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is a son of Marcus L. Lockwood, deceased, who was one of the pioneers of the petroleum industry and one whose name is linked with all that is progressive and honorable in connection with the history of the oil fields of the country. More- over, Robert R. Lockwood is descended from ancestry honorable and distin- guished, the line being traced back to 1630, when Robert Lockwood came from England and cast in his lot with the colonists of Massachusetts. His great grand- father was one who aided in winning independence for the nation and afterward became identified with the pioneer development of western New York. From such stock Robert R. Lockwood sprung and his entire course has been in harmony with that of an honored ancestry. After completing a high school course in James- town, New York, he entered Yale College, continuing his studies there until 1907, and following the completion of his more specifically literary course he became a law student at Harvard and won the LL. B. degree in 1910. Return- ing to his home in Oklahoma, for in the meantime his parents had removed to this state, he was admitted to the bar here and entered upon the practice of law but soon became actively identified with oil interests in association with his father and is today a prominent figure in oil circles in the southwest, having succeeded his father in the presidency of the Sabine Oil & Marketing Com- pany, one of the strong corporations operating in the mid-continent field. He is also a director of the Tulsa Loan & Savings Association and at all times mani- fests sound judgment and a progressive spirit that have brought about gratify- ing results.
In 1911 Mr. Lockwood was married to Miss Frances Black of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a daughter of Joseph Black. They have three sons: Robert R., seven years of age; Marcus Lafayette; and Edward. Mr. Lockwood is a thirty- second degree Mason and member of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Tulsa Board of Education and takes a very active interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the schools and the advancement of the edu- cational standards of the city. In fact he supports all interests and activities which have to do with civic progress and improvement and his course has been marked by advancement at every point in his career.
FRANK STEELE CRAVER.
Frank Steele Craver is an oil geologist of exceptional ability, who is operat- ing extensively in connection with the development of the oil industry in the southwest as a member of the firm of Craver & Greene of Tulsa. From early manhood he has been identified with operations in oil and has been a most close and thorough student of the scientific principles which underlie the develop- ment of the oil fields. He was born in Grinnell, Iowa, August 6, 1877, and is the son of Charles F. Craver, whose birth occurred in Franklinville, New Jersey, and who devoted some time to the manufacture of headers and binders. He is now living in Tulsa, where he is connected with the oil business. He married Angeline Hambleton, a native of Columbiana county, Ohio, and they became the parents of two sons, Frank S. and Arthur H., the latter now vice president of the Charles Noble Oil & Gas Company. The parents are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the work of which Mr. Craver has taken an active and helpful part. He has now reached the age of seventy- eight years but is still connected with business interests.
Frank S. Craver obtained a grammar school education in his native city
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and afterward attended the Harvey high school of Chicago. Ile then returned to Iowa and entered Grinnell College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1900 with the Ph. B. degree. Later he attended the Boston Institute of Technology and completed a course in mining engineering with the class of 1905. His college studies, however, were not continuous for in the interim he had entered business and from 1901 until 1903 was purchasing agent for the Austin Manufacturing Company of Chicago, and in 1904 became a director of the Caney River Oil Company, filling that position until 1906. He was then a member of the firm of Barry & Craver, oil producers, from 1907 until 1912. In the latter year he became head of the firm of Craver & Company, operators in oil, so continuing for about two years. He next was elected president of the Blackhawk Petroleum Company, operating in Oklahoma and Texas and continued in that connection for some time. He afterward formed a partnership with George J. Greene, under the firm style of Craver & Greene, who engaged in the general oil business, particularly in connection with the geologic phase. He is an oil geologist of exceptional ability and a most ex- cellent general executive. In addition to his activities in the oil business, Mr. Craver has become an investor in various corporations and an active factor in a number of business undertakings. He has executed contracts for the paving of streets in St. Joseph, Missouri, and built the St. Joseph & Savannah Interurban Railroad and was secretary and treasurer of the Homestead Loan & Improvement Company of Kansas City. He is still identified with a number of important corporations. He first visited Tulsa in 1907 but for some years thereafter made his home in Kansas City, returning to Tulsa in 1914 to take up his permanent abode here.
