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DR. GEORGE C. WILTON. One of the physicians of Jefferson county who is recognized as one of the old-timers in practice in this section of the country is Dr. George C. Wilton of Ryan. Although advanced in professional training and methods, he is in many respects a representative of the old school of medical practice. He merits especial mention among the elect of this c1ass of the profession because of the labors undertaken in practicing in southern Indian Territory twenty years ago. He located at Grady, in the Chickasaw country, now in Jefferson county, in 1889. He had a satisfactory patronage, but his patients were scattered over a vast expanse of country almost equal to several counties, and every journey necessitated traveling over miles of distance in which he would hardly see a human habitation. The physician of that time was very much dependent on his own resources, was obliged to find his way out unaided of the most perplexing situations, and was daily confronted by hardships that would daunt the average town doctor of the present. The organizations of professional men at whose meetings occurs an interchange of experience and fraternal advice, played no part in the career of the Physicians in Indian Territory until very recently. His active professional life and civic relations with the people have established Dr. Wilton high in the esteem of the citizens of Jefferson county. He removed to Ryan in 1900, and is closely identified, both professionally and in a business way, with this town. His faith in town and county has led him to invest in property in the county seat, and he has also aided in building up the business section of Ryan by the erection of a first class business block, besides owning- residence property.
      Dr. Wilton was born in Wise county, Texas, March 1, 1859, and was reared on a Texas farm, receiving most of his literary education in Decatur. He farmed until about thirty years of age, when, in order to carry out his plans for the practice of medicine, he entered the. College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, and after a term continued his studies in the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis. His final courses of preparation were taken in the Fort Worth Medical College, where he was given a degree in April, 1900. Dr. Wilton is a Master Mason, and in politics a Democrat.
      Dr. Wilton's parents were, Henry H. and Martha (Fullingim) Wilton. His father, a native of Canada, came to Texas while a young man, joined the Confederate army at the outbreak of the war, and having been captured died at Chicago in 1862, while a prisoner in Camp Douglas. His widow survived until 1905, dying at the age of seventy-six. Their children were: Dr. Henry F., of Nocona, Texas; Dr. George C.; and Mrs. Jesse Wade, of Decatur, Texas. The Fullingim family, of which the mother was a member, came from near Birmingham, Alabama. Rev. Henry Fullingim, her father, was a Methodist minister, well known among the people of the Red river district, where he died. Dr. George C. Wilton married in Wise county, Texas, in November, 1883, Miss Mary E., daughter of Rev. William Taylor, a Methodist minister of wide repute and favor in many localities of Alabama. He died in Texas in 1908. Mrs. Wilton was born in Alabama in 1857. Dr. and Mrs. Wilton have two children, Maud and Rowan.

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LANDO D. MAJOR, a widely known and substantial farmer and stockman of Ryan, Jefferson county, came to this section of the state from Clay county, Texas. He was reared and educated in the Lone Star state, although born in, Blount county, Alabama, May 18, 1869, whence, when he was three years of age, his parents brought him to Ellis county, Texas. The family afterward removed to Clay county, in that state, and he was educated in its common schools and at the Dallas Business College. The latter training has been of continuous advantage to him, from the time that he commenced his useful career as a bookkeeper in a Bellevue store until the present days of his prosperity. Having saved a little money he gathered a small bunch of stock and left his business books and accounts for the free and more profitable life of the range. He began with less than one hundred

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head of mixed live stock, and borrowed the money with which to carry them and himself while his own capital was growing on the range. When he left the country about Bellevue and came to the vicinity of Ryan, in October, 1899, he had some 450 head for which he leased a pasture northeast of the county seat. He has since been a fixture in Oklahoma, and his expansion in the stock business has been noteworthy. Within a period of nine years he has increased his herd to 2,500 head and his pasture land to 12,000 acres, 1,000 of which is profitably tenanted and is actively producing cotton and corn. He owns in fee simple a good body of the soil of Jefferson county, and is a stockholder in the Ryan Cotton Oil Mill and the First National Bank of Ryan. In the fraternities, he is a Master Mason and an Odd Fellow.
      Mr. Major is the son of John H. and Mary (Bynum) Major, his father being a native of Blount county, Alabama, who passed most of his mature life as a successful stock farmer in Texas, and died in St. Louis, Missouri, after a short residence in that city. His widow, who lives in Chickasha, Grady county, is a daughter of Jesse Bynum, also a farmer, who came to Texas with his family and passed his remaining years in Ellis county. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Major were as follows: Lando D., of this biography; Theophilus, a resident of Chickasha, Oklahoma; Walter, who was in the stock business at Ryan for some years and died at that place in 1906, leaving a family; Victoria Texas, who married Dr. A. R. Prothro, of Granbury, Texas; Lester B., and John E., both of St. Louis, Missouri, and Jewell, who ia a student in the Polytechnic College, at Fort Worth, Texas. On October 25, 1891, Lando D. Major wedded Janie B. Brown, daughter of A. Don and Rachel (Boas) Brown, who migrated from Missouri to Young county, Texas, the marriage of their daughter occurring at Bellevue, Clay county, that state. The other children of the Brown family are: Lucy J., wife of Sidney Webb, of Bellevue, Texas; Mary B., wife of A. R. Manton, of Ryan; Annie B., who died unmarried, and Robert J., who married Mattie Thurman and lives in Clay county, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Major's children are: Robert Roy, who died at the age of twelve; D. Don, Howard H., Leta and Mary.

