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ciety. He has at all times used every opportunity that would enable him to pro- mote his professional knowledge and skill and his scientific attainments have placed him in a point of leadership in his chosen field. Aside from his practice he is a director of the Guarantee Title & Trust Company of Tulsa.
In June, 1900, at Lake Okoboji, lowa, Dr. Roth was married to Miss Anna Crawford, a daughter of Oliver Crawford. Dr. and Mrs. Roth have two chil- dren: John Edward, Jr., and A. Walton.
Dr. and Mrs. Roth are members of the Presbyterian church, in which he is serving as an elder. Mrs. Roth is president of the Young Women's Christian Association and she was chairman of the women's division of the Navy League and chairman of the women's division of the United War Work Campaign dur- ing the World war. In 1917 she served as a member of the executive commit- tee in charge of the Red Cross drive. She belongs to the Tuesday Book Club and also to the Shakespeare Club. The memberships of Dr. Roth extend to Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, A. F. & A. M., and to the Chamber of Commerce, as well as to various club organizations, including the Rotary, Automobile, City and Country Clubs. He is quite active in the Rotary Club, but his greatest activity perhaps outside of business is in connection with the church. He was a former teacher in the Bible school.
ROGER SEYMOUR SHERMAN.
Roger Seymour Sherman, whose literary training at Harvard was supple- mented by preparation for the bar in the University of Pennsylvania, is now engaged in law practice in Tulsa as a member of the firm of West, Sherman, Davidson & Moore, ranking high in the legal circles of the state. Mr. Sherman is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred at Titusville on the 11th of March, 1879. He is descended in both the paternal and maternal lines from ancestry represented in the Revolutionary war. His parents were Roger and Alma (Seymour) Sherman, the former a native of Tennessee, while the latter was born in Michigan. The father, also an attorney by profession, served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil war and for many years was a resident of Titusville, Pennsylvania, where he passed away. His political allegiance was at all times given to the democratic party and his position upon any vital question was never an equivocal one. Fraternally he was a Mason loyal to the teachings of the craft, and his religious faith was that of the Episocpal church. To him and his wife were born two children, the daughter being Mrs. Thomas W. Phil- lips of Butler, Pennsylvania.
The only son, Roger S. Sherman, having pursued a high school education in his native city, afterward attended a preparatory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and then entered Harvard for his literary course, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation with the class of 1901. A review of the broad field of business, with its varied opportunities along industrial, commercial, ag- ricultural and professional lines, determined him to enter upon the study of law and after a special course in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania he was admitted to the bar in September, 1907. He entered upon active practice in the Indian Territory and for a time continued alone in the work of his pro- fession but on the Ist of February, 1915, entered into his present partnership relation as a member of the firm of West, Sherman, Davidson & Moore. Their position at the Oklahoma bar is a creditable one and Mr. Sherman is widely rec-
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ognized as a lawyer of ability, who most carefully analyzes and prepares his cases and whose reasoning is scund and logical. He belongs to the Oklahoma State and American Par Associations and his fellow members of the profession speak of him in terms of high regard.
Professional interests, however, were put aside by Mr. Sherman in 1917 in order that he might aid his country in the struggle for world democracy. On the 13th of May, 1917, he enlisted and went to the Officers' Training Camp at Little Rock, Arkansas, where he won a commission as captain of field artillery, afterwards being assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artil- lery of the Eighty-seventh Division. He went to France on the 20th of August, 1918, spending six months abroad and returning on the 21st of March, 1919. His military" record was in harmony with that of his Revolutionary war an- cestry and with the record of the family through all the intervening years-a record characterized by patriotic loyalty to the country at all times.
In his religious belief Mr. Sherman is a Presbyterian and politically he is a democrat. He belongs to the University Club, the Country Club, the Petroleum Club and to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 946, of Tulsa.
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GEORGE COYLE.
