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N. L. EGGLESTON, of Mineo, postmaster and pioneer jeweler of the place, was born at Shenandoah. Iowa, on the 26th of August, 1874. He is a son of Uriah Z. Eggleston, who was a native of Syracuse, New York, born in 1836 and died at Minco, on the 26th

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of January, 1898. His wife (nee Asenath P. Fisher) still residing in Minco, is mother of the fo1owing: Etta and Cora, who both died unmarried; N. L., of this sketch; and Edward H., assistant postmaster of Minco. The father left the Empire state with his parents while yet a child, and was reared on his father's farm in Page county, Iowa. There also, he married and prospered as a farmer, besides attaining prominence as a Democrat and a citizen of public affairs. While a resident of Page county he served as county treasurer and recorder, but in 1884 removed to Beatrice, Nebraska, where he engaged in the stock business for a time. He continued in that line in Finney county, Kansas, and in 1897 came to Minco, where he resided until his death.
    N. L. Eggleston was well educated in his native Iowa county, graduating from the Shenandoah High School at the age of fifteen, after which he completed a four years' course at the Western Normal College. When nineteen, years old, after graduating from the latter, institution, he commenced an apprenticeship of four years at the jeweler's trade with Frank Anshultz, of Shenandoah. Having finished his term of service, he accepted a position with the Joy Drug and Jewelry Company of LaJunta, Colorado, with which he remained for four years, when he located in Minco as its pioneer jeweler. He has thus continued with substantial results both as to profits and business reputation, and since January 1, 1906, has also efficiently performed the duties of the postmastership. When he was appointed, Minco was a fourth class postoffice, and in the February following, having been raised to the third class, he was re-appointed by President Roosevelt. In May, 1907, he secured the establishment of two rurral routes, and has proven to be both an able executive as well as an official of progressive ideas. While his father was a Democrat and, quite influential as a local leader; at different periods of his life, the son has always voted for Republicanism and has firmly sustained principles. Having resided in Minco for eleven years, Postmaster Eggleston has thoroughly identified himself with the little city in all its civic affairs; is one of the home builders of the place, and a material contributor to its material and, social progress. In his fraternal relations, he is a Master Mason, an Odd Fellow, and an Elk.

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DR. P. J. HAMPTON, of Rush Springs, the leading druggist of the place, is also, a thoroughly educated physician and a citizen of substantial means and high; character. He was born in Johnson county, Missouri, on the 24th of August, 1871, where the family was early founded by the paternal grandfather, whose ancestry for several generations had been residents of North Carolina. He comes of a stanch yeoman stock, and his father is yet actively engaged in agricultural pursuits in Missouri. The Doctor himself learned all the details of farm work, and faithfully conformed to them until he had passed his majority when he decided to break away from its routine and enter the professional field as a student of medicine; Matriculating at the University Medical College, Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated therefrom in 1899 and commenced practice at Ninnekah, Oklahoma. After two, years he removed to Rush Springs and opened a drugstore which is now one of the most prosperous places of business in town. He owns the substantial brick building in which his stock is housed, and has recently occupied as his residence a new cement blockhouse of ten rooms, both of which facts are evidences of the permanent character of his residence and his progress as a citizen. Dr. Hampton has passed all the chairs of the blue lodge. A.F. & A. M., Rush Springs, and is high priest of the chapter. He also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and to the subordinate lodge of Odd Fellowship.
    Micajah Hampton, the paternal grandfather, emigrated from Wilks county, North Carolina, with his family, and located in Johnson county, Missouri, where both himself and son, Rufus, were strong- supporters of the Union during the Civil War. They were engaged in farming, and were citizens of worth and standing. Micajah Hampton died in 1869 at the age of seventy-two years, having married a German lady (a Miss Michael) who died at the age of one hundred years. They reared a family of thirteen children. The father, Rufus Hampton, was born in 1828, and is yet actively engaged in farming in the locality where he settled so many years ago. He married Sarah Gregory, who died in 1894, the mother of the following: Rachel, who married a Mr. Harris of Johnson county, Missouri; William S., a farmer of that county; James A., of Mooreland, Oklahoma; Frank L., of Kansas City, Missouri, and Dr. P. J. Hampton, of this sketch. The Doctor was married in Johnson county, Missouri, on

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the 11th of October, 1893, to Miss Louise Shore, daughter of Theophilus and Francis (Welch) Shore, whose family comprised the following: Simeon, of Strausburg, Missouri; Bettie, wife of W. S. Hampton; Mattie, now Mrs. James L. Joyce, of Johnson county; Mrs. P. J. Hampton, of Rush Springs, Oklahoma; Eliza, married George Kannal and resides in Rush Springs, Oklahoma; and Ida, who married Will Nave and resides in Jackson county, Missouri. Dr. and Mrs. Hampton have an only child, Carmen Louise, born May 15, 1895.

