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D. P. MARUM. Among the more active, enterprising and influential citizens of Woodward, Oklahoma, is D. P. Marum, a lawyer of ability, who for many years has been closely associated with the growth and advancement of this part of our great country, in its material progress contributing his full share of brains and energy. A native of New York state, he was born, October 6, 1848, in Orange county, where, after completing his early education, he was for some time employed as bookkeeper in a local iron works.
In 1882, desiring a complete change of environment, and ambitious to better his financial prospects, Mr. Marum followed the pathway of civilization westward to Wyoming. In 1889, he came to Oklahoma, locating at first in Guthrie, and later in Oklahoma City. In November, 1889, he accepted a civil position at the Fort Supply Militarv Post, and while there studied law, and in 1891 was admitted to the bar. Coming to Woodward in 1894, Mr. Marum became junior member of the law firm of Houston & Marum, and has since been successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, at the present time having no partner.
     Acquiring a place of considerable importance in the estimation of the public, Mr. Marum was early sought as a candidate for official positions, and in 1897 represented eight western counties in the Territorial Legislature. He worked while in that body in the interests of education, locating the Normal School at Alva, at a cost of $91,000, and a negro school at Langston. From 1897 until 1902, Mr. Marum was a member of the Board of Regents of the Territorial Schools. He was very active in securing the admission of Oklahoma to statehood, having been one of the party that went to Washington to boom the cause.
     An extensive landholder, Mr. Marum has a five hundred acre ranch three miles west of Woodward, on which he is carrying on the rural work of raising poultry, hogs and alfalfa. He is a member of the Woodward Commercial Club, and belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

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J. H. SPURLOCK, of Woodward, district clerk of Woodward county and for several years past proprietor of a modern livery in the city, is a native of Missouri, born March 13, 1857. He obtained his education in his native state, and in 1872 entered the stock country of Colorado, where for more than twenty years he was engaged in ranching. As early as 1877 he traveled over much of the southwest—Kansas, Texas and the country now embraced in Oklahoma-and as a raiser and shipper of stock he is one of the successful veterans of the cattle business. Mr. Spurlock entered. Oklahoma before the opening of the Cherokee strip in 1893, and has been a resident of Woodward county since its organization. In 1900 he established his present livery business, and in September, 1907, was elected district clerk of the county. He has also served as deputy sheriff for two years, and is a strong Democrat of that locality. He has been a resident of the town of Woodward for six years, but has spent considerable of his time on a claim west of the place.
     Mr. Spurlock is a member of the Commercial Club of Woodward, and an energetic, straightforward, useful citizen. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias;

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and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. His first wife was Belle King, and of this union four children were born, viz.: Ira H., Olney H., Roy E. and Clyde M. All of the foregoing are in business at Woodward except Roy, who is a resident of Montana. He married for his second wife Sarah Snyder.

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C. K. LUCE, Woodward, Oklahoma, was born at Galva, Henry county, Illinois, in 1858, his father, Morris Luce, having been one of the pioneers of that section. He was educated in Chicago, where he subsequently engaged in the, building and contracting business.
     In 1905, having become interested and foreseeing the possibilities of Oklahoma, he came to Woodward and engaged in the lumber business. Mr. Luce takes an active interest in the commercial, social and educational development of his city and state, having helped to organize the Woodward Commercial Club of which he is now the president. He is a member and vice-president of the Woodward Board of Education. In politics he is a Republican.

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J. G. BAILEY. The Quinlan State Bank is one of the solid institutions of Woodward county, its financial condition, as given by the present able cashier, J. G. Bailey, on December 11, 1907, being extremely satisfactory to officers, stockholders, and patrons. This bank was established by Mr. Bailey in 1907, with a capital of $15,000, all paid in, and. its resources, according to the above said December report amounted to $46,966.71, this amount including the loans and discounts, overdrafts, bank property, checks and other cash items, exchanges for clearing house, and cash and sight exchange.
     A native of Kentucky, J. G. Bailey was born, September 4th, 1876, in Metcalf county, and when a boy of seven years was taken by his parents to Sumner county, Kansas, where he was brought up on a farm. After completing the course of study in the common and high schools of that county, he was graduated from the Kansas City Business College. Locating in Milan, Kansas, in 1904, Mr. Bailey was there engaged in the grain business for a year and a half, after which he was bookkeeper in the Stockmans' State Bank, at Greensburg, Kansas, for some time, and then, for six months, was its cashier. Coming to Quinlan, Oklahoma, in 1907, Mr. Bailey organized the Quinlan State Bank, as previously mentioned, and has since rendered excellent service as its cashier, a position for which he is eminently qualified.
     In Milan, Kansas, Mr. Bailey married Izora Stewart, and they have one child, John S. Bailey. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Bailey actively assists in the upbuilding of the town, which has doubled its population within the past twelve months, and is highly esteemed as a man and a citizen. Fraternally he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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W. A. BRIGGS. Possessing a wide knowledge of law, keenness of comprehension, and an analytic quality of mind, W. A. Briggs, of Woodward, Oklahoma, is amply qualified for his position in the legal circles of Oklahoma, where he has achieved success at the bar, gaining in his practice an extended reputation as an able criminal lawyer. He was born in Fulton county, Ohio, in 1873, and in the public schools of Harper county, Kansas, acquired his first knowledge of books, subsequently attending college at Chillicothe, Missouri, for five years.
     Having as a young man a desire for legal training, W. A. Briggs read law in different offices in Kansas, and after his admission to the Oklahoma bar, in 1901, located at Woodward, where he has met with success as a criminal lawyer, confining his attention almost entirely to these cases, and practicing in nearly every part of the state.
     In January, 1903, Mr. Briggs married Winona Esther Pope, a woman of much culture. Active in local affairs, Mr. Briggs is a member of the Woodward Commercial Club. Politically he is a straightforward Republican, is now secretary of the Congressional Committee of the Second Congressional District, and in 1903 and 1904 was county attorney. Fraternally he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and to the Knights of Pythias.