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ROBERT F. BROWN.  In the history of the first county election in Jefferson county there was just one office for which there was only one candidate, either in the primary or the succeeding election. This was the office of clerk of the district court. When Robert F. Brown announced his candidacy for this position, it caused much satisfaction among the Democrats of the county. As a result he won the nomination without contest, and in the September election had no opponent on the Republican side, so that his election to the office may be called unanimous.
    Mr. Brown has been a resident of Ryan since the fall of 1905, having been in the employ of the firm of O. B. Garrison and Company up to the time of his election. Mr. Brown was born in Van Zandt county, Texas, September 4, 1865. His father, Abe Brown, settled in that county about 1845, and at Walton operated a tannery and later a farm. He was born in Tippah county, Mississippi, in 1830. His father, Gideon Brown (grandfather of the district clerk), was a Texas colonizer under the system adopted by that state during its history as a Republic, and as a reward for his services received a tract of land upon which he settled and passed the remaining years of his life. He had the following children: Mahala, who died in Van Zandt county, the wife of George Upton; Charlotte, wife of M. W. Ross, of St. Jo, Texas; Adaline, having been twice married; and Abe (the father). Abe Brown died in Van Zandt county in 1885. His wife was Susan McWilliams, daughter of Matson McWilliams, an early Texas settler. She died in 1880. The children of Abe Brown and wife were: James A., of San Angelo, Texas; Robert F.; Dr. T. F., of Maybank, Texas; Abe, who died in Greer county, Oklahoma, in 1907; Rufus, of Henderson county, Texas; Samuel P., of Walton, Texas; and Gideon, of Maybank, Texas.
      Robert F. Brown passed the early years of his life around his father's tanyard and farm, and acquired a fair common school education in the schools of Walton and later at Wills Point Academy. His education, so far as it went, was thorough, and he made practical use of it by becoming a teacher when sixteen years old. He made this his vocation for ten years. Then for nine years he was employed in a store at Athens, Texas, and on coming to Indian Territory in the fall of 1900, he was engaged in farming for some time at Fleetwood. As stated, he came to Ryan in 1905. Mr. Brown was married in Hender-

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son county, Texas, December 25, 1890, to Miss Etta Pruett, daughter of M. F. Pruett, (an Alabaman), and Nannie (Lawrence) Pruett. Besides Mrs. Brown, her parents had the following children: Annie, wife of W. T. Moody, of Cement, Oklahoma; M. F., of Granite, Oklahoma; Mollie, wife of J. H. Roberts, of San Angelo, Texas; William A.,of Fleetwood, Oklahoma; Ida, wife of Horace Langford, of Fleetwood; and John, of Fleetwood. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have two children, Addie May and Robert Neal. Mrs. Brown died on the 29th day of May, 1905.

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JUDSON L. HENDERSON has been a merchant and business man of Ryan since the early years of the town, and besides a successful career from a material standpoint has also won many friends and the thorough esteem of all his business connections. Born in White county, Arkansas, January 26, 1869, he had only a country school education to prepare him for life's broader affairs, and until the age of nineteen continued among the activities of the home farm. At Brownwood, Texas, after being in the draying business two years, he became an employe of a local milling concern. He learned the business in detail and soon after leased a mill at Belton, Texas. Within two years he had accumulated sufficient capital to buy a mill of his own. Finding such a property as he desired at Ryan, in Indian Territory, he took charge of the well known Ryan Flour Mills, and conducted the enterprise five years, until 1901. He and Mr. Epperson then bought the grocery stock of T. H. Allen, and after a year the firm of Henderson arid Epperson gave way to its successor, J. L. Henderson, who conducted it two years, when the firm became Henderson & Treadwell. Mr. Treadwell withdrew when he was elected sheriff of Jefferson county, and Mr. Henderson is now sole proprietor of his business. He sells groceries and harness and saddle supplies, and his trade extends to the east for thirty mi1es and across Red river into Texas on the southwest.
     The family history of Mr. Henderson may begin with his grandfather, who was Enos Henderson, a native of Georgia, who died in Arkansas in 1877, when about eighty years of age. He had a large family, most of whom reared families, namely: William, Harvey, Robert; Gabriel and Milton, all deceased in Arkansas; John H.; Mack, who died near the old home; Caroline, deceased; Mrs. Lizzie Patton; and Mrs. Skillen. John H. Henderson, just mentioned, the father of our Ryan merchant, was born in Jackson county, Tennessee, in 1834, and is still living in White county, Arkansas, where he settled with his father about 1852. He served as a Confederate soldier during the war. By his marriage to Mary Gibson, the daughter of an Arkansas farmer, he had the following children: Judson L., above mentioned; Jabous, of White county, Arkansas; Nora, wife of Dow Crow, of the same county; George, of Ryan; Oliver, of Chickasha;. Arthur and Bradford, of the home county in Arkansas. The mother of this family had first been married to Joseph Nowell, and had two children: Joseph, of Cleburne county, Arkansas, and Ella, deceased, wife of Dock Baldwin. Mr. Judson L. Henderson himself was married near Searcy, White county, Arkansas, January 14, 1898, to Miss Annie Marsh, daughter of Roland and Jane (Adcock) Marsh. Her brothers and sisters are: Cora, wife of Robert Epperson; Howard, of Cabot, Arkansas; Mary, Haywood and William, all of Pangburn, Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson's children are Homer, Spencer, Jewell and Opal.

