USA > Oklahoma > Tulsa County > Tulsa > The history of Tulsa, Oklahoma > Part 25
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34
On the 26th of September, 1914, Mr. Atkins was married to Miss Wilda Kenemuth of Bradford, Pennsylvania, and to them has been born one son, Walter James, Jr. The parents are communicants of the Catholic church and Mr. Atkins belongs to the Elks lodge at Bradford, Pennsylvania. He also has membership with the Knights of Columbus at Bradford, Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Petroleum Club of Tulsa.
WALTER KNIGHT CAMPBELL.
Among the enterprising and successful business men of Tulsa is Walter Knight Campbell, who has been connected with various enterprises in this vicinity since the spring of 1916. A native of Washington, Indiana, his birth occurred there on August 11th, 1878, a son of James M. and Ella M. Campbell.
In the acquirement of an education Walter Knight Campbell attended the schools of Lima, Ohio, and after graduating from the high school there made his initial step into the business world. For some time he was interested in the oil and oil well supplies business and then in the spring of 1904 removed to Kansas, locating in Peru, where for two years he was employed with the National Supply Company. In January, 1906, he launched into business on his own account. or- ganizing the Beeler & Campbell Supply Company, of which he became president and general manager, and being a man of keen business discernment and sound judgment won for himself and the company a substantial amount of success. He disposed of that business in the spring of 1916, coming to Tulsa as pipe line and production superintendent for the Chanute Refining Company and while in that connection he discovered anticline at Garber and leasing what is now known as Garber Field made the first location there, locating the Hoy well in 1917. Some time later he helped organize the Economy Oil & Refining Company and after one year's operation this company was sold to the Producers & Refiners Company. Subsequently he organized the Western Oil Corporation, of which he has been president ever since. The affairs of the company have greatly prospered under the capable guidance of Mr. Campbell, for he is an astute business man with marked executive ability.
In Lima, Ohio, on the 17th of January, 1900, Mr. Campbell was united in marriage to Miss Grayce Russell, a daughter of William Russell, and to them two children have been born: James Edward and Dorothy J. Mrs. Campbell is well known in the social and club circles of Tulsa and is recognized as a woman of great strength of character, a model mother and a delightful hostess.
The political allegiance of Mr. Campbell has always been given the republican party and it is well known that he is a stalwart champion of any cause which it
668
HISTORY OF TULSA
espouses. He has never had any desire for political preferment as a reward for party fealty, preferring to devote his whole attention to his business interests. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church and fraternally he is identified with the Masons, being an exemplary member of that order. Socially he is a member of the Tulsa Pet Club and the Country Club. His standing as a citizen is firm and broad and in his adopted city it may consistently be said that the number of his friends is to be gauged by that of his acquaintances.
CHARLES ARTHUR FURROW, D. D. S.
Dr. Charles Arthur Furrow, an eminent representative of the dental pro- fession at Tulsa and widely known throughout the country by reason of the postgraduate courses which he holds in the instruction of representatives of the profession on removable restorations, was born March 11, 1883, in Troy, Ohio, a son of Elisha H. and Elizabeth (Leffel) Furrow. The father, a native of Columbus, Ohio, is a nurseryman and florist, who at the time of the Civil war put aside all business and personal considerations and enlisted in the Forty- fourth Ohio Infantry, serving for four years in this connection as a member of the Union army. He afterward went to Kansas, where he homesteaded and engaged in cattle raising. On the second day of the opening of Oklahoma terri- tory, in 1889, he took up his abode near Guthrie, and soon afterward established greenhouses and a nursery, now having the largest enterprise of this kind in the southwest. He is a most active and progressive man and has so directed his business that it today exceeds all others of similar nature in this section of the country. Since attaining his majority he has voted with the republican party and his religious faith is found in his loyal adherence to the Christian church.
Charles A. Furrow obtained a public and high school education, and prompted by the same patriotic spirit that caused his father to join the Union army, he endeavored to enlist for service in the Spanish-American war. His age, how- ever, was prohibitive ; but he obtained special permission from Governor C. M. Barnes to enlist in Captain Capon's company of Rough Riders as a musician. Illness, however, prevented his going with his regiment and later he served for a year with the Eighth United States Cavalry Band at Port au Prince, Cuba. He was then transferred to the United States Transport Mcclellan as master at arms and rendered valuable aid to his country in that connection.