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C. E. WASHBURN. Prominent among the most busy, enterprising and practical business men of Quinlan is C. E. Washburn, who has here built up a very extensive trade as a general merchant. He was born, December 28, 1874, in Iowa, and was educated in the common and high schools of Milford, Geary county, Kansas.
     After being variously employed for a number of years, Mr. Washburn embarked in mercantile pursuits in Milford, where for four years he had a store of general merchandise. Coming to Oklahoma in 1902,

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he established his present industry, beginning on a very modest scale by erecting a small store, and putting in a limited stock of merchandise. By means of his systematic methods, his close attention to all details connected with the management of his affairs, and more especially by his honest, upright dealings, Mr. Washburn met with gratifying results from the start. As his trade increased, demanding the enlargement of his stock, more commodious quarters were needed, and the present large building which he now occupies was erected. His store is well, stocked with general merchandise, containing a full line of first-class goods, the most complete of any in the vicinity, and in the transaction of his business he keeps five clerks busy from morning till night. He has a very brisk trade, and to some extent makes a specialty of hardware, during the past season having sold three car loads of it. Quinlan is an excellent location from a business point of view, being a shipping center for broom corn and cotton, of the latter shipping one thousand, three hundred and fifty bales the past year, a large amount to go from a small town.
     Mr. Washburn married Eva Wylie, of Great Bend, Barton county, Kansas, and into their household three children have been born, namely: Lester; Vera, and Esther. In politics, Mr. Washburn affiliates with the Republican party, but has never been an aspirant for official honors.

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W. S. STUMP, ex-sheriff and now deputy sheriff of Woodward county, has long been an energetic and useful factor in the development of its affairs. He is a native of Maryland, born on the 26th of March, 1858, and received his education in the public schools of the east. In 1884 he migrated to Red River county, in northwestern Texas, where he engaged in farming and stock ranching, locating in Woodward county in 1895. For some time he was in charge of the stock yards in the city, and for about three years was in the hotel business. Afterward he associated himself with J. G. Gerlach in a mercantile venture, which proved so successful as to be continued prosperously for some seven years. Mr. Stump ran the business alone for nearly two years longer, and was then elected sheriff of Woodward county, at the expiration of his term entering the cement and stone business. Finally he devoted himself to the operation and development of his fine farm north of Woodward, in which he is still engaged, also serving as deputy sheriff. He is a stalwart Democrat, and identified with the Modern Woodmen of America.

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SIDNEY B. LAUNE. In developing and promoting the varied interests of Woodward, no man has been more influential and prominent than Sidney B. Laune, one of the earliest settlers of the place, and its pioneer lawyer. He is an official member of the Woodward Commercial Club, belonging to its directorate, and as such has rendered efficient and appreciated service to both the town and county, the magic power of his touch and brain being felt in the establishment of many a public enterprise.
     Born in Nebraska in 1866, Sidney B. Laune was graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in 1893, and ere long settled as a lawyer in Woodward county, Oklahoma. Meeting with good success in his legal work, he became widely known, and in 1900 was elected county attorney, on the Republican ticket, and served for two years in that capacity, the cases which he prosecuted being, usually, defended by Temple Houston. Continuing in the practice of his chosen profession, Mr. Laune is now easily one of the foremost lawyers of this part of the state, and one of the most enterprising and progressive members of the community in which he resides.
     Actively associated with many beneficial enterprises, Mr. Laune is treasurer of the Woodward Cotton Company, and of the Woodward Electric Light Plant, and president of the Woodward Cement and Concrete Company, and, also, of the Northwestern Oklahoma Poultry and Pet Stock Association.
     The first Sunday school held in the town of Woodward met in Mr. Laune's law office, a room twelve feet by fourteen feet in dimensions, those present being seated on nail kegs and boxes. The first school building, a small frame structure, was located on the present site of the Delta Hotel, and was built by private subscription. To Mr. Laune and Judge Dean the credit of making the streets of Woodward crooked is generally given, but the real reason was caused by the fact that the Santa Fe road runs through the town towards the west, bearing northward several degrees, and those platting East Woodward desired that the lots along [pg. 490] the railroad should be full, the fractional lots being left on the other side of the town.