George Coyle, general superintendent of the Prairie Fipe Line Company and a dynamic figure in the business circles of Tulsa, was born in Olean, New York, October 13. 1864, his parents being M. A. and Ellen Coyle. The father was born in Ireland and when twenty-four years of age came to the United States, where he engaged in business as a tanner. He has departed this life but is survived by three of the eight children of the family.
George Coyle, after obtaining a public school education which was concluded by a course in the high school, started out in the business world in the capacity of bookkeeper but has long been connected with the oil business and began his career as a pipe line man by entering the employ of the United Pipe Lines, the predecessor of. the National Transit Company. For two years Mr. Coyle op- erated in the oil fields of New York and Pennsylvania and then went to Ohio to become an employe of the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, with which he remained until 1903. That year witnessed his removal to Kansas and for some time he was in the pipe line department of the Prairie Oil & Gas Company at Independ- ence. Faithfulness and capability led to his steady progress and frequent promo- tions, and with the organization of the Prairie Pipe Line Company he was made its general superintendent and one of the directors. He has since concentrated his efforts and energy upon the management of the business, which is now conducted under the name of the Prairie Pipe Line Company, with offices in the Exchange Bank building in Tulsa. Mr. Coyle has been connected with the mid-continent oil field since 1903 and has made his home in Tulsa since 1909. Important and extensive are the duties that devolve upon him, requiring execu- tive ability, keen insight and sagacity and indefatigable energy. He has large numbers of men under his direction, must expend huge sums of money in carry- ing on the business and must know at every point how to accomplish the maxi- mum results with the minimum expenditure of time, labor and material. His long connection with oil interests has well qualified him for the work that devolves upon him and his pronounced success as a pipe line man is clearly demonstrated in the important position which he is now filling.
GEORGE COYLE
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On the 15th of March, 1891, Mr. Coyle was united in marriage to Miss Isabel Carmen, the wedding being celebrated at Bradner, Ohio. To them have been born three children: Harold, Carmen, and Kenneth.
Mr. Coyle is a member of the Country Club and the City Club and is also identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is likewise a fourth degree Knight of Columbus and belongs to the Holy Family parish of the Roman Catholic church. His entire life has been characterized by a steady progress that has continually brought him larger opportunities which he has eagerly and wisely utilized, not only in the upbuilding of his own fortunes but in the development of the natural resources of the state. Oklahoma's progress in recent years is attributable in large measure to the men of broad vision and of marked enterprise who have entered the oil fields and have made use of the natural resources of the state in this connection, and the work of George Coyle has been a vital element in producing results achieved.
EDWARD CROSSLAND.
Edward Crossland has filled the office of county attorney in Tulsa county, his elections being the direct evidence of his capability in office and the confi- dence reposed in him by his fellow townsmen. He was four years assistant county attorney when called to the office of county attorney, and discharged his duties with marked fidelity to the interests entrusted to his care. Mr. Crossland comes to Oklahoma from the state of Kentucky, his birth having occurred March 24, 1875, in Mayfield, Graves county. His parents were Samuel H. and Martha (Smith) Crossland, who were also natives of that state, the former born near Clinton in Hickman county, August 7, 1849, while the latter was born in Hopkinsville, Christian county, February 26, 1852. The father was a student in Washington & Lee University after completing the public school course and later was graduated from the Louisville Law College, thus qualifying for a professional career. He entered upon active practice at Mayfield, Graves county, where he continued to follow his profession until 1909, since which time he has been an honored and representative member of the bar of Paducah, Ken- tucky. He served for one term, from 1882 until 1886 as county attorney of Graves county and for six years as commonwealth attorney of the First Judicial District of Kentucky. His political allegiance has always been given to the dem- ocratic party and fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. In 1895 he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who passed away on the 10th of December of that year. Their seven children, of whom Edward is the eldest, are living, with the exception of one. It is interesting in this connection to know something of the family from which Mr. Crossland springs. His grandfather was Colonel Ed- ward Crossman, a native of Hickman county, Kentucky, who served for several terms on the bench of the common pleas and circuit courts and was also common- wealth attorney, while from 1872 to 1876 he represented his district in congress. He was a colonel of the Seventh Kentucky Infantry of the Confederate army during the Civil war and commanded a Kentucky brigade under General For- rest. He represented one of the oldest and most honored families of the Blue- grass state.