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JOHN DAVIS. Noteworthy as a typical frontiersman, of Oklahoma, and as a pioneer who for a quarter of a century has mingled among the settlers of the Canadian valley, is John Davis, of Tuttle, whose battle with the elements and social conditions in this section have extended from the period of his youth and vigor of his early manhood to the approaching shades of the evening of life. He is one of those rough and ready English characters whose environment in boyhood was such as to develop the very traits which mark his peculiarities.
    He was born in London about fifty years ago, a son of John and Elizabeth Davis, both of whom were of Welsh ancestry. His father was for many years superintendent of a department of the government mint. Both he and his wife died when their son John was a mere lad, leaving two other children, Jane and Elizabeth, who remained in England. At the age of eleven years, John Davis, who had previously attended school for quite awhile, assumed the responsibilities of his own care and keep. He became a seaman, enlisting before the mast on a mail boat plying between London and Alexandria, Egypt, known as the "Midway of London." Leaving her a few years later, he came to the United States on the ship "Kingfisher," of Boston, where he landed. Going directly to New York, Mr. Davis continued his seafaring life, hiring out to Captain Armstrong, commander of an ocean vessel, the James Foster Julia, New York. While on his first trip across the Atlantic, the inhumanity of the commander in throwing a crying baby overboard, and in other barbarities, caused him, and the remainder of the crew, to desert, and return to America on another ship.
    Returning to New York City, Mr. Davis abandoned the water for a career on land, and immediately came to Caddo, in the Choctaw Nation, from there drifting to the Canadian valley, where he has since made his home. Here Mr. Davis has been in the employ of many of the pioneer settlers, and for eight years was a member of the family of the first friend he found in this country, James H. Bond. When Mr. Davis came to exercise his right as a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in the allotment of land, he chose his family domains largely in the territory over which he had ridden as a cowboy, selecting land adjoining that of his old-time friends, lying along the sinuous waters of the fair Canadian.
   Mr. Davis married, on December 28, 1891, Julia Toms, a full blood Chickasaw. She died February 6, 1904, leaving five children, namely: Dora Stella, James Russell, Nora Belle, Benjamin and John Henry. The education of these children has a prominent place in the father's heart, and the daughters are students in St. Elizabeth's Convent, in Purcell, while the older sons attend the Tuttle schools.
    In addition to his allotments near Tuttle, Mr. Davis' remaining family allotments were taken just west of Minco, the whole comprising 1470 acres of land. His home place is substantially improved, and admirably adapted for the raising of swine, an industry in which he is successfully engaged. Industrious to a marked degree, humane and sympathetic in disposition, fond of his friends, and devoted to his children, John Davis will be remembered among the humble but worthy pioneers of Grady county.

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MYRON E. HUMPHREY, secretary and treasurer of the Chickasha Milling Company, was born in Abilene, Kansas, March 21, 1884, and was educated in its public schools, and at the University of Kansas, graduated from the latter institution in 1904. Soon afterward he was appointed to his present position at Chickasha. The Chickasha Milling Company, of which, as, secretary and treasurer, he is also the active manager, is the successor of the Tait Milling Company, established in 1896, being incorporated with a capital of $100,000 under its present title. The mill has a daily capacity of 600 barrels of flour and 200 barrels of meal. The two grain elevators of the company in Chickasha and the sixteen scattered over the western and southwestern portions of the state, provide a storage capacity of 350,000 bushels. The mill and elevators are equipped with the most modem machinery and equipment, and the plant at Chickasha is now recognized as one of the most important industries of the locality.