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MONROE C. FISHER. With the formation of the new county boundaries of Jefferson by the constitutional convention, the citizens were confronted with the necessity of choosing a set of county officers and organizing a county government. In the Democratic primaries there were two rivals for the office of register of deeds, and the successful one was Monroe C. Fisher. At the first statehood election in the following September he was easily elected over his Republican opponent and the following November 16th became the first incumbent of the office in the new county of Jefferson. Since that time he has performed the duties of his office with fidelity and is one of the esteemed members of the first official family of the county.
    Mr. Fisher has been a resident of Oklahoma since 1895. He was born in Tangipahoe parish, Louisiana, February 26, 1858, and was reared in Natchitoches parish, whence he came to Oklahoma. When he was of school age the opportunities in his home locality for acquiring an education were so meagre that a country lad with rather indigent parents could hardly expect to obtain even a common schoo1 education, and as a result he arrived at his majority with few school advantages. When about twenty-one he began an Independent

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career as clerk in a store of Tangipahoe; and continued clerking in Robline until he moved to Oklahoma. For the first three years he was in the grocery business at Ryan, as member of the firm of Spring and Fisher. After withdrawing from this enterprise he conducted a ranch for five years, and then returned to Ryan and resumed his original occupation, first as clerk for John R. Ralls and then with O. B. Garrison and Company untit statehood directed his interests into politics.
    Mr. Fisher's father was Joshua C. Fisher, who was born in Tangipahoe parish, Louisiana, in 1829, spent his life as a farmer, and was also sheriff of Washington parish six years, including the period of the Civil war, and died in Tangipahoe parish in 1893. He married Margaret, daughter of Champion P. Bailey, who came from Tennessee and passed his final years as a farmer in Tangipahoe parish, dying at the age of sixty-five. Joshua Fisher's wife still resides in Natchitoches parish, aged sixty-eight. Her children are: Sarah, wife of B.F. Carter, of Natchitoches parish; Monroe C.; John; Minah, wife of J. D. Prothro; Bailey R. and Joseph J. of Natchitoches parish; Mrs. Maggie Raines; and Mrs. Pearl Sibley. John Fisher, the paternal grandfather of Monroe C. Fisher, was a Tenr;esseean, but he spent most of his life in Louisiana, dying in Washington parish about 1882, when eighty-five years of age. His two brothers, James and George, and a sister had left Tennessee with him, but they continued on and settled in east Texas. .
     Monroe C. Fisher married in January, 1883, in Tangipahoe parish, Miss Edith, a daughter of Barney Elliott. She was born in Louisiana and died in Nocona, Texas, in 1899. Her children were: Dwight, of Gilt Edge, Montana; Floyd, of Los Angeles, California; Augustus V., of the same city; Rossie, Birdie and Retha, at home in Ryan. As his second wife Mr. Fisher married Mrs. Martha Maines, daughter of Wesley Wayborn, and widow of A. L. Maines, a former business man of Ryan. Mr. Fisher has been a member of the Masonic order since 1886.

