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Sanders. The firm continued for several years as a retail dry goods store, but later became the Ratcliff-Sanders Company, wholesale dry goods, groceries and notions. The business developed under Mr. Sanders' capable management and wise control and in 1904 they opened a branch house in Tulsa. The rapid devel- opment of the business in this city made Tulsa the headquarters of the com- pany, while Vinita became the branch house. Mr. Sanders was vice president and general manager of the company and largely shaped the policy which re- sulted in the substantial success of the enterprise. A branch was afterward es- tablished at Sapulpa, but this was later consolidated with the Tulsa house. The Ratcliff-Sanders Company put out a very high class of merchandise under the Carnation brand. Their traveling representatives covered not only a large por- tion of Oklahoma but southeastern Kansas. Steadily the business grew and de- veloped along substantial lines and Mr. Sanders became a very active member of the Wholesale Men's Association. He dates his residence in Tulsa from 1914, but has been known in the city and throughout the state for a much longer period. With the development of the natural resources of the state he directed his attention to oil and gas and at length began operating along those lines. He became the organizer of the Sanders Oil & Gas Corporation, producers in the Nowata field, and since selling his interests in the wholesale grocery business he has been president of the corporation. In 1919 he organized the Hancock Oil Company, of which he is president. This company operates in both the Nowata and Bird Creek fields. He is also president of the Sanders-Ridgeway Company, which conducts retail department stores at Vinita and Miami, Oklahoma. He is likewise the president of the Hancock Working Barrel Company, which has put out an anti-sand working barrel with three separate and distinct working pock- ets, any one of which has a larger capacity than that of any other barrel manu- factured, a feature which prevents the cutting of cups or the frequent pulling of rods and permits the Hancock barrel to pump longer than other types of equipment. Other notable improved features thereof are a standing valve that will not stick nor leak and a gas anchor, which is inserted in the center of the perforated section and which prevents the gas from entering the barrel or in- terfering with pumping operations. In this device the company feels it has found an absolute solution for the sand problem, its barrel proving to be supe- rior to all makes of equipment manufactured for this purpose. Extensive and important as are business interests of Mr. Sanders already mentioned, they do not comprise the entire extent of his connections and activities, for he is also interested in the Bethel, the Domodo, and the Creosus mines, all in the Miami mining district, and is a director of the Tulsa-Quapaw Mining and Investment Company. His business affairs are indeed extensive and of a most important character and have brought him prominently to the front as one of the dynamic forces in the development and progress of Oklahoma.
On the 7th of January, 1886, at Neosho, Missouri, Mr. Sanders was mar- ried to Miss Ada Corpenny, who was born in Sedalia, Missouri, a daughter of Jefferson and Sarah ( McPherson) Corpenny, the former a native of Sedalia, while the latter was born near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and in the late '50s went to Missouri, the family home being established in Sedalia. The father was a pioneer grocery man of Sedalia and in 1872 went to Neosho, where he conducted both a wholesale and retail grocery business. He afterward became identified with the Bank of Neosho and was also very active in public and civic affairs of the community, his aid and influence being at all times on the side of progress and improvement.
Mr. Sanders is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in
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all things that have to do with Tulsa's upbuilding and advancement. During the war period he took most helpful interest in many war activities. Fra- ternally he is a Mason, belonging to the lodge, chapter, and commandery at Joplin, Missouri. He has membership in the Tulsa Country Club and turns for recreation to fishing. On the 9th of March, 1921, Mr. and Mrs. Sanders started on a trip to the Orient. Mrs. Sanders is one of the directors of the Young Women's Christian Association and one of the founders of the Young Ladies' Camp, also of the Children's Day Nursery and is a most active and helpful member of the Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, South. No good work done in the name of charity or religion seeks their aid in vain and they are most generous in upholding all activities which seek the uplift of the individual and the welfare of the community at large. There is much that is inspiring in the life record of Mr. Sanders, for without special advantages at the outset of his career he started into the business world and step by step has advanced, each forward step bringing him a broader outlook and greater chances for progress. He possesses character and ability that inspires confi- dence in others and the simple ways of his character and ability have carried him into important relations.
