Slaughter, both of whom are natives of Missouri. In 1887 they removed to Kansas, where Mr. Slaughter secured a homestead near Dodge City and was well known among the ranchers of western Kansas, where he lived until 1910 and then removed to southeastern Kansas, where he is engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Woodford have become parents of three children: James G., born July 30, 1909; Gilbert M., born May 3, 1913; and Margaret E., born October 12, 1919.
Mr. Woodford has always given his political allegiance to the democratic party and in 1907 was elected city councilman of Tulsa from the fourth ward. In the following year he was elected police judge and was again called to office with his election to the position of county judge. Various public honors have been conferred upon him outside of political association. In 1912 he was the president of the Tulsa Bar Association and in the same year he filled the posi- tion of exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge No. 946. He served on the board of directors and as vice president of the Rotary Club in 1920-21 and he is a well known member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, A. F. & A. M .; Oklahoma Consistory, No. I, A. A. S. R., of Guthrie; and Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Tulsa.
ALMA REID McGLENN.
Alma Reid McGlenn, the efficient librarian of the Tulsa library, is a native of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Her parents, Thomas and Sarah (Hogg) McGlenn, were also natives of the Buckeye state, where the father followed the occupation of farming as a life work. He guided his life by the teachings of the Presby- terian church, of which he was a consistent member, and he passed away in 1891. His wife was born on the old family homestead three miles east of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, a daughter of James Hogg, who served as a soldier in the War of 1812, while his father was one of the heroes of the Revolutionary war, fight- ing for the independence of the nation. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McGlenn were two children, the brother of Miss McGlenn of this review being a physician of Wheeling, West Virginia.
In the acquirement of her education Alma R. McGlenn attended and gradu- ated from the high school at Mount Pleasant, after which she was privately
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tutored for two years. She was graduated from the Carnegie Library School at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1913 came to Tulsa to accept the position of librarian here. She assisted in organizing the South Side Branch Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh and was connected therewith for four years, so that she had definite and valuable experience before coming to Tulsa. She has rendered most capable service in this connection since her removal to the southwest and Tulsa prides herself upon her well managed library.
Miss McGlenn has been elected an honorary member of the Woman's Club of this city and she also has membership with the Daughters of the American Revolution, while her religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. She is a lady of broad and liberal culture and occupies an enviable position in those social circles where true worth and intelligence are accepted as passports into good society.
WILLIAM FRANK TUCKER.
Public opinion is united on the position which William Frank Tucker occu- pies as a member of the Tulsa bar. His ability is so widely recognized that he is classed with the eminent attorneys of the state and his power and effect- iveness in handling important litigated interests is attested by the court records. Tulsa was but entering upon the era of its rapid and marvelous growth when he took up his abode in the city, establishing his home here in 1905, since which time he has given his attention to an ever growing law practice. His birth occurred on a farm in Platte county, Missouri, November 4, 1879, his parents being Alfred Clinton and Florence (Owens) Tucker, the former a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, and the latter of Missouri. After leaving his native state the father became a resident of Missouri and subsequently removed to Colorado. In early manhood he engaged in farming, while subsequently he devoted his attention to the wholesale and retail grocery business. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church and his life was ever actuated by high and honorable principles, which has caused his memory to be revered since he passed away in 1896. In the family were three children, but William Frank is the only one now living.
In the public schools of Georgetown, Colorado, William F. Tucker pursued his education for several years and then entered the Camden Point Military Institute at Camden Point, Missouri, becoming captain, the chief student officer. There he was graduated with highest honors with the class of 1899. He then took one year postgraduate in the same school, after which he entered upon preparation for the practice of law, becoming a student in the office and under the direction of Senator Norton B. Anderson. He was admitted to the bar in Platte City, Missouri, upon examination in 1902 and there opened a law office, practicing his profession for three years. Noting the rapid and substantial growth and development of Tulsa, he resolved to cast in his lot with the men who were laying broad and deep the foundation upon which has been built the present progress and prosperity of the city. Accordingly he opened an office here and in the same year entered into his present partnership relation as a member of the firm of Aby & Tucker. This is the oldest law firm in continuous existence in the city. The firm specializes in general corporation law and land titles and its clientage has been of a most important character and of large extent. Mr. Tucker belongs to the Tulsa County, Oklahoma State and Ameri-
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can Bar Associations and is likewise a member of the Commercial Law League of America.