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JAMES MADISON CROFFORD, a retired merchant of Ryan and owner of considerable property in Texas, is the representative of an old and distinguished Tennessee family, especially identified with the foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in that section of the country. He himself was born in Hardiman county, Tennessee, on the 5th of August, 1847, and after receiving a limited education began life as a farm laborer, being paid two hundred dollars for his first year's work. He then rented land, and remained in his home county until 1872, when he went to Texas and in association with a re1ative engaged in the handling of cattle for two years. In July of that year he started to Kansas, taking charge of a drove of cattle in the interest of a mortgagee. The cattle were disposed of at Coffeyville and Chetopa, and when he returned to Texas he conducted a store for a time at Aurora, Wise county, and afterward farmed in Titus county for two years. In 1877 he returned to Montague county, locating three miles west of the present site of Bowie and engaging in stock farming. In 1883 he sold his stock and farm and engaged in merchandising at Bowie, first as Crofford & Brother and then alone. In 1900 he estabhshed himself at Ryan, and after profitably conducting a general store until 1904 disposed of his business to advantage and retired from active mercantile pursuits. He is the owner of valuable residence and business property at Ryan, as well as at Bowie, Texas, and is also proprietor of a section of promising land west of Bellevue, Clay county, that state.
    On February 4, 1872, Mr. Crofford wedded Miss Sue A. Lemon, daughter of Jacob and Ann (Schuyler) Lemon. Mrs. Ann Lemon was a daughter of John Schuyler and a niece of old General Schuyler, the distinguished American soldier and citizen, being a second wife. Mr. Lemon first married Rebecca Barris, a granddaughter of Rev. Mr. Harris, one of the active founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in the southwest. Of this first marriage were the following children: Thomas, who died in St. Louis, Missouri, and left a family in Montana; Maragaret, wife of George W. Bishop, whodied in Pike county, Missouri, the mother of one child; and Ann, who married Milos Houston and died at Vandalia, Missouri. The children by the second wife were: Mary J., wife of Henry Hamlett and who died at Ashley, Missouri, the mother of a family; Robert S., a resident of Arkansas, who married D. D. Rose and died at Curryville, Missouri; Sallie V., now Mrs. James Montague, of Ladonia, Missouri; Joseph R., of Spencersburg, Missouri; John N., of New London, that state; Mrs. Sue Crofford, whose sketch follows; Alice, wife of Charles Marsh, of War-

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saw Missouri, and George, who died in Arkansas, the father of a family.
    Mrs. James M. Crofford is a native of Missouri, and at the outbreak of the Civil war was a young girl. Notwithstanding, she was intimately and thrillingly identified with the terrible conflict for three years, and was emphatically one of its "victims." In 1862 General Sterling Price sent his nephew, Captain Pulliam, into the county in which lived the Adams-Lemon family (Mr. Lemon having died and his widow having married Dr. Adams), for the purpose of recruiting a company far the Confederate army. Dr. Adams had really left the state for Texas with his personal property, largely consisting of negroes but his progress was interrupted in Arkansas by the battle of Elkhorn. Having been an early classmate of General Grant he secured from the latter a general passport, proceeded to Texas and finally established himself in Titus county, while the other members family, notably the Leman children, returned to Missouri. There they were brought into contact with the Confederates, who were engaged in the raising of troops in the vicinity of the old Lemon home. When the company was ,ready to leave far rendezvous at headquarters, it stopped at the home of D. D. Rose where, Mrs. Crofford was living, and there entertained by the sympathizers of the cause. Among the leading features of the entertainment was a feast, of the generous kind for which southern women have always been noted. Several days after the departure of the troops the Federal soldiers, in command of, Colonel Goochner, swooped down upon the Rose household and captured Mr. Rose, his wife and Mrs. Crofford, As prisoners they were taken to Hannibal, Missouri, put through the usual inquisition as to their part in the encouragement of the Rebellion, by aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States. Mrs. Crofford was interrogated, threatened with banishment and tempted with various offers (including bribery), in order to draw from her the details of the "banquet," with a list of all the participants, but, despite her youth, she was proof against either persuasion or force, and would only admit that "the troops had taken supper at the Mr. Rose's house." The sisters of the family were finally loaded on a boat and taken to St. Louis, Missouri, and placed in a female prison, There they were again "sweated" for information, but with out avail. With others who were prisoners for offenses against the government, they were ordered to prepare for their exile and, after being thoroughly searched, were placed aboard the marine boat "John Wren," At Memphis, Tennessee, Senator Henderson of Missouri came aboard, gave Mr. Rose all the money he had, and the boat proceeded to Vicksburg, It lay in front of the city far three days, when the passengers were transferred to the gun boat "Rattler," and sent up the Yazoo river to Sartartia. There General L. S, Ross, of Texas, received the twenty-one exiles and receipted for them, and the main incidents of the capture and banishment were closed. They remained at that point until the close of the war, when they returned to Missouri, and in 1870 Mrs. Croffard joined her mother in Texas. Mrs. Crofford is a leading member of the Daughters of the Confederacy; was the first president of Bowie Chapter, and Sue A, Crofford Camp was named in her honor. She is an honorary member of Bowie- Pelham Camp of Confederate Veterans and of the Bob Stone Camp at Nacona, Texas, and when in Texas claims to be the only woman in the state whom General Ross ever received and receipted for. The children of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Crofford are: Annie, wife of S. W. Heard, of Bowie, Texas; Guy L., connected with Sanger Brothers, of Dallas, Texas; Daisy, now Mrs. C. W. Bridges, of Bowie; Lynn R., of Ryan; "D. D." Rose, a young lady named after her uncle, and James M., Jr., bath of whom live at home. The family are all members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and nothing but Democratic blood has ever coursed through their veins.
    The paternal grandfather of James M. Crofford (George Crofford) was a native af Scotland, a slave owner, married a Miss Stockard, and was wounded at the battle of New Orleans, where he was captured by the British under command of General Packenham. He died prior to the Civil war, the father of the fallowing: William H., the father of our subject; James M.; Josephus; Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and Elmira, who became the wife of John Parr. Rev. William H. Croffard, the father, was born in Murray county, Tennessee, in 1811, and died in Hardiman county in 1896. He was liberally educated, became a Christian in early life, and engaged in the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian church throughout his life. He married Hannah E. Williams, daughter of John Williams, a Scotch-Irish farmer in pros-