CLARK H. WHITESIDE.
Clark H. Whiteside is president of the firm of Whiteside & Whiteside, real estate dealers of Tulsa. He brings to his present connection long experience and valuable knowledge of every phase of the business, and the firm, although in existence for little more than a year, has already made for itself an enviable place in the real estate circles of the city. Clark H. Whiteside was born in Montgomery county. Missouri, February 15, 1884. His father, James C. White- side, also a native of that place, was a representative of one of the old families of Kentucky, his father having removed from Kentucky to Missouri in pioneer times. James C. Whiteside made farming his life work, but is now living re- tired in Tulsa. He is a member of the Methodist church, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity. His wife, who in her maidenhood was Mary Catherine White, was born in Montgomery county, Missouri, and by her marriage became the mother of five children, all of whom are living.
Clark H. Whiteside obtained a district school education in his native county, pursuing his studies to the age of twelve years, and later he spent several months under the supervision of a tutor at home. He afterwards became a stu- dent in the high school at Montgomery City, and subsequently took up the pro- fession of teaching, which he followed for a year. An opportunity to enter business life at Amarillo, Texas, caused him to go to that state and for a year and a half he was connected with the sale of property in the south. He then returned to St. Louis and for four years was with the Commonwealth Trust Company of that city, as assistant manager of its real estate department. He next became sales manager with the Albert T. Blanke Real Estate Company, with which he remainel until March, 1919, and then removed to Tulsa. During his residence in St. Louis he was a member of the St. Louis Real Estate Ex- change and president of the Real Estate Salesmen's Association. He was a young man full of energy and imagination, possessing unusual capacity for salesmanship and possessed of clear business judgment and an attractive per- sonality. Thus he was enabled to succeed where many others failed. The de-
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velopment of progressive ideas and initiative carried him steadily forward, and thus he brought broad experience to the beginning of his business career in Tulsa. In March, 1918, he became business manager of the Gillette Investment Company and sold the Terrace Drive and other properties, all of which were sold by the Ist of December, 1919. Mr. Whiteside then established business on his own account in connection with his brother, Wade Whiteside, under the firm style of Whiteside & Whiteside, and of the company he is now the president. The enterprise and activity which he displayed in developing the Terrace Drive established him as a wide-awake and energetic business man, for in that con- nection he developed a piece of prairie land into a modern residence district that is today one of the show places of Tulsa. Since starting out in his present business relation he has handled considerable property of an important charac- ter and his clientage is steadily growing.
On the IIth of December, 1909, Mr. Whiteside was married to Miss Mary C. Freeman, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, and a daughter of George H. Freeman of the Iron Mountain Railway Company. Mr. and Mrs. Whiteside have become parents of two children: Madge, nine years of age; and Mary Catherine, age six.
Mr. Whiteside is a Mason, belonging to Tuscan Lodge, to the Consistory of St. Louis and to Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Tulsa. He was also a member of the Missouri Athletic Club of St. Louis and belongs to the Country Club and Chamber of Commerce of Tulsa, and became one of the prime movers of the organization of the Real Estate Exchange here, of which he is now the vice president. His strong and pleasing personality, his energy and fair dealing are bringing him rapidly to the front among the real estate men of this city, and he belongs to that class who are real builders of the community-a man with whom real estate dealing is not merely a sale, but also the opportunity to improve and benefit the region in which he operates.
ISAAC SHULER.