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WILLIAM T. HOPPER, one of the largest lumber dealers in the state and also interested in several important financial and agricultural enterprises, made a high reputation as. an Arkansas legislator before he came to Rush Springs, Grady county, in 1900. At that time he established himself in the lumber business with a stock amounting to about $5,000. But during the few years since his energy and pronounced business ability have extended the trade until now the capital and surplus of his company is increased to $50,000, and that his transactions now approach the million dollar mark. As profits also accumulated, he took on promising outside investments, such as brick business houses in Rush Springs; a farm in Tillman county; stock in the First National Bank of Eufaula, and a block of stock in the First National Bank of Rush Springs. Of the institution named, he is one of the organizers and a member of its official board. Mr. Hopper has also participated in the progress of the Democratic party in his section of the state and in the public affairs of his community. He is president of the Democratic Club of Rush Springs, has been mayor of the town, and was unavailingly urged to accept the nomination as delegate to the constitutional convention. He is a self-possessed and entertaining public speaker, is clear and forcible in his statements, and carries an audience with his infectious enthusiasm. He is, therefore, broadly attractive, as well as a substantial factor in the practical progress of his state.
    William T. Hopper is a native of Murray county, Georgia, in which he was born on the 8th of May, 1872, both his grandfather and father being natives of that state. The families afterward migrated to Mountain Home, Arkansas, which was the home of William T. from his sixth to his twenty-sixth year. He obtained a thorough education, and prior to reaching his majority had considerable experience as a teacher in the common schools of Baxter county. He also had the benefit of a course at the Mountain Home College, and prior to his graduation, at the age of twenty-two, was appointed county superintendent of schools—an unusual honor, even for the versatile southerner. But Mr. Hopper early possessed the faculty of attaining popularity, in whatever community he was placed; in common phrase, he was always a "good mixer." This strongly developed faculty, combined with his fine and substantial talents, early brought him into political prominence, and his disposition and family history drew him to the Democracy. In 1896 his party friends easily sent him to the state legislature, although his opponent was a veteran politician, and although he was one of the youngest members of the lower house he served as chairman of the committee on counties and county lines, and as a member of the military committee and the committee on education. His special training made him a power in the last named body, and he became the most prominent member of the legislature in his support of the uniformity of text books for the public schools. He finally formulated a bill, which the committee accepted and which passed the house, known as the Hopper Uniform Textbook bill, but which was killed in the senate through the influence of the school book trust.
    When Mr. Hopper left Arkansas in 1898, his term as representative had almost expired, and his first location in Oklahoma was at Eufaula, McIntosh county, where he established himself in merchandise. He lost his establishment by fire, however, and in 1900, soon after the misfortune, he removed to Rush Springs and entered upon his present epoch of substantial prosperity. The father of William T. Hopper, John S., was a Georgia merchant and an Arkansas farmer, and died in Baxter county, the latter state, in 1878, at the age of forty years. The paternal grandfather, who accompanied him, also died in that county at the age of eighty-five. He had married a Miss Coffee, a sister of Colonel J. C. Coffee, a prominent business man and citizen of Mountain Home, Arkansas, and ten children were born to their union, of whom John S. was among the younger. The latter was poorly educated, came to mature years among the slave holding aristocracy of the south, and married Sallie E., a daughter of William Thomas, who, with himself, was a soldier of the Confederacy. Mr. Hopper served as orderly sergeant in the Thirty-Fourth Georgia Regiment until the surrender of Vicksburg, when he was promoted to a captaincy and assigned to a company engaged in the apprehension of deserters, being soon afterward paroled. He died soon after going to Arkansas. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hopper were: Rachel E., wife of M. N. Stephens, of Eden, Texas; James C., a resident of Arkansas; Lola, wife of W. H. Knight, also living in that state; Kate, now Mrs. T. S. Duncan, of Tillman county, Oklahoma;

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(Miss) Johnnie and William T., both of Rush Springs, Oklahoma. On the 24th of December, 1903, William T. Hopper married Miss May Chrisman, daughter of H. C. Chrisman, who had come to Rush Springs from Blum, Texas, as principal of the Rush Springs public schools. Mrs. Hopper was a native of the Lone Star state, and died in Rush Springs on the 3rd of October, 1905, leaving a son, Harold Chrisman Hopper.

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JULIAN L. GUNTER, of Minco, is one of those men, of which the great southwest furnishes not a few examples, who has enjoyed affluence and power as a cattle king, and, who dethroned by adverse circumstances, spends no moment in repining, but from the bottom of the hill again heroically advances against the fortress. For a period of nearly forty years he was on the upward grade and twenty years ago was one of the cattle barons of the Lone Star state. An unfavorable market proved his undoing in 1904, and since that year he has been engaged in the improvement of twenty acres of land adjoining the town site of Minco, and in the leasing of a large tract of Indian land to tenants. There is no such thing as crushing such men as "Jule" Gunter; he may be retarded, but never defeated.
    Julian L. Gunter, as he is formally known, is a native of Franklin county, Georgia, born on the 29th of June, 1851. Two years later his father, W. W. Gunter, brought his family to Jefferson, Texas, which was at the headwaters of navigation, and there continued various merchandising pursuits until 1866. With the considerable profits of his business, in 1867 he located on a farm in Cook county and his agricultural ventures and land investments have brought him an ample fortune. At the age of eighty-one, he is now living on an attractive and valuable estate. He was always characterized by strong convictions, and prompt and decided actions, and upheld his reputation in the Civil war by his four years of unflinching service for the Confederacy. During a portion of the period he was captain of his company. He accepted the results of the war with the same spirit of fortitude which has been evinced by his son over the reversals of fortune, and returned to the ways of peace and his new duties of citizenship. His Democracy is still unshaken.
    Julian L. Gunter received his education in the country schools of early Texas, on the farm and on the ranch. After leaving the rural school he attended a small college at Waco, Texas, having as his teacher the gentleman who afterward became Governor Roberts, and as his landlord the future Senator Coke. Among his classmates were Governor Hogg, Senator Culberson and George Aldrich, of Dallas, Texas. In 1868, when seventeen years of age, he collected 140 head of cattle and bunched them on Walnut Bayou, near Burneyville, Chickasaw Nation, and thus, forty years ago, commenced a business in which he eventually attained great eminence and wealth. After remaining for five years at his first location, he disposed of his cattle and purchased Froman and Beeler's ranch on Wild Horse creek, soon afterward moving his stock to South Paladura, thirtv miles south of Amarillo, Texas. There he purchased 100,000 acres of land at one dollar an acre, fenced it and conducted the ranch until it was supporting 27,000 head of cattle. He then sold the entire property to the Cedar Valley Land and Cattle Company for $700,000, passing to them all the ranch interests he had accumulated in the twelve years of his masterly labors in the business. Then returning to Grayson county, he joined Colonel Jot Gunter in the purchase of a ranch of 20,000 acres twenty miles south of Sherman, generously stocked it, and until the sale of this property in 1886 handled 5,000 head of cattle annually. During this partnership the firm secured a contract from the government to furnish beef to the Comanches, Kiowas, Caddos, Arapahoes and Apaches located at Fort Sill, and within eight months 30,000 beef cattle were slaughtered at a cost of $120,000.
    His third distinct venture was to re-engage in business on Mud Creek with William Washington, and during the six years of his operations in Cooke county about 20,000 head of cattle were handled annual1y. He also acquired interests in the Cherokee Strip, but was driven out of that territory, with his associates, in the preparatory steps taken by the government shortly before it was opened to permanent settlement in 1893. Selling his interests in Cooke county to Mr. Washington, he bought John Stone's farm near Gainesville, and engaged in the registered Short Horn business. His success was pronounced for a time, but in the face of an almost paralyzed market his heavy stock of fine cattle, which were maintained at an enormous expense, soon destroyed the profits of years, and before confidence was restored his fortune was practically swept