In 1910 Mr. Craver was married to Clara L. Rosenow, of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, a daughter of August Rosenow, at one time the proprietor of a saw- mill at Stevens Point. Mr. and Mrs. Craver are parents of two children : Jean, six years of age; and Junior, a little lad of three summers.
Mr. Craver is a member of the Tulsa Country Club, the Petroleum Club, University Clubs of Tulsa and Kansas City and the Quid Libet Club. He likewise belongs to the Sigma Chi and to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he finds recreation in hunting and fishing. His friends-and they are legion- think of him as a high class, cultured gentleman, and he enjoys a most enviable reputation as an oil geologist, his ability placing him in the foremost rank of his profession.
ROBERT MAXWELL MOODY.
Robert Maxwell Moody is numbered among those who make up the per- sonnel of the Exchange National Bank, the strongest financial institution of Oklahoma. Tulsa has numbered him among her citizens since 1913, and recog- nizes in him one whose spirit of enterprise has brought him to a creditable posi- tion in financial circles, and will carry him farther toward the goal of ultimate success in later years. He is numbered among the substantial citizens whom Pennsylvania has furnished to the southwest, his birth having occurred in Titus- ville on the 25th day of January, 1883. His father, George O. Moody, was a physician, who was born in the state of Maine, and in early manhood prepared Vol. III-21
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for the practice of medicine, to which he devoted his life. He was a soldier of the Union army, thus manifesting his loyalty to the federal government, and he was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church and of the Masonic frater- nity. He married Miss Kingsland, a native of the state of New York, and they became the parents of three children.
Robert Maxwell Moody was educated in the public and high schools of Ti- tusville, Pennsylvania, and in Cornell University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1905. His life has been devoted to the banking business, his initial step being made as an employe of a bank of Titusville. He remained with the institution in various capacities for fifteen years and gained broad and intimate knowledge of the business in its various phases. The opportunities of the growing southwest attracted him, however, and in 1913 he made his way to the rapidly developing city of Tulsa, where he became associated with the Exchange National Bank as chief teller. He was made assistant cashier in 1915 and has since occupied this position. He is also treasurer of the Exchange Trust company of Tulsa.
In January, 1907, Mr. Moody was married to Miss Jane Crosby, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Alonzo Crosby of Coudersport, Pennsylvania. Mr. Moody is well known in club circles, belonging to the New University Club of Tulsa, of which he is the treasurer, also to the Tulsa Country Club, and to the Kiwanis Club. Of the last named he is a charter member and was at one time its treasurer. Fraternally he is connected with Shepard Lodge, No. 413, A. F. & A. M. He stands very high in social and club circles, his strongly marked characteristics making for popularity wherever he is known. He is active in all civic and charitable matters, supporting every plan and measure for the general good, and was a most earnest worker in the liberty loan during the World war and in other war activities. His entire life has been actuated by a spirit of advancement and he has made the public welfare a matter of per- sonal concern, as well as the advancement of his individual fortunes through his close personal application to business.
JOHN B. BROWN.
John B. Brown, an oil producer of Tulsa, member of the firm of McFann & Brown, who are very successful in their chosen field of labor, was born on a farm in Taney county, Missouri, October 28, 1880, his parents being James and Mattie (Evans) Brown, who were likewise natives of Taney county, where for many years the father followed the occupation of farming. The parents have now passed away and of their three children one has departed this life.
John B. Brown obtained a public school education in Missouri and in Texas and in 1900 came to Oklahoma, purchasing farm land in Tulsa county. He still has important agricultural interests, owning a very large farm whereon he raises twenty-five thousand bushels of wheat each year as well as a big amount of cotton and other crops, his land being most carefully and scientifically tilled, so that splendid results accrue. In 1916 he came to Tulsa, primarily to give his children better educational advantages, and here became interested in the production of oil, in which business he has met with substantial success as a partner in the firm of McFann & Brown. Mr. Brown has also been largely interested in cattle, owning a large ranch in Tulsa county.