Isaac Shuler is widely known in connection with the oil industry in various sections of the country and is now successfully operating in Oklahoma fields, being president of the Goodyear Oil Company, the Gladys Oil Company and the Posey Gasoline Company. It is not strange to say that his father was an oil man before him, so when Isaac Shuler first opened his eyes in the little town of Tri- umph, in Warren county, Pennsylvania, on November 26, 1865, he came into the world a full fledged member of the oil fraternity. At the early age of nine years he entered the game, cleaning sediment from the bottom of tanks for two and a half cents a barrel, at the same time selling newspapers to the different oil men with whom he came in contact. Later, in 1877, he attended school in Summit, Pennsylvania, and while there he worked as assistant agent and telegraph opera- tor on a narrow-guage railroad. His liking for books and especially for mathe- matics gave him an education which was only acquired through perseverance and hard work, but with stern determination to accomplish, no hour was too early nor too late for the unfinished task. In 1880 he went to Allentown, New York, and five years later to Findlay, Ohio, and from that date has held his own among those interested in the development of oil. At Findlay he entered into partnership with G. C. Thompson in the business of rig building and contracting, while sub- sequently he became connected with oil production in Ohio.
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Mr. Shuler married Clara B. Howe, of Wellsville, New York, and resided in Findlay, Ohio, for six years but in 1895 removed to Bowling Green, Ohio, where his daughter, Gladys Shuler Whitney, was born. He secured valuable holdings in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, but the Oklahoma field attracted him and in 1914 he moved to the Indian state, where he has met with more than phenomenal success. His operations have been successfully conducted as president of the Goodyear Oil Company, as president of the Gladys Oil Company and of the Posey Gasoline Company. He has very valuable holdings in the Bixby and other pools and is regarded as one of the prominent oil men of the southwest. Although his success has been won solely through his own efforts and his boyish ambitions have been fulfilled only by hard work and determination to do, he is at heart one of the most generous and loving of men and his efforts to make the world happier are as untiring as were his efforts to succeed.
WADE C. WHITESIDE.
Wade C. Whiteside, vice president of the firm of Whiteside & Whiteside, real estate dealers of Tulsa, was born in Montgomery county, Missouri, on the 9th of October, 1886, and is a brother of Clark H. Whiteside, in connection with whose sketch on another page of this work further mention is made of the family. After pursuing a public school education he became special rep- resentative of the Missouri State Life Insurance Company and made steady advancement in that field of business. In 1920 he joined his brother, Clark H. Whiteside, in the real estate business in Tulsa, where the firm now has a large clientele, having handled in the past year much valuable property in this city.
Mr. Whiteside enlisted in the World war in 1918, as a member of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Battalion Tank Corps, and served overseas from Angust, 1918, to April 1, 1919, and belongs to the American Legion.
Wade C. Whiteside is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken the degrees of both York and Scottish Rites, and he is likewise a member of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Tulsa and of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. He also holds membership in the City Club and the Ad Club. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, but has never sought office as a reward for party fealty. Both he and his brother concentrate their efforts and attention upon their business affairs, and thus the firm of Whiteside & Whiteside is forging rapidly to the front in real estate circles.
JAMES E. MULLIGAN.
James E. Mulligan, manager of the Roxana Petroleum Company of Okla- homa and valued as a resident of Tulsa, came to this state from New England, his birth having occurred in Saco, Maine, December 1I, 1861. He is a son of James Edward and Josephine (Newhall) Mulligan, the former a native of Lancaster, England, while the latter was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. The father came to the new world in 1859, settling in Boston, where he became actively identified with the textile manufacturing interests of the city, as super- intendent of a cotton mill. With the outbreak of the Civil war he joined the Vol. III-11
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Union army and aided in the defense of his adopted country. He has now passed away. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Mulligan were thirteen children, but only five are living.
James E. Mulligan, of this review, pursued his education in the schools of Seymour and of Indianapolis, Indiana, completing a high school course. He then entered railway circles as an engineer and was thus employed in 1894, in various parts of the United States and in Mexico. He became interested in the oil business in Mexico and was associated therewith for twenty-three years, developing the first well in the Panuco district for the East Coast Oil Company. In 1912 he came to Tulsa as office manager for the Roxana Petroleum Company of Oklahoma, of which A. J. Van Waterschoot Vander Gracht of St. Louis is president, Richard Airey of New York city, vice president, T. F. Lydon, secre- tary and H. H. Parker of St. Louis, treasurer. The offices of the company are in the Mayo building in Tulsa and Mr. Mulligan is most capably directing the interests of the corporation at this point. He had much to do with the develop- ment of the Mexican oil fields and his broad experience and comprehensive knowledge well qualified him for the duties that devolve upon him in his pres- ent business relation.
