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A. F. HOOPER. The incumbent of the highest office within the gift of the citizens of Hobart is A. F. Hooper, who came here with the opening of the county in 1901, and has ever since been prominently identified with the interests of city and county. He was at first connected with the Crawford Jay Grocery Company, but in 1903 left that corporation to become a wholesale and retail dealer in coal, wood, feed, lime and cement, and has become widely known in business circles. From the begining [beginning] of his identification with Oklahoma and its interests Mayor Hooper has been active in all public questions and business development, and is a stanch and true Prohibitionist. He was elected and served two terms in the city council, and in 1906 entered upon his duties as the mayor of 'Hobart. Although but in its infancy the town has made rapid progress

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and has become quite a commercial center, containing two railroads, three cotton gins, one compress and oil mill, five banks, four school houses, six churches, an electric light and water plant, and all lines of merchandise and all professions are also represented. The money from the government sale of lots was appropriated for the erection of the large court house, jail, sewerage ,system and water works, and with these present conditions and the help of enterprising and progressive citizens, with the mayor at the head, Hobart will soon be the metropolis of southwest Oklahoma.
     Mr. Hooper was born in Davidson county,Tennessee, May 8, 1876, and was reared to farm life and received a good education in the common and high schools of Nashville, Tennessee. He is a son of L. K. and Mary (Milam) Hooper, both of whom were born in Virginia but were married in Tennessee, where for many years Mr. Hooper was engaged in the pork packing business at Nashville. At the opening of the Civil war he entered the Confederate army and was made the captain of his company, a part of the Second Tennessee Cavalry, was several times wounded during his military service, and was at one time made a prisoner of war. The conflict left him badly worsted financially, but later he was able to resume his pork packing industry, and continued successfully in the business until his death in 1879. He was a member of the Methodist church and of the Masonic fraternity. His wife survived him many years and died in 1905. She was a daughter of R. A. Milam, who was born in Virginia, but became an early resident of Tennessee and was a large land and slave owner. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hopper, three of whom, Mayor Hooper and two others, reside in Oklahoma.
     In Nashville, Tennessee, in 1901, Mayor Hooper married Miss Eva Spaulding, who was born in that state, a daughter of E. P. Spaulding, who was born in Vermont and died in Tennessee. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Hooper are Wallace and Lydia, but the son died when but nine months of age. The daughter was born March 14, 1905. Mrs. Hooper is a Presbyterian, and Mr. Hooper has membership relations with the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.

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PROFESSOR JULIUS M. RULE, superintendent of the Hobart schools and prominently identified with the educational institutions of Oklahoma, was born near Knoxville, Tennessee, Janury [January] 7, 1878, a son of George A. and Jennie (Monday) Rule, both of whom were born and are yet living in Tennessee, a grandson of Michael and Caroline (Henderson) Rule, natives respectively of Virginia and Knox county, Tennessee, and a great-grandson of the American founder of the family. He came from Germany in an early day in the history of the country and located in Virginia, where he became a prominent farmer. When a boy Michael Rule left Virginia for Tennessee. He was a well informed man, of sterling integrity and honor, and was a prominent farmer and local Methodist minister, the religion of the family for many generations. The children of Michael and Caroline Rule were: John A., manager of the New Soddy Coal Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee; George A., of whom later; Mary, now Mrs. Walker; Eliza, Mrs. Kirby; Clark, engaged in the meat business; William, a farmer; Della, Mrs. Johnson; and Elizabeth, who also became Mrs. Johnson.
     George A. Rule has been a life-long farmer in Tennessee. He took no part in the Civil war, but one of his cousins, William Rule, served with the rank of captain in the Federal army. Mrs. Rule is also a worthy member of the Methodist church, and she is a daughter of Campbell Monday, who yet resides at his old homestead in Tennessee, a member of the Missionary Baptist church. His children are: Billy M., of Tennessee; Elizabeth, Mrs. Haynes; Orlina Burnett; Jennie, the mother of Professor Julius M. Rule; Margaret Ford; Lou Hall; Clinton, a farmer; Bolivar, a machinist; Agnes, now dead; Viola Marshall, deceased; and Dora and Alice at home. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rule, as follows; J. M., the subject of this review; Lala, at home; Anna, now Mrs. Cruze; Eliza and Minnie, at home; Harrison, a student; and Della, Geneva and Georgia. All are living, and three reside in Oklahoma.
     Professor Julius M. Rule spent the early years of his life on a farm and began his education in the common schools, later attending the Murphy College at Sevierville, Tennessee, and subsequently graduated from the state university. After his graduation he began teaching school in the rural districts, and two years later was made the principal of the Parrottsville Seminary in Cocke county, Tennessee. He served in that position for three terms, resigning in June of 1904 to come to