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In 1906 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Lela L. Posey of Texas, and they have three children: Connie Lee, John Benjamin and Arkile Lee. Quiet and unassuming in manner, yet forceful, capable and resourceful, Mr. Brown com- mands the respect and confidence of all who know him. He has won success and his pleasure therein comes from the opportunities it enables him to place before his family, for his interest centers in the welfare of those of his own household. As an agriculturalist and as an oil producer, however, his position in Oklahoma is one of prominence.
HOWARD WILLIAM JEWELL.
Howard William Jewell, an active figure in the club life of Tulsa, popular with an extensive circle of friends and well known in business circles as the superin- tendent of the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency at Tulsa, was born in Goodland, Kansas, February 18, 1896. His father, Clayton Byron Jewell, was born in Topeka, Kansas, and devoted many years of his life to railroad service, becoming identified with the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Superintendent of the Mexican Central Railroad. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the First Presbyterian church of Topeka and he passed away in that faith in April, 1907. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Carrie N. Jewell, is still living. They were parents of two sons, the younger being Earl Glen, a resident of Kansas City.
Howard William Jewell was educated in the schools of Benton, Missouri, and in the Kansas City manual training high school, after which he attended the English College and Ames College of Iowa, from which he was graduated with the class of 1920. He started out upon his business career as an employe of the Simplex Spreader Manufacturing Company, with offices in the Traders building of Kansas City, having charge of the factory and acting as manager of the office for a short time. He was connected with Bradstreet in Kansas City for four months and was then made superintendent of the Tulsa branch, in which position he continues, well qualified by previous business experience and adaptability for the position which he is now filling. Mr. Jewell is a Veteran of Foreign Wars. He has had three years' military experience and was a second lieutenant of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Field Artillery on the Mexican border and afterward went overseas, going to France with the Thirty-fifth Division. He was on the battle front and was wounded. He returned to America on the 21st of February, 1919, with a most creditable military record. His religious faith is that of the Christian church. He turns for recreation to athletics and to horseback riding, being very fond of horses. He is a popular young man, highly regarded in business and social circles, prominent in club life and with a host of friends.
PAT MALLOY.
Pat Malloy, a lawyer and orator of distinguished ability, is now the general counsel of the Constantin Refining Company, one of the largest corporations of this character in the world. In a profession where advancement depends entirely upon individual merit and ability he has steadily worked his way upward to the position of leadership in which he is now found. Mr. Malloy is a native of Iowa, his birth having occurred in Salix, January 7, 1885, his parents being John and
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Kate (Gibbons) Malloy. He pursued his education in St. Joseph's Academy of Salix, lowa, and in Notre Dame University of Indiana, from which he was grad- uated. At the present writing, in 1921, he is president of the alumni association of the university.
Having carefully prepared for a professional career, Mr. Malloy was admitted to the bar of Oklahoma on the 20th of February, 1908, and entered at once upon the active practice of his profession. He served for two terms as county attorney of Tulsa county, being elected to the position on the democratic ticket. He won high praise from the bench in the prosecution of a murder trial and the defendant was afterward granted a new trial on the ground that the jury returned a verdict under the spell of Mr. Malloy's argument rather than upon facts based in the evidence. Leading lawyers of this section of the country claim that it was the greatest speech ever delivered in the west.
Mr. Malloy is largely a self-educated as well as a self-made man. He was left an orphan at the age of fourteen years, both his father and his mother meeting death in a cyclone at Salix, Iowa, which also carried off two of his brothers and a sister. Though early thrown upon his own resources, he has wisely used his tal- ents and his opportunities and step by step he has advanced. Following his admis- sion to the bar his progress has been continuous, notwithstanding that advancement at the bar is proverbially slow. He has ever prepared his cases with great thor- oughness and care and every statement that he makes is made in a convincing way that leaves no doubt as to the correctness of his position nor as to the logic of his conclusions. He is now the general counsel for the great Constantin Re- fining Company, one of the largest in the world, and is displaying in corporation practice ability equal to that which he early manifested in connection with criminal law.
