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GEORGE J. EMRICK, well known in connection with the Enid Transfer & Storage Company, and also as a public-spirited man whose interests in public affairs have been far-reaching and beneficial, was born in Roseville, Illinois, December 11, 1876. His father, O. H. Emrick, removed to western Kansas in 1878 and there resided until 1888, when he became a resident of Wichita, where he lived for a year. In 1889 he arrived in Oklahoma and settled in Oklahoma City, where he engaged in the transfer business. This line of activity has since claimed his time and attention. He established the Oklahoma Transfer Company and also the Emrick Transfer Company, and in 1904 accompanied by his son George J. of this review, he came to Enid and here began business in the same line under the firm style of the Enid Transfer and Storage Company. A popular, prominent and influential citizen of Oklahoma City, he was elected and served for one term as chief of police there. He recognizes the opportunities for development and his influence is always on the side of substantial progress.
     George J. Emrick accompanied his parents on their various removals during the period of his boyhood and youth and was a lad of thirteen years when he came with them to the territory of Oklahoma. He continued a resident of the capital city until 1904, when he came with his father to Enid and established the Enid Transfer & Storage Company. He has since controlled this business and his success has been very marked and is certainly well deserved, for he has been straightforward in his dealings and has put forth every effort to please his patrons. The business, has now grown to large and profitable proportions, becoming one of the important industrial concerns of the city.
     In 1901 occurred the marriage of George, J. Emrick and Miss Minnie J. Crellin, a native of Nebraska, and they now have two children: Russell, born March 17, 1902; and Ruthie, born October 2, 1904. The parents are members of the Methodist church and enjoy the warm regard of a large and growing circle of friends. Mr. Emrick belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of the United Workmen. He has taken a very active interest in public affairs and in all his labors for the general good and has looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities of the future. He was also a member of the city council in April, 1906, and was candidate for mayor on the Democratic ticket but lost the nomination by a very small vote. Enid numbers him among her popular citizens, recognizing in him a worthy representative of her business affairs as well as municipal interests. In his private and public relations he recognizes and utilizes opportunity and has gained for himself a creditable name both in commercial circles and in his relation to the public interests of Enid.

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T. W. B. EVERHART. The visitor to Oklahoma is constantly surprised by the progress that has been made here and nothing excites more favorable interest or comment than its public school system. Enid is on a par with other cities of the new state in her efforts to provide public instruction and the school work is most thoroughly systematized and is being carried steadily forward along progressive lines under the capable leadership of Professor T. W. B. Everhart, superintendent of schools.
     He was born in Shelby county, Illinois, August 31, 1865, his parents being M. W. and Sarah Isabel (Wyandt) Everhart, both of whom are natives of Ohio, in which state they were reared, educated and married. They afterward removed to Illinois, arriving in the year 1863, at which time they settled in Shelby county. The father is a minister of the Methodist church and was connected with the Illinois conference for thirty-eight years. He has occupied some of the best pastorates in that state and for eleven years was presiding elder. His influence has been of no restricted order and in fact he is regarded as one of the ablest representatives of the Methodist ministry in Illinois. He is a man of scholarly attainments, zealous and earnest in his work and a fluent, forceful

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speaker. He is now residing , in Urbana and his wife also survives.
     Professor Everhart of this review entered the public schools of his native state at the usual age, continuing his studies until he was graduated from the high school at Champaign, and from the University of Illinois, completing the course in the latter institution in 1886. Taking up educational work as a profession he was employed as a teacher in the high school at Whitehall, Illinois, and later occupied a similar position at Virginia, that state, He was then appointed superintendent of the city schools, in which capacity he served for five years. On the expiration of that period he went to Havana, Illinois, where for four years he was superintendent of schools and for seven years he .had charge of the schools at Mason City, Illinois. His long connection with each place indicates most clearly the character of his services and the cordial reception which was given him, in his professional capacity. In July, 1906, he came to Enid as superintendent of the city schools. The excellent school buildings with their fine equipments indicate the support which the citizens give to the system of public instruction. Fifty teachers are employed and the work has been most carefully laid out and Professor Everhart has instituted many improvements since he took charge two years ago. Enid has every reason to be proud of her school system, for no other city gives to its children better educational opportunities.
     In 1892 Professor Everhart was married to Laura B. McCullough, a native of Jacksonville, Illinois, and a daughter of William McCullough. Professor Everhart is a valued member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the degrees of the lodge and chapter. He is also identified with the Methodist church and his influence is always on the side of progress, justice and truth. He is a man of broad scholarly attainments, an experienced educator, and is eminently fitted for his important office.