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perous circumstances, and a negro owner before the war. Mrs. Hannah E. Crofford died at her Tennessee home in 1883, the mother of the following: John A., of Hollywood, Mississippi; James Madison, of this notice; Esther J., wife of Peter Booth, of White county, Tennessee; Susan M., who married Duan Finger, of Hardiman county, Tennessee; George, who died in Kaufman county, Texas, leaving a family; Mattie, who passed away in Tennessee as the wife of William Scott and left a family; Laura, Mrs. John Williams, who died in Arkansas, the mother of a family; and Walter, of Covington, Tennessee.

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WILLIAM M. KELLER, a respected business man of Ryan, Jefferson county, and a representative of an old southern family, is a native of Knox county, Tennessee, born on the 6th of September, 1870. He is a son of William and Ann (Matlock) Keller, his father also being born in Knox county (in 1847). The elder Keller entered the Confederate army at the age of fifteen, served throughout the Civil war, in 1882 brought his family to Montague, Texas, and there established a gin and mill. In 1896 his wife died at this place and in the following year the widower returned to his native state of Tennessee, and is now a resident of Knoxville. Frank Keller, the paternal grandfather, died in the city named in 1902, at the age of eighty years. He owned a farm on the Tennessee river, and one of his children was Arthur Keller, father of the distinguished Helen Keller. the blind mute, whose learning and accomplishments have astonished the world. Among the other children of Frank Keller were: Crosier, who passed his life in Florida; David, who died a prisoner of the Civil war on Johnson's Island; Mary, who died unmarried; William, Thomas and Barton, the first and the last mentioned being residents of Knoxville, Tennessee. One of the great-grandfathers of our subject was Governor Spottswood, a colonial governor of the south. The children of William Keller and wife were as follows: Frank, who died single; Eugene, who passed away in Montague, Texas, leaving a family; William M., of this article; Robert, a resident of Marietta, Oklahoma; Avery, who lives in Austin, Texas; Clarence, of Knoxville, Tennessee; Margaret, wife of John Daniels, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Mary, now Mrs. Edward Cotter, of Gainesville, Texas.
      William M. Keller spent his late boyhood and a portion of his youth at Montague, Texas, working on a farm and securing a common school education. At the age of sixteen he became a cowboy on the X I T ranch in the Panhandle of Texas, remaining there far two years and then returning to Mantague to open a butcher shop on a cash capital of twenty-seven dollars. After continuing the business far three years he removed to Ryan, there securing employment in the same line. In 1901 he bought out his employer, W. L. Richards, and is the only proprietor of a meat market in town. He so prospered in his undertaking that in 1905 he erected a brick building, with concrete floor, for the handling of his meats and the accommodation of his customers. He has also erected a residence, and has further identified himself with the town as one of its substantial and useful citizens by service in the Common Council and on the school board. Mr. Keller's wife, whom he married March 31, 1891, was Celia, daughter of N. C. Smith, who is a Georgia man. Mrs. Keller herself is a native of Cooke county, Texas. The children of this union are Beunah, Frank, Hallie, Clifford, Wil1ie, Lee and Fred.

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ZED BROCK. One of the original boomers and Oklahoma pioneers resides at Ryan in the person of Zed Brock, who was formerly deputy United States marshal in this district and is now curator for minor Indian estates, having been appointed to the latter position by Judge Dickerson. Mr. Brock had been a business man in Indiana and Illinois previous to 1884, but in that year joined a party who came to Kansas with the immediate expectation of entering upon the promised land of Oklahoma. For some time he remained along the north border, awaiting the outcome of the movement for opening the country to actual settlement, but when the government withheld the land for an indefinite period he established a store in Ashtan, Kansas, in 1887, and remained there until 1889. He was connected with the opening in April, 1889 in a manner that identifies him with the old newspaper fraternity of Oklahoma. As special correspondent for the Winfield Newspaper Union he came into the country ahead of the rush, and during the first weeks of settlement observed and occasionally took part in the principal events in the pioneer history of Guthrie. He helped survey the townsite there. For a time he slept in the basement of the section house, and took all the rough-and-tumble experience incident to the times. He found himself unable to hold a claim that he staked out

