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On the 4th of December, 1890, Colonel Cone was married to Miss Edith Maud Aitken of Kearney, Nebraska, who passed away, survived by two chil- dren: The older daughter, Leona K., is now the wife of Stanley F. Hisey, while Bethel D. is now Mrs. Don G. Roy. On the 15th of January, 1916, Colonel Cone was married to Kate P. McGeorge of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and he has always studied the problems of the day to a point where he could support his position by intelligent argument but has never been an aspirant for public office. In 1909 he joined the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and in 1911 be- came treasurer thereof. He has long occupied a prominent position in both financial and social circles and is one of the highly esteemed residents of Tulsa.
JOHN ALFRED ARNOLD.
John Alfred Arnold, one of Tulsa's efficient public accountants, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, July 30, 1879, and is a son of H. Y. and Margaretta Gertrude (Logan) Arnold, who were also natives of the Keystone state. The mother was born at Little Washington, Pennsylvania. The father has through- out his life been active as an oil producer and refiner, and is now living retired at Tulsa. During the Civil war he served in defense of the Union, following the nation's starry banner on many a southern battle field. He has ever been a loyal adherent of Masonic teachings. To him and his wife have been born two children, the daughter being now Mrs. William Norris Long, living at Houston, Texas.
John Alfred Arnold pursued his education in the Friends Central school of Philadelphia, and early in life took up the profession of accounting. He has
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followed the business altogether for twelve years in Tulsa, having come to this city on the 7th of October, 1907. He is now the president of the John A. Arnold Company, accountants and auditors, with offices in the Mayo building. He has developed a high degree of skill in this field and his professional standing is enviable.
On the 12th of April, 1909, Mr. Arnold was married to Miss Ora Goodman, a native of Charleston, Illinois, and a daughter of William Goodman, one of the early residents of Tulsa. To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have been born three children, Virginia Louise, eleven years of age; John Goodman, aged nine; and Isabelle Gertrude, four years.
Mr. Arnold has long been a stanch supporter of the republican party, giv- ing his allegiance since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to the City Club and the Country Club of Tulsa, also to the Kiwanis Club, and is a Consistory Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Guthrie. The rules that govern his conduct are further indi- cated in the fact that he is a communicant of the Episcopal church, in which he is serving as vestryman and treasurer. His activities have ever had their root in worthy motives and high purposes and he has moved steadily forward to his objective, whether in the accomplishment of his business aim or in his efforts to assist in measures of public welfare.
WALTER E. WRIGHT, M. D.
Dr. Walter E. Wright was for many years actively engaged in the practice of medicine, but is now giving his entire attention to the supervision of his in- vested interests. A native of Missouri, he was born in Springfield, August 19, [882. His father, J. P. Wright, was born in Washington county, Kentucky, and became a resident of Missouri in 1880. He, too, is a physician who did real service to mankind through active practice for many years. He is now living retired in Springfield, enjoying the high regard, confidence and goodwill of all who know him. He is a Confederate veteran of the Civil war, is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a loyal follower of the teachings of the Baptist church. He married Emma Washington, who was born in Ohio, and they became parents of three children.
Reared in his native city Dr. Walter E. Wright pursued a public and high school education, while spending his youthful days under the parental roof, and later attended Drury College of Springfield, Missouri, from which he was gradu- ated with the Bachelor of Science degree as a member of the class of 1901. He determined to engage in the practice of medicine, which was followed by all the members of his father's family. a number of whom became very promi- nent physicians. Accordingly he entered the University of Louisville, Ken- tucky, and won his M. D. degree with the class of 1906. During his student days he became a member of the Psi Chi, a medical fraternity. Not long after- wards he located in Tulsa for the general practice of medicine, but later spe- cialized in pathological and X-ray work. In 1915 he built one of the largest pathological and X-ray laboratories in the southwest, which he personally con- ducted until his retirement from medical work in 1919. He carried his investi- gations far and wide into the realms of medical science and became a most capable and eminent physician of the southwest, being recognized as an author- ity on the line of his specialty. As the years passed, however, he made invest- Vol. III-6
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ments which proved very profitable, and at the present time he is confining his attention and efforts to the management of his property holdings. He owns one of the largest and finest office buildings in Tulsa. During the World war he became a captain of the Laboratory Division of the Medical Corps.