In 1912 Mr. Mulligan was married to Miss Laura D. Tabor of Paterson, New Jersey, and they are well known in Tulsa, where they have an extensive circle of warm friends. Mr. Mulligan belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and also to the Petroleum Club, while his religious belief is manifest in his connection with the Christian Science church. He is a man of high moral standard and his upright character and well-spent life have gained for him the respect and confidence of all with whom he has been associated. His experi- ences have been wide and varied and he is a broad-minded man whose actions are at all times guided by sound judgment and in whom the subjective and ob- jective forces of life are well-balanced so that he fully meets every duty and obligation, his loyalty to public and private interests being one of his marked characteristics.
CLIFFORD WILLIAM LORD.
Clifford William Lord, president and general manager of the Rex Machinery & Supply Company of Tulsa, is one of the best known oil men of the city. His life has been one of intense and well-directed activity and splendid results have followed his labors. He was born in Grass Valley, California, on the 9th of September, 1888, a son of William G. and Jennie (Pedlow) Lord, both of whom were natives of Ashland, Pennsylvania, and are now residing in Grass Valley, California. The father has long been active in connection with mining. His fraternal relations are with the Masons, and his religious faith is manifested in his membership in the Episcopal church. To him and his wife have been born five children, all of whom are living.
Clifford W. Lord, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, pur- sued his education in the public schools of California and afterwards attended the University of California, from which he was graduated in 1911. During his student days there he became a member of the Theta Delta Chi. From 19II until 1913 he followed civil engineering with the Associated Pipe Line Com- pany of California and in the latter year became identified with the supply busi- ness as representative of the Associated Supply Company of California.
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Through the intervening period to 1915 he was identified with the interests of the company in his native state and in 1916 he was offered and accepted a posi- tion with the Lucey Manufacturing Corporation of Los Angeles. He resided in that city for a year and was then made assistant district manager of the Pittsburgh office of the Lucey Company. He continued in Pittsburgh until 1918, when he came to Tulsa and took charge of the interests of the Lucey Corporation in this city, continuing with them until July, 1919, when he incor- porated the Rex Machinery & Supply Company, of which he is president and general manager. This company handles all of the products of the Lucey Man- ufacturing Corporation in the mid-continent field and the business is now one of extensive and gratifying proportions.
On the 17th of April, 1917, Mr. Lord was married to Miss Electa Connely, a native of Olean, New York, and a daughter of James L. Connely, who was prominently identified with the Standard Oil Company of California up to the time of his death. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lord was celebrated in San Francisco and they have become the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Margaret. Mr. Lord is a Mason, belonging to Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, and also to the Royal Arch chapter. He and his wife have membership in the Episcopal church and he is a member of the Tulsa Country Club. His business affairs have made him widely known over the west and to a considerable extent in the east, and wherever he has gone he has commanded the respect and confidence of business associates and social acquaintances. He has steadily developed his innate powers and improved his opportunities, and each year has found him at a point in ad- vance of that which he had reached the previous year in his business career.
WALTER A. MOORE.
Walter A. Moore, president of the Price Sand Company of Tulsa, was born in Girard, Kansas, July 13, 1880, his parents being Albert R. and Fanny (Stin- nett) Moore, both of whom were natives of Illinois. The mother is still living, but the father has passed away. He was a general merchant, who, removing to Kansas, carried on business at Girard for a number of years. He was also a devoted member of the Baptist church. In the family were two children.
