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In early manhood he wedded Mary J. Spencer, who was born at Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and they became the parents of three children, all of whom are living.
After acquiring his early education in the public schools of his native state Hulette F. Aby attended the University of Mississippi and Louisiana State University. In 1901 he won his LL. B. degree at Millsaps College. He was admitted to the bar in Mississippi in 1901 and for a time engaged in law practice in Mississippi but on the 9th of January, 1902, came to Tulsa, which was then a small town of little importance. He practiced alone for a time and then in 1905 organized the firm of Aby & Tucker, which has maintained a continuous existence through the intervening period of sixteen years. The firm engages in civil practice, making a specialty of corporation law and this is today the oldest firm of attorneys in continuous practice in Tulsa. Its clientage is now very extensive and of a most important character, as the firm is the legal representative of some of the largest corporation interests of the city. Mr. Aby belongs to the Tulsa County, Oklahoma State and American Bar Associations.
In 1906 Mr. Aby was married to Miss Cora Mae Hansel of Missouri, a daughter of John Hansel of Joplin, Missouri. They have become parents of two sons : H. F., Jr., now thirteen years of age; and William Willing. Mr. Aby turns to fishing for recreation, greatly enjoying this pastime when his profes- sional duties permit. He has always been keenly interested in everything per- taining to public progress and improvement and was the first secretary of the Commercial Club of Tulsa, filling the position in 1902. This is now the Chamber of Commerce, with which he is still connected. He belongs to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also has membership in the Lions Club and the Country Club. He belongs to the Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, South, of which he is a trustee. His ideals of life are high, his activities far-reaching and resultant. He stands for those principles which make for upright manhood and honorable citizenship and through the careful utilization of his time and talents has gained a position among the eminent lawyers of his adopted state.
PATRICK HENRY MORONEY.
Named in honor of one of America's most illustrious patriots, this represen- tative member of the Tulsa bar has shown in his individual career the same high spirit of loyalty and patriotism that characterized Patrick Henry when he uttered the immortal words, "Give me liberty or give me death," and mindful of the sorrows and afflictions of the land of his forefathers, it is but natural that Mr. Moroney should likewise be found as an opponent of tyranny and oppression in the fair Emerald isle and thus be a stalwart advocate of the cause of Irish freedom.
Mr. Moroney was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on the 2d of January, 1867, and is a son of James P. and Mary (Shiel) Moroney, both representatives of the stanchest of Irish ancestry. James P. Moroney was, however, born in London, England, on the 22d of February, 1839, his wife having been born at Laughrea, County Galway, Ireland, on the 4th of March, 1840. His death occurred in 1898, his loved and devoted wife having passed away in the preceding year. James P. Moroney gained a common school education in the city of his nativity and his alert and receptive mind caused him to profit fully by the discipline which he thereafter gained through individual effort, as a great student and reader and
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acquired a true perspective of human affairs through his association with the practical duties and responsibilities of life. He was a youth when he came to the United States, where he became identified with newspaper work on the New York Sun, of which Charles A. Dana was then the presiding genius. From the national metropolis he made his way to Ohio, and became editor and publisher of a newspaper at Bucyrus, that state. However, he subordi- nated all personal interests to tender his aid in defense of the nation when the Civil war was precipitated. He enlisted as a member of Company E, Forty- first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he took part in many engagements and lived up to the full tension of the great conflict through which the integrity of the nation was preserved. At the battle of Chickamauga he was wounded, but he was not long incapacitated by his injuries. In later years he vitalized his deep interest in his old comrades by maintaining appre- ciative affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. His marriage was solemnized in 1865, in Ohio, and in that state he became a prosperous farmer and influential citizen of Huron county, where he and his wife continued to reside until their death.