In 1910 Dr. Wright was married to Miss Katherine Grigsby, a native of Nelson county, Kentucky, and a daughter of Beverly P. Grigsby, one of the pioneers of that locality. Dr. and Mrs. Wright have two children: Beverly, four years of age, and Katherine Willis, who is two years old. Dr. Wright owns a farm three and a half miles south of Tulsa, on which he is engaged in raising saddle horses and Jersey cattle.
PRESTON C. WEST.
Preston C. West, a brilliant but most unpretentious member of the Tulsa bar, practicing as senior partner in the firm of West, Sherman, Davidson & Moore, was born in Rodney, Mississippi, August 19, 1868. His father, Preston C. West, was born in Georgetown, Kentucky, and lived for many years in Arkansas, practicing the profession of medicine and surgery at La Grange. He became a member of the Confederate army during the Civil war and for a time was held as a prisoner of war. He married Winifred Wilcox, who was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and they became the parents of three children, two of whom are living: Preston C. and Gustavus W., the latter of Musko- gee, Oklahoma. The father died in La Grange, Arkansas, November 21, 1889.
Preston C. West pursued his education as a student in the Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarksville, Tennessee, from which he was grad- uated in 1888. Having thus laid, in his literary training, a broad and deep foundation upon which to build the superstructure of professional knowledge, he entered the University of Virginia as a law student but by reason of the unexpected death of his father did not attain his LL. B. degree though he had practically completed the law course before leaving the university. In July, 1890, he was admitted to the bar upon examination before the supreme court of Arkansas and practiced at Fort Smith, Arkansas, until June, 1897. In that year he took up his abode in Muskogee, where he opened an office, con- tinuing in practice there for sixteen years or until 1913, when he was appointed assistant attorney general of the United States by President Wilson and went to Washington, D. C. There he continued until July 1, 1914, after which he was solicitor for the interior department, resigning that position in February, 1916, at which date he came to Tulsa and has since been identified with the firm of West, Sherman, Davidson & Moore. This is a firm of able lawyers. occupying a commanding position at the Tulsa bar.
On the 20th of October, 1897, Mr. West was married to Miss Bessie Douglas Shelby of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a daughter of Winchester B. Shelby of Brandon, Mississippi. They have a foster daughter. Mrs. William S. Cochran of Tulsa, and the children of their marriage are: Gustavus W., a cadet at the West Point Military Academy; and Winifred, thirteen years of age, who is attending the Eastman School in Washington. Mrs. West is very prominent in club and social circles of Tulsa and is an active worker in the Red Cross and the Anti-Tuberculosis Association. She organized all Red Cross hospitals, etc., in Tulsa county during the World war. Mr. West belongs to the University Club, to the Country Club and the Colonnade Club of the University
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of Virginia and the University Club of Washington, D. C. Fraternally he is a Mason, having membership in Muskogee Lodge, No. 28, A. F. & A. M and he belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a college fraternity. In the line of his profession he is a member of the Tulsa County Bar Association, the Oklahoma State Bar Association and the American Bar Association and is president of the State Bar Association. He belongs to the Episcopal church, and for recreation and diversion he turns to fishing. Modest in demeanor, he is nevertheless recog- nized as a deep student and a representative member of the bar, honored by his colleagues and contemporaries in the profession by reason of his comprehensive knowledge of the law and his close conformity to the highest ethical standards of the profession.
WILLIAM ANDREW HAYES.
William Andrew Hayes, an oil and asphalt producer who came to Tulsa in 1918, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, December 26, 1870, his parents being Winfield Scott and Catherine ( Hill) Hayes, natives of York county, Maine, and of Canada, respectively.