.
At length Dr. Furrow took up his abode in Guthrie and began the study of dentistry under the direction of his brother, W. E. Furrow, while in 1902 he entered the Kansas City Dental College, from which he was graduated in 1905. In 1906 he practiced in Guthrie and in 1907 engaged in practice in Kansas City, where he entered upon postgraduate work. In 1912 he began pratice at Cushing in connection with his brother, M. B. Furrow, and in 1914 he removed to Tulsa. Since 1912 he has been specializing in fixed and removable bridge work and full dentures. He has taken extensive postgraduate work and in 1914 he became associated with Dr. B. L. Shobe, then of Tulsa, who originated the plan to hold postgraduate clinics for the state dental societies. In this connection Dr. Furrow row goes all over the United States, conducting special postgraduate classes under the auspices of the state dental societies and his superior skill and ability and comprehensive knowledge well qualify him for the important work of this character which he is now doing. Such courses offer the ideal solution
DR. CHARLES A. FURROW
671
HISTORY OF TULSA
of professional advancement. With classes limited, with discussions informal in character, permitting no point to remain obscure, the student grasps the difficult theories necessary to the working out of a certain technique, and skillful handicraft follows as a natural result, making possible the rendering of the science upon which the principles are based. Appreciation of the value of these postgraduate clinics has come to Dr. Furrow from all parts of the country. Moreover, he is associate professor and special lecturer on crown and bridge work of the Kansas City Western Dental College. He belongs to the Tulsa Dental Society, is a past president of the Northern District Dental Society of Oklahoma and also belongs to the State Dental Society. He has held clinics at the National Dental Society meetings-an honor and opportunity that are ac- corded to few.
On the 18th of November, 1905, in Guthrie, Dr. Furrow was married to Miss Hazel Mae Lowrie, who was born in Rockford, Illinois, a daughter of Thomas J. Lowrie, who went to Redfield, South Dakota, and became a promi- nent and wealthy landowner of that section. Dr. and Mrs. Furrow have one daughter, Lawrene Evelyn.
During the World war Dr. Furrow was a first lieutenant of the Dental Corps of the Oklahoma National Guard. Politically he is a republican, where national questions and issues are involved but casts a local independent ballot. He belongs to Union Lodge, No. 11I, A. F. & A. M., at Cushing, is a Consistory Mason of Guthrie and a member of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Tulsa. He is greatly interested in music and figures prominently in musical circles, becoming one of the organizers of the male chorus of Tulsa, of which he is the vice president. He turns to hunting and fishing for recreation, greatly enjoying outdoor sports of this character, but never allows anything to inter- fere with the faithful performance of his professional duties and in his chosen field has gained distinction and prominence. He was one of the first to specialize on crown and removable bridge work and his high standing in his profession is shown in the fact that each year he has conducted postgraduate courses, keep- ing constantly in touch with the most advanced scientific research, investigation and discovery.
WARREN G. GUISS.
Warren G. Guiss, secretary of the McMan Oil and Gas Company, with offices in the Drew building, was born in Crawford county, Ohio, June 22, 1881, a son of John and Susan (Fry) Guiss. His parents were both natives of that state, where the father was successfully engaged in the mercantile business until about 1905, when he retired. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having served one year and his death occurred in November, 1920, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Mrs. Guiss is living and makes her home at New Washington, Ohio.
Warren G. Guiss was reared and educated in Ohio and after completing the Washington high school course entered Heidelberg University. After graduating from that institution he taught school for two years and then removing to Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, took a commercial course and as a result entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad for one and one-half years. In 1905 he came west and locating at Bartlesville, then in Indian Territory, secured work in the office of J. S. Glenn, junior member of the firm of Barnsdale & Glenn. In 1907 he removed with Mr. Glenn to Tulsa, remaining in his employ until, upon the death
672
HISTORY OF TULSA
of the former, he became secretary of the Pulaski Oil Company. After four years in that business he resigned to take charge of the office of the McMan Oil Company and became active in that connection in 1913. His executive ability was soon recognized and some time later he was made secretary of the company, a position he still holds. He is accounted one of the energetic, prosperous and capable business men of the town, a stanch supporter of all worthy and beneficial movements, and a general favorite among those with whom he has come into contact.