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RICHARD E. P. MESSALL. The rapid growth of Oklahoma when each year sees thousands of additions to its citizenship, has furnished an excellent field for the real estate dealer, and the man of enterprise and determination finds in this calling a profitable business. Mr. Messall, well known as a real estate dealer of Enid, has negotiated many important realty transfers here and has won success through his operations. He was born in Kansas, January 16, 1874. His father, Gottlieb Messall, was a native of Germany and when twenty-six years of age came to the United States. After a short stay in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he removed to Kansas, casting in his lot with the pioneer settlers of that state. He is a miller by trade and for a long period followed that pursuit. He is now living with his son in Enid, His wife bore the maiden name of Amelia Stettnisch, was also a native of Germany and is now living in Enid.
     Richard E. P. Messall pursued his education in the public and high schools, completing his course by graduation. He is also a good German scholar. His father was engaged in the bottling business in Marysville, Kansas, and Mr. Messall of this review learned the trade with him and for years conducted it but at the opening of the Cherokee strip he made the run to Enid. He arrived on the opening day and built the first house in the town, having the material for the dwelling on the cars ready for its erection. He also had bottling machinery and as the opening day was on Saturday he installed his plant and on Tuesday made two hundred cases of pop and sold it all by night. He prospered from the start and soon after his arrival here he accepted the agency for several of the largest brewers of the country. He also engaged in the grocery business here for a time and assisted in organizing a telephone system in the early days, it being the first in the locality. The conditions on which the system was established were that fifty subscribers should be secured and that they should pay six months' rental in advance but after three months the company was unable to fulfill its contract and in order to save his subscribers Mr. Messall took a half interest, which he afterward sold for fifteen hundred dollars. In this way he saved the company and protected the subscribers who had come in through his solicitation. This is characteristic of his entire business career, which has been actuated by the utmost honesty and fidelity to justice and fair dealing.
     Mr. Messall has been so closely associated with the upbuilding and business progress of Enid that no history of the city would be complete without extended mention of his career. For a time he was engaged in the ice business and he organized the fair association and helped to build the old courthouse. He was likewise instrumental in

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building many business and office buildings, including those occupied by the Anheuser-Busch, Pabst and Val Blatz Brewing Companies. He also built the Enid Opera House and thus furnished to the new city a place for its entertainment. Indeed it is difficult to designate in what line Mr. Messall has been most useful as a citizen, so varied and constant has been his activity and so far reaching is it in its results. Whatever he undertakes he carries forward to successful completion through his indomitable energy, his keen foresight and well directed intelligence. In all he has conserved the best interests of Enid and takes much pride in what has been accomplished here.
     Honored by his fellow citizens Mr. Messall was elected to the upper house of the sixth legislative assembly and was a member of the staff of Governor Barnes. He also acted as paymaster general with the rank of major. He has also held local offices, serving as treasurer of the school board, while for eight years he has been a member of the city council and was re-elected at the spring election, 1908. As an alderman he has exercised his official prerogatives in support of many measures for the public good. He was the youngest Republican senator in the general assembly but by no means the least active. In fact he took a helpful part in the work of the senate, giving careful consideration to each question which came up for settlement and his labors were recognized as of value to the commonwealth. At one time he was candidate for the office of county treasurer at the Republican convention when but little more than twenty years of age but his youth defeated him by one vote. It is a noteworthy fact that he has never been defeated at the polls after having been nominated. He is a man of whom his party and community are justly proud. He possesses untiring zeal and energy in advocating public measures that he deems will prove of benefit to the community, and in all his political service he has been a strong opponent to misrule, trickery or dishonesty. He is liberal and open handed, and his success is largely due to the fact that those who know him believe in him and trust him.
     In 1895 Mr. Messall was, married to Miss Amelia Jaedicke, a native of Kansas and a daughter of August A. Jaedicke, a banker of Hanover, and a native of Germany. They have two children, Irene Viola and Victor Richard. Mr. Messall is as prominent socially as politically. He is a valued member of the Sons of Hermann, of which he has been president and he was for years president of the Enid Club. He has also been prominent in athletic circles and has won many honors from various Turner societies for proficiency in feats of skill and strength. He has recently embarked in the real estate business and with his personal popularity and his knowledge of the country he will undoubtedly win large success in this undertaking. He possesses unfaltering energy and determination and is a typical representative of the American spirit which is constantly forging to the front. He may well be termed one of Enid's "captains of industry," his alert, enterprising qualities gaining him recognition as one of the most prominent business men of this part of the state.

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F. E. PURCELL, postmaster of Enid, was born in Breckenridge county, Kentucky, on the 10th of February, 1878. In both the paternal and maternal lines he represents old families of the Blue Grass state, his parents being Franklin Pierce and Susan (Mullen) Purcell, booth natives of Kentucky. In 1890 the father removed from that state to Indiana and in 1892 came to Oklahoma, settling at Kingfisher, at the opening of that district. In 1893 at the opening of the Cherokee strip he came to Enid and here engaged in the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in Kentucky. When in Kingfisher he established and conducted the Kingfisher Times, becoming one of the early journalists of the territory. He died in April, 1901.
     F. E. Purcell began his education in Kentucky, continuing his studies in Missouri and later became a student in the public schools of Oklahoma, being graduated from the Enid high school at the age of eighteen years. He seemed to possess a natural predilection for newspaper work and entered upon that field of activity, being connected with the Daily Wave for four years. In September, 1901, he purchased the Enid Events, which had been established in 1895 and had been conducted under different names. Mr. Purcell is a practical and efficient newspaper man and has made a success of his paper, which is a bright, newsy sheet, devoted to the dissemination of matters of general interest and to the promotion of the general welfare of this community. The paper is neat and at-