Mr. Hayes obtained his education in the public schools of Massachusetts and also pursued special courses of study under private tutors. Later he at- tended lectures at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. At fifteen, however, he began to provide for his own support as a railroad telegraph operator. He continued with the railroad company for about eight years, advancing from one position to another until at twenty-three he held an important official position at Boston. Laudable ambition prompted his preparation for more lucrative work and he took up special lines of study in English, civics, economics and belles-lettres. He then turned his attention to journalism and for some time was connected with newspapers and magazines in Boston and New York. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he enlisted in the First New York Volunteer Cavalry and served throughout the war with active service in Porto Rico. He was correspondent for a syndicate of New England papers and as such, he traveled over the United States, Alaska and Porto Rico, as a feature and special writer and was thus engaged until 1918, when he came to Tulsa, and has since been operating as an oil and asphalt producer. He is now the president of the Bunker Hill Oil Produc- ing Company, the president of the International Asphalt Paint Manufacturing Company, which has a plant at Ardmore, and treasurer of the Polish-American Natural Asphalt Company, with a plant at Woodford, Oklahoma. He is also operating in the oil fields of Kansas and Louisiana and his business affairs have thus constantly broadened in scope and importance.
Mr. Hayes was married to Miss Julia Wilkins, a daughter of Major Grant Wilkins, deceased, who was a member of the Signal Corps of the Confederate army during the Civil war and also a blockade runner. By profession he was an architect and structural engineer, engaged in business in Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have two children: Grant W. and Catherine. Mrs. Hayes lives in the east, with a country place in Connecticut and a city home in New York.
Mr. Hayes has membership in Delta Lodge, No. 425, A. F. & A. M., also in the Consistory, the Mystic Shrine. Saba Grotto and the Elks. He is a member of the Unitarian church and his cooperation is always freely given to
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any plan or project looking to the welfare and benefit of the community and the public at large. During his residence in the east he was a member of prominent clubs of Boston and New York.
PERCY ALEXANDER BURHANS, D. D. S.
The dental profession in Tulsa has many well equipped and thoroughly trained representatives who are qualified to do the most important work of this character and among the number is classed Dr. Percy Alexander Burhans, who was born in Lowell, Indiana, December 24, 1879. His parents, Alexander B. and Delia (Gregg) Burhans, were natives of the state of New York and in 1860 removed to Indiana, where Mr. Burhans engaged in farming, but he died when he was a young man of about thirty-five years. Dr. Burhans afterward was adopted by his father's brother, J. A. Burhans, an attorney of Chicago, and at- tended the public schools of Hyde Park and also the manual training school. His professional education was acquired in the dental department of North- western University, which conferred upon him the D. D. S. degree in 1901. The same year he located for practice at Leedey, Oklahoma, where he continued until 1905 and then removed to Shawnee, Oklahoma. In the following year he became a resident of Geary and in 1908 took up his abode in Oklahoma City. In 1909. he came to Tulsa, where he has since engaged in general dental prac- tice, and his efficiency has been promoted through postgraduate work in the Northwestern University of Chicago. He has membership in the Tulsa, Okla- homa State, Northern District and National Dental Societies.
In 1905 Dr. Burhans was married to Miss Adrienne McDonald, a daughter of J. H. McDonald, who for many years was city comptroller of Springfield, Illinois, and bank and state B. & L. A. examiner. Two children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Burhans: James A. and Mildred Ruth. Dr. and Mrs. Burhans have gained many friends during the period of their residence in Tulsa, covering twelve years, and enjoy the hospitality of many of the best homes of the city.
ORRA E. UPP.