Edward Crossland at the usual age became a public school pupil at Mayfield and afterward continued his studies in the West Kentucky College, while later
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he matriculated in Central College at Danville, Kentucky, and won his LL. B. degree in 1900, pursuing his course there under the presidency of Hon. J. Proc- tor Knott. He was admitted to the bar, however, in March, 1898, and entered upon the practice of his profession in his native city. While there residing he was chosen for the office of city attorney and for more than a decade continued an active representative of the bar, enjoying a good practice. In August, 1910, he determined to try his fortune in the rapidly developing city of Tulsa and here opened an office for the general practice of law. Through the intervening period of eleven years he has remained here and in 1914 he was elected to the office of county attorney after having previously served as assistant county attorney. He was most wise and faithful in discharging the duties of the posi- tion, so that all who know aught of his career speak of his course in terms of the highest regard. Nor is this the only public office that he has filled, for while residing in Mayfield, Kentucky, he served on the bench of the county court of Graves county from January, 1906, until January, 1910. After removing to Tulsa he became a law partner of Judge Conn Linn and later an associate of B. T. Hainer and H. B. Martin. This covered the period up to his appointment to official position.
In 1917 Judge Crossland was united in marriage to Miss Leila Manson of Kansas City. By a former marriage he had two children: Samuel Hess, who was born April 25, 1902, and is now attending law school at Lebanon, Tennes- see; and Sue Hyatt, born January 26, 1904, and now a high school pupil. Mr. and Mrs. Crossland occupy a prominent position in the social circles of the city. He belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Knights of Pythias and in all matters of citizenship he stands for the most progressive element and by his support of a measure contributes to the success of those in- terests which are of material, social, intellectual and moral benefit.
HAROLD B. JUSTICE, M. D.
Dr. Harold B. Justice, a Tulsa physician who is specializing in urology, was born February 6, 1883, in St. Joseph, Missouri, his parents being S. H. and Hannah (Blake) Justice, natives of Illinois and New York, respectively. In young manhood the father started out in the business world and removing to St. Joseph, Missouri, there engaged in the hardware trade, being now presi- dent of the Robinson Heavy Hardware Company, a big wholesale concern. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Dr. Justice attended the public schools of his native city and afterward entered Ensworth Medical College at St. Joseph, where he won his M. D. de- gree in 1907. Later he studied in the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and served an interneship in several hospitals in St. Joseph, thus gain- ing that broad and valuable experience which comes through hospital practice. For a time he engaged in private practice in his native city and in 1917 removed to Sapulpa, Oklahoma, where he not only followed his profession but became one of the organizers and promoters of the Rotary Club of that place. Remov- ing to Tulsa he has since confined his practice to urology and has gained emi- nence as a specialist in this field. He belongs to the Tulsa County, Oklahoma State, American and Southern Medical Associations. At the time of the World war his professional skill was employed in connection with military activities. On the 25th of June, 1918, he enlisted in the United States army, being sent to Camp Travis and later assigned to Base Hospital, No. 121, for overseas service.
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Arriving in France he was assigned to Camp Hospital, No. 26, at St. Aignan, a famous rest camp, where he was in charge of the urological section and also active as chief surgeon of this hospital, containing twenty-two hundred beds. He was promoted to a captaincy April 25, 1919, and received his discharge on the 9th of July of the same year, reaching Tulsa on the 23d of September, 1919.
On the 9th of November, 1909, Dr. Justice was married at Morrison, Illinois, to Miss Shirley Mouck, a daughter of Louis Mouck, who passed away in Marcli, 1920. Dr. and Mrs. Justice have two children : Harriett and Gertrude.