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tractive in appearance and he has a well equipped office.
     Mr. Purcell is widely known in this part of the state as a valued, active Republican and his opinions carry weight in the councils of his party. On the 18th of May, 1906, he was appointed postmaster at Enid. The business of the office here has grown very rapidly and arrangements for the erection of a new federal building are now under way, the present one being quite inadequate. The receipts during his brief administration have increased from twenty-one thousand to thirty-four thousand dollars annually and the office pays out forty-five thousand dollars annually, its disbursements being greater than its receipts. This money, however, does not go to Washington but is spent in Enid and is therefore of benefit to the town. The Enid office pays nineteen railway mail clerks, eight rural carriers, seven city carriers and ten office clerks, as well as the postmaster and the assistant postmaster. Mr. Purcell is most efficient in the discharge of his official duties and has the work of the office well systematized and thoroughly under his control. He has made it his purpose to acquaint himself with every detail of the business and his administration has won him high encomiums.
     Aside from his duties in that connection and his activity in the newspaper field Mr. Purcell is well known in Enid as a valued representative of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and other societies. He is also a member and director of the Chamber of Commerce, while in political circles he takes an active part in campaign work and is always able to support his position upon any question. by intelligent argument.

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H. J. STURGIS is a capable member of the Enid bar, who at the outset of his career recognized the fact that earnest application and unfaltering perseverance are as essential in professional lines as in industrial or commercial centers. He therefore gives the utmost attention to the work of the office which must necessarily precede the successful presentation of a cause in the courts. He was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1862. His father, E. A. Sturgis, was also a native of the Keystone state and the family is of English lineage, although for many generations represented in Chester and Fayette counties of Pennsylvania. The father spent his entire life there and passed away in 1889. The mother, Elizabeth (Patton) Sturgis, was also a native of Pennsylvania.
     In the public schools of his native state H. J. Sturgis acquired his education which was afterward supplemented by study in the University of West Virginia. There he prepared for a professional career, being graduated from the law department with the class of 1885. He then began practice in 1886 in Great Bend, Kansas, where he remained until 1893. For fifteen years he has been a resident of Enid, being here on the day on which the town was established. Opening a law office he has since remained a member of the bar of Garfield county, and is accorded prominence as a representative of the profession. For two years, from 1903 until 1905, he served as county attorney and is now filling the position of referee in bankruptcy for eleven counties. He handles his cases with great thoroughness and care and loses sight of no detail which will bear upon his case, at the same time giving all points their due relative value.
In 1890 Mr. Sturgis was united in marriage to Miss Lula Luttrell, a native of Illinois and a daughter of S. H. Luttrell. This marriage has been blessed with one child, a daughter, Roqua.
     Mr. Sturgis belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is past exalted ruler. During the fifteen years of his residence in Enid he has become widely and favorably known as a most useful and respected citizen who is also popular and prominent in social circles. While neglecting none of those interests of life which develop a well rounded character the greater part of his time and attention is necessarily given to his profession and he has come to be recognized here as one of the most successful and able members of the bar. He is strong in pleading, a keen and searching cross examiner and in his preparation prepares for defense as well as attack. His services are in great demand and his clientage is already of a distinctly representative character.

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HARRY N. HORNER, conducting a successful real estate business in Enid, was born in Campbell county, Kentucky, on the 7th of December, 1861, a son of Isaac N. and Sarah (Lock) Horner; the former a native of Kentucky. The mother, however, was born in London, England, and when a young girl accompanied her parents to the United States, the family locating first in Ohio but