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Hobart, where in a short time he became well and prominently known and was made the superintendent of the schools. Since entering upon the work of this office his main object has been their elevation and improvement, and his efforts have been abundantly rewarded, for when he took charge of the school the entire enrollment was about four hundred and fifty students, while at the present time over one thousand students are enrolled, and there are four schools in the different wards. Under his supervision there has been erected a modern brick school building, while others have been remodeled. The high school department numbers one hundred and twenty-five students, and the school board is now contemplating voting bonds for the erection of a new high school building to cost seventy-five thousand dollars. The enrol1ment in this department has more than doubled since Professor Rule took charge, the course of study is as efficient as any in the state, and its graduates are admitted on credentials to the best state universities. A corps of twenty-five teachers are now employed in the different schools, all graduates of normal colleges and universities, and they represent fifteen different states of the Union. They command the best salaries of any school in Oklahoma, and have supervision from the kindergarten, where children are admitted at the age of four, to the high school, where they are graduated after a four years' course. The school board is composed of men of ability and business qualifications and are not restricted by politics or creed. Professor Rule holds an Oklahoma state life certificate and a life institute conductors certificate, and was appointed by the governor a member of the state board of education.
      In Tennessee, in 1904, he married Miss Carrie B. Snyder, who was born in Kansas. Her father early went from his native state of North Carolina to Kansas and later to Texas and then to territory of Washington. He was married in Tennessee, and soon afterward emigrated [immigrated] west to Kansas, where he was a stock man, and from there went to Texas and then to Seattle, Washington. He was a successful business man, well known and highly respected in the different localities in which he lived. He was both a Methodist and a Mason. He died in Washington, but his wife passed away in Texas. She was a Miss Wellborn, and a member of a prominent old family of Washington county, Tennessee, where some of the older members of the family are yet living, well known and highly respected people. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder are: Jacob T., an Alaska mine owner; James C., a physician in Seattle, Washington; John, a student; Bertha, now Mrs. Woodman; Carrie B., who became the wife of Professor Rule; Pearl, Mrs. Fullerton; Virginia, Mrs. Carew; Josephine, Mrs. Wallace; Ella and Ruby. Mrs. Rule attended the public schools of Seattle, Washington, the high school of Johnson City, Tennessee, and is a graduate of the Martha Washington College of Abbington, Virginia. She was a competent teacher before her marriage. Two sons have been born to Professor and Mrs. Rule, Julius M., Jr., and James Landon, born respectively February 10, 1905, and January 28, 1907. Both Professor and Mrs. Rule are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and of the order of Eastern Star, he being a Knight Templar Mason, and he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America fraternities.

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C. S. GILLETTE is the present postmaster of Hobart, and he has the distinction of being the second to serve in that position, his appointment occurring in May, 1907. The original postoffice of this section was called Spud, situated about three quarters of a mile from where Hobart is now located, W. J. Byan being its postmaster. After the sale of lots in this city, about the 15th of August, 1901, the office was moved to Hobart and William M. English was made the postmaster and continued in office until April, 1907, in that time raising the office from the fourth to the second class and in his third year he established three rural free delivery routes. Postmaster Gillette, the successor Of Mr. English, is ably carrying forward the work, giving his entire attention to the office, and he has four competent and active helpers. He expects soon to give the citizens of Hobart a free mail delivery.
     Mr. Gillette was born in Hutchinson, Reno county, Kansas, May 6, 1874, and was reared to the life of a stockman in western Kansas, receiving in the meantime a good elementary education in the common schools. He is a son of the, Hon. Frank E. and Anna (Brown); Gillette, natives respectively of the state of Ohio and, of Dublin, Ireland. They were married in Lawrence, Kansas. Frank Gillette's father was born in the New England states, and was of Scotch descent. He later became a prominent farmer in Ohio, and during