Walter A. Moore at the usual age entered the public schools of his native city and passed through consecutive grades to the high school, thus qualifying for life's practical and responsible duties. He afterward became connected with railway interests, working in various departments, and for a time was gen- eral agent in charage of the terminal of the Frisco system at Tulsa. He came to this city in 1911 and was the builder of the railroad known as the Sapulpa & Oilfields Railroad, which he afterward sold to the Frisco system. On sever- ing his connection with railway interests he turned his attention to his present business, becoming the chief executive officer of the Price Sand Company, with J. M. Chandler as secretary and treasurer. This company handles building ma- terial and engages in the shipping of gravel, sand and chats, the last named being the refuse from mines, a stone that is used in road building. The busi- ness has developed to substantial proportions and enterprise and energy have brought Mr. Moore prominently to the front. Before coming to Tulsa he re- sided for a time in Okmulgee and his success there was attributable, as it has been since, to his integrity and close application to every detail of business. He conducts his affairs in a most progressive and systematic manner and carries
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forward to satisfactory conclusion whatever he undertakes. Moreover, his friends in Okmulgee bear testimony to his "affable and pleasing personality, which brought happy hours to his acquaintances." Again in Tulsa he has made steady progress in a business way, his determination and energy enabling him to over- come all the obstacles and difficulties in his path.
In 1904 Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Utie L. Hulen of Mis- souri. In his political views he is a republican and his religious faith is that of the Christian church. He also belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and has mem- bership in Delta Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; in the Consistory at Guthrie, Oklahoma, and in Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In club circles, too, he is well known, belonging to the City Club of Tulsa and holding membership in the Auto Traffic Association. His interests are broad and varied and he stands for all those activities which constitute a force in the betterment of the community and the uplift of the individual. By reason of this he is actively interested in the work of the church and does all in his power to advance its growth and extend its influence.
HARRY H. McFANN.
Harry H. McFann, one of the well known oil producers residing in Tulsa, who figures prominently in Masonic circles as well as in business connections, was born at North Washington, in Butler county, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1876, and is a son of L. R. and Mary ( Morris) McFann, the former a native of Waynesburg, Greene county, Pennsylvania, while the mother was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania. The father is now living retired at Butler, Penn- sylvania, and there are many points in his life history which have established him high in the respect and regard of his fellow townsmen. He is a Civil war veteran, having defended the Union cause between 1861 and 1865, and he is a loyal follower of the teachings of the Presbyterian church.
Harry H. McFann, one of the family of eight children, obtained his early education in the public schools and afterward attended the Fairview Academy at Prospect, Pennsylvania. Throughout his life he has been connected with the oil industry. He was reared amid an environment that early acquainted him with various phases of the oil trade, for through many years Pennsylvania was the center of oil production in the United States. In 1904 he came to Oklahoma, settling at Tulsa, later working out of Sapulpa and then back to Tulsa. He is now senior partner in the firm of McFann & Brown, oil pro- ducers, and is operating extensively in this connection. He was the first man in the Sapulpa field and established the first refining company there. His suc- cess has come as the result of an orderly progression. Step by step he has advanced since he left school at the age of sixteen years and went to Arm- strong county, Pennsylvania, as stationary engineer at one of the big pump stations of the People's Natural Gas Company. Eight years' experience with that company brought him valuable knowledge and won him promotion to the positions of engineer and pump station builder. He also built pipe lines throughout Armstrong and Jefferson counties, continuing with the People's Gas Company to the age of twenty-four years, when he went to California, where he spent one year in scouting and checking up oil properties for different oil companies. At the end of that period he returned to the service of the People's Natural Gas Company as erecting engineer and after two years in
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that position became identified with Oklahoma. It was then that he secured a gas franchise for Sapulpa and also organized the Sapulpa Refining Company, likewise taking charge of the interests of the Laurel Gas & Oil Company. In 1911 he became interested as an independent producer and in 1914 removed to Tulsa, from which point he has since directed his operations. Each year has increased his knowledge and broadened his experience in connection with the oil industry and today his position is a most creditable one among the prominent oil men of the state. Mr. McFann is vice president of the Com- pression Inner Tube Company, one of the largest manufacturing plants of Tulsa.
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