Although Mr. Guiss is a stanch supporter of the republican party he has never been a seeker for personal preferment in public affairs, preferring to devote his whole attention to his business interests. Fraternally he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has thoroughly identified his in- terests with those of the community and can be counted upon to do his part in furthering the public welfare.
CHAUNCEY M. GILLESPIE, M. D.
Tulsa has a long list of capable physicians, men whose thorough training well qualified them for the active and responsible duties of the profession and in this connection Chauncey M. Gillespie is well known, becoming a resident of Tulsa in 1918. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, May 4, 1879, his parents being Robert and Katherine (Watters) Gillespie, both of whom were natives of the beautiful Emerald isle, where the father was a missionary of the Presbyterian church. He went abroad in missionary work, spending thirty-five years in India. Both he and his wife have passed away, leaving a family of eight children.
Dr. Gillespie of this review pursued his education in a boarding school of London, England, and later in the University of Edinburgh. Coming to the. United States in 1904, and wishing to enter upon a professional career he fin- ished at Loyola University of Chicago and won his M. D. degree in 1910, having devoted four years to medical studies. Since February, 1918, he has resided in Tulsa, where he has gained a large general practice.
On July 4, 1910, Dr. Gillespie was married to Miss Alexis F. Bisen of Whit- ing, Indiana. They are members of the Holy Family Roman Catholic church. Dr. Gillespie is identified with the Knights of Columbus. He was secretary of the board of health at Whiting, Indiana, when America entered the World war and volunteered for service but was not accepted. He belongs to the Tulsa County, Oklahoma State and American Medical Associations.
FRANK E. PERKINS.
Frank E. Perkins, oil producer of Tulsa, was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1870, a son of Nelson and Martha ( Black) Perkins, who were natives of Canada and came to the United States in 1867. The father settled in Pennsylvania and became an oil producer of that state, continuing in the business there until 1915, when he came to Tulsa, where he and his wife are now living retired, making their home at No. 2506 East Eighth street.
Frank E. Perkins was reared and educated in Venango county, Pennsyl- vania, and at Bradford, that state, and when his textbooks were put aside went
673
HISTORY OF TULSA
into the oil business, spending twenty-five years with the Jennings interests, oil producers of Pittsburgh. In 1910 he removed to Texas, where he purchased a ranch and operated that place, being engaged in general farming and the pro- duction of fruit and also stock raising. After three years residence at San Antonio, Texas, he came to Tulsa and accepted the position of vice president and general manager of the Quaker Oil & Gas Company, serving as such until 1915, when he became identified with the Tidal Oil Company, with which he was associated until 1919. At that date he began to devote his entire time to his own interests in Okmulgee, Pawnee, Osage and other fields, with offices in the Kennedy building. His affairs have been wisely and profitably conducted, and he not only derives a substantial income from his Texas ranch but also from oil production in the mid-continent field.
In July, 1893, Mr. Perkins was married to Miss Elizabeth L. Quigley, a daughter of David and Anna Quigley, natives of Ireland, who came to the new world in early life, settling in Butler county, Pennyslvania, where the father became an oil producer, there residing until his death, which occurred in 1908, while his wife survived until 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have become parents of two children : Lillian, the wife of L. B. Holt, a resident of Cleveland, Okla- homa ; and Margaret H., the wife of H. H. Taylor, living in the Lorton apart- ments in Tulsa.
Mr. Perkins is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and politically is a democrat, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. The principles which have ever governed his conduct are such as will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny, and he has at all times commanded the respect and goodwill of those with whom business and social relations have brought him in contact.
CHESLEY C. HERNDON.