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the '60s moved to Kansas and engaged in merchandising, remaining in that state until death claimed him. He was both a Whig and Republican politically, and was an agriculturist throughout life, well known and highly respected. His religious affiliations were with the Presbyterian church. His children are: Frank E., of whom later; Charles; Preston D., judge of the Twenty-seventh district of Kansas; Guy, district clerk in Caddo county, Oklahoma; Nellie, the wife of W. Fulton; and Dan, a prominent merchant.
     The Hon. Frank E. Gillette received in his early life a liberal education, which was begun in his native state of Ohio and completed in Kansas, and he chose the law for his life's occupation. When but a boy, too young to regularly enlist, he entered the Civil war as aide-de-camp to Colonel Preston B. Plumb, and later became a part of his body guard in a Kansas regiment. He continued in service in until the close of the conflict, and was afterward with Colonel Plumb in the west looking, after treacherous Indians, and continued as Indian fighter until hostilities ceased. He then turned his attention to railroad building, and he1ped construct the M. K. & T. road , through the Choctaw Nation. He had married previous to this, and his wife accompanied him in his work, later returning with him to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he completed his training for the law and was admitted to the bar. After a time he moved to Kingman, that state, and resumed practice. He was later on elected to and served two terms in the "lower' house, and was also for a similar period a member of the senate of Kansas, also continuing his general practice of the law in Kingman until 1889. At the beginning of that year he moved to El Reno, where he planted his stakes, and his family joined him there in 1902, they taking up their abode on a farm near the town, and Mr. Gillette continued his practice. In the spring of 1902, he received the appointment of associate justice of the supreme court of Oklahoma for the southwest, and he continued in that high official capacity until the, first election in 1907. As he was obliged to live in the district which he represented he moved to Anadarko at the time of his appointment, and still resides there, although he yet owns his farm near El Reno. He has been in public service during the most of his active life, and has made an excellent public record, as a lawyer, juror and high official standing in the front, rank. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities. His wife presides over the home at Anadarko, full of years and in the enjoyment of a well spent life. She was brought from the old country as a little orphan of two years, and was reared and educated in this country. Her father was a Unitarian minister, and she has earnestly held to that faith throughout life, a devoted Christian from her early girlhood. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Gillette are: Cornelia, now Mrs. Libby; C. S., whose name introduces this review; Mary, the wife of Charles Eugh; Frank, president of the Gillette & Hardison Grain Company of Nashville, Tennessee,; and Fred, assistant county attorney of Kiowa county.
     C. S. Gillette, the eldest son of the Hon. Frank E. Gillette, was born and reared in Kansas, and in his younger life followed the stock business for a number of years, finally coming to Oklahoma in 1889, at the opening of the territory, but after a time he left Kingfisher, where he had first located, and spent a short time in Texas, there buying a bunch of cattle and marketing them in Kansas. Returning to Oklahoma in 1892, he was employed as a grocery clerk in El Reno until 1898, from. that time until October, 1902, was engaged in buying grain for the Canadian Milling Company, and from there he came to Hobart and entered the clerk's office. In April, 1906, he left the district clerk's office to enter politics, advocating Republican principles, and in April, 1907, he received the appointment of Postmaster of Hobart, and has ever since carried on the work creditably and satisfactorily.
     In El Reno, in 1879, Mr. Gillette married Miss Edwina Carnahan, born in Nebraska, and a daughter of M. and Elsie Carnahan, of Irish descent. They were natives of Ohio, but became early pioneers of Nebraska, where Mr. Carnahan followed farming, and from that state he came to Oklahoma and located near El Reno, and there became one of the largest and most successful farmers of the county. His children are: John, also a farmer; Mary, wife of H. Lasson; Albert, a farmer; Edwina, who became Mrs. Gillette; Ida, deceased; and Ella, Emily and Lena. Mrs. Gillette is a member of the Christian church. Mr. Gillette has membership relations with the Odd Fellows and the Elks.

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CHARLES W. LENAU is one of the most prominent attorneys at the bar of Kiowa county, and is also prominently identified with its real estate and insurance business and is active

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in the upbuilding of Hobart. He was born September 23, 1873, in Gaylord, Kansas, a son of John I. and Ella (Crosier) Lenau, both of whom were born in Indiana, and there they were also married. The father who was of French and German descent, became a blacksmith and followed that trade during the early years of his business life. During the Civil war he entered the Federal army in Indiana, the Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was made corporal and flag bearer, and was consigned to the Army of the Tennessee. He served until the close of the conflict, and although his clothing was many times pierced with bullets he was never wounded. After the close of the struggle he returned to Indiana, where he married and soon afterward moved to Illinois and followed his trade of a blacksmith there until his removal to Kansas in 1872, where he took up a homestead in Smith county, working both at his. trade and improving his farm. He purchased adjoining lands, and owned a section of fine farming land. He abandoned his trade many years ago, and gave his full time to his farming and stock raising interests. He was a stanch Republican, an Odd Fellow and a consistent member of the United Brethren church. He died March 21, 1908. His widow, resides at the old homestead, in the enjoyment of a good and well spent life. She is from a prominent and honored old family of Indiana, a daughter of Adam Crosier of English descent, in his lifetime a successful farmer and stockman, a strong and influential Republican and a stanch Union man during the Civil war. When John Morgan and his band made their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio they were anxious to capture Mr. Crosier, and to accomplish this made a prisoner of his daughter, Mrs. Lenau, thinking they would frighten her in revealing her father's whereabouts, but she would not tell and Adam Crosier thus escaped arrest and perhaps death at their hands. His children were: George; Adam; Thomas; a son who was killed at Vicksburg; Bell, Mrs. Neeley; Ella, who became the mother of Charles W. Lenau; and Elizabeth, Mrs. McIntire. John I. Lenau was one of five children, the others being: Lawrence, who served through the Civil war, and was captain of his company; Joseph, who was killed in the service; Ann and Elizabeth.
      Charles W. Lenau spent the early years of his life on a farm, and after attending the common, and high school of Gaylord, Kansas, he taught a country school for three years, thus obtaining the means with which to continue his education in the Lawrence high school and the state university, graduating from that institution in the art and law departments with the class of 1900. In the same year he came to Oklahoma, stopping first in Washita county, and from there returned to Kansas. In the spring of 1901 he came again to Oklahoma, this time going to El Reno, and later he made an application but drew no claim in Kiowa county, coming here on August 1 and camping on Elk creek with a party of men. Three weeks previous to the drawing with a practical surveyor, Mr. Lenau looked over the country with a view of locating claims, and on the morning of the 6th of August, 1901, he moved to Ragtown, pitched his tent and opened a law and real estate office. Attending the sale of Hobart lots, he bought all allowable and at once began to assist in the building and development of Hobart, in the meantime having erected many business and residence properties, is a large holder in city property, and is fully alive to all the interests of town and county. Among other property he owns three good Oklahoma farms, is a stockholder and director in the City National Bank, and is one of the leading lawyers of the county. He also transacts a large insurance business, representing reliable arid well known fire and cyclone companies. In 1905 he was elected to the office of Police Judge, in which he served for one' term, and he is a member of the Business Men's Club, organized for the purpose of building and improving Hobart.
      On the 25th of December, 1901, Mr. Lenau returned to Lawrence, Kansas, and claimed his bride Miss Cora Long, who was born in Illinois in 1873, a daughter of Charles Long of that state. He was a poplar merchant of Good Hope, and died at the early age of thirty-five years, his widow later moving to Kansas; her present home. She is a member, as was also her husband, of the Presbyterian church. Their children are: Cora, who became the wife of Mr. Lenau; Myrtle, Maud and Carrie, at home. Mr. and Mrs: Lenau have two children: Myrtle, born March 22, 1903, and Julien, born January 7, 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Lenau are members of the Presbyterian church, and he is also a member of the fraternal order of Odd Fellows and has held all the offices in his local lodge.