The public schools of the old Buckeye state afforded to Patrick H. Moroney his early education, which included the discipline of the high school, and there- after he completed a normal course in what is now the great Valparaiso Uni- versity, at Valparaiso, Indiana, in which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He became a successful teacher in the schools of Ohio and Louisiana, as well as in the city of Chicago, where simultaneously he availed himself of the advantages of the law department of Northwestern University, from which he received in 1896 his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the follow- ing year he engaged in the practice of law in Chicago, continuing his professional activities there until 1903, when he removed to Parkersburg, West Virginia, where he became a successful general practitioner of law and also influential in public affairs, as a vigorous advocate of the principles of the republican party. He was elected police judge of Parkersburg and in his rulings on this bench he was specially considerate of boys and young men, whose misdemeanors he endeavored to correct by suspending sentence and giving the judicial advice that might turn them from their evil practices. In this connection he followed virtually the same kindly policies as has Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, Colo- rado, who has made fame for himself in the field of juvenile jurisprudence. After having made a splendid record on the bench of the criminal branch of the municipal court of Parkersburg, Judge Moroney sought a broader field of pro- fessional endeavor and thus it was that in 1913 he came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he has built up a substantial and representative law business, mainly in the department of civil practice, and where he has secure status as an able lawyer and loyal and public-spirited citizen. He is a member of the republican county committee of Tulsa county and has shown much ability in connection with the manoeuvering of political forces. He was one of the organizers of the Mid-Continent Brick & Tile Company, of which he is secretary, and which has developed one of the important manufacturing industries of Tulsa.
Special attention should be directed to the very active part Judge Moroney has taken as a member of the American Committee for Irish Independence and as a vigorous member of the Friends of Irish Freedom. In this connection he was prominently concerned with the drafting of resolutions, issued at a repre- sentative assemblage of American citizens at Tulsa, signifying unqualified ap- proval of the independence of Ireland, copies of these resolutions having been sent to the secretary of state at Washington and also the British ambassador.
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His zeal in this cause is a characteristic exemplification of the broad humani- tarian spirit and the ideals of justice maintained by Judge Moroney. He and his wife are earnest communicants of the Catholic church, in which they are members of the parish of Holy Family church in Tulsa.
On February 22, 1898, occurred the marriage of Judge Moroney to Miss Mar- garet Patterson, who was born at Pittsfield, Illinois, and who is a daughter of John and Margaret (McDonald) Patterson, who were born in County Mayo, and County Clare, Ireland, respectively, and were young folk when they immi- grated to the United States. Mr. Patterson landed at New Orleans and later went to Galveston, Texas. When the Civil war was initiated he there became a soldier of the Confederacy, while his brothers who had settled in the northwest became Union soldiers. After the close of the war Mr. Patterson engaged in farm enterprise in Illinois, and in the early '70s he became a pioneer farmer near Avoca, Iowa, where he developed a fine farm property and became a leader in his community, both he and his wife having there continued their residence until their death. Judge and Mrs. Moroney have six children: Helen Frances, Donald Patrick, Mary Elizabeth, Margaret Mona, John Charles Carroll, and Catherine Anna.
GARABED A. Z. GARABEDIAN, M. D.
Dr. Garabed A. Z. Garabedian, who in the practice of medicine in Tulsa spe- cializes in the treatment of children's diseases, came to the United States from the most interesting and historic old city of Constantinople, Turkey, where his birth occurred September 10, 1888. He is of Armenian nationality, his parents being Zacar and Virginia (Balian) Garabedian, both of whom were born in Constantinople. The father engaged in the banking business, being an official of the Imperial Ottoman Bank. He was, moreover, one of the oldest Protestant Armenians of Turkey and was very prominent in establishing a number of Protestant churches in the Ottoman empire. He did most effective work as the founder of the Armenian Evangelical church and his forceful character and qualities of leadership made him very successful in all that he undertook. He died in 1919 when sixty-three years of age, when warfare had reached his native country.