In 1918 was celebrated the marriage of William Frank Tucker and Miss Margaret Stackhouse of Concordia, Kansas, and they have become the parents of a daughter, Dorothy Jean. Mr. Tucker holds membership in the Christian church, and his wife in the Presbyterian church, both being greatly interested in the work and progress of Christianity and their respective churches, and Mr. Tucker is also a member of the Petroleum Club. He is likewise interested in the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian Associations and in politics is a consistent democrat. His interest centers in those channels through which flow the greatest good to the greatest number and his aid and influence are ever on the side of advancement and improvement. Because of his recognized ability his influence has become a potent factor in community affairs and thus he is accounted one of the leading citizens as well as one of the leading lawyers of Tulsa.
JOHN MOORE CLOVER.
John Moore Clover, who first became identified with the oil business when a lad of but fourteen years and continued a representative thereof throughout the remainder of his life, was at the time of his demise president of the Clover Oil & Gas Company of Tulsa, a large and successful oil producing concern operating in many fields. He passed away in Tulsa on Thanksgiving day of 1920, when forty-five years of age, his birth having occurred on his father's farm in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1875. His parents were Henry B. and Agnes (Nealy) Clover, the latter now a resident of St. Marys, Ohio. The father, who was a prosperous agriculturist and man of affairs in his community, is deceased.
John M. Clover obtained his education in the public schools of the Keystone state and, as above stated, was but fourteen years of age when he made his initial step in the oil business, working in various humble capacities in the oil fields during summer vacation periods. From that time until his death he was active in all phases of the industry and became very prominent and successful as a producer. It was in 1906 that he came to Tulsa from Wichita, Kansas, where he had been engaged in oil production. Here his interests became extensive and of an important character and when he passed away he held the presidency of the Clover Oil & Gas Company as well as the vice-presidency of the Compression In- ner Tube Company of Tulsa and the presidency of a mining company. He was also an officer or director in many large and important business enterprises and his varied interests were conducted most successfully. for he possessed superior executive ability and power. Owing to his keen foresight and discernment, the handsome fortune which he left to his family has been unaffected by the present slump in oil.
In 1903 Mr. Clover was united in marriage to Miss Goldie Ramsbottom, daughter of C. C. Ramsbottom, of Ohio. They became the parents of three sons : Jack Moore, the eldest, was born April 17, 1904, and following his graduation from the Tulsa high school at Christmas time in 1921 will enter the University of Pennsylvania for a financial course ; Edward, whose birth occurred in 1909, was called to his final rest in 1919; Harold David, whose natal day was March 17, 19II, is now attending school in Tulsa.