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GEORGE W. STEWART, M. D. The medical profession of Hobart and Kiowa county numbers among its most prominent representatives Dr. George W. Stewart. His connection with the profession covers seventeen years, and during seven years of that time he has successfully ministered to the residents of this community. The birth of Dr. Stewart occurred in Mississippi September 10, 1856, his parents being Wylie S. and Mary A. (Cobb) Stewart, of North Carolina. They went to Mississippi in their early lives, were married there and became planters and slave owners. At the opening of the Civil war Wylie S. Stewart entered the Confederate service, and remained at the front until near the close of the war, when he was wounded in the arm and rendered incapable for further duty, returning to his home, and he never fully recovered from his army experience, dying in 1878. His widow yet survives, hale and hearty at the age of seventy-five, and finds a good home with her son, Dr. Stewart. She is a member of the Methodist church. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart: are: John A., a prominent farmer in Kiowa county; George W., of whom later; Wylie, also a Kiowa county farmer; Sidney J., an agriculturalist here; Mary, the wife of T. L. Gates, of Texas; William T., a former county superintendent of schools and now superintendent of the Cherokee schools; Robert Lee, a farmer in Kiowa county; and Luther F., professor of the Southwestern University of Georgetown, Texas.
      The early years of the life of Dr. Stewart were spent on the farm and in attending school, first the rural district schools and later the academy at Fulton, Mississippi, after which taught a country school for several years. When he had reached his thirtieth year began reading medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Nabors, of Pleasant Ridge, Mississippi, and in 1888 attended lectures at the Hospital Medical College of Memphis, pursuing a full course there and graduating in 1890. From the time of his graduation until 1893 he practiced at Fulton, Mississippi and going thence to Texas, spent three years of successful practice at Gause in Milan county and six years in Abbott in Hill county. In 1901 he came to Hobart, Oklahoma, where he has ever since remained, and in the intervening years has built up a successful and representative practice, which is constantly increasing. He has a splendid library, an excellently equipped office and gives strict attention to his practice and is an earnest and constant student. He is a member of the State and County Medical Society, also of the American Medical Society, and is a pronounced Democrat of the Jeffersonian school.
      Dr. Stewart married in Mississippi Miss Margaret E. Nabors, a native daughter of that state and a descendant of one of its prominent old families. Her father, Wylie N. Nabors, was a prominent and influential man of his locality, a large planter and slave owner before the war, and also a merchant. He was left an orphan at an early age, and learning the tanner's trade finally became quite a large manufacturer of leather goods, finally disposing of his manufactory to become a planter and merchant. He married Martha Leslie, a daughter of Major William Leslie, who was reared among the Cherokee Indians and became a man of note and influence. Wylie Nabors died at his old homestead in Mississippi, the present home of his widow. In their family were twelve children, their daughter Margaret being their fifth child and they mostly remain in Mississippi. Three children blessed the union of Dr. and Mrs. Stewart, namely: Oscar, who was born May 9, 1883, and is a Methodist minister of more than ordinary note and influence; Otho, born in December, 1887, a college student preparing for the Methodist ministry; and Oland, born in January, 1894, is yet a boy in school. The wife and mother died at the Ft. Worth Infirmary in May, 1901. Hers was a beautiful Christian character, one which inspired her sons to lives of usefulness and honor and she was a devoted wife and loving mother. Dr. Stewart is a Royal Arch Mason and a member and president of the board of stewards of the Methodist church, and at present (1908) he is a resident of the city council of Hobart.