Dr. Justice belongs to Sapulpa Lodge, No. 170, A. F. & A. M., also to the Consistory at Guthrie and the Elks lodge at Sapulpa and he has membership in Joe Carson Post of the American Legion. He is recognized as a young phy- sician of ability and prominence and his thorough training and broad practice have gained him fame in the field of urology.
FRANK HARROUN CASEBEER.
The rapid- growth and development of Tulsa is one of the miracles of the present century. Men of enterprise, coming into the southwest, have bent their energies toward the advancement and substantial improvement of the city in a way that has brought about marvelous results. Its commercial interests find a worthy representative in Frank Harroun Casebeer, who is the vice president of the Rosser-Casebeer Furniture Company, one of the largest enterprises of this kind in the city. He dates his residence in Tulsa from 1914, having arrived in this city in his early thirties. His birth occurred in Des Moines, Iowa, No- vember 5, 1882, his father being Oscar H. Casebeer, who was born in Illinois and devoted his attention to the life insurance business. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Baptist church, in the work of which he took a very active and helpful part. He wedded Ida May Miller, a native of Kewanee, Illinois, who is still living, while the death of Mr. Casebeer occurred in Los Angeles, California. In their family were four children.
Frank H. Casebeer, after obtaining a high school education in Des Moines, attended the University of Iowa, from which he was graduated with the class of 1906. He then turned his attention to the grain business and was for two years identified with the Board of Trade in Chicago. He afterward went on the road as a traveling representative of the Goodyear Rubber Company and spent four and a half years in that connection. For seven months he was manager of the branch at Oklahoma City and for a year and a half was manager for the company at St. Louis. He left the latter city to come to Tulsa in 1914 as man- ager of the Hunt Company, proprietors of a department store. He continued in that connection until September, 1919, when he became identified with the Rosser-Casebeer Furniture Company, of which he has since been vice president. The other officers are I. G. Rosser, president, and C. E. Moon, secretary and treasurer. The company owns and controls a large furniture store and enjoys a very liberal patronage, for the business is based upon sound and reliable prin- ciples and unassailable commercial integrity. Mr. Casebeer is also a partner in the Howell & Skinner Company, an insurance business, and is a director of the Hunt Company, owners of a large department store.
In 1915 Mr. Casebeer was married to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Hunt of Arkan- sas, a daughter of Daniel Hunt, head of the department store of Tulsa which
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bears his name. They have two children: Daniel, Jr., who is three years of age ; and Virginia May, in her first year.
Mr. Casebeer turns to golf, fishing and hunting for recreation. He belongs to the Country Club, also to the Kiwanis Club, the City Club and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of Delta Lodge, No. 496, A. F. & A. M., and has taken the degrees of both the York and Scottish Rites, becoming a Knight Templar and Consistory Mason. He is likewise a member of Akdar Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He belongs to Trinity Episcopal church and is a member of its Men's Club. He has connection with the Retail Merch- ants Association and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is active in all civic affairs, standing in support of every plan or measure that tends to upbuild and benefit Tulsa in any way. He has been one of the promoters of the new Industrial Exposition for Tulsa and there is no phase of progress and improvement that does not receive his support and cooperation. At the same time he has carefully carried on his individual business affairs and is a keen and successful man whose prosperity is the direct outcome of capability, close application and sound judg- ment.
CHARLES T. BYRD.
Aside from the individual distinction he has gained as one of the prominent and influential members of the Oklahoma bar, Charles T. Byrd is a scion of one of the old and honored colonial families of Virginia and the name which he bears has been one of no minor distinction in the annals of American history. Commodore Byrd, the progenitor of the family in America, came from Eng- land and made settlement on the Potomac river, near the Mount Vernon home of General George Washington, and he was one of the honored and influential men of that section of the Old Dominion, his residence place, known as Byrd's Castle, having been one of the fine old patrician homesteads of Vir- ginia and the history of that commonwealth gives honorable record concerning him, his home and his prominence in the public and social life of Virginia. It will be recalled also by close students of colonial history that the name of Jane Byrd, a representative of this family, was graciously linked with that of Gen- eral Washington at one period in his career. The paternal great-grandfather of the subject of this review was a patriot soldier in the Continental Line in the war of the Revolution as were also seven of his brothers, and this hon- ored ancestor attained to the partriarchal age of one hundred and five years, he having been a resident of Kentucky at the time of his death.