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JUDGE J. R. DEAN, a practicing lawyer and an honorable citizen of Woodward, a veteran of the Civil war and a former incumbent of the Texas bench, is a Kentuckian, by birth, being born in Woodford county on the 10th of April, 1841, a son of Thomas and Melinda Dean. The boy received a common school education, and began to teach at the age of sixteen, being thus employed for about three years. He then attended the Thornton Academy for about two years, his course there being interrupted by the Civil war. He was active in the raising of the Twenty-first Kentucky Infantry, and in July, 1861, joined the organization as a member of Company G. He served as a private until the battle of Stone River, where all the officers of the company were killed except the captain, and Mr. Dean was made orderly sergeant commanding the left wing of the company. For his valued service he was commissioned second lieutenant and placed on
the staff of the brigadier general commanding the third brigade, third division, twenty-first army corps, and in this position he served until the close of the war. He had two horses shot from under him, and never wavered in the fulfillment of an assigned duty, however perilous.
     At the conclusion of the war Mr. Dean returned to Kentucky, and in 1868 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Dale. After residing in his native state for the four succeeding years, in 1872 he removed to McPherson county, central Kansas, the district at that time being very sparsely settled, except with buffalo, deer and other wild game. For seventeen years he remained a resident of McPherson county, following the practice of the law (he had been admitted to the bar in 1860), removing then to Smith county, Texas. There he not only engaged in a good private practice, but served two terms as county judge and one term in the Texas legislature.
     Judge Dean came to Woodward at the opening of the Cherokee strip, in September, 1893, and resumed the practice of his profession, but since becoming a resident of that city has taken no active part in politics. He still abides by the old-time Democratic principles, and is actively identified with Post 75, Grand Army of the Republic. The Judge is also a working member of the Commercial Club, owns valuable town property, and is a reliable promoter of progressive movements and institutions. He is the father of ten children, all of whom are married and comfortably located.

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W. T. BARRETT. Many of the early settlers of Oklahoma came here poor in pocket, but rich in courage, ambition and independence of spirit, and in the comparatively few years that have since elapsed have, by means of sturdy perseverance, wise investments, and good business management, acquired a competency. Noteworthy among this class is W. T. Barrett, the leading druggist of Carmen, Alfalfa county, where he is also serving as postmaster, and is a citizen of prominence. When he came into this state to reside, he was without capital of his own, and, even worse than that, was eight dollars in debt, or as he has put it in his jocular way, lacked eight dollars of having a cent. Starting in business in a very modest way, he conducted the same with a push and energetic vim that guaranteed him success from the start, and has now placed him in line with the most prominent and influential of his fellow-townsmen.
     A native of Illinois, Mr. Barrett was born, in 1862, in Sangamon county. Shortly after his birth, his parents removed to Indiana, from there going, in 1867, to Fredonia, Kansas, where he received his elementary education. He was subsequently fitted for a professional life in the Fort Scott schools, after which he taught for three terms in Wilson county, Kansas, from there going, in 1885, to Pratt county, where he remained for some time. While there he established himself in the drug business, and became thoroughly conversant with the details of its management. About 1896, Mr. Barrett made a trip to Oklahoma, but not deciding definitely upon a favorable location returned to Kansas, and spent a year in Fredonia. Coming again to Oklahoma in 1897, he located at Augusta, in old Woods county, and as the pioneer druggist of the place began selling his wares from three little shelves, four feet long, in the front of the post-office building. Enterprising and alive to every emergency, Mr. Barrett met with great success, and ere very long built a store in which to conduct his trade. He was postmaster at Augusta for four years. Coming to Carmen in 1902, he has here built up a thriving business, becoming a prosperous and popular druggist, and, also, the postmaster of Carmen. He is likewise president of the First

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State Bank, which he assisted in organizing, and which was in operation in Augusta for two years prior to its removal to this place.
     In 1888, in Pratt county, Kansas, Mr. Barrett married Annie E. Bogardus, a sister of Captain Charles Bogardus, the champion rifle shot of the world. From this union there is one child, a daughter, Helen, who is attending school at Liberty Ladies College, Liberty, Missouri. Politically Mr. Barrett affiliates with the Republican party, and while living in old Woods county was for five years a member of the state committee, a position which he still holds. He was elected an alternate to the Republican National Convention, held in Chicago in June, 1908, and was chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee of the second district, 1906-7. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and to the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan. He is an active member of the Carmen Commercial Club, and at the meeting of the State Presidential Postmasters' Association, held in Oklahoma City, March 12, 1908, he was elected its vice-president.