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just south of town. After engaging in the grain business for a time, and living in Guthrie from April 22 to July 16, he moved to Purcell, where he assisted in building a mill ai1delevator. He established himself in the lumber and grain business at Wynnewood as member of the firm of Brock and Trudgon, and had excellent success during the three years he was there. Until moving to Ryan in October, 1897, he was manager of the Minco Mill and Elevator Company at Minco, until destroyed by fire in 1896. He came to Ryan in 1897 to accept the office of deputy marshal under Marshal Captain Hammer and later under Marshal Colbert. He held this; office until 1906. Appointed for minor Indian estates as curator, Mr. Brock has charge of a number of Indian estates, is guardian of many heirs, and has the management of their property until the limitations of age and Indian restrictions allow individual control. His work as an administrator has been efficient and has gained him much commendation from official and private sources. He has built thirty-five houses for his wards, and each year is bringing new farms under cultivation, so that the net result of his work is hardly less beneficial to the country at large than to the individuals under his guardianship. Twelve thousand acres are under his charge, and there are fifty tenants on nine thousand of it. The responsibility of his position is indicated by the fact that he gives a bond of fifty thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties.
      Mr. Brock was born in Daviess county, Indiana, in December, 1854. His grandfather, Allen Brock, came from Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, to Daviess county, Indiana, about 1830. His father was Levi Brock, who died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, while a Union soldier in Company I, Sixtieth Indiana Infantry. Before the war he had followed farming. He married Caroline Allen, daughter of Elihu Allen, of a South Carolina family originally, who remained loyal during the war. Caroline (Allen) Brock died in Indiana in 1904, when eighty-eight years of age. Her children were: Elihu, of Oklahoma; Virgil, of Whatcom, Washington; Zed, of Ryan; Sarah, wife of Aaron Sargent, of Martin county, Indiana; Lavina, wife of George Kinder, of Lawrence county, Indiana. By a second marriage, to John Wilson, Caroline Brock had a son, John, now a resident of the state of Washington.
      Zed Brock spent his early years on a farm, and after acquiring a liberal education began his career as a teacher in the public schools, teaching in Daviess and Martin counties, Indiana, for three years. In the meantime he had gained some experience in buying grain, at Washington, Indiana, and on moving to Illinois in 1814, engaged in that business as a regular occupation at Champaign, where he was known as an enterprising shipper of grain and stock until his removal to Kansas in 1884. In politics Mr. Brock is a Republican, and has never failed to identify himself public-spiritedly with the politics of his county. By his first marriage, in Indiana, to Miss Keck, he had two children: Lulu M., wife of W. A. Hopkins, of Chickasha; and Miss Ada, of the same city. Mr. Brock married (second) Miss Florence Cochran of Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Their children are Leslie, Zed and Gilbert.

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CHAMBERLAYNE JONES. The constitutional district that included the present county of Jefferson sent as its delegate to the constitutional convention, Mr. Chamberlayne Jones, of Ryan, one of the leading lawyers of southern Oklahoma and prominent in public affairs in town and county. In the convention he was chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, and a member of the committee on federal relations and on public buildings, labor and arbitration, impeachment and removal from office, salaries and compensation of public officers.
     Mr. Jones has been a resident of Ryan for over ten years. He began the study of law here with W. A. Dunn and was admitted to the bar February 22, 1898, after an examination before Judge Hosea Townsend, United States district judge. For four years he was in partnership with his old preceptor. He won his first case at law, securing the discharge, before the United States commissioner, of a man charged with arson. His court work covers Jefferson and contiguous counties, and his professional acquaintance also extends across the Red river into Texas. He has been admitted to practice in the supreme court of Oklahoma since statehood. In Ryan he is identified with all movements for the best welfare. of that little city. He has served two terms as mayor of Ryan.
     Chamberlayne Jones was born in Fannin county, Texas, June 1, 1872, and he spent his youth on a farm. The country schools and the Columbia College at Van Alstyne, Texas, where he spent one term, furnished him his preliminary education, and for a year before he moved to Ryan he was engaged in teaching