Orra E. Upp, of the Jansen-Upp-Meyer Manufacturing Company, manufac- turing hotel and cafe equipment in Tulsa, and prominent in city building enterprises whereby the development and welfare of the city have been greatly promoted, comes to the southwest from Illinois, his birth having occurred on a farm in Knox county, December 4, 1873. His parents were Winfield Scott and Eva (Beach) Upp, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Illinois. The father engaged in farming in Illinois until 1876, when he removed to Kansas, residing there for a year, at the end of which time he returned to Illinois but again went to Kansas in 1885, settling at Arkansas City, where he engaged in general merchandising. He afterward removed to Purcell, Oklahoma, and opened the first store there with the building of the Santa Fe Railroad. He has long been actively associated with pioneer development on the western frontier and has made valuable contribution to the progress and improvement of the sections in which he has lived. In 1906 he came to Tulsa, where he entered the wholesale grocery business as a partner in the Britton-Upp Grocery Company,
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having the second wholesale grocery house of the city. For a considerable period he was on the road as a traveling salesman but is now concentrating his efforts and attention more largely upon office management and executive control. He is a member of all the Masonic bodies and is a faithful follower of the teachings of the craft.
Orra E. Upp was largely educated at Arkansas City and after completing his high school studies pursued a business course. When twenty years of age he began farming at Lexington, Oklahoma, where he had a fine herd of Poland China hogs, his herd being the best in the vicinity. He also planted the first alfalfa ever grown in Oklahoma territory, bringing the seed from Colorado. In 1896 he established a grocery store at Lexington, called the Diamond Front Grocery, which constituted the foundation of the wholesale grocery establish- ment of O. E. Upp & Company at Purcell. In 1907 he came to Tulsa, where he was associated with the Britton-Upp Grocery Company, wholesale dealers, until 1909, when, together with his father Winfield S. Upp, he withdrew from the Britton Upp Grocery Company and organized the Upp Grocery Company, wholesale grocers, of which firm Winfield S. Upp became president ; O. E. Upp, vice president and general manager ; and A. J. Rudd, secretary and treasurer. The business, by his wise management, increased very rapidly and the firm had salesmen all over the Tulsa trade territory. "Diamond U," and "Dog-on-good," were copyrighted trademarks, both carried through the entire line of groceries, consisting of a full line of food stuffs, condiments, teas and coffee.
During the war period Mr. Upp was appointed food commissioner for Tulsa county and he also acted as county chairman of the War Stamp committee. He took an active and helpful part in all war work, doing everything in his power to uphold the interests of the federal government and advance the welfare of the soldiers in camp and field. In 1918 he became one of the organizers of the Tulsa Warehouse Company, having the largest warehouse in Oklahoma- a fireproof concrete structure, with one hundred thousand square feet of floor space. Of this company he is the president. He also organized the Jansen-Upp- Meyer Manufacturing Company, wholesale jobbers, manufacturers of and manu- facturers' agents for all kinds of hotel and cafe equipment. This is the only concern of the kind in the state and of this Mr. Upp is also the president. He was likewise one of the organizers and directors of the United Building & Loan Association. The interests with which he is allied are of an extensive and important character and have won him place among Tulsa's upbuilders and promoters. He is likewise chairman of the campaign field staff which is pro- moting a city-wide enabling campaign in connection with the holding of an exposition, in which connection he said: "No other project can compare with a permanent exposition in general benefits to the city."
These are but some of the phases of Mr. Upp's activity. Aside from enter- prises directly established for the purpose of legitimately winning wealth he is identified with many concerns in connection with which the public is the direct beneficiary. He is serving on the board of directors of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association and also of the Boys' Home. He was largely instrumental in promoting St. John's Hospital and there is no phase of real public service which seeks his aid in vain. He was a director for three years of the Rotary Club and has been the vice president and chairman of the board of directors. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and cooperates heartily in all of the plans and projects of that organization for Tulsa's upbuilding and benefit. He is a member of the City Club, while along fraternal lines he has connection with Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, A. F. & A. M., and he is past master of Lexington Lodge,
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No. II, Lexington, Oklahoma. He likewise belongs to the Royal Arch chapter, to the consistory at Guthrie and to Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has membership with the Elks Lodge, No. 946, and he gives his political endorse- ment to the republican party. He is a most earnest and active member of the First Baptist church and from 1915 until 1921 has served as chairman of its board of directors and is a most active worker in the men's Bible class.