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away. In the midst of the disasters of 1887-8, which had ruined so many of the ranch kings of the southwest, not a scrap of Mr. Gunter's paper went to protest, all his large enterprises being financed with the skill and success of a great general. But in the departure from range to blooded cattle he left a familiar field, and met with his first reverse. In 1904 he again entered the Chickasaw Nation to begin life anew. As stated he has purchased and improved twenty acres against the town site of Minco, and is farming a large tract of land through tenants. Mr. Gunter is devoting himself with characteristic assiduity and intelligence to these interests, and his prospects are decidedly on the advance. He has little opportunity to devote to public or political matters, although he is already known as a stanch supporter of Governor Haskell's measures, except the state dispensary law.
    Mr. Gunter's parents were W. W. and Rosa (Geer) Gunter, his mother being a daughter of Levi Geer, a New England man who migrated to Georgia and there became a large slave owner. Mrs. Gunter, the first wife, died in 1868, the mother of the following: Julian L. and Nat, who died in San Antonio, Texas, in 1908, without family and possessed of a modest fortune. The second wife was Rosa Ligon, who became the mother of Horace and Samuel, of Cooke county, Texas, and Mabel, wife of R. M. Fields, of Gainesville, Texas. In November, 1884, Julian L. Gunter wedded Vallie Fitch, a daughter of James Fitch, who was a Texas pioneer. To this union have been born Lucille, Gladys and Nat., Jr.

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A. HOUSTON ENGLISH, of Rush Springs, Grady county, a prominent stock dealer of this section of the state, and for twenty years variously identified with the material development of the country, is a native of Grayson county, Texas, born on the 25th of June, 1871. His father, Jack English, was early left an orphan and reared in Missouri, and at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war was living in Joplin, Missouri. He served in the Confederate army, and in 1864 married Miss Amanda Hackler, whose father was a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, where he died. Shortly after his marriage Mr. English located with his wife in Grayson county, Texas, and the family afterward removed to Beef Creek (now Maysville), Oklahoma, and in 1889 Mrs. English passed away there, at the age of forty-six years. The father later settled in Ninnekah, Oklahoma, where he still resides. The children of his family are: B. W. English, engaged in the elevator business at Bradley, Oklahoma; A. Houston, of this sketch, and Lella, wife of Thomas Marshall, of Ninnekah, Oklahoma.
    As his parents came into the Chickasaw Nation in the early eighties, the boyhood and youth of A. Houston English were passed amid primitive conditions, in which the log school house and the wild pursuits of the range played the most conspicuous parts. As a cowboy, his earliest employers, aside from his father, were Messrs. Witherspoon and Stephens, widely known at that time. But in 1891 the young man abandoned the range, married, and assumed the more settled pursuits of agriculture near Maysville, Oklahoma. For about six years he rented land without much success, then moving his family and homestead to Bradley, the five years of his residence in that locality gaining him a substantial foothold on the substantial things of life. In November, 1903, he abandoned the farm and located in Rush Springs, first as a butcher and grocer, and later as a stock dealer. He retains his farm as a feeding ground for live stock, has furnished it with good buildings and other conveniences for that purpose, and, with his growing business in town, he is now classed among the substantial citizens who are typical of the progress of the new state. He is also a property owner of the town; was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Rush Springs and is a director of the institution, and has also served as a .member of the Rush Springs Council. In politics, he and his have always been unswerving Democrats. The wife of Mr. English, to whom he was married March 13, 1891, was Miss Martha Worsham, daughter of Thomas Worsham, a Kentuckian. The children of this union are Jessie and Jack.