On the 5th of October, 1910, Mr. Malloy was married to Lenore Harrington of Sioux City, Iowa, and they have become parents of two children, John and Pat, aged, respectively, seven and five years. Mr. Malloy was for two years state deputy of the Knights of Columbus of Oklahoma and for many years has been national delegate from this state. Fraternally he is also connected with the Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks and has been called to all parts of the middle west to deliver addresses at memorial services and on other public occasions. He seems never at a loss for a word and always to have chosen the right word, being a most fluent speaker and one who at all times carries conviction to the minds of his hearers.
HAROLD ROY GRUBER.
The industrial interests of Tulsa find a worthy representative in Harold Roy Gruber, who is the secretary and treasurer of the Muskogee Tool Com- pany. He was born in Elk City, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1878, a son of Jacob and Emma (McClelland) Gruber. The father is now living in Ranger, Texas, and is associated with the Muskogee Tool Company. His wife, who was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, passed away in 1909. In their family were six children, five of whom are living.
Harold Roy Gruber attended the schools of Elk City, Pennsylvania, and took up the work of rig building when fifteen years of age, becoming familiar with the work of constructing tank lines and other industrial activity that has to do with the oil business and the construction of machinery. From the Ist of
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June, 1899, until January, 1911, he was with the Oil Well Supply Company, and on the 3d of February, 1911, he made his way to the southwest, removing from West Virginia to Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was chosen secretary and treasurer of the Muskogee Tool Company on the IIth of January, 1911, and filled that position until December, 1912, at which date he became connected with the Interstate Pipe & Cordage Company, remaining as one of its officials until the Ist of May, 1916. He then became active with the Muskogee Tool Company, manufacturers of drilling and fishing tools for oil, gas and artesian wells.
On the 2d of December, 1909, Mr. Gruber was married to Miss Grace Buchanan, who was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Russell F. Buchanan, upon whose father's farm was developed the first well in the Brad- ford oil field. Mr. and Mrs. Gruber have become parents of a daughter, Emily, born September 19, 1909.
Mr. Gruber is well known in Masonic circles, belonging to Sistersville, West Virginia Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; Chapter, No. 27, R. A. M., of Sistersville, West Virginia : Mountain States Commandery, No. 14, K. T .; and Bedouin Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Muskogee, Oklahoma. He also has membership with the United Commercial Travelers. He is very active in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association and is a most public-spirited citizen, giving earnest support to every plan and measure for the public good. Those who know him, and he has a wide acquaintance, recognize in him a most successful business man, whose well directed interests have brought him substantial pros- perity and they also name him as a popular citizen by reason of his genial nature and cordial disposition and his fidelity to high standards.
ALLAN R. SHAW.
Since August, 1919, Allan R. Shaw has been attorney for and vice president of the Oklahoma Central Oil Company with offices at 206 Cosden building. Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been associated with that concern since its organization in 1919.
Born on the 6th day of September, 1888, at Lima, Ohio, he was the son of Thomas R. and Fannie H. (Halladay) Shaw. His parents were both born in that state, where his father was a prominent member of the legal profession until about 1896, when he engaged in the oil business and has been an independent operator since that time. He is now operating in the Wyoming fields and is making his home in Denver. Mrs. Shaw passed away November 23, 1918.
The public schools of Lima, Ohio, afforded Allan R. Shaw an education and after graduating from the high school there he entered the University of Michigan. remaining two years, when he became a student of the University of Kansas, grad- uating in law from that institution with the class of 1911. He then commenced the practice of his profession in Kansas City, Missouri. Removing to Tulsa, he became associated, three years later, with the legal department of the Southwestern Petroleum Company, in which connection he continued until May, 1918, when he entered the employment of the Emergency Fleet Corporation at Pascagoula, Miss- issippi. He was enrolled at the last officer's training camp at Camp Fremont, California.
On the 4th day of June, 1917, occurred the marriage of Mr. Shaw to Oreta Elizabeth Moore, a daughter of John T. and Lou (Rankin) Moore, the former
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a native of England and the latter of Ohio. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moore are living and are residing at Lawrence, Kansas.