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after a short time removing to Kentucky. Isaac N. Horner was a merchant of the Blue Grass state but at the opening of the territory of Oklahoma he came thither and settled in Kingfisher. He took a claim there and improved it for some time but in 1898 removed to Enid, where he and his wife are now living.
     At the usual age Harry N. Horner became a public-school student and eventually was graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Business College. He was afterward connected with a wholesale and retail mercantile enterprise until 1887, in which year he came west with his father and the family. He had previously been married and at that time he settled at Anthony, Kansas, where he remained until the opening of Oklahoma in 1889, when he removed to Kingfisher, where he resided until 1893, when he came to Enid. Two years later he established a real estate office and has since continued in business. The Hunter Realty Company was established in 1894 by C. E. Hunter, and Mr. Horner became connected with it as manager in 1895. When Mr. Hunter retired from the business in 1900 Mr. Horner became his successor and is practically the owner of the business although the original firm name has always been maintained. He handles farm lands, writes insurance and does an extensive business not only in Oklahoma but also in other states. He displays a spirit of unfaltering energy and determination that enables him to overcome all difficulties and obstacles 'in his path and moreover he is thoroughly qualified for the conduct of a real estate business by informing himself extensively concerning property values and the possibilities of purchase and sale.
     In 1884 in Kentucky Mr. Horner was married to Miss Annie French, a native of that state. They have a family of four sons, who are yet living and they lost one daughter. Their children are: Stanley F.; Harry N., graduated from the Oklahoma University, class of 1908; John Truman; Clifford C. The daughter, Loraine Lock, died in 1899, at the age of four years.
     In his fraternal relations Mr. Horner is connected with the Modern Woodmen, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Royal Arch chapter of Masons. He also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and is interested and active in its work. In politics he is a stalwart Republican and was one of the organizers of the party at its first meeting in Oklahoma in 1889. He became a member of the executive committee of Kingfisher and has since been a member of the executive committee of Garfield county. He has served as deputy county treasurer and was a candidate for the constitutional convention on the Republican ticket. His opinions carry weight in the councils of his party and his efforts have been effective in promoting its successes. Mr. Horner resides with his family upon a farm of one hundred and sixty acres just outside the city limits. He is a popular and valued resident of Enid, esteemed for his genial manner and many good qualities. Whatever his hand has found to do he has done with a sense of conscientious obligation and in all his relations is observant of the rules which should govern man in his relations with his fellowmen.

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S. C. CAMPBELL is a popular man and efficient sheriff whose course inspires the confidence and awakens the commendation of all law-abiding citizens of Garfield county. He makes his home in Enid and is well known in its social as well as official circles. A native of Kansas, he was born in Atchison county, on the 18th of July, 1859. His father, Robert Montgomery Campbell, was a native of Floyd county, Kentucky, and went to Kansas in 1854, devoting his life to farming in that state. He was an active and prominent Democrat who gave zealous support to the party and yet never sought office as a reward for party fealty. In citizenship he was exemplary and possessed many sterling traits of character, winning for him the respect and regard of his fellowmen. He married Rachel Hill, whose birth occurred near Fredericksburg, and who was a member of an old Kentucky family.
     S. C. Campbell, after acquiring a good education in the public schools, turned his attention to farming. He lost his father when he was only a boy and at an early age the care of the family and the management of the farm devolved upon him. Although the burden was a heavy one for one of his years, he showed that he was equal to the task and he thereby developed the spirit of self reliance and intelligence which have been of much value to him in his later years. On the day that the Cherokee strip was opened to the public he came to Enid and located a claim in the northwestern part of Garfield county, where he industriously and

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successfully carried on the occupation of farming until elected sheriff. He still owns his farm of one hundred and sixty acres which is under a high state of cultivation.
     In 1904 Mr. Campbell was elected to the office of sheriff and so capably did he discharge his duties, displaying neither fear nor favor, that he was re-elected in 1907 as the Democratic candidate. He is a popular and valued official from whom no wrong doer need expect any consideration. He stands for law and order, for justice and right and is unswerving in his loyalty to the responsibilities of the office.
     On the 9th of January, 1894, Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Melinda Foster, and unto them have been born six daughters and one son. The family circle yet remains unbroken by the hand of death. Mr. Campbell is a member of the Modern Woodmen. He is spoken of throughout the community in terms of good will, confidence and respect, and Garfield county may be congratulated upon the fact that so capable and energetic an official is standing as the conservator of her rights and laws.

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EARL R. LEE, filling the position of city clerk in Enid, was born in Evansville, Wisconsin, June 20, 1870. He is a son of W. D. Lee, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. His education was acquired in the public schools of Kansas and he then went to Kansas City, Missouri, where he was engaged in the wholesale coal business as manager for a number of years. Later he turned his attention to the insurance business and for eight years was representative of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. In the fall of 1889 he took up his residence in Enid and here engaged in the fire insurance business. Two years later his personal qualities and ability won him election to the office of city clerk and that his administration of the duties of the position has been at all times favorable and commendable is indicated by the fact that he is yet the incumbent in the office. He is a remarkably capable official with a wonderful grasp of detail and is always found at his post of duty. He is so popular and his work has been so favorably received that at every succeeding election his majority becomes greater and undoubtedly he will be .continued in the office of city clerk as long as he desires to fill it.
     In September, 1896, Mr. Lee was married to Miss Musa Constable, a native of Illinois, and they now have two children: Doris, who was born in 1900; and Richmond, born in 1906.
     Mr. Lee is a valued member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is most modest and unassuming in manner, yet he is a very popular citizen and no stronger proof of his capability could be given than the fact that he has been so long continued in one office. His circle of friends, is almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance and while Mr. Lee never seeks to stand in the "limelight" his devotion to the public good and his interest in the welfare of the city makes him one of its representative men.