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school. Mr. Jones belongs to a southern family that has been identified in various noteworthy ways with the respective localities of their residence and with the history of state and nation as well. His grandfather, Ben B. Jones, who died in Alabama, was a graduate of West Point Military Academy and was colonel of a regiment that fought in the famous battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. After that war he was engaged in farming in northern Alabama until his comparatively early death. By his wife, who was the daughter of Judge Haywood of the Tennessee supreme bench, he had the following children: Dr. William C. (mentioned below); Mary, Mrs. Baker, who died in Florida. The widow of Colonel Jones married, again, and her son, Burkett Washington, graduated from West Point, entered the Confederate army, and while commanding a battery of artillery was killed in the battle of Missionary Ridge.
     William C. Jones, only son of the patriot of the war of 1812, and father of the Ryan attorney, was born in 1829 in Lawrence county, Alabama, and in 1853 became a pioneer of Fannin county, Texas, purchasing the Beall plantation on Red river. The war interrupted his successful cultivation, and for a short time he was in the Confederate service. As a young man he had enjoyed splendid educational advantages, in keeping with those usually afforded the sons of the best families of the south, having completed a course in the University of Virginia. After the war, instead of returning to the conduct of his plantation he entered the medical department of Tulane University at New Orleans, and was graduated in medicine and also took postgraduate studies elsewhere. For a time he had an office in Bonham, Texas, but eventually located at Grove Hill, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1903. He was an avid student all his life, broad-minded, and outside of his professional research the social sciences came in for a large share of his attention. He delivered lectures occasionally on such economic subjects as the "graduated income tax." In early life he was somewhat interested in politics, but during the last fifteen years took no part. Dr. Jones married Ellen O. Birmingham. Her father, Patrick Birmingham, of Irish birth, was also a physician, locating in New Orleans in 1820, and for a time was connected with a charity hospital there. He was in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for a time, and in 1853 moved to Texas. He was engaged in practice for a time at Paris, where he died. Dr. William C. Jones died about five years ago, but his widow still lives, a resident of Hunt county, Texas. Their children were: Amelia, wife of F. A. Boutwell, of Hunt county; Ellen, wife of M. H. Barrett, of Ryan; Pattie, wife of J. R. Wilson, of Leonard, Texas; Rodney, deceased; Chamberlayne, who is best known to acquaintances as "Cham" Jones; Hattie, wife of W. A. Baxter, of Leonard, Texas; Ben B., of El Paso, Texas; James E., of Fannin county; Catherine, wife of Jones Pennington, of Del Rio, Texas; Peter, who died at Del Rio, in 1902; Octavia, wife of B. A. Marcum, of Anna, Texas; Marcella, who died in 1903, aged seventeen; and Egbert, in Leonard. Mr. Chamberlayne Jones married, in Ryan, March 7, lS99, Miss Ada, daughter of T. F. Pool, a farmer and stockman of Ryan, formerly from Louisiana. They have three children: Ila, Marcella and Morris Chamberlayne.

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WILLIAM E. CONNER, president of the Waurika Realty Company and one of the original settlers of the town site, has been identified with the late substantial development of the country, as was his father with the growth of the cattle interests in the previous generation of pioneers. He came to the town on June 19, 1902, and for the first four years was engaged as a trader and a dealer along various lines until 1906, when he promoted the Waurika Realty Company, with a capital of $100,000. The company obtained the title to half a section of land adjoining the old town site, has platted two additions (Conners and the Railroad), and through its efforts many valued' settlers pave invested and located here. Besides his real estate interests he enjoys other important connections, being a stockholder in the Waurika National Bank, and an active member of the Commercial Club. ,
     William E. Conner is a native of Bert county, Nebraska, born on the 23rd of February, 1867, son of Jefferson F. and Rachel (Luthers) Conner. The paternal grandfather was Andrew Conner, of Irish stock, who was born at Logansport, Indiana, where he reared a family. He died before the Civil war. He was a millwright in his early life, worked in New Orleans, and afterward removed to Indiana.
     Jefferson F. Conner studied law, entered practice, and in the late seventies became quite prominent in the Greenback movement in Kan-

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sas. He was for some time located at Medicine Lodge, that state, and was a neighbor and admirer of Jerry Simpson. At the organization of the People's party in 1892 he also gave that his earnest support. He was a man of decided natural ability. He is a resident of Major county, Oklahoma, and pastured his cattle on the Cherokee Strip long before the great rush of 1889. He has been an active and strong force in the growth and politics of the new state of Oklahoma. By his marriage to Rachel Luthers (whose parents were natives of Missouri and Nebraska) his children were as follows: Catherine, wife of C. E. Gannon, of Enid, Oklahoma; William E., of this article; David, of Comanche county, Oklahoma; Eva, Mrs. James Gender, of that county, and Cynthia, who married William Beckner, of Higgins, Texas.
      William E. Conner obtained only a limited education, and remained identified with his father's ranching interests until he became of age. He was in the Strip as a cowboy when the soldiers were patrolling the country and was not infrequently driven out with his cattle. When old Oklahoma was opened he started from the southern line of the Strip, and, making twenty miles in record breaking time, located a claim on the famous Campbell Creek bottom, which he improved, proved up and sold. After disposing of his claim he engaged in buying and shipping stock at Kingfisher, dealing in horses and mules, and at the opening of the town of Waurika came hither and established himself as one of its working and substantial factors. Mr. Conner was married in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, September 21, 1895, to Annie, daughter of J. K. Wilcox, who came from Quincy, Illinois. Mrs. Conner was born in Kansas in 1876, and has become the mother of the following: Hazel, born in April, 1896; James, born in April, 1898; and Glen, born in December, 1899.
       William E. Conner is an ardent admirer of the principles. of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and William Jennings Bryan.