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WILLIAM F. WILLIAMS. Prominent among the extensive and well-to-do agriculturists of Grady county is William F. Williams, of Minco, who for many years was actively identified with the cattle interests of the Canadian country. A son of William T. Williams, he was born, 1une 8, 1858, in Montgomery county, Missouri, where he spent the days of his boyhood and youth.
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Missouri when it was a frontier state, and during his active career was employed in tilling the soil, although as a young man he worked as a carpenter and a machinist. During the Civil war he fought on the Union side, and a few years after its close moved with his family to Texas, becoming a pioneer of Goliad county. He married Dorcas White, who died in that county, leaving eight children, namely: James G., of Snyder, Oklahoma; David H., of Richado, New Mexico; John H., of Hamilton county, Texas; Margaret, who married R. H. Barnes, and died in DeWitt county, Texas; William F., of this sketch; Walter C., of Richado, New Mexico; Annie, wife of L. F. Webb, of San Antonio, Texas; and Richard O., of Minco, Oklahoma.
    William F. Williams had but limited educational advantages when young, Goliad county, Texas, being too new when, in 1870, the Williams family located there, public schools having not at that time been very extensively established in that section. Becoming of age, he wisely choose that for his future calling for which he was best adapted both by nature and by experience, and from 1880 until 1889 was employed in agricultural pursuits in Bosque county, Texas. During the summer of that year, Mr. Williams came into the Chickasaw Nation, having proved up in 1888, with the intention of establishing his right to citizenship and to take up land. Bringing with him a few cattle, he fed them along the old Chisholm trail, which was an exceedingly popular pathway, passing as it did through a rich grazing country, while around its intersection with the Canadian river quite a settlement of white men were living. Silver City was then the metropolis of this part of the Territory, and, while the cattle industry held sway, had good prospects for a future. Almost identical, however, with the coming of the first railroad train, the grass began to grow over the once famous trail, and it was lost to sight. Giving up the stock business soon after the arrival of the allotment committee of the government to parcel out and set off the Indian farms, Mr. Williams turned his entire attention to farming, and in the prosecution of his independent calling met with excellent success. Clearing and improving a quarter section at Minco, Mr. Williams resided there until the summer of 1908, when he retired from the active cares of business. Since then he has occupied the palatial home which he erected on his allotments, adjoining the village of Tuttle, this being the very spot where once he ranged his cattle.
    In Bosque county, Texas, October 2, 1882, Mr. Williams married Mollie Foster, a daughter of Ephraim Foster, a quarter Choctaw. Mr. Foster was born in Mississippi, and is now a resident of Newcastle, Oklahoma. He married Amanda Paints, and they became the parents of eight children, namely: David; William F.; Abe; Ephraim; Caledonia, wife of William Paul; Mollie, born in Montague county, Texas, February 8, 1866, is now the wife of Mr. Williams; Alice, wife of J. F. Thomas, of Tuttle; Edna married first Zack Reynolds, and married second Frank Henley; Ida is the wife of Robert L. Park, of Tuttle. Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Williams five children have been born, namely: Lula, Ollie, Athel, Lottie and Margaret. Aside from the selection of competent men for public positions, Mr. Williams has but little use for the political franchise, although he supports the principles of the Democratic party at the polls. Both he and his wife are faithful members of the Disciples of Christ Church.. and have brought up their family to revere the Master, and to realize the duties of Christian citizenship.

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GEORGE W. BAREFOOT, of Chickasha, was one of the old-time ranch men of the Southwestern trails, one of the more permanent cattlemen of the Indian Territory, and at a still later period in his stirring life a large property owner and developer of that town. He is not only extensively interested in its residence property, but in the Oklahoma State Bank, of which he is the vice president and with whose predecessor (the Chickasha Trust Company) he was prominently identified from its organization. Mr. Barefoot was born in Fayettville, Arkansas, on the 10th of February, 1849. About nine years before this event his father had brought the family from Missouri and in 1859 made another move from Arkansas to Grayson county, Texas. Here he engaged in farming and the cattle business, and furnished his son, George W., with his first real experience in these occupations. The boy developed into a strong and thrifty youth on the Texas frontier, but the primitive conditions of his mental training are well illustrated by the shifts to which he was put to obtain his first slate and pencil-digging the raw material himself from a neighboring slate quarry. Thus armed, he learned to write and "cipher," and at the age