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DR. H. H. WILSON, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Enid, is a native of Chicago, his birth having occurred in the western metropolis on the 27th of January, 1874. His parents were Marshall J. and Marie J. (Caldwell) Wilson, the former a native of Monroe county, Illinois, and the latter of Washington county, Ohio. The father removed to Chicago in 1868 and for thirty-five years was connected with the famous mercantile house of Marshall Field & Company, continuing therein until his death in 1903.
     At the usual age Dr. Wilson became a student in the public schools of Chicago, where he passed through successive grades as he mastered the various branches of the curriculum. Eventually he entered the Northwestern University as a student in medicine and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1900. Thus well qualified by thorough preliminary training for his chosen calling he entered upon practice in Chicago, there remaining for four years, or until 1904, when he removed to Enid, where he has since remained. He is building up a good practice here and is winning the confidence of the public by his devotion to and skill in his chosen field. .
     Dr. Wilson was married in 1901 to Miss Mary I. Farmer, a native of Farmer City, Illinois, and a daughter of Henry F. Farmer. They now have one child, Rachel P. Dr. Wilson belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Modern Woodman camps and in professional lines he is connected with the County, State and the National Medical Associations and thus through the interchange of thought and experience keeps in touch with the profession in its onward march.

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H. E. DUNCAN, M. D. The new and enterprising city of Enid with its pulsing industrial conditions and business enterprise, has drawn to it many worthy and able representatives of the professions. Of this class Dr. H. E. Duncan is a representative and with a nature that could never be content with mediocrity he is forging to the front in the field of his chosen endeavor. Missouri numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Clinton, that state, on the 25th of December, 1866. His parents are C. F. and Margaret (Yates) Duncan, the former a native of Missouri and the latter of Kentucky. The father in his home locality is well known as a farmer and stockman.
     Dr. Duncan pursued his early education in the public schools of Missouri and afterward became a student in the State University. Taking up the study of pharmacy he later engaged in the drug business and won the degree of registered pharmacist from the Kansas City College of Pharmacy. He has had nine years' experience in Smith Hospital at Kansas City, Missouri, and was graduated in medicine from the State University of Missouri, with the class of 1886. He then located for practice in Clinton, Missouri, putting his theoretical knowledge to the test in the daily discharge of his professional duties. He afterward removed to Kansas City, where he remained for fifteen years and his hospital experience was of much value to him. For a short time he was located in practice in Denver, Colorado, and in 1901 he located in Oklahoma City. He has done much special work in the line of his profession and opened Bethany Hospital at Oklahoma City, conducting it for a year. He then sold out and removed to Enid. He also opened a hospital at Alva and conducted it for two months in the interests of a stock company, his services being solicited because of his broad and thorough experience in that direction. In 1906 he came to Enid, where he has since built up a good practice and his professional skill is now widely acknowledged here.
Dr. Duncan is a valued member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Improved Order of Red Men. He holds to high ideals in his chosen calling and his professional labor has been attended with a measure of success that gives him classification with the distinguished physicians of this section of the state.

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JAMES B. CULLISON, judge of Garfield county and ex-registrar of the United States land office, and long a prominent Republican of Kansas and Oklahoma, has been a resident of Enid for about eleven years. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, on the 21st of September, 1858, and is the representative of an old Virginia family that is of English descent. His parents were Elisha and Matilda (McKay) Cullison, his father being a Kentuckian, who removed to Indiana in early manhood and soon after his marriage settled in Indian territory. At the beginning of the Civil war he settled in Kirksville, Missouri, where he became a stock dealer and a merchant, and up to the time of his death in 1865 was a supporter of the Union cause. The wife died five years afterward, the mother of the following: Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, who is now residing near Kirksville, Missouri; W. R., who served in the Civil war as an officer of the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry; G. W., a lawyer of Harlan, Iowa; E. D., of Clarinda, Iowa, formerly warden of the Iowa State Insane Asylum; and James B. Cullison, of this sketch.
     Judge Cullison was reared on a farm near Kirksville, Missouri, attended the public schools near his home, and at the age of sixteen returned to Iowa to enter the Bloomfield Normal School in Davis county. He attended that institution for two years, teaching during his vacation in order to pay his school expenses. He then taught for two winters in Wayne county, Iowa, and in 1880 was elected principal of the high school at Unionville, Iowa. After filling that position for two years he spent a year in the Kirksville State Normal, and after spending another year at the head of a private normal school at Green City, Missouri, was elected superintendent of schools in Onawa, Iowa. At the close of his first term in that place he became secretary of the Muscatine Life and Endowment Association, soundly establishing the business of that institution in the city named. Failing health forced him to resign, and in the spring of 1884 he located in Pratt county, Kansas, where he entered a tract of 160 acres of government land and laid out the village of Cullison, on the Wichita and Western Railroad. He engaged in the real estate business there until the fall of 1885, when he sold his real estate interests and removed to Hugoton, Stevens county, Kansas, which had been founded by the McPherson