Mr. Clover was a prominent member of the Masonic lodge at St. Marys, Ohio, joined the Scottish Rite body at Fort. Scott, Kansas, and also became connected
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with the York Rite. He reached the consistory and was likewise a member of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His appreciation of the social amenities of life was indicated in his membership in the Country Club of Tulsa, the City Club, the Automobile Club, the Petroleum Club and many others. Though not a mem- ber, he took an active and helpful interest in the work of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Tulsa, to which he was a liberal contributor and of which his widow is a faithful and devoted adherent. A man of kindly spirit, determined, quiet and unassuming, Mr. Clover was very popular among all classes of people. He showed special consideration and helpfulness toward young men and gained the affectionate regard of those in his employ as well as of his associates in busi- ness. Though he passed away at the comparatively early age of forty-five years, he had accomplished much that will perpetuate his memory and left to his fam- ily a splendid estate as well as the priceless heritage of an untarnished name. Mere success has never, throughout the history of the world, save in a few rare instances, been the cause of any man being remembered by his fellows, and never has the mere accumulation of wealth won honor for the individual. The meth- ods employed in the attainment of wealth, however, may awaken approval and admiration, for the world pays its tribute to him who through enterprise, unrelax- ing effort and clear-sighted judgment makes advancement in the business world without infringing on others. Such was the record of John Moore Clover, who throughout his entire life never deviated from a course that he believed to be right. No man came in contact with him but speedily appreciated him at his true worth and knew he was a man who cherished not only a high ideal of duty but who lived up to it. His many friends will miss him, but the memory of his sweet and beautiful life, of his sincerity and simplicity will not be forgotten. Mrs. Clover, who resides in an attractive home at No. 1615 South Owassa street, is also widely and favorably known in Tulsa, in which city she has lived during the past fifteen years.
ALF G. HEGGEM.
Mr. Alf G. Heggem is a native of Salem, Ohio, born July 10, 1875, of the marriage of Charles O. Heggem and Elise R. Boe, both of whom are natives of Norway but were married after coming to the United States. The father crossed the Atlantic in 1869 and is now an active business man of Massillon, Ohio, being vice president of the firm of Russell & Company. To him and his wife have been born four children, two of whom are living.
Alf G. Heggem pursued his early education in the public schools of Salem and Massillon, Ohio, and afterward attended Cornell University of Ithaca, New York, from which he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of Mechanical Engineer. His attention was then given to the manufacture of steam engines, hoisting and conveying machinery at Massillon, Canton, Cleveland and Salem, Ohio, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Chicago, Illinois. He was identified with the Oil Well Supply Company of Pittsburgh from August, 1905, until 1912. He organized and became vice president of the Continental Supply Com- pany, filling that position for a time, and afterward was connected with the United States Bureau of Mines as petroleum engineer in various oil fields from January, 1913, until July, 1915, and subsequently he became president of the Oil Well Improvements Company, remaining in that position at the present time. His activity in the oil fields of the southwest has been notable. In the Vol. III-10
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initial development of the great Cushing field of Oklahoma he introduced the mud-laden fluid plan for conserving natural gas. In connection with John A. Pollard he spent several months in the Cushing field, where their labors were responsible for the conservation of many millions of feet of gas through the mud-laden system. It is characteristic of Mr. Heggem that he has ever been a close student of conditions having to do with the development of the oil fields, and the firm of which he is now a member is operating under the name of the Oil Well Improvements Company, which indicates much of the nature of their work. In this undertaking he is a partner of Mark E. Davis, and while carrying on the operation of their own wells they have been busily engaged in developing methods whereby the operation could be simplified and improved upon, not only for their own benefit but for the entire oil and gas industry. The Oil Well Improvements Company is capitalized at one million dollars and maintains a warehouse in Tulsa and a factory in Collinsville, Oklahoma. Mr. Heggem has patented many inventions that have to do with the oil industry and his labors are constituting a potent force in the continuous operation of oil fields, the introduction of his "improvements" being a source of much value in this industry.
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In 1905 Mr. Heggem was married to Miss Bertha Smith and they have a daughter : Mrs. Norah Lash, the wife of W. A. Lash and now the mother of a little son, W. A. Lash, Jr.
Mr. Heggem is a member of the Trinity Episcopal church, of which he is serving as vestryman. He is past president of the Rotary Club and is a mem- ber of the Petroleum Club. He is also well known in Masonic circles, belonging to Clinton Lodge, No. 47, A. F. & A. M., of Massillon, Ohio. He has also taken the York Rite degrees and is a member of Ararat Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. His activities, however, are of a still broader nature, for he is past chairman of the Tulsa section of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and was a member of the Tulsa Civic Allied Committee. He was chairman of engineers in the war industries board. A spirit of progress has actuated him at every point of his career and each forward step brings him a broader outlook and wider opportunities.
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