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sixteen began the actualities of life on the range, with J. C. Latimer, who was one of the pioneer cattlemen of Montague county, Texas. His first service on the trail was incurred in 1867, when he drove cattle across the Indian Territory on the Shawnee trail instead of the more frequented Chisholm route, then particularly threatened by the hostile Osages. He afterward made other trips across the territory to Hunnewell and Baxter Springs, Kansas, and even exposed himself to the fierce onsets of the Comanches in the interests of his employes. He thus acquired the courage and experience to engage successfully in the business himself. From 1878 to 1885 Messrs. Barefoot and Bryant ranched an the extent of country from Henrietta, Clay county, to Wichita Falls, Wichita county, Texas, and during a portion of this period had cattle on Cache creek, in the Comanche country, Indian Territory. During this era their output was extensive, as many as ten thousand head being marketed from their stock annually. They also owned a ranch in the Chickasaw Nation opposite Red River station, and they fed extensively at Gainesville, Clarksville, Denison and Whitewright, Texas, shipping the cattle to St. Louis and Kansas City. Later, Mr. Barefoot himself established feeding quarters at Purcell, having individual cattle interests in the Chickasaw Nation. Eventually he closed out this ranch and all similar interests. He then came to Chickasha, purchased a tract of land south of the place, and, after perfecting his title to it, platted it as the Rock Island addition to the town. After readily disposing of this piece of thirty acres, he bought other property in Chickasha, some of which he has sold and pieces of which he has improved and still handles as landlord. He is one of the large owners of residence property in the city, and his holdings mark him as one of her most substantial citizens. In 1904, when the Chickasha Trust Company was organized he was elected an officer, and in 1908, when it was merged into the Oklahoma State Bank, he was continued on the directorate and chosen vice-president.
    Daniel Barefoot, the father was born in Kentucky about 1811, and was one of two sons, his father dying when the children were very young. As a single man he went to Ripley county, Missouri, and afterward to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he married Malinda Stone, who died in Montague, Texas, in 1881, fourteen years prior to his own demise at the same place. In 1867 the father had brought his family to Texas, establishing them in Grayson county, where he was a modest farmer and cattleman.
    On March, 16, 1868, George W. Barefoot, married Miss Sallie Boone, the ceremony taking place in Grayson county, Texas. Emma, their eldest child, is the wife of E. T. Woodson, of Oklahoma City. Bert B., the eldest son, graduated from the Georgetown (Texas) College and from the law department of the Texas State University; is a rising attorney and Democrat, and is the present county attorney of Grady county, having, as the unanimous choice of his party, defeated his Republican opponent by 1,837 votes. His wife was formerly Mamie Spencer. Clifford, the third and youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Barefoot, is a student at the Oklahoma State University. Mr. Barefoot is a Democrat, a Mason and an Elk, and a man of balanced character and broad usefulness.

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SAMUEL C. CAYWOOD. For the past fourteen years Samuel. C. Caywood has been a strong factor in the agricultural and commercial development of Rush Springs and the surrounding country. He was born in Daviess county, Indiana, on the 2nd of February, 1861, being a son of Moses Caywood. His father was a Mississippian, born about 1808, who removed to Indiana quite early in manhood, where he engaged in farming and merchandising. For a number of years prior to his death he was a merchant at Washington, Daviess county, where he died in 1867. By his first marriage he was the father of several children but only the following two survive: Jemimah, wife of Robert Lucas, of Knox county, Indiana, and Mary, who married Willis Bicknell of Daviess county, that state. His second wife was Mary Culbertson, member of an old Indiana family who died in 1865, as the mother of the following: George, who died unmarried; Lue, who became the wife of a Mr. Thompson and died in Indiana, without issue; John, who died young; Henry, who resides in California; Annie, who married John Slawson and died leaving one child; and Samuel C., of this sketch, the youngest of the family.
    By the death of his father in 1867, when the son was but six years of age, Samuel C. Caywood was wholly orphaned, the mother having passed away two years before. A home was provided for him by his elder sis-