In 1895, Mr. Upp was married in Lexington, Oklahoma, to Miss Lucy Har- ness, a daughter of W. T. Harness, who was the owner of the first fruit farm in Oklahoma, near Lexington, this being a model farm of Cleveland county. He came in with the "run" and through the intervening period has developed his agricultural and horticultural interests. He had eighty acres planted to apples, ten acres planted to peaches and five acres to grapes, and in addition he cultivated and improved farm land in the production of various crops and was regarded an authority on fruit culture in his part of the state. He was well known as a supporter of democratic principles. Mrs. O. E. Upp died March 30, 1920, and is survived by four of their eight children: Edith Scott, Harness, Jewell and Jesse. Mr. Upp served as a member of the school board for several years and has always been interested in the cause of education, regarding it as one of the nation's bulwarks. A spirit of progressiveness has actuated him at every point in his career and his keen insight and indefatigable energy have made him a dynamic force in the city's development and upbuilding along ma- terial, intellectual, social, civic and moral lines.
NICEUS WALKER MAYGINNES, M. D.
The birthplace of Dr. Niceus Walker Mayginnes, a physician and surgeon of Tulsa, was on a farm in Henry county, Missouri, and his natal day was April 29, 1856. His parents were Samuel and Mary (Stewart) Mayginnes, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. In young manhood the father became a resident of Henry county, Missouri, and at the outbreak of the Civil war was compelled to leave the state because of his sympathies for the Union cause. He then went to Olathe, Kansas, where he organized and became captain of a company of the Thirteenth Kansas Cavalry and with that command he was on active duty with the Union army until the close of hostilities. In 1868 he returned to Henry county, Missouri, but in 1869 removed to Mound Valley, Labette county, Kansas, where he engaged in farming very successfully. He not only won prosperity through the careful management of his agricultural interests, but was also active in public affairs and filled various local offices. In fact he was regarded as one of the leading men of his community and did not a little to influence public thought and opinions. He belonged to the Uni- versalist church and brought up his family to observe and respect the Sabbath. To him and his wife were born eight children, a daughter and seven sons, of whom Dr. Mayginnes is the fourth in order of birth, while the youngest of the family is Dr. P. H. Mayginnes, practicing with his brother in Tulsa. The father departed this life in Mound Valley, April 27, 1900.
Dr. Mayginnes obtained a common school education while spending his youthful days on the home farm, during which time he worked in the fields through the summer months and attended school in the winter season. He afterward entered the University Medical College of Kansas City and was there graduated in 1884 with the M. D. degree. For a year thereafter he engaged
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in practice at Mound Valley and then went to Atlanta, Kansas, where he resided for six years, giving his attention to his professional duties. In 1891 he removed to Stillwater, Oklahoma, and was not only engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, but also became prominently identified with political interests and civic affairs. He was likewise one of the organizers and the vice president of the First National Bank of that place and also aided in organizing the State Bank at Ripley. He became a representative of the public health service and his labors along many lines contributed in substantial measure to the growth, development and progress of the community in which he lived. In 1902 he went to Boulder, Colorado, and spent a year in recreation there.
It was in 1903 that Dr. Mayginnes came to Tulsa . as one of the pioneer physicians of this city and in 1904-5 he served by appointment as a member of the board of medical examiners of Indian Territory. He likewise became one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Tulsa and for five years served as vice president of the institution. He was very active in the Commercial Club and did everything in his power to assist that organization in the develop- ment of the city, in the extension of its trade relations and in the promotion of high municipal standards. He took a helpful interest in educational affairs and was a member of the school board for more than ten years. He also became the vice president and one of the directors of the Liberty National Bank, which he aided in organizing and in various ways he assisted in laying broad and deep the foundation upon which has been built the present progress and prosperity of the city. Throughout the intervening years, too, he has continued success- fully in the practice of medicine and surgery and has held various offices, includ- ing that of president, in the Tulsa Medical Society. He became one of the organizers and charter members of the Oklahoma State Medical Association and is a member of the American Medical Association. He was chairman of the medical advisory board during the World war and the district covered by the board to which he belonged was the largest in the United States.
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