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Land Company. Having been admitted to the bar, after years of intermittent study, he engaged in practice at Hugoton, was appointed justice of the peace and the first deputy superintendent of public instruction (then Finney county), took an active part in the organization of Stevens county and served two years as clerk of the district court of the latter. In July, 1893, Mr. Cullison went to Kingfisher, but as soon as Garfield county was open to settlement he secured 160 acres of land six miles east of Enid, and in the following month erected the first frame building in the place, in which he commenced practice. He thus continued until November 5, 1897, when President McKinley appointed him registrar of the United States land office at that point. His district embraced Garfield and Grant counties, and while small in territory is said to have had the largest money business of any land office in the country. Judge Cullison continued at the head of its, affairs until its removal in 1901, when he returned to the practice of his profession. In 1906, he was appointed probate judge, and, with the founding of the new state and the establishment of a county court with greatly enlarged jurisdiction, was elected to that bench for a term of three years. He is connected with the Commercial Club and the State Bar Association, and retains large real estate interests in Enid. He laid out Cullison's first addition to the place on his tract of eighty acres to the north, and subsequently platted his second addition. In politics he has always been a firm Republican, and prior to statehood served as committeeman for Garfield county. Deeply interested in education, he was a member of the local school board for one term, and is a director of the Epworth University. In his Masonic relations he is connected with the blue lodge and chapter at Enid, and served as one of the trustees of the Masonic Temple Association which erected the fine home of that order. He is also a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church, a member of its building committee and identified with the Church Federation. In fact, the Judge is one of the tireless workers, broad characters and eminently useful citizens of Garfield county and the state. His wife, whom he married while a resident of Iowa, was formerly Miss Mary Sharp, daughter of Senator A. W. Sharp, of Iowa—a Civil war soldier, and a substantial farmer and prominent public man. Judge and Mrs. Cullison are the parents of the following: James B., Jr., June, Irene, May, Douglas and Janie. May was born in October, 1893, and is the first living child who was born in Garfield county after it was thrown open to settlement.

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KENT EUBANK. A man of education and talent, Kent Eubank, of Alva, has for the past five years been actively associated with the best interests of this section of Woods county, and now, as editor and publisher of the Alva Daily News, is influencing and inspiring the people roundabout to aid the improvement and betterment of this part of the state, making it the leader of all others as regards its industrial, financial and social interests. A son of the late J. C. and Marjorie (Maxey) Eubank, he was born in Tompkins, Kentucky, January 13, 1876. His father, an attorney by profession, spent the larger part of his active career in Glasgow, Kentucky, having a good practice for those days.
     Having laid a substantial foundation for his future education in: the public schools of his native city, Kent Eubank was graduated from the Tompkins Normal School. When he was a small lad the family resources were small, and he frequently added to the household fund, money earned by selling papers and blacking shoes, and subsequently, while he was in school, he had his first practical newspaper work as editor of the college paper. On attaining his majority, Mr. Eubank entered the Louisville (Ky.), Law School, and having completed his course of study began the practice of his profession in his native state. His health failing, Mr. Eubank came west in search of renewed vigor, in 1903 locating at Alva, where he has since resided. Having traveled extensively in this country, with a view of fitting himself for a journalistic career, he purchased the Alva Daily Courier, which he managed for a number of years, placing it on a paying basis. Selling that in 1908, Mr. Eubank established the Alva Daily News, which he has made a bright, brainy paper, full of interest to the reading public, and is managing it with great success, its circulation being good, and rapidly increasing.
     On January 4, 1898, Mr. Eubank married Ebbie Conklin, and they are the parents of four children, Astor, Sallie, Addie Belle, and Ray.

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JOHN B. CHEADLE. Noteworthy among the more talented, skillful, and successful members of the legal fraternity of Woods county is J. B. Cheadle, a well known attorney of

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Alva. A son of Francis M. and Mary (Beggs) Cheadle, he was born December 13, 1873, in Wilkesville, Ohio, where, under the teachings of his parents, who were people of scholarly tastes and attainments, he received his rudimentary education, and acquired a love for study. He subsequently attended the Ann Arbor (Mich.) High School, entering that institution very young.
     On leaving school, Mr. Cheadle, being seized with the western fever, went to Grant county, Kansas, where he followed ranching and stock raising for a few years. In 1893, following the trail of the homeseekers, he came to Oklahoma at the time of the opening of the strip, and in what was the former site of Woods county took up a claim, on which he lived for a time. Desirous, however, of further pursuing his studies, Mr. Cheadle returned to Kansas, completed the academic course at the. State University, in Lawrence and was subsequently superintendent of schools at Pleasanton, Kansas. Returning then to Lawrence, he studied law, was admitted to the bar early in 1902, and in June, 1902, was admitted to practice in the supreme court. Locating as an attorney in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma, Mr. Cheadle has here gained a large and remunerative law practice, and acquired a fine town property. He is an adherent of the Democratic party, earnestly supporting its principles at the polls, but has never been an office holder.
     In 1898 Mr. Cheadle married Minnie Edwards, of Hereford, England, and they have two sons, Francis Graham and John Alexander.