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CLINTON M. MAUPIN, M. D., who has resided hi Oklahoma since 1901 is a talented practicing physician of Waurika, Jefferson county, and identified with the civic progress of the place as well as with its professional standing. He is of an old Virginia family of French ancestry, and was born at Crown City. Ohio, on the 29th of August, 1874, being the son of a distinguished physician and surgeon, who saw service in both the Mexican and Civil wars, and after the Rebellion went first to West Virginia and then to the Buckeye state. Clinton M. Maupin was educated primarily in the public schools of his native city, and at the age of eighteen was matriculated in Barnes Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1896. In the following year he pursued postgraduate work in that city, and has since taken advanced courses in New York and Chicago. He commenced practice in the city of his birth, and continued it in the Missouri cities of Rockville, Papinsville and Webb City. From the last point, in 1901, be came to Oklahoma and first located for professional work at Lawton, continuing there until he became a resident of Waurika in February, 1905. From the first he has been received into the community as a strong addition to its best progress, in every particular, and is now chairman of the town board of trustees. His outside professional relations are wide and most creditable. He is local surgeon of the Rock Island Railroad, and a member of the surgical association of that system. He is also a member of the American Association of Railway Surgeons, Oklahoma State Medical Association, and is examiner for a11 the leading life insurance companies represented in Waurika, for the Endowment Rank of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, with its auxiliary, the Royal Neighbors.
     As stated the Maupins are of French stock, the grandfather of Clinton M. being the founder of the family in America. He located near Charlottesville, Virginia, became an influential planter and reared a family of several children, of whom Dr. Daniel G. Maupin was the most noted. He was born on the paternal estate within a mile of Monticel1o, the historic home of Jefferson, on the oth of June, 1822, and in this locality he spent his boyhood. He enjoyed every educational advantage, and, with an active mind and ambitious temperament, he arrived at man's estate, a fine mathematician, a thorough surveyor and an accomplished public speaker. He then graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia and McDowell School of Medicine, St. Louis, and at the age of twenty-six commenced to render his services to the government as a surgeon in the Mexican war. He accompanied General Scott's army across the Gulf, and was with it when it entered Mexico City. Re-

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turning to the United States and the practice of his profession in civil fields, he first located at Ashland, Kentucky, where he remained for many years, during that period serving as an old-time Democrat in the state legislature. While the Civil war was in progress he was surgeon in a Confederate hospital at Staunton, Virginia, and later was a resident of Millersburg, Missouri, where his services were in demand by both armies. Subsequently he located for practice at Hamline, West Virginia, remaining there until his removal to Crown City, Ohio. Wherever he went in his professional capacity, his abilities were recognized and his financial rewards were also large. But he was generous to his family, his friends, and to the poor and suffering, and his ultimate savings were not large. He was also the life of public and private gatherings, and retained to the last the graces and eloquence of the typical southern orator and conversationalist. Dr. Daniel G. Maupin was twice married, and by his first wife was the father of the following: Sadie, wife of Henry Hartman, Of Hinton, West Virginia; Henry K., of Huntington, that state; Ambrose T., of Athens, West Virginia; Josephine, a widow residing at Whitehall, Indiana; Lura, wife of W. J. Murray, of Augusta, Kentucky, and Adaline, who married and died at Hinton, West Virginia. For his second wife Dr. Maupin married Sarah D. Bickel, daughter of Aaron Bickel. Her father was a native of Ohio, and a brick mason by trade, who went to Salem, Illinois, in his early manhood and assisted in building the town. He afterward joined the Methodist ministry and for many years preached in Gallia county, Ohio. Mr. Bickel was a strong Republican and died at Salem, eighty-three years of age. Dr. Daniel G. Maupin died at Ironton, Ohio, and his wife still resides there, the mother of the following: Artie F., wife of A. C. Hobbs, of Ironton, Ohio; William A., of that place; Dr. Clinton M., of this sketch; Lucy F., of Ironton, and Lucile, married, of the same city. Dr. Clinton M. Maupin married, at Papinsville, Missouri, on the 14th of September, 1898, Miss Nora Shockey, daughter of John Shockey, a leading farmer and business man. Mrs. Maupin is a native of Papinwille, was educated in the academy at Butler, Missouri, and is one of the following children: John, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas; Louisa, wife of Dudley Bradley, of Papinsville; Margaret, married and now Mrs. Corbin, of Bume, Missouri; Emma, unmarried; Ada, who is Mrs. Seelinger, of Greeley, Colorado ; Cora, wife of T. B. Kelley, of Waurika, Oklahoma, and Nora, Mrs. Maupin, (twin sisters); and Nathan and John C., both of Papinsville, Missoud. The children born to Dr. and Mrs. Maupin are: Nora, born January 31, 1904, and Clinton S., born January 18, 1908.