Since age conferred upon Mr. Shaw the right of franchise he has been a stanch supporter of the democratic party. He is a member of the First Presby- terian church of Tulsa and fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonging to Delta Lodge, No. 425, and Indian Consistory, No. 2, at McAlester. Mr. Shaw is a member of the Tulsa City Club and the University Club and he is likewise a member of the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw reside at 1601 South Detroit avenue. In his professional and business connections he has won the confidence and respect of many and has won for himself a host of friends.
ALFRED C. SPITZNAGEL.
Alfred C. Spitznagel, proprietor of the Tulsa Stove & Foundry Company at Sand Springs, was born in Peoria, Illinois, June 17, 1865, a son of Alfred C. and Catherine (Rehil) Spitznagel, natives of Canada.
Alfred C. Spitznagel attended school at Peoria, Illinois, and graduated from the Dudley Polytechnic Institute in 1888. For ten years he was superintendent of the Woods, Evertz Stove Company at Springfield, Missouri, as well as stock- holder in the company, but in 1912 severed his connections with them and came to Tulsa county, where he erected a modern stove factory and foundry, covering four acres of land and located at Sand Springs. He engages in the manufacture of stoves, a general line of castings, gray iron, brass, bronze and aluminum, and his business is of extensive proportions, covering the states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Texas. The demand is constantly increasing and the plant employs more than seventy people. Mr. Spitznagel is a stockholder in the Atlas Life Insurance Company and the Tulsa Structural Steel Company.
On the 25th of January, 1888, occurred the marriage of Mr. Spitznagel to Ricka Becker and to them seven children have been born: Grover C., Keith P., Hazel, Opal, Esther, Claudine and Electa.
Mr. Spitznagel gives his political endorsement to the republican party but has never sought personal preferment, devoting his whole attention to the up- building of his business interests. Fraternally he is a Mason, being a Shriner and having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and he is like- wise a Knight of Pythias. He is a man of strong character, sound judgment and thorough practical information and these qualities, combined with an un- swerving integrity, have brought about his present-day success. He takes an earnest and unselfish interest in public affairs and any movement for the pro- motion of the general welfare is assured his stanch support.
ARTHUR B. HONNOLD.
Tulsa, with her pulsing industrial activities and growing commercial interests, is constantly drawing to herself men of marked ability in professional lines. Especially in connection with the operation of the oil fields there has come splendid opportunity for the able lawyer, because of the many involved and complex prob- lems that have had to do with the corporation interests here represented. In this
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connection Arthur B. Honnold has made for himself a creditable name and place as a member of the firm of Mason & Honnold. He was born on a farm in Edgar county, Illinois, July 12, 1876, a son of Benjamin and Alice ( Hallock ) Honnokl. the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was born in Coles county, Illinois. The father removed to Illinois when a lad of twelve years and afterward went with his family to Kansas. He devoted the greater part of his life to farming, but at the time of the Civil war responded to the country's call for aid and served with the Union army. He was a member of the Baptist church and also of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He passed away in 1910, while his wife survived for a decade, her death occurring in March, 1920. They had a family of seven children, four of whom are living.
Arthur B. Honnold attended the public and high schools of Winfield, Kansas, later acquiring a university education and being admitted to practice law in 1902. He spent the most of his boyhood and youth in the southwestern part of the Sun- flower state. He entered upon active practice in Pottawatomie county, Oklahoma, and later practiced in Oklahoma City and also in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1917 he came to Tulsa, where he has remained, being now a member of the well known firm of Mason & Honnold. In 1908 he became widely known as the author of Honnold's Oklahoma "Justice," now in its second edition. He has since made many other valuable contributions to the literature of the profession, and in 1917 his Workmen's Compensation was published in two volumes by the Vernon Law Book Company. His investigations and researches have been broad and deep, while his opinions carry weight and authority to all who read his works. He is today not only known as the author of many legal volumes and regarded as a deep and thorough student of law, but is widely recognized as a foremost prac- titioner.
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