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R. A. CAMERON. Prominent among the enterprising, intelligent and able men that came to Oklahoma in the rush of 1893 is Judge R. A. Cameron, of Alva, an attorney of note, and a citizen of worth, who served his country most valiantly during the Civil war. Honest, sincere, possessing great versatility, and, of. sterling character, he was a brave soldier, and is now a lawyer of ability, and a learned and upright judge, eminently deserving of the high respect in which he is held as a man and a citizen.
     Judge Cameron was born, June 28, 1842, in. Washington county, Illinois, and there spent the days of his boyhood and youth. On the breaking out of the Civil war his patriotic spirit was aroused, and on April 19, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh Il1inois Infantry as a private, and served during his time of enlistment. He subsequently became a member of the Tenth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and when his time in that regiment had expired he enlisted in the One Hundred and Tenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he remained until the close of the conflict, serving through the entire struggle, and taking part in many of the more important engagements of that period. He was promoted from the rank of private to captain of his company, having no army pull, but winning his promotion by merit.
     Subsequently Mr. Cameron studied law in Athens, Ohio, and at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, being admitted to the bar on April 4, 1867. Going then to Carthage, Missouri, Mr. Cameron was then engaged in the practice of his profession until 1880, when he removed to Eldorado, Kansas, where he continued his law practice for five years. On June 22, 1885, he settled at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, and there met with excellent success in his legal work, building up a good practice, and serving as county attorney from 1888 to 1890. In 1893, when the Oklahoma strip was opened, the Judge made the race, located a claim two and one-half miles from Alva, and has now a fine ranch of eight hundred acres. He has been active in public affairs, having served four years as registrar in the United States Land Office, and being now judge of Woods county, a position to which he was elected November 17, 1907.
     Judge Cameron married, in 1885, Frances M. Welch, daughter of Chief Justice John Welch, of Ohio, and of this union the following children have been born: Helen S., Robert W., Ralph B., John W., George S., and Ruth. Politically the Judge has been identified with the Republican party all of his active life, and fraternally he is a member of Alva Post, G. A. R.

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Rufus J. BOST. For many years Rufus J. Bost, of Alva, county clerk of Woods county, was intimately associated with the agricultural development and prosperity of this part of Oklahoma, having a finely improved and well stocked ranch, lying just west of Alva. This farm, which he still owns, and which he occupied until assuming the clerkship of the county, contains one thousand acres of good land, in the management of which he found both pleasure and profit. He is a native of Illinois, his birth having occurred in Montgomery county, in 1851.

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Reared in his native county, Mr. Bost received his early education in the common schools, and at the Hillsboro Academy. Beginning life for himself as a merchant, he was for a few years engaged in mercantile pursuits in Fillmore, Illinois, where he also served as postmaster. Coming to Eastern Oklahoma in 1891, he made the race in Payne county, located a claim, improved a ranch, and was there employed in stock raising for some time, also serving, under President Cleveland, as postmaster at Stillwater for four years. He subsequently came to Woods county, and here took up another claim, and now has, as before mentioned, title to a thousand acres of land adjoining the town of Alva on the west. Having been elected county clerk on November 17, 1907, Mr. Bost has since resided in Alva. Politically he, is a stanch Democrat, and fraternally he has been a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons for upwards of thirty-five years, and likewise belongs to the Knights of Pythias, to the Improved Order of Red Men, and to the Modern Woodmen of America.

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J. A. STINE. In the annals of Woods county the name of J. A. Stine occupies a position of prominence, he having done as much, mayhap, as anyone individual towards advancing its varied interests. An influential and much respected citizen of Alva, he probably is better informed in regard to the finances of this portion of the state than any one else, being president of five banking institutions which he either organized, or assisted in organizing, namely: The First National Bank of Alva; First National Bank of Woodward; the Waynoka State Bank; the Bank of Ingersoll; and Bank of Supply, at Supply, Oklahoma. All of these banks are in an excellent financial condition, being well capitalized, having large deposits, and carrying a good reserve fund. Public-spirited and liberal, he has ever evinced great interest in the town of Alva, uniformly supporting all beneficial projects, and to his efforts much of the present prosperity of the community is due.
     He was born, June 12, 1842, in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, and was there educated, attending the common schools, Mount Dempsey Academy, and Kishacoquillis Seminary; He was afterwards for awhile employed as a telegraph operator until 1869, when, imbued with the American spirit of restlessness, he started westward in search of new fields of action, and located in Osage county, Kansas, where for five years he was engaged in the cattle business. He subsequently embarked in the boating business on the Missouri river, but in that venture met with disaster, losing three of his steamboats. Returning therefore to Kansas, Mr. Stine was there engaged, in the stock business from 1881 until 1882. Going then to Amarillo, Texas, he spent some time there, and in 1890 there began his career as a banker by helping to organize the Amarillo National Bank, and becoming one of its directors. Coming from there to Alva, Oklahoma, Mr. Stine immediately organized what is now the First National Bank of Alva, and has since served as its president, a position that he is ably filling. Mr. Stine is also president of the Alva Commercial Club, which he has served in this capacity since it was organized, in 1896, for the purpose of advancing the material interests of the community. He takes a deep interest in educational matters, and was one of the prime movers in the establishing of the Normal school at Alva, at the locating of its present site having the privilege of driving the first stake to mark its location.
     Mr. Stine, married, in 1863, Emma J. Lanich, of Pennsylvania, and into their pleasant home two children have been born, namely: L. L., cashier of the First National Bank, at Woodward, Oklahoma; and Lena S., wife of George E. Nickel, cashier of the First National Bank, of Alva. Fraternallv Mr. Stine has taken all of the degrees of Masonry excepting the thirty-third, being prominent in the order, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias. Religiously he belongs to the Episcopal church.