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L. A. SALTER. Noteworthy among the leading and prominent citizens of Alfalfa county is L. A. Salter, a well known and prosperous lawyer of Carmen, and the proprietor of one of the most influential newspapers published in this part of the state, the Headlight. Since coming to Oklahoma in the rush of 1893, he has been active in its development, aiding as best he could its every beneficial enterprise, and taking a personal pleasure and gratification in its rapid and substantial growth. A son of M. J. and Sarah (Hinkle) Salter, he was born near Marshall, Michigan, January 7, 1858.
     In 1871, just as he was entering his teens, L. A. Salter accompanied his parents to their new home in Kansas, where his father subsequently served for two terms as lieutenant governor of the state. After leaving the public schools, he entered the Kansas State Agricultural College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1879. Subsequently turning his attention to the study of law, he was admitted to the bar in Sumner county, Kansas, in 1887, five years after his removal to that place, and continued in the active practice of his profession in that locality for six years. In the meantime, however, he had thought seriously of establishing himself in an entirely new country, and when, in 1893, the race to the Cherokee strip, Oklahoma, was instituted, he joined in it with a will. Locating a claim adjoining the town of Alva, he held it down, and having opened an office in Alva engaged in the practice of law, building up a fine clientage. In 1898, during the exciting times of the Spanish war, Mr. Salter enlisted in Company M, First Territorial Volunteer Infantry, and served until mustered out with his regiment, in 1899.
     Removing to Augusta, Oklahoma, in 1900, Mr. Salter there opened a law office, and also established the Headlight, which, in 1901, when the town of Carmen was started, he moved to this place, also taking up his residence here, and here continuing in the practice of law. His paper has the distinction of being the oldest paper in the county that is published under its original name, others that may be older in years having changed names once, or even, perhaps, more times than that. Mr. Salter devotes much of his time especially to his legal work, his sons now having the entire management of the paper, although a part of his attention is given to the advancement of the interests of the Union Real Estate & Townsite Company, of which he is at present an agent.
     Mr. Salter married, in 1880, in Kansas, Susanna M. Kinsey, a woman of culture, ability and strong force of character, who while a resident of Kansas had the honor of serving as mayor of Argonia, being the first woman in the United States to hold that position. Mr. and Mrs. Salter are the parents of eight children, namely: Clarence E., Frank A., Win A., Melva, Bertha, Lewis, Leslie, and William. Four of this family of children are now, in 1908, students at the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, and four of the sons and the two daughters are printers. Politically Mr. Salter is a steadfast supporter of the principles of the Republican party, and takes an active interest in town and county affairs.

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I. L. MAGEE. The official family of Alfalfa county is composed of men of note, some of whom have achieved success in financial circles, some in industrial circles, others in the commercial world, a few in literary pursuits, while all are men of good ability, and well qualified for public positions. I. L. Magee, of Cherokee, the subject of this sketch, is an active member of this family, now serving with fidelity as district clerk. A Canadian by birth, he was born near Toronto, in 1865. At the age of five years,

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after four years residence in Monroe county, Missouri, he was taken by his parents to Linn county, Kansas, where he first attended school.
     As a young man I. L. Magee lived with his parents in both Sedgwick and Rice counties, Kansas, and in the latter named county grew to manhood, finished his school work and was married in 1888. Having learned the printer's trade he followed it for fifteen consecutive years in Sterling, Rice county, working in every capacity from devil to managing editor. He was subsequently engaged in the newspaper business at Nickerson, Kansas, for a time, acquiring an excellent and practical knowledge of the work required as editor and publisher. Coming to the newer country of Oklahoma in 1901, Mr. Magee lived for a short time in Woodward county, from there, taking advantage of a most favorable opening for a journalist, coming to Helena, Alfalfa county. There establishing the Helena Free Press, he succeeded in making it one of the leading newspapers of the county, with an extensive circulation, and for four years and five months operated it on a good paying basis. When, in 1907, Mr. Magee was elected to his present position of district clerk, he moved with his family to Cherokee, in the interests of his new office.
     Mr. Magee was for some time connected with the military service of the United States, belonging to Company A, Twenty-first Kansas United States Volunteers, in which he was commissioned first lieutenant, which position he held with credit until his regiment was mustered out in December, 1898. In 1900 he organized a company of National Guards at Sterling, Kansas, of which he was captain until he resigned to come to Oklahoma. He is quite prominent in fraternal organizations, belonging to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, to the Knights of Pythias, to the Modern Woodmen of America and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