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ter, Mrs. John Slawson, and he there enjoyed excellent educational advantages, attending the schools of both Olney and Greenville, Indiana. In the year 1876, then fifteen years of age, he drove through the country to Texas, in company with his sister and his brother, Henry, and located in the vicinity of Sherman, where he remained for six years, chiefly engaged in farm work. He then entered the employ of Robert Stephens, a cattleman, and rode the range in the country along the Brazos river for a year and a half, the ranch headquarters being the Triangle Bar near Wichita Falls. For five years he then traveled through the country as a successful salesman for the Steam Marble Works of Sherman, and with the profits of this period, in 1884, engaged in the marble business himself at Gainesville, Cooke county. But the cattle panic of that year ruined his bt1siness, and for two years thereafter he resumed farming in eastern Texas, going then to Tom Green county to engage in stock operations for another four years. The drought in that country caused his cattle to depreciate about one-fourth in value, and he departed much the worse for his experience. He next spent some time in Montague county, whence, in 1894, he crossed the river to Oklahoma, settling about five miles east of Rush Springs. At first he leased and conducted a farm with some success, after which he invested in the gin at Rush Springs, equipped it with modern machinery and appliances, added a corn mill, and gradually developed a prosperous and profitable enterprise. He has also well served his town in its public affairs, having been a member both of the council and school board. He is much interested in the fraternities, and has made remarkable progress in the 1. O. O. F. After being a member only two months he was made secretary of the local lodge, and a little later was advanced to the chair of noble grand, having also already been a delegate to the grand lodge of the state. Mr. Caywood is also a Woodman, and in his religious faith is a member of the Methodist church. First married, in Cooke county, Texas, on the 18th of November, 1884, to Miss Allie Martin, daughter of John Martin, a Texas farmer and pioneer, Mr. Caywood had the misfortune to lose his wife by death, June 30, 1899. The children of this union were Otto, Ethel (deceased), Harry, Belle, Monroe and Martin. The second marriage, September 5, 1903, was to Miss Lillie Spencer, daughter of Monroe Spencer, a pioneer farmer of Oklahoma. Mrs. Lillie Caywood was born in what was then Indian Territory, and is the mother of Melvin, Verdie and Finley.

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THOMAS J. POWELL. Occupying an assured position among the enterprising agriculturists of Grady county is Thomas J. Powell, of Minco, who was for many years actively identified with the stock-growing interests of this region, but has more recently turned his attention to the raising of registered swine, being advantageously located on land adjoining the townsite of Minco. He was born March 1, 1878, in Fremont county, Iowa, near Riverton, where his father, Thomas A, Powell, located more than forty years ago, when that country was comparatively new.
    A Virginian by birth, Thomas A. Powell was brought up on a farm, and when a young man enlisted in the Confederate army, and served as a soldier throughout the Civil war. Subsequently leaving his native state, he located near Riverton, Iowa, where for ten years he was employed in agricultural pursuits. He moved from there to Mobeetie, Texas, but finding neither pleasure nor profit on the arid plains, he tried life in the Chickasaw Nation for awhile, being located near Silver City, on the Canadian river, and is now pursuing his favorite occupation in New Mexico, which is much more to his liking. He married Caroline Barnard, who died, in 1886, in Iowa, leaving four children, namely: Elizabeth, wife of George Taylor, of New Mexico; Rosy A., wife of Elmer Warner, of Grady county; Thomas J., of this sketch; and Charles C., of Grady county.
    Growing to manhood in Iowa, Thomas J. Powell received but limited educational advantages. Coming with his father to the Chickasaw Nation, he, with the family, lived first on the farm of James H. Bond, and there obtained a practical knowledge of the cattle industry, and subsequently embarked in the business on his own account. For two years Mr. Powell was in the employ of the "X I T" Cattle Company, and in 1897 drove for them a bunch of cattle across the country from Texas to Miles City, Montana, passing through Kansas, Colorado, and a corner of Nebraska, starting in April, and reaching his point of destination four months later. Returning then to Oklahoma, Mr. Powell was for a time with Ed Johnson, of Norman, Oklahoma, later with Johnson & Campbell, final-

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ly forming a partnership with Mr. Campbell, himself. Subsequently Mr. Powell was interested financially with Henry Johnson in a bunch of black cattle, and out of their bunch of six hundred magnificent steers they exhibited at the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show one load, which captured the first premium in the two-year-old class, and also carried off sweepstakes, a feat that marked the firm especially as successful cattle raisers. From his share of the proceeds when he and Mr. Campbell, in dissolving partnership, sold their bunch of a thousand steers, Mr. Powell purchased sixty acres of land, lying just south of Minco, and has since been actively engaged in the raising of registered swine, an industry in which he has already made a most encouraging start.
    On April 28, 1907, in Minco, Mr. Powell married Stella Gillum, a daughter of William H. Gillum, a well known grocer, who came to this place from Texas in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Powell have one child, Elizabeth Etheline. Politically Mr. Powell is a straightforward Democrat, and fraternally he is a Master Mason.