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G. A. HARBAUGH. Well known among the more capable, active, intelligent citizens of Alva is G. A. Harbaugh, who has performed his full share in advancing the agricultural, manufacturing, mercantile and financial interests of the community in which he resides. Coming to Oklahoma when the country was still in its virginal wildness, he began the improvement of a farm, and after removing to Alva established himself in business as a grain dealer, and is now at the head of one of the leading industries of Woods county, being president of the "Alva Roller Mills Company." Progressive and public-spirited he delights in noting the development and growth of his adopted town and county, and in proportion to the time which he has spent

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here probably no man has effected greater results.
     Mr. Harbaugh was born, in August, 1870, in Iowa, where he received practical common school e9.ucatic>n. Going to Barber county, Kansas, in 1884, he was employed in agricultural labor for a number of years, remaining in that locality until the memorable year of 1893, when he made the race to Oklahoma, secured a claim, and on the land which he procured lived for five years, intent on its improvement. Ambitious to further advance his material interests, Mr. Harbaugh removed to Alva, and at once embarked in the grain business, which he carried on successfully for five years. Enlarging his operations, Mr. Harbaugh then engaged in his present milling business, and as president of the Alva Roller Mills Company is identified with one of the most extensive and important enterprises in the country, the company owning and operating about twenty elevators in Oklahoma and Kansas. He is also officially connected with the Alva National Bank, as its president having assisted in placing it among the leading institutions of the kind in Woods county. Mr. Harbaugh is a busy man at all times, having town property, and a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, adjoining the town, and a mill which has a capacity of five hundred barrels a day, to look after. In the supervision of farm, mill and bank, he shows rare business ability and judgment, and is eminently successful. In the accumulation of his property he has depended upon his own efforts, having been in debt when he arrived in Oklahoma, and much credit is due him for his industry, perseverance, and self-reliance, these, with the constant application which he invariably gives to his duties, having been prominent factors in winning him success in his undertakings.
     Mr. Harbaugh married, in 1899, Mary Devin, of Princeton, Indiana, and their pleasant home is ever open to their large circle of friends and acquaintances. Socially Mr. Harbaugh is a member of the Commercial Club, which has done much towards advancing the interests of the town. Politically he is independent, voting with the courage of his convictions, although he favors to some extent the Democratic party.

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W. H. COFIELD. The first settlers of this part of Oklahoma were men and women of determination, and force of character; moved by the spirit of empire and a desire to better their condition they have made the desert to blossom as the rose; enthusiastic over the future possibilities of the new country they have labored with untiring zeal for the development of its many resources.
     Prominent among these enterprising pioneers is W. H. Cofield, who came in with the rush, from the Sunflower state, and enjoyed the unique distinction of being one of the few in and around Alva who did not come from Barber county.
     He was born in Jefferson county, Illinois, and educated at McKendree College; subsequently read law and was admitted to the bar. He came west in 1878, and settled near Wakeeney, Kansas, and lived in Kansas a greater portion of the time up to the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in 1893. At Wakeeney, Ottawa and at Hutchinson he taught school, clerked in a dry goods store and was engaged in real estate business during the boom days in Kansas.
     Coming to Oklahoma in 1893, he made the race for a claim, and has since been numbered among the leading citizens of Alva; a respected member of the bar whose integrity is unquestioned. He served one term, four years, as receiver of the Alva Land Office, but with that exception has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession. He is interested in civic affairs, having from the first identified himself with good government; he has served the city of Alva as clerk, city attorney, and twice as mayor.
     Mr. Cofield is married, the maiden name of his wife having been Ella Meluney, a native of Maryland. Politically he is a Republican; fraternally he is a "jiner," being a Mason; K. P.; M. W. A., and belonging to other fraternities. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, being an elder and trustee of the local church; and enjoying the distinction of being the only layman ever elected Moderator of Presbytery in the Oklahoma Synod. He is an enthusiastic Sunday school worker and has done much toward the upbuilding of the Sunday school arid good society both locally and in Oklahoma. He is an optimist; looking to the ultimate good of all. He believes in a larger, grander, better Oklahoma; and our country, not right or wrong, but always right, the best of all.