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BENJAMIN BRADLEY. Among the prosperous and active business men of Cherokee, Alfalfa county, no one holds a more honored and substantial position than Benjamin Bradley, a member of the real estate firm of Bradley & Sons. The enterprising members of this well-known firm are conducting their business interests in a very successful and systematic manner, and by their energy, shrewdness, and honorable dealings have placed it upon .a solid basis, extending it in all directions.
     Born, in 1881, in Marshall county, Iowa, Benjamin Bradley came with the parental family to Cherokee in 1902, and immediately after having attained his majority, embarked in the real estate business with his father and brother, the firm name being, as at present, Bradley & Sons. One of the strongest firms of the kind in this part of Oklahoma, it has been among the foremost to boom both Cherokee and Alfalfa county, and has been instrumental in attracting to this particular locality many substantial business enterprises.
     All of the members of the firm are much interested in the development and advancement of Oklahoma, have large investments in the state, and own much valuable property throughout Alfalfa county, more especially in Cherokee and vicinity, and have valuable tracts of land listed for sale in various parts of the great Southwest. All belong to the Cherokee Commercial Club, and to various fraternal organizations, being active in each.

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O. C. WILLIAMS. A man of excellent business tact and judgment, wide-awake and alert, O. C. Williams is actively identified with actual growth and prosperity of Cherokee, Oklahoma, as a dealer in real estate, being associated with the enterprising firm of Bradley & Son. Beginning life for himself as a boy of fourteen years, he has steadily climbed the ladder of success, rising from a condition of comparative poverty to one of comfort and plenty, in the meantime becoming one of the representative men of a more than ordinarily intelligent community. He is a native of Iowa, his birth having occurred in 1873, in Boone county.
     During his earlier life, Mr. Williams was manager of a hotel in Boone, Iowa, for a number of years, in that capacity satisfying the wants of the traveling public. Going from there to Wellington, Kansas, he was for nine years employed as a mechanic by the Santa Fe Railroad Company. In 1903 Mr. Williams located in Cherokee, and was here actively and prosperously engaged in the hotel and restaurant business for four years, proving himself a most genial and accommodating host, popular with his patrons, and esteemed by the public.
     When he came to Cherokee, Mr. Williams had but fifty dollars to his name. By wise investments, good management, and shrewd [pg. 493] foresight, he has since accumulated a goodly estate, owning now about eight thousand dollars worth of Cherokee property. He is a member of the Cherokee Commercial Club, and belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

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LESLIE WOOD. A residence of ten years or more in Cherokee, Alfalfa county, has rendered the name and face of this worthy citizen familiar to a majority of the people, and, owing to his sagacious enterprise and keenness of business judgment, has made him an important factor in its growth and development. He was born, in 1878, in Owen county, Kentucky, but was brought up and educated in southern Kansas, in Hazelton, Barber county, being there reared to agricultural pursuits.
     Daring, venturesome and ambitious as a youth, Leslie Wood came to Oklahoma in the famous run of 1893, secured a claim, and held it down for five years. Locating then in Cherokee, he embarked in journalistic work, for a number of years owning and managing a Democratic newspaper. This he subsequently sold to Mr. Newman, who changed it to the Cherokee Republican. In 1905, Mr. Wood started in the real estate business in Cherokee, and as a dealer in realty has met with most gratifying pecuniary results, his transactions being extensive and lucrative. He is also engaged in the abstract business, in which he is liberally patronized, his skill and ability in correctly making abstracts being well known. Mr. Wood, true and loyal to the highest interests of both town and county, takes much interest in their upbuilding, and generously supports all beneficial projects. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

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J. G. DUNCAN. A man of sterling worth and ability, actively identified with the mercantile prosperity of Alfalfa county, J. G. Duncan is especially noted as being one of the five men that founded the enterprising and flourishing town of Carmen, buying its present site, in 1901, from the Oriental Railroad Company. He was born, in 1850, in Wisconsin, but was reared and educated in Minnesota, being brought up on a farm. In 1868 he moved with the family to Pottawatomie county, Kansas, where he assisted his father in the improvement of a farm, remaining beneath the parental roof for about two years.
     Going to Wichita, in 1870, Mr. Duncan began life for himself as a cowboy, in that capacity trailing over the Oklahoma ranges among the very earliest of its cattlemen, continuing in that business several years. At the different openings of the Oklahoma and Indian Territories, Mr. Duncan has made three races, and still owns some farming property. After the opening of the old Woods county, he located the first postoffice within its limits. It was called Eaglechief, and his wife served as its first postmaster, while he became the pioneer merchant of the place. Removing from there to Augusta, Mr. Duncan there continued in mercantile pursuits until the establishment, in 1901, of the town of Carmen, as above mentioned. Transferring, then, his building to Carmen, he has here built up a large and thriving business, carrying in his well equipped store a fine assortment of general merchandise, including groceries, queensware, hardware and dry goods. In his business career Mr. Duncan has been uniformly successful, and since coming to Oklahoma has acquired a fair share of this world's goods, owning valuable town property, and farm lands.
     Mr. Duncan married, in 1878, Mary L. Whitworth, and to them three children have been born, namely: Alfred, Grover, and Charles, all of whom live at home with their parents. Politically Mr. Duncan is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party and fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, to which his son Alfred also belongs.