Garabed A. Z. Garabedian, whose name introduces this review, pursued his education in the American high school at Bardezag, a suburb of Constantinople, where he completed his course in 1905. In 1896 when a lad of but eight years he had been obliged to flee with others of his family to Bulgaria, owing to the Armenian massacre in Turkey, but after four years spent in that land he returned to Constantinople in 1900 and pursued his education as indicated. When that course was completed he entered Robert College at Constantinople but was soon obliged to leave the city on account of the political situation. Such was the condition of the country at that time that during one summer he was arrested three times for getting mail from America, the arrest being made when he was leaving the British post office. He traveled in Egypt for six months and later went to the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, where he remained until 1907. when he came to America. He then entered the College of Science of the Uni- versity of Illinois and studied night and day, finishing his course in 1910, having completed four years' work in three years and receiving the A. B. degree. Dur- ing the last year he acted as instructor in physiology in the University. He next
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entered Rush Medical College, the medical department of the University of Chicago, making his way through college with scholarships that he had earned. He completed his course in March, 1913, winning the M. D. degree, after which he spent a year as interne in the Ravenswood Hospital. From 1914 to 1918 he was connected with the department of children's diseases in his alma mater, being assistant to Dr. John Milton Dodson, who was head of the department and dean of the medical college. Upon a competitive examination he was appointed health officer in 1915 for the public schools in Chicago but resigned the position in 1918 to come to Tulsa. Here he arrived in the month of September and through the intervening period has devoted his attention exclusively to children's diseases. Already his practice has assumed extensive proportions and is constantly growing as his ability is becoming more and more recognized.
In Chicago, in 1915 Dr. Garabedian was married to Miss Estelle Barakian, who was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, a daughter of the Rev. Haig Barak- ian, a Congregational minister. Dr. Garabedian belongs to Petroleum Lodge, No. 474, A. F. & A. M., and to Oklahoma Consistory, No. I, A. A. S. R., at Guthrie. He is likewise a member of the Rotary Club and the University Club, and his religious faith is indicated in his connection with the First Methodist Episcopal church. Along professional lines he is identified with the Tulsa, Okla- homa State and American Medical Associations. He is a man of pronounced professional ability and one who deserves the greatest credit for what he has accomplished. There is much that is stimulating and inspiring in his life record. Reared in a land where people of his nationality and faith were in constant danger he improved every opportunity for the acquirement of a liberal education and at length sought "the land of the free" that he might enjoy the advantages, opportunities and liberties accorded in the new world. While restricted some- what financially his ambition and energy secured for him the way to make pos- sible the fulfillment of his hopes and his ambitions, and today he is recognized as a man of wide general learning as well as of professional skill-a man with whom association means expansion and elevation.
WARNER P. FRAKER.
One of the popular and well known citizens of Broken Arrow, Tulsa county, is Warner P. Fraker, president of the Citizens National Bank, in which con- nection he has been active since 1912. He is likewise prominent in the agricul- tural circles of the county as a progressive and successful stock raiser and gen- eral farmer. He was born in Greene county, Tennessee, on the 23rd of October, 1860, a son of George W. and Rachel (Milburn) Fraker, both natives of Ten- nessee. The father was a minister of the Methodist church and for many years held various pastorates throughout his native state. He also operated a farm for a number of years. He met his death in 1902, while crossing the railroad near the place where he was born. In the passing of Rev. Mr. Fraker the com- munity mourned the loss of a representative citizen. Mrs. Fraker passed away in October, 1898.
Warner P. Fraker is indebted to the schools of Greene county, Tennessee, for his preliminary education and in due time entered Tusculum College near Grecneville. He completed his course in the required time and in 188r went to Jowa and bought land in Jasper county. He was active in the operation of the farm until 1900, when he came to Oklahoma and located in Canadian county. Vol. III-2
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In 1903 he came to Broken Arrow, Tulsa county, became an associate of a num- ber of leading business men there and in July of that year assisted in the pur- chase of the First State Bank of Broken Arrow. He served as cashier of that institution from 1903 to 1912. In 1903 the bank had a capital stock of five thou- sand dollars and deposits amounting to six thousand dollars. In 1904 the capital was increased to twenty-five thousand dollars. The success of the bank seemed assured from the start and in 1912 it was reorganized as the Citizens National Bank, and the deposits at present amount to over two hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. The surplus and undivided profits of the institution now total twelve thousand, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars. Upon the re- organization of the bank Mr. Fraker was made president, a position he has since held, and his executive ability has been a dominant factor in the constant de- velopment of the bank. In 1904, the quarters of the bank becoming too small, a newer and more modern building was erected, part of which is used for public offices. Mr. Fraker is also identified with the cattle industry and he is active in the management of a fine farm property of two hundred and eighty acres.