Charles T. Byrd of Tulsa, was born in Wolfe county, Kentucky, on the 5th of November, 1870, and is a son of William R. and Mary Byrd, his father having become a successful teacher in the schools of the Bluegrass state, where also he was long and prominently associated with farm enterprise. At the time of the Civil war he served as a private in a regiment of Kentucky infan- try, and in this and all other relations of life he well upheld the honors of the family name. Charles T. Byrd gained his early education in the public schools of his native state and in preparation for his chosen profession completed the prescribed curriculum of the law department of Central College, at Rich- mond, Kentucky, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896, his admission to the bar of Kentucky having been virtually coincident with his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
CHARLES T. BYRD
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At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, in 1898, Mr. Byrd promptly manifested his patriotism by enlisting, at Lexington, as a member of Company D, Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, in which he was made first sergeant of his company. The regiment continued in service until the termination of active conflict in Cuba but was not called to the stage of action. After receiv- ing his honorable discharge from the nation's military service Mr. Byrd entered upon his professional career at Jackson, the judicial center of Breathitt county, Kentucky, and he soon made for himself a name and reputation in his chosen sphere of endeavor. He was made prosecuting attorney and also had the dis- tinction of being one of the attorneys who appeared in connection with the celebrated Goebel election case in the Kentucky courts.
Mr. Byrd continued in the practice of his profession in the old Bluegrass state until 1902, when he came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where his ability and repu- tation led to his being appointed a legal adviser to the state constitutional convention in 1907. He again came prominently forward in connection with governmental affairs in the new commonwealth when he was retained in a legal advisory capacity by the first legislature of the state, appointed by Speaker Mur- ray. In 1909 he went to Denver, Colorado, and practiced law until 1912. In 1913 he established his residence at San Diego, California, and in the following year had active charge of the democratic campaign in southern California, with headquarters in the city of Los Angeles. He showed characteristic finesse and executive ability in the manoeuvering of the political forces at his command and made for his party a splendid record of service during that campaign. In 1915 Mr. Byrd returned to Oklahoma and engaged in practice at Pawhuska, Osage county, and there he became a recognized authority in connection with Indian affairs involving the relations of the government with the Indians of the Osage Nation. In 1916 he became special counsel for the United States Recla- mation Service with headquarters at Denver. In 1918 he established his per- manent residence at Tulsa, where he has since been in active practice as one of the representative members of the bar of Tulsa county, with a large and important clientage. He continues to give much attention to legal service in connection with Indian affairs and also is known as one of the leading corpora- tion attorneys of this metropolitan section of the state. He is still a resourceful and influential worker in behalf of the cause of the democratic party and is serving in 1921 as a member of the party's central committee of Tulsa county. He has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for a quarter of a century, holds membership also in the Knights of Pythias, and is actively identified with the Tulsa Bar Association and the Oklahoma State Bar Asso- ciation.
Mr. Byrd has five children: Grace, Margaret, Lucille, Charles and Virginia Evelyn. The family home is a center of gracious hospitality and Mr. Byrd maintains his professional headquarters in the Security State Bank building.
HENRY C. CHILDS, M. D.
Dr. Henry C. Childs, a physician of Tulsa, who since 1914 has practiced in this city and is largely specializing in obstetrics, was born March 10, 1878, in Canton, Texas. His father, Hezekiah Childs, was a native of Ripley, Missis- sippi, born July 13, 1848, and was a veteran of the Confederate army of the Civil war, enlisting in a Mississippi regiment. After the war was over he be- came a teacher of Texas and came to Oklahoma in the early days, carrying on
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