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Z. J. CLARK, M. D. Prominent among the foremost physicians and surgeons of Alfalfa county is Z. J. Clark, M. D., of Ingersoll, who has a large and lucrative practice, and as a young man of promise is fast winning for himself a prominent and honored name in the medical profession. A native of Illinois, he was born at Metamora, Woodford county, but he was educated as a boy and youth in Kansas, attending the schools of Sedgwick and Kingman counties.
     A young man of high ambitions and ideas, Z. J. Clark joined in the memorable race to Oklahoma, in 1893, and had the good fortune to secure a claim near Ingersoll. living upon the claim, which is still in his possession, until after he had proved up, Mr. Magee subsequently went to Kansas City, Missouri, and entered the Kansas City Medical College, where, in 1900, he was graduated with the

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degree of M. D. Returning immediately to Alfalfa county, Dr. Clark began the practice of his profession in Ingersoll, and has since continued it with great success, his wisdom and skill in dealing with difficult cases having gained for him the confidence and respect of the whole community. The Doctor has acquired valuable town property, and as above mentioned still holds title to his original claim.
     Dr. Clark married, in 1902, Mary L. Jobs, and they have two children, Hallie E. and Evert E. Politically Dr. Clark invariably casts his vote with the Democratic party; fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and professionally he belongs to both the State and the County Medical Societies.

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H. A. KEHN. The legal fraternity of Alfalfa county has a fine representative in the person of H. A. Kehn, of Carmen, a man of excellent mental attainments, possessing keen judgment, and having unusually good business capacity. In his professional work he enjoys a large patronage, and in the promotion of the business interests of the town he has been no unimportant force. He is a Prussian by birth, and was born April 17, 1871. At the age of four years, before old enough to know much of life in his native land, he was brought by his parents to McPherson county, Kansas, where he grew to man's estate.
     In the rural schools of the county in which he was bred, H. A. Kehn received a limited education. Having, however, an inherent love for knowledge, he subsequently attended Park College, at Parkville, Missouri, after which he studied law at the Nebraska State University, where he was graduated with the class of 1900. In his search for a favorable location, he came to the Indian Territory immediately after receiving his diploma, remaining for a brief time in its southern part. Coming from there to old Woods county, now Alfalfa county, he was for two years successfully engaged in the practice of his profession at Ringwood. From there, after spending a short time at Enid, Mr. Kehn located in Carmen, where he has since made rapid and honorable advance in his profession, becoming widely known as a lawyer of much ability and skill.
     In addition to his private practice, Mr. Kehn is a notary public, city attorney, a writer of fire insurance, for four years was city clerk of Carmen, and clerk of the Carmen school board for an equal length of time, a record of service that shows his popularity in official positions. Fraternally Mr. Kehn is a member of the Knights of Pythias; and is a member, and the clerk, of the local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America, which sent him as delegate to the State meeting, when he represented Alfalfa county.

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H. B. KLIEWER. Many of the most enterprising and prominent business men of the United States have come from beyond the seas to this country of peace and plenty, and in noting the various members of any locality, but more especially in a new country, it is interesting to observe how they were gathered together from places far remote, and how well they usually combine to form an intelligent and prosperous community. H. B. Kliewer, a leading banker of Cherokee, was born, March 18, 1880, in southern Russia, and came with his parents, Abraham and Minnie (Nachtigal) Kliewer, to America while yet a boy.
     Reared and educated in Central Kansas, H. B. Kliewer became interested in the art and science of profitably handling and managing money when young, and for a number of years was engaged in the banking business at Hillsboro, Marion county, Kansas. Coming from there to Cherokee, Oklahoma, in 1907, Mr. Kliewer organized the Alfalfa County National Bank, capitalizing it at $25,000, erecting the handsome two-story brick building in which it is located, and has since served as its cashier, a position for which he is admirably fitted by education and experience. Public-spirited, energetic and liberal, Mr. Kliewer is a valued member of the Cherokee Commercial Club, and takes an active interest in town and county affairs.
     Mr. Kliewer married, in 1900, Mary Loewer, and they have one child, a son named Clarence.