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EDWARD B. PARRISH, who owns a substantial and attractive homestead on the east line of Caddo county near Minco, is a farmer and stock raiser, whose life has been identified with the advancement of this section for nearly twenty-five years. Few facts can be stated regarding his early life. It is known that he was born at Urbana, Illinois, on the 29th of January, 1860, and that his parents, Frank and Nancy (McKay) Parrish, died in the tender years of his childhood. He was first adopted by a Mr. Curley, who as a boy of six took him to Abilene, Kansas, where he came into the hands of Mr. Eldred, who, in turn, brought him to the Cherokee Strip, where he remained until he was seventeen years of age. Still uneducated, he was thrown into the saddle as a cowboy, and remained thus employed near Caldwell, Kansas, until he had attained his majority. The Vail Minor Stage Company then employed him to drive a stage on the mail and passenger route from Spring Creek to Fort Sill, the termini being Caldwell, Kansas, and Henrietta, Texas. As this position necessitated the making out of daily reports the young man commenced to improve his penmanship, spelling and other essentials, and continued to give satisfactory service during the two years of his employment, from 1882 to 1884. He then abandoned the stage route and secured a position with the government as chief herder of the issue cattle at Anadarko, now in Caddo county. He was thus occupied for six years, and on January 26, 1890, at about the conclusion of this period of his life, married Nancy Pedea, daughter of William Pedea, whose father, a Spaniard, had married a full blooded Caddo woman. The children of this union are as follows: Frank, who died at the age of ten years; Maggie, William Edward, Alma, Cora Blanche and Lucile.
   Mr. Parrish took his family allotments on Boggy Creek, in the southeast corner of Caddo county, where he has made substantial improvements. His residence is comfortable and attractive, with a wide porch and homelike interior furnishings. His energies are chiefly centered there, although he is interested in the Minco Mill and Elevator Company and the People's Gin, of that town. In fact, he was for three years a resident of Minco, and was honored with membership in its city council. Mr. Parrish has achieved a large measure of success in the face of many obstacles. Quite deprived of parental guidance in his young years, neglected in the matter of education and thrown adrift in the critical period of youth, his innate strength of character has kept him in the safe road which leads to honorable advancement and useful accomplishment.

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DAN N. GARLAND, as he is known, is one of the leading business men of Chickasha and proprietor of the most extensive dairy interests in Grady county. He is the owner of the famous Garland Dairy, established some fourteen years ago by J. P. Nail. The farm comprises 610 acres at the foot of Fourth street, and the dairy is supplied by 150 milch cows which yield two gallons each per day. The product is all marketed in Chickasha, and consists of milk, cream and butter, the city being covered by two routes. Mr. Garland, who is at the head of this important enterprise, has passed a quarter of a century in what is now Oklahoma, for he came into the Choctaw Nation in 1883, a youth of nineteen with domestic responsibilities equivalent to the head of a household, and on the threshold of what has proven to be a successful business career.
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times of the Lone Star State. The son was born in that county on the 9th of April, 1864, and, almost uneducated, came into the Choctaw Nation as a hardy youth of nineteen who looked out with fearless eyes into the semi-civilized country of the southwest. As his father had died when the boy was only nine years of age and he was the oldest son of the family, the heaviest responsibilities for its support and general guidance fell upon him. When he thus entered Oklahoma with the family in charge he located at McAlester, in the Choctaw country, and, with five dollars in his pocket, went to work as a clerk in the store of his uncle, T. J. Phillips. After spending three years in that capacity he established a drug business of his own in Lehigh, continuing the same for some six years. With his modest savings of this period he located three miles east of Chickasha, where for a few years he engaged in farming and stock raising. He then removed to Pocassett, on the Rock Island road, where he opened and improved a splendid ranch and where he afterward took a portion of the family allotment, to which he was entitled by his marriage in 1888. He was actively identified with that locality until 1903, when he allotted almost a section adjoining Chickasha. At that time the tract was devoted to the dairy business, which he purchased as a sort of aid in the interest of his allotment. The dairy feature has proven to be the most valuable interest of his fine property. In addition, he is a stockholder in Everybody's Gin and Mill and in the Human Stalk Cutter Company, the latter one of the most promising manufacturing enterprises of Chickasha.
    When Peter Garland, the father, removed from his Tennessee home to Hood county, Texas, during the period of the Civil war, he fixed his new homestead on the very fringe of civilization. After the war the thieving Kiowas and murdering Comanches were especially active, and his home was twice broken up by them. During this, troublous period he spent much of his time with the band of white settlers organizing Red river to protect the homes of the settlers and recapture stolen property, either animate or inanimate. He also contributed to the last rites of the last seven warriors who infested that county and carried off and murdered children of the sett1ers. It was in Mississippi that Peter Garland met and married Miss Louise Phillips, and three of their five children survive: Puss, wife of J. G. Sharp, of Tharp Springs, Texas; Sadie, who married Lee Nutts, of Cranberry, Texas, and Daniel N. Garland, of this sketch. Mr. Garland died in 1873, at the age of sixty-five years, while his widow passed away December 31, 1903, and is buried at Chickasha. On January 18, 1888, Daniel N. Garland married, in Canadian, Oklahoma, Miss Inez, daughter of Alfred Toole, a gentleman widely known for his business connections in the Choctaw Nation. He was by nativity an Alabaman. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Garland are Ollie, Mary and Louise. Mrs. Garland is a member of the Choctaw Nation, and through her Mr. Garland acquired his rights of citizenship and property. In matters of religion the wife was reared as a member of the Methodist church, toward which Mr. Garland also leans, in honor of his mother who was a lifelong disciple of that faith. In his fraternal connections he is a Master Mason and a Knight of Pythias.