Chesley C. Herndon, vice president and counsel of Skelly Oil Company with offices in the Unity building, is associated with one of the leading business interests in Tulsa. He was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, on the 26th of August, 1886, a son of Thomas and Laura ( Coleman), Herndon, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Tennessee. The ancestors in both paternal and maternal lines were early residents of Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina, being among the well known families of those states. Thomas Herndon served for four years in the Confederate army during the Civil war, being captain of Company L, Fourteenth Tennessee Infantry. He participated in many of the important battles of the conflict and during one engagement in which he was shot through the leg and hip, was so disabled that he could not escape and was taken prisoner, being confined on Johnson's Island for a period of fourteen months, at the termination of which time he was exchanged. At the close of hostilities he returned to Tennessee and locating in Clarksville engaged in the leaf tobacco business, which he followed for many years. At the time of his death in 1918 he was residing in Gulfport, Mississippi, with a daughter. Mrs. Herndon is still making her home there.
The public schools of Clarksville, Tennessee, afforded Chesley C. Herndon a preliminary education, which was later continued in Paducah, Kentucky, and then in due time he enrolled as a student in Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, and was graduated in law from that institution with the class of 1909.
674
HISTORY OF TULSA
The following year he spent in practicing his profession at Nashville and then removed to Chickasha, Oklahoma, where after practicing for three years, he was appointed first assistant United States attorney by Woodrow Wilson and removed to Muskogee, this state. After serving one and one-half years in that capacity he resigned to remove to Tulsa and to engage there in the practice of the law. Later he retired again from the practice in order to aid in the organization of Skelly Oil Company. He was successful in that undertaking and upon the organization of that company in 1919 became its vice president and counsel, a position he still holds.
In September of the year 1912 Mr. Herndon was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Dunn of Garden City, Kansas. Her parents were James M. and Alta (Lewis) Dunn and they removed from Illinois to western Kansas in 1885, locat- ing in Garden City. There the father passed away in November, 1917. Mrs. Dunn is still living. Eight children were born to their union, seven of whom are living, one of them being Judge Jesse J. Dunn, former supreme court justice of Oklahoma. For six years he held that office, part of the time serving as chief justice, and in 1913 he tendered his resignation and removed to California, where he is now engaged in practicing law at Oakland. Judge Dunn has many friends throughout Oklahoma, in which state he is prominently known and highly respected. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Herndon two children have been born: Alta Ethel, whose birth occurred in April, 1914, and who passed away in November, 1917; and Laura Gertrude, born in July, 1916.
Mr. Herndon gives his political endorsement to the democratic party, having firm belief in the efficacy of the principles of that party as factors in good government. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, of which order he is an exemplary member, belonging to the blue lodge and chapter. The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. As counsel for Skelly Oil Company Mr. Herndon has displayed marked ability. He is well versed in all branches of jurisprudence, is clear in his reasoning, careful in his analysis and logical in his deductions. The business of Skelly Oil Company has become one of broad scope and importance, while the high reputation of the company constitutes its best business asset. Mr. and Mrs. Herndon reside at 314 West Haskell place.
WILLIAM O. LIGON, JR.
William O. Ligon, Jr., of the firm of William O. Ligon & Company, account- ants, with offices in the Kennedy building in Tulsa, is connected with a business of immense proportions and in fact the company's position is one of leadership in its line in the city. Thorough preliminary training and wide experience have well qualified Mr. Ligon for the duties that devolve upon him in this connection. He was born in Liberty, Mississippi, July 28, 1880, a son of William O. and Jennie (Davis) Ligon, who were likewise natives of Mississippi. The father's birth oc- curred in Liberty, and he became a prominent cotton merchant, following that business to the time when his son William O. was eight years of age. At that time he became United States marshal under General Wade Adams, and was on duty during the period of the Civil war from 1861 to 1865. He married Jennie Davis, who was born in Mississippi, and they became the parents of five sons, all of whom are living. The parents, however, have passed away.
William O. Ligon, whose name introduces this review, pursued a high school
675
HISTORY OF TULSA
education in his native state and in his boyhood started out to provide for his own support. He worked with various railway and sugar companies for a number of years, and learned from each new experience the lesson of life therein contained. Steadily he worked his way upward and has reached a creditable position in business circles.