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CHARLES LUTHER WILSON, mayor of Cherokee, Oklahoma, and editor of the Messenger, was born in Pendleton county in the state of West Virginia on the 13th day of February, 1868, a son of George Thomas and Mary (Eunice) Wilson. The father was a school teacher, also followed mercantile pursuits.
     Charles L. Wilson received only the advantages such as are afforded in the common school system. He worked on a farm and could only attend school "when it was too cold weather to work." He accompanied his parents, when six years of age, from West Vir-

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ginia to Illinois, and in 1885 to Harper county, Kansas. At the age of sixteen years, he went to Stevens county of the last named state is 1887, and went into a printing office, January 1, 1888, and the following March was made business manager of the Hugo Herald, continued in such occupation for C. E. Cook until after the famous Haystacks murder case, in which Mr. Cook was implicated. He then played base ball on a salary one season and then resumed his work as a printer, continuing until the autumn of 1889, when he returned to Harper county, Kansas, arriving January 1, 1890.
     In April he entered merchandising with his father, but later took up stenography and after a time engaged in the grain business which he followed until the fall of 1894. A long illness with typhoid fever from which he was financially reduced, found him almost stranded and he went to the "Cherokee Strip" and again engaged in merchandising upon a capital of thirteen dollars. He continued in this pursuit at Driftwood, being also postmaster for a time, and finally moved to Cherokee and sold his stock, October, 1905 at Cherokee, where he has since edited the Cherokee Messenger.
     It almost goes without saying, that Mr. Wilson is a stanch defender of Democratic principles, for in 1905 he was elected mayor of Cherokee against fearful odds, thus showing his popularity as a worthy citizen. He was connected with the building of the D. E. & G. Railroad into Cherokee; was manager in the campaign for G. W. Wood, of the Eighth district, who was elected by a majority of 239, while the district polled five less than three hundred votes on the Republican ticket. There were ten Republican papers, and one Democratic newspaper supporting the Republican candidate.
     In civic society relations, Mr. Wilson is numbered among the worthy members of the Odd Fellows order and also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. In his religious convictions, he is in sympathy with the Society of Friends, but was reared in the Presbyterian faith. He thinks that a religious profession is the most honorable act of one's life.
     He was happily united in marriage, April 13, 1890, to Ella D. Calvert, a popular young woman, who is admired by a large circle of true friends and acquaintances. The children born to bless this home circle are as follows: Frank C., born at Mayfield, Kansas, May 28, 1894; Sarah Eunice, born at Driftwood, Oklahoma, March 1, 1896; Charles Russell, born at the last named place, November 1, 1898; Lizzie, born at same place, May 10, 1900; Mary Lois, born at Cherokee, February 2, 1902; Frances Willard, born at Cherokee, June 10, 1904; Clifton Luther, born at Cherokee, September 17, 1906. Mary Eunice and Lizzie died aged eighteen months.
     The strongest characteristic of Mr. Wilson seems to be his industry, while his moral sensibilities are keenly developed. He is a strict Prohibitionist and acts fearlessly when duty demands. He advocates the right, as he is given to see the right-a good motto for one and all. He is charitable and considerate of others' feelings and takes supreme delight in performing a kind act toward a worthy person. He was instrumental in the division of Woods county and the formation of Alfalfa county, destined to become one of the finest counties in the Union of States.

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O. C. NEWMAN, M. D. A rising young physician of Shattuck, Ellis county, O. C. Newman has been successful in his chosen calling from the start, and is eminently deserving of the fine position he has won, not only in his profession, but as one of the most popular and esteemed citizens of the town. He was born, December 29, 1876, in Adams county, Ohio, where he obtained the rudiments of his education.
     Deciding while young to enter the medical profession, he began his studies in Ohio, afterwards attending the medical department of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Franklin county, Tennessee, he graduated and beginning the practice of his profession in Day county, Oklahoma, in 1900, he continued there five years, having a good practice. Returning then to his native state, Dr. Newman, in 1905, entered the Medical College of Ohio connected with the University of Cincinnati, and was there graduated in 1906. The ensuing year the Doctor was located at Grand, Day county, Oklahoma, where as a physician and surgeon he met with excellent success. Coming in 1907 to Shattuck, Ellis county, he formed a partnership with Dr. Wallace, and has now a controlling interest in the Northwestern Sanitarium, which is here located.
     Dr. Newman married, in 1902, Della Smith, whose parents formerly lived in Texas, but are now residents of Oklahoma. The [pg. 496] Doctor is a Democrat in politics, and is a valued member of the State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Society. He was County Superintendent of Public Health of Day county, since 1900 until disorganization and is now health officer of Ellis county. Dr. Newman spent a year as student under Dr. B. K. Rachford, a noted author on diseases of children which was a valuable course of instructions for the Doctor and which has gained for him a reputation throughout western Oklahoma as one of the most successful physicians on treatment of children.