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WILLIAM W. ROWLAND, a farmer, banker, county official and an influential resident of Hobart and Kiowa county, was born in Baron county, Kentucky, August 1, 1849, a .son of George W. and Martha E. Bailey Rowland. Both were born in. Kentucky, were married there, reared their family there, and there finally passed away in death. The father was a farmer and merchant, the proprietor of a country store, and in politics was a Democrat. Both he and his wife were members of the Christian church, and in their

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family were the following children: Mary G. and Alice, twins, the former of whom married C. Eubanks and Alice became the wife of H. Eubanks; William W., who is mentioned later; Joseph B., Lucy A. Williams, Nancy H., wife of James Lovelace; Minnie, who died at the age of twenty-five years, unmarried; John C., James T., Juda Goeler, Mrs. Martha Peterson, Jennie McKibben, George W., who died in infancy, and Clem H., who died at the age of twenty years.
      William W. Rowland spent the early years of his life in his native state of Kentucky, remaining under the parental roof until his twenty-first year, and in 1882 he went from Kentucky to Nebraska and worked as a farm hand for two years. Then returning home he spent a short time as a clerk, after which he went to Kansas, this being, in 1884, and rented a farm near Wellington. In the fall of 1886 he went to the western, part of that state and pre-empted a homestead claim, but after eight months, sold the land and went to Colorado Springs and worked, one year on a ranch. In December of 1887, on account of the death of his parents he returned to his old home in Kentucky, but one year later went again to Colorado and resumed work with his former employer. In December, 1889, he again returned to Kentucky, this time to take charge of his father's estate, which he settled and for four years cared for the younger members of the family. He then purchased the old home place and married, but selling the estate in 1893 he in the following January moved with his family to the Cherokee strip, bought a claim in Garfield county, improved the land and successfully raised wheat and stock, but in the fall of 1898 sold the place at a good profit and bought one hundred and twenty acres of improved land adjoining the town of Waukomis. Platting fifty acres of this tract Mr. Rowland laid out the Rowland addition to the town and engaged in the real estate business, thus continuing successfully until 1902, when he made a visit to his old home in Kentucky, and in July of 1902 came to Hobart and at once entered active1y into the work of building up the town. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank, in which he became a stockholder and was made the vice-president, continuing to hold that office until March, 1903, when he sold his interests therein. When this bank increased its capital stock and reorganized, Mr., Rowland again took stock, and when in April, 1904, the bank suspended for a short time the stockholders came to the front, paid its depositors in full and resumed business. Mr. Rowland continued as one of the directors of this bank until August, 1907, when he sold his stock at a large profit.
     On first coming to the country in 1902 he bought a farm, and this he held until 1904 and then sold and moved to Hobart. Soon after this, in the spring of 1905, he bought two other farms, and in the spring of 1906 bought a small .farm adjoining the corporate limits of Hobart, where he yet lives, the farm being well improved and well adapted to fruit growing. He has since bought two other farms, owning four in all, and during the past three cotton seasons he has been extensively engaged in the buying of that commodity, being the senior member of the firm of Rowland & Carleoon. He also assisted in organizing the Home State Bank of Hobart, which has a paid up capital of $15,000, and of which he is the president and W. C. Kelsey the cashier, while all the stockholders and directors are Hobart and Kiowa county men. Mr. Rowland is a self-made man in the truest sense of the word, for in addition to making his own way in the world and rearing his children to lives of usefulness he also cared for his parents, younger children and has helped many a one on the road to prosperity. He is a well known Democrat and has held many of the minor offices of the county, and in September, 1907, he was elected one of its county commissioners.
     He married in his native county Miss Mary P. Depp, they having been neighbors in their early lives, and she is a daughter of John B. and Martha (Reneau) Depp, both also born in Kentucky. The father was a farmer, lumberman and Confederate army veteran. During the war he was held a prisoner for six months, and was only released by taking an oath to the Federal government. Returning home after the war he resumed his former employment, and became an influential worker in the ranks of the Democratic party. He served at one time as a deputy sheriff, and was elected to represent the county of Barren in the Kentucky legislature. Both he and his wife yet reside in their old home in Kentucky, worthy members of the Christian church. She is a daughter of Isaac T. Reneau, a pioneer Christian minister of the Blue Grass state, widely known and highly

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respected. In the Depp family were the following children: Lizzie E., who married a Mr. Allen and is now deceased; Mary P., became the wife of Mr. Rowland; Tipton, a contractor; Nettie, a competent school teacher; Oren R., a farmer and school teacher; Lillie B., who is also engaged in teaching school. Both Mr. and Mrs. Depp are also members of the Christian church. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rowland: Minnie T., who was born in :October, 1891; George B., who died when one year old; Jessie, born in October, 1896; Nettie, in February, 1898; and Stella, in June, 1900. Mr. Rowland is a member of the Fraternal Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife have membership relations with the Christian church.