On the 25th of November, 1916, he came to Tulsa from New Orleans, where he had acted as accountant for large interests, and has since made his home here. In 1917 he established his present business and the firm is today in the forefront among the accountancy firms west of the Mississippi river. Not only does it have among its clientele the large oil interests, banks and other corporations of Tulsa, but maintains branch offices in other western cities. They employ fourty-four experts, some of them very high salaried men, getting ten thousand dollars annu- ally. They have large and splendidly equipped offices in the Kennedy building, and the business is one of the most important of the kind in the southwest.
Mr. Ligon was married to Miss Ada Blanche Hooks of Texas, a daughter of J. D. Hooks, one of the pioneers and wealthy cattlemen of Texas. Mrs. Ligon is active in the leading social and club circles of Tulsa. By her marriage she has become the mother of two sons: Edward, eighteen years of age, now a student in the University of Oklahoma ; and Louis (III), at school.
Mr. Ligon is a veteran of the Spanish-American war. He was in service in Cuba and the Philippines, and following his return to his native land was active for fifteen years in the organization of militia companies in the south. He organ- ized a cavalry company of Jennings, Louisiana, of which he became captain, and this later was made the headquarters troop of the Rainbow Division in the World war. Mr. Ligon is a Mason, holding membership in Progressive Lodge, No. 262, A. F. & A. M., and he also belongs to Oklahoma Consistory, No. I. A. A. S. R., at Guthrie, and to Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Tulsa. He belongs to the Tulsa-Ozark Club, organized for hunting and fishing purposes, the Country Club, which is a golf club, and also to the Petroleum Club. He is a man of pleas- ing personality as well as of high attainment in his profession, winning friends wherever he goes, and is classed with the honored and representative residents of Tulsa.
F. JULIUS FOHS.
Among those who have made the most detailed study of the mid-continent oil fields and whose broad scientfic knowledge enables them to discern conditions and recognize evidences that are as a seal to others, is F. Julius Fohis, promi- nently known as a consulting geologist of New York and Tulsa. He was born in the former city, March Ist, 1884, and is a son of Mark E. and Frederica ( Baum) Fohs.
At the age of fourteen F. Julius Fohs began his geologic studies with a view of making that his life work. He lectured at the Kentucky State University during 1906, 1907 and 1908, in the School of Mines, and took postgraduate work in Co- lumbia University, New York city, in 1909. His activity included the superin- tendency of mines in 1901 and employment as field assistant geologist of the branch of the United States Survey in 1902. He afterward became engineer in charge of mines, thus continuing from October. 1902, until March, 1905. He was assistant state geologist of Kentucky from March, 1905, until 1912, when he opened an office at Lexington, as consulting geologist, specializing in oil-finding.
Vol. III-16
676
HISTORY OF TULSA
He opened his Tulsa office in 1913. He is the author of a number of bulletins and papers on coal, oil, and various minerals. Mr. Fohs is identified chiefly with the Humphreys-Fohs group of companies, the Newblock Oil Company, the Ho- maokla Oil Company, etc.
On September 16, 1908, he married Miss Cora Baldauf of Henderson, Ken- tucky, and they now have two daughters: Ella B. and Frances B. Fohs. They resided in Tulsa from 1913 to 1918, but since that time have made their home in New York, although Mr. Fohs spends about half his time in Tulsa and the oil fields.
Mr. Fohs is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine; a mem- ber of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and of the Bankers' Club of New York. He was also one of the chief factors in the building of Temple Israel in this city.
BERNARD H. LASKY.
Bernard H. Lasky, petroleum engineer and geologist, practicing as a member of the firm of Mowry Bates & Bernard H. Lasky, with offices in the Atco build- ing in Tulsa, was born in San Francisco, California, January 4, 1892, a son of Michael C. Lasky, a native of Los Angeles, California, and now proprietor of a large optical goods establishment at 832 Market street, San Francisco. He is very prominent in business and Masonic circles in that city. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Kate Brownstone, was born in San Francisco and has become the mother of four children.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.