In September, 1889, the marriage of Mr. Fraker to Miss Jennie Wells took place. Mrs. Fraker was born in East Tennessee and she is well known in the club and social circles of Broken Arrow.
Since age conferred upon Mr. Fraker the right of franchise he has been a stanch supporter of the republican party and always keeps well informed on the vital questions and issues of the day. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and fraternally he is identified with the Masons, in which order he is a Shriner and has attained the thirty- second degree of the Scottish Rite. For thirty years he was a member of the Odd Fellows but has withdrawn from that organization. Mr. Fraker has quickly grasped every opportunity that presented itself and his courage, initiative and executive ability have been dominant elements in his success. Mr. and Mrs. Fraker have a large circle of friends and their home on East G street is a center for social and intellectual gatherings.
JOSEPH MARSHALL REED.
Joseph Marshall Reed, secretary of the Home Building & Loan Association, is a man whose keen discernment enables him to take cognizance of every phase, side and problem of the business and whose executive force enables him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. He is splen- didly qualified for the duties which devolve upon him in his present position and his labors are constituting a tangible element in Tulsa's improvement in the way of home building. Mr. Reed is a native of Tennessee, his birth having occurred on a farm in Overton county, June 1, 1884. His father, George Gideon Reed, was also born in Tennessee and is now living retired at Overton. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and belongs to the Masonic frater- nity. In early manhood he wedded Elizabeth Peek, a native of Tennessee, who passed away at the age of thirty-four years. Of the six children of this mar- riage four are living.
In his youthful days Joseph M. Reed was a pupil in the Pleasant Hill school of Cumberland county and thus qualified for life's practical and responsible duties until he reached the age of seventeen years, when he became a resident of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and completed his education there with a high school
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course. He afterward became a resident of Oklahoma City and entered into active connection with the Home Building & Loan Association as secretary, a position which he has occupied for eight years. He came to Tulsa in April, 1919, and through the intervening period has been secretary at this place. He is connected with some of the most progressive and reliable business men of Tulsa and the state and is engaged in promoting a business of great value to the city. Through the Building & Loan Association many homes have been erected and loans placed and the successful management of the business during the past two years has been attributable in no small measure to the efforts of Mr. Reed.
In April, 1905, was celebrated the marriage of Joseph Marshall Reed and Miss Jennie Litherland of Mount Carmel, Illinois, a daughter of Abner Lither- land. They have become parents of three children: Morton, thirteen years of age ; Margaret Jean, aged five; and Byrnie Marcelle, who is in her first year. Mr. Reed belongs to the Kiwanis Club, is the secretary of the City Club and a member of the Advertising Club. Fraternally he is a Mason and religiously a Presbyterian. He takes a most active and helpful part in the work of the church and Sunday school and does all in his power to further the moral progress and advancement of the community. His ideals of life are high and he strives eagerly to attain them. Men who know him-and he has a wide acquaintance-speak of him in terms of the highest regard, knowing that he is a man to be relied upon under every condition and that his word is as good as any bond solemnized by signature or seal.
JOHN R. CLARK.
Now engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the city of Tulsa John R. Clark is distinctively one of the pioneer members of the Oklahoma bar, and he has the honor of being one of the company of one hundred persons who organized and platted the town of Stillwater, now one of the important indus- trial, commercial and educational centers of the state.