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PROFESSOR ARTHUR J. FOSTER, principal of the Mountain View schools and prominently identified with the educational interests of Oklahoma, was well prepared for his profession by an excellent educational training in the schools of Missouri and Arkansas.
      He attended the academy at Columbia, Missouri, in which he graduated with the class of 1899, was for one year a student in the University and then during two years attended West Plains College. His first work in the profession was in Missouri, where he taught for two years, and in 1901 came from there to Oklahoma. Locating a homestead at Roger Mills county, he improved the farm he yet owns and at the same time taught the home district school for two terms. Through his instrumentality the Mountain View school was organized and he took charge thereof in 1903. School was first held in a four room frame house that had been moved from the old town and numbered one hundred and sixty pupils and four teachers, but since a modern six room brick building has been erected and the attendance numbers three hundred pupils, and resided over by six competent teachers. The high school embraces a three year course, and after graduation there the pupils are allowed to enter both the Normal and Drury College without examination. The school has made rapid strides under Professor Foster's leadership, and the school board ably assists him in his work.
     He was born in Franklin county, Kansas, December 15, 1877, and is a son of James N. and Sarah (Taylor) Foster, who were born and married in Indiana, and went as pioneers to Kansas in 1858. There Mr. Foster improved his farm, and during the Civil war he joined a home guard regiment, believing he could best serve his country in the border warfare. He saw hard service during the conflict, and after its close resumed his farming operations in Kansas, but later sold his farm there and moved to Missouri. Again he bought and improved land and then sold, going this time to a farm in Western Texas, from whence he came to Oklahoma in the early days of its settlement in 1893. Locating on a farm in Roger Mills county, he continued there until his death in 1900, During his residence in Kansas Mr. Foster filled many offices of honor and trust, set1ring three terms in the state legislature, and he was also prominently identified with the farming and stock interests of the state, He was a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and he and his wife worshipped in the Methodist church. She survived her husband and died at their old home in Oklahoma in 1903. Their eight children were: Henry, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church and a resident of Missouri; Ella, the wife of Rev. John Slusher, also a Methodist minister; William and Frank, who are farming in Oklahoma; James E., superintendent of the schools at Sayre, Oklahoma; Anna, who became Mrs. Watts; Arthur J., of whom later; and Charles, a teacher in Oklahoma.
      Professor Arthur J. Foster married at Mountain View in 1902. Miss Eva Fisher, a daughter of Howard Fisher of Iowa. He came to Oklahoma in 1893, where he followed his former occupation of farming until he sold his land to engage in business in Mountain View. He is a Mason and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are: Lora McCaulay, Eva Foster, Charles, Byron, Berchia, Fredregal, James and Lester, the two youngest in school. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Foster are Howard and Edward, born respectively February 11, 1904, and February 23, 1906.

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A. E. STINSON, president of the Stinson Mercantile Company, vice-president of the First National Bank of Mountain View, and the present mayor of the city, is a leader in the industrial and political interests of Kiowa county. In 1885 he joined Payne's Oklahoma colony which entered the territory from Kansas fifteen hundred strong, coming in wagons and experiencing the greatest diffi-

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culty in dodging the soldiers and settling on the land. Their first location was known as Still Water, but where Oklahoma City now stands was their principal settlement, and of the large colony who first came to the territory there are but four left to tell of the anxieties they suffered and the deprivations and hardships they endured. In 1886 Mr. Stinson was made the secretary of the colony. In those days it was unlawful for any white man to be in or cross any part of the territory without a permit from the government, and any man so doing when caught, by the soldiers would be marched out of the territory. Mr. Stinson was more than once compelled to leave, but each time succeeded in making good his return, and he was there to witness the opening and subsequent development of several portions of the country, including the opening of the Cheyenne country in 1892, when he located a claim in Washita county and engaged in the cattle business. Later, however, he closed out his farming and stock raising interests there to engage in the mercantile business at Cloud Chief in 1894, then the county seat of Washita county. When the town began to drift to Cordell he moved his stock of goods to old Mountain View, where he continued successfully until that town also started to move. In 1903 he organized the Stinson Mercantile. Company at the new town, this company and the First National Bank erected together a large brick block in which the department store is now located and of which Mr. Stinson is the president and manager. He assisted in organizing the State Bank at Old Mountain View, and at the time of its reorganization as the First National Bank in the new town he became a stockholder and was made vice-president. He also assisted in organizing the Hobart National Bank of Hobart, is extensively interested in the cotton gins of Mountain View, and at the old town in 1901 he was elected to the office of mayor, was re-elected after its removal and is the present incumbent. During his administration the water works have been installed, and during his membership on the school board he was instrumental in the erection of the large brick school house, in Mountain View. He has had his shoulder to the wheel of progress in Oklahoma longer and perhaps stronger than any other man, and many are now enjoying the fruits of his labor.
     Mr. Stinson was born in Washington county, Iowa, December 28, 1861, a son of John and Catherine (McElree) Stinson and a grandson of John Stinson, Sr., of Scotch descent and who died in Iowa. He was always a farmer, and in his family were seven children,—Charles M., Arch B., John, James, Mary, Malinda and Sarah. John and Catherine (McElree) Stinson were born in Ohio and married in Iowa, where he was a farmer and miller, well known and highly respected. In their family were eight children: A. E., the subject of this review; James C., Bertha Burkett, Maggie Ross, P. G., who died at the age of twenty-eight; Walter, Clyde and Zella. The two oldest are all that came to Oklahoma.
     A. E. Stinson was brought up about his father's flouring mm, attending the common schools, a seminary and later a commercial school at Iowa City. When a young man of twenty-one he left the parental roof and became a bookkeeper in a bank in Iowa City, from there going in 1885 to Arkansas City, where he joined the colony and came to Oklahoma. In Indian Territory he married Miss Mary J. Wilcox, born at Dundee, Illinois and a daughter of Colonel E. S. Wilcox of that state. He answered the call of his country, raised the Sixty-second Illinois Regiment and went to the front and fought until the close of the conflict, his bravery and ability winning him laurels. The Wilcox family have been noted for their loyality [loyalty], and for five generations they have participated in the American wars and have won the highest ranks of a soldier. During his residence in Illinois Colonel E. S. Wilcox was engaged in mercantile and mining businesses, and he is a stanch Republican. In 1849 he became imbued with the gold fever of the west, and going to California via the overland route he satisfied his enterprising mind and returned to the States via the water route. He was prominently identified with the opening and subsequent progress of Oklahoma, and he is now living retired from all active labor and finds a good home with his daughter, Mrs. Stinson. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of many soldiers organizations. His children are: Sarah, who is now Mrs. Holbrook and a resident of Arkansas; Sylvanus, whose home is in Colorado; and Mary J., the wife of Mr. Stinson. Mrs. Wilcox died in Indian Territory. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stinson are: Bennie, Louise, Robert and Ada. Two are also deceased, Bernice, the fourth born, dying at the [page 309] age of eleven years, and, Nellie; the next younger, died at the age of three.

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DR. ERNEST D. MABRY, a prominent physician and surgeon of Mountain View, has been connected with the medical profession since his sixteenth year, when he began reading under the instructions of Dr. S. B. Hoover, of Pontotoc, Texas, and also went with that able physician on his various rounds of visits. He entered the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis at sixteen years of age and began practice at nineteen at Castell, Texas, where he remained for two years., and he then returned to the Missouri Medical College, completed the course and graduated with the class of 1895. Dr. Mabry then went again to Castell to resume his practice, and from that city later moved to Fredonia, and from there to the old town of Mountain View. Again moving, he went to Pontotoe, Texas, from there to Llano, that state, where he remained for two years and it was in 1906 that he came to Mountain View and entered upon what has since proved a successful and prominent career. In 1902 he took a post graduate course in New York. He is a constant student, up-to-date and progressive in his practice, and is serving as the examiner for a number of life insurance companies. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and of the Texas State, the Oklahoma State and the Kiowa County Medical Associations.
      Dr. Mabry was born in Burnet county, Texas, February 27, 1874, a son of Jack J. and Fannie B. (Hoover) Mabry, natives respectively of Texas and Tennessee, and they were married in the Lone Star state. He was a son of William Mabry, of Mississippi, who became a pioneer Methodist Protestant minister of Bell county, Texas, spreading the gospel and assisting in the moral uplifting of Central Texas. He died there in Bell county. In his family were six children: William J., who served through the Civil war in the Confederate army, and died shortly afterward in Texas; Jack J., Lora, Bettie, Ann and Nelly.
     Jack J. Mabry spent the early years of his life in his native state of Texas, and at the age of sixteen entered the Confederate army and served until the close of the Civil war in Company G, Debray's regiment, in the TransMississippi department. He was made the corporal of his company, and after returning home he subsequently embarked in the mercantile business, which he follows at Marble Falls, Texas. He is a stanch Democrat politically, using his influence for the party good, but never desiring office. His wife is a daughter of Isaac Hoover, also a Methodist minister. His early days in Texas were spent as a frontiersman and among the Indians, and he died at the advanced age of eighty-two years in 1905. His wife is still living and resides at the old homestead in Hoover Valley, Burnet county. Their children are, Polly, Malinda, Fannie and Rufus, a prominent ranchman. To Mr. and Mrs. Mabry were born ten children: William, an engineer; James, a merchant; Bettie, now Mrs. Blaylock; Ernest D.; Karl, a mercantile clerk; Ethel, now Mrs. Delinger; Jack, a miner in Arizona; Clara; lone, now Mrs. Frank Lange, of Llano, Texas, and Fields.
      Ernest D. Mabry married Miss Gussie Landers, a daughter of Allison and Irene (Carrington) Landers, of Alabama. The father was at one time a prominent attorney and merchant in Texas, the birthplace of his daughter, Gussie, and he spent the remainder of his life in that state. His children were Aleene and Gussie, the former now Mrs. C. Porter and a resident of Rome, Georgia. Dr. and Mrs. Mabry have two children, Gladys and Aleene, born respectively in 1897 and 1902. Dr. and Mrs. Mabry are both church members, he of the Methodist Protestant and she of the Christian, and he is also connected with the Masonic fraternity and the Modern Woodmen of America.

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EDWIN L. CAMPBELL. The business interests of Kiowa county find an able representative in Edwin L. Campbell, of the Farmers' Mill & Gin Company. Born in Shelby county, Ohio, October 6, 1868, he was reared on a farm in Allen county, Ohio, a son of William S. and Sarah (Lytle) Campbell and a grandson of W. S. Campbell, who came to America from his native land, of Scotland and located in Pennsylvania. Later removing to Shelby county, Ohio, he resided on a farm there during the remainder of his life, first a Whig and afterward a Republican in his political affiliations. Of his five children, William S. was the first born. Sarah Lytle Campbell, born in Ohio, was a daughter of Edmond S. Lytle, who was also a Scotchman by birth, and coming to America he located in Pennsylvania and later on a farm in Shelby county, Ohio. He, too, allied his political interests with the Whigs and Republicans, and of his five children Sarah was the oldest. Both fam-