Mr. Clark was born at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, on the 25th of March, 1856, and is a son of Patrick and Anna ( Richards) Clark. Patrick Clark was born in the north of Ireland, was there reared and educated and thence came to the United States in 1852. He became a successful farmer in Ohio, was a man of fine mentality and good business ability, unassuming in his ways, had no desire for political activity or preferment but stood an exemplar of upright and loyal citizenship and commanded unqualified popular esteem, both he and his wife having been residents of Franklin county, Indiana, at the time of thei- death.
John R. Clark gained in his boyhood and youth a practical fellowship with the work of the home farm and received the advantages of the public schools of his native state and there attended college both at Oxford and Lebanon. He made a record of successful work as a teacher in the schools of both Ohio and Indiana, and at Lebanon, Ohio, studied law in the office and under the effective preceptorship of Judge William McBurney. In 1884 Mr. Clark established his residence at Winfield, Kansas, where he engaged in the real estate business and gave more or less attention to the work of his profession. In 1889 he became one of the pioneers and founders of Stillwater, Oklahoma, aided in the platting of the town and was one of its first practicing lawyers. He served sev- eral terms as mayor of Stillwater and also presided on the bench of the county
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court. He was one of those prominently concerned in the formulating and developing of the admirable educational system of Oklahoma, and was a mem- ber of the first board of trustees of the state agricultural and mining college at Stillwater. As a member of the board of trustees of the university at Nor- man he aided greatly in bringing order out of the chaos into which the affairs of the institution had fallen. He still maintains a lively interest in educational matters and in this connection his advice and counsel are greatly valued.
In 1905 Mr. Clark became one of the pioneer members of the Tulsa bar and in addition to his active practice as a lawyer he here served more than five years as judge of the municipal court.
At Tulsa, in the year 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Clark to Mrs. Mattie Maclay Kennier, whose father, a physician and surgeon of marked ability, was a representative of one of the old and honored families of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have no children.
Judge Clark is loyally appreciative of the manifold advantages and attrac- tions of the state of his adoption and in an unostentatious way has done much to further the civic and material development and progress of Oklahoma. He is liberal in the support of charitable and benevolent objects and organizations and he and his wife attend the Christian Science church. In the Masonic fra- ternity his affiliation is with Tulsa Lodge, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, while he still holds membership in the chapter of the Royal Arch Masons and the Knights Templars commandery at Stillwater.
JOSEPH WILEY SIMPSON.
Although one of the younger representatives of the Tulsa bar, Joseph Wiley Simpson has already attained a position that many an attorney of twice his years might well envy, this being due to his close and comprehensive study of legal principles and his power of analysis, which enables him to recognize readily the relation between facts and the law applicable thereto. Mr. Simpson was born in Oakman, Alabama, February 7, 1894, a son of Z. H. and Theresa Ann (Rayburn) Simpson, both of whom were natives of Tuscaloosa county, Ala- bama. The father was a soldier cadet of the University of Alabama and fol- lowed farming prior to the Civil war and afterward acquired large land holdings and engaged quite extensively in agricultural pursuits. He took great pride in his fine stock, especially horses, and was largely instrumental in increasing the production of the thoroughbred horses raised in his part of the state. He was likewise widely known as a successful breeder and raiser of Hereford cattle, Berkshire hogs, Angora goats and Southdown sheep. In fact he raised some of the best live stock in the country and also took great pride in raising fine tur- keys. His labors were directly beneficial in improving the grade of stock raised in Alabama, where his position in that field of business was long one of lead- ership. He now makes his home in Oakman, Alabama, and is a consistent mem- ber of the Baptist church there.
Joseph W. Simpson attended the public schools and the high school of Bir- mingham, Alabama, and later spent two years as a student in the University of Alabama, where he gained the liberal education that has constituted an ex- cellent basis for his knowledge of law. He began preparing for the bar in the office of L. J. Cox of Birmingham and was admitted to practice in Oklahoma in 1919. In the meantime he had served his country as a soldier of the World
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