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ilies were stanch members of the Presbyterian church. William S. Campbell now resides in the state of Washington, having long survived his wife, who died in 1878. In their family were five children: Edmund L., who is mentioned later; Mary, who married a Mr. Wildman and died in Oklahoma; Cora, unmarried; and Robert and William, who are both farming in Washington.
      Edmund L. Campbell was a lad of fourteen when he left his parents' home and began the earnest battle of life for himself, first securing a position as office bay and clerk with the Santa Fe Railroad Company at Ottawa, Kansas, there also learning telegraphy and far four years had charge of the office at Ottawa, being then transferred by the company at Colorado. After four years there he went to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he worked as a brakeman and conductor for six years, thence returning to Kansas was engaged in the grain business at Hutchinson far two years, and in 1901 came to Oklahoma and bought a half interest in a cotton gin at Lexington. After one year he sold to his partner, and in 1902 came to the old town of Mountain View and erected the first gin of the town, and when the old town moved to the railroad in 1903, he moved the gin to its present location. Later his partner sold his interest to the Chickasha Oil Company, but Mr. Campbell still maintains his interest and is the manager of the business here. The gin has a capacity of forty bales daily, and also grinds chop feed. There are now three gins at Mountain View, and during the season of 1906 their combined output was 5,936 bales. The crop is yearly increasing as the country becomes more thickly settled, and Mr. Campbell also buys and ships grain, shipping in the season of 1906-07 ninety-one car loads of corn twelve cars of wheat and eight cars of oats, marketing his corn at Ft. Worth and his wheat and oats at Galveston, Texas. His residence is a commodious two-story frame dwelling of modern architecture and conveniences, and is beautifully surrounded by fruit trees and shrubbery. He is a Democrat politically and fraternally a member of the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Woodmen.
     At Hutchinson, Kansas, in December, 1892, Mr. Campbell married Miss Ethel Wright, born in Rena county, that state, in 1874, a daughter of William and Sarah Wall Wright, both from Cornell, Iowa, and early settlers of Kansas in 1876, their present home. Mr. Wright is a general farmer and stock raiser and a great admirer of fast horses, which he raises to sell. Their children are: Ethel, who became the wife of Mr. Campbell; Guy H., a Kansas farmer; Muriel, the wife of D. Wait; Claudie, who died at the age of fourteen; Edith and Glen, at home; and five others who died when young. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell is Harold, barn in November, 1899.

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WILLIAM J. SMITH, M. D. Prominent among the physicians and surgeons of Oklahoma is Dr. William J. Smith, who was born in Louisiana, October 5, 1851, and was reared an a plantation there. His educational training was begun in the subscription schools and continued in the Baton Rouge Military University. During ten years after leaving college he taught school in northern Louisiana and Arkansas, and in that time also read medicine and in 1882 began a one year course of medical lectures at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. During the three years thereafter he practiced in Arkansas, and then returning to the Little Rock university he graduated therein in 1888 and continued his practice in that state far one year longer. Moving thence to Texas, Dr. Smith practiced successfully at Wayland for ten years, and at the close of the period came in 1897 to Cloud Chief, Oklahoma, then the county seat of Washita county. From there in 1900 he came to the old town of Mountain View, and at the time of its removal to the railroad he too moved and has continued his practice here since, each year showing excellent and growing results. He is always a student, possessing a large library of standard works, and fully merits the confidence of Mountain View and its surrounding country.
      Dr. Smith is a son of William J. and Jane C. (Davidson) Smith, natives respectively of Georgia and South Carolina, and a grandson of Noah Smith, who was also a native of Georgia and of Scotch-Irish descent. He was a pioneer Methodist minister there, a noted orator and evangelist, and he died in Georgia in 1861, his family now residing mostly about Atlanta.
     William J. Smith, Sr., married in Georgia and soon afterward settled in Louisiana, where, until his death in 1851, he was a saddlery and harness merchant. He was a stanch Democrat politically, and a member of

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the Methodist church. Mrs. Smith survived her husband and remained with her father, John Davidson, during his lifetime. He died in 1860, a prominent planter and slave owner, a Whig politically and a member of the Presbyterian church. In his family were ten children, among whom were Joseph T. and Jane C., the latter the mother of Dr. Smith. Joseph T. Davidson was a minister of the old-school Presbyterian church, a popular man in northern Louisiana, and his memory is honored and revered by all who knew of his works. He served at one time as a delegate to the state constitutional convention, and he lived and died in Louisiana.
     Dr. William J. Smith, the only child of William J. and Jane C. (Davidson) Smith, married in Louisiana Miss Emma Wilbourn, who was born in that state in 1854, a daughter of A. W. and Nancy (Grey) Wilbourn, natives respectively of North Carolina and Louisiana. The father, who was both a planter and a teacher of music, served through the Civil war in the Confederate army, and both he and his wife died in Louisiana. Mrs. Smith was the fourth born of his ten children, and by her marriage to the Doctor she has become the mother of five children, namely: William and Lendmer, both deceased, the former dying when but a year old and the latter when but two; O. W. C., a jeweler and silversmith; Ernest A., a physician and registered pharmacist; and Roy, a boy in school. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Methodist church, and the Doctor has fraternal relations with the Masonic order and Knights of Pythias.