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WILLIAM G. SEARS. Among the enterprising and progressive people who have contributed so largely towards the development of Ellis county, there is no more prominent figure than William G. Sears, of Shattuck. Possessing great strength of character, and far more than average executive and business ability, his assistance in the building up of this section of that state has been of inestimable value. A native of Iowa, he was born, in 1865, in Lineville, and was educated principally in Missouri, spending eight years of his earlier life in Whitley county, Kentucky.
     Beginning life for himself as an agriculturist, Mr. Sears was successfully employed as a dairyman in Saint Joseph, Missouri, for fifteen years. Giving up that business in 1901, he came to Ellis county, and having located the townsite of Shattuck has since devoted his energies towards promoting its highest interests. Through his inducements, many people of intelligence and ability have here established enterprises of value to the industrial and business world, and the town today has a fine population, numbering fifteen hundred souls, and in addition to its many substantial residences has now forty or fifty others in process of construction.
     Mr. Sears is actively identified with the growth of various localities, in connection with The Midland Savings & Loan Company of Denver, Colorado, of which he is a member, helping establish and build up Oklahoma towns, and as president and general manager of the Southwestern Development Company, which has a paid up capital of $100,000, is an influential factor in advancing the building, industrial and business interests of Oklahoma and western Texas. This company has officers at Shattuck and Fargo, Oklahoma, and in Ochiltree, Texas, and keeps its employes busy in looking after its landed interests. Mr. Sears is a Democrat in politics, was the mayor of Shattuck for three years, being the first mayor. He belongs to several of the leading fraternal organizations, including the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Improved Order of Red Men.

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ELMER V. JESSEE, one of the leading Democrats of northwestern Oklahoma, was a member of the first state legislature of 1907, having for a number of years been well known as an educator and a journalist. Highly educated, yet energetic and practical, he comes also of one of the most noted of American families, tracing his paternal history back to the early days of Virginia, to the brave Princess Pocahontas and her noble lover and husband, the Englishman Rolfe.
     Mr. Jessee is a native of Linn county, Missouri, born on the 22nd of August, 1876, being a son of Rev. J. D. and Susan E. (Knifong) Jessee. He was brought up in the midst of surroundings calculated to develop him both mentally, physically and religiously, as his father was both an earnest clergyman of the Christian church and a farmer. The son received a good education in the district schools at home and afterward entered the State Normal School at Kirksville, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1899. Mr. Jessee at once entered into his educational work and taught for nine years, both in Missouri and Oklahoma. In his normal school days he had made a fine record in the fields of oratory and the languages, while his early life had instilled into him a deep love of nature—of plants, and birds, and all living things. In his career as a teacher, a man and a public character, the study and practice of these matters have since been his special delight.
     In 1901 Mr. Jessee became a resident of Gage, Ellis county, and has since been active as a teacher, a journalist and a legislator. He engaged in the newspaper business in 1904, and was sent as a representative to the legislature which inaugurated the life of the state of Oklahoma. His record was that of a bright, earnest, working member, and a ready and forcible speaker. In his fraternal relations Mr. Jessee is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Masons and is a strong supporter of the Christian church. He is an officer of the Oklahoma Squirrel Rifles and is fond of all out-  [pg. 497]  door and sportsmanlike activities. His wife, to whom he was married in 1904, was formerly Miss Maude E. Hopson.

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"CAP" MITCHELL. A bright, brainy man, possessing good executive and business ability, "Cap" Mitchell, as editor and proprietor of the Shattuck Monitor, exerts a healthful influence throughout Ellis county, where his paper is widely circulated. Keeping abreast of the times in regard to local improvements, he strongly advocates the support of all enterprises calculated to benefit town or county, and has materially aided the upbuilding of this section of the state. A native of Missouri, he was born, April 26, 1865, and was there bred and educated, and for a time followed telegraphy and bookkeeping.
     Locating in Texas, in the Pan Handle district, in 1886, Mr. Mitchell filed on three sections of land, and held them down for quite awhile. Returning to Missouri, he was for three years engaged in the newspaper business, becoming familiar with its details, and forming a liking for it. Subsequently locating in Higgins, Texas, he established the Higgins News, which he managed successfully for many years. Although living on the Territorial line since 1889, he did not make the race in 1893, but in 1900 he came to Ellis county, locating in Shattuck, where he has since edited and published the paper that he then started, the Shattuck Monitor. With characteristic success, he has made it one of the leading news distributors of the county, each year increasing its circulation, its subscription being the largest of any similar publication in this part of the state.
     On December 24, 1890, Mr. Mitchell married Lillie M. Goben, and they have three children, Grover, Pauline, and Witten. In his political relations Mr. Mitchell is a stanch Democrat, and, although not an office seeker served as postmaster at Hilton, Missouri, and in Higgins, Texas, and is now secretary of the local Democratic committee. As a member of the Shattuck Commercial Club, he is active in promoting the good of Ellis county, and of Shattuck, which in his opinion is the very best town in the county. Fraternally he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to the Modern Woodmen of America, and to the Improved Order of Red Men, and in promoting the interests of lodge, camp and tribe takes much pleasure.

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DR. S. V. LUALLEN. Holding a position of prominence among the professional men of Ellis county is Dr. S. V. Luallen, a skilful and successful dentist of the town of Gage. Because of its required application at some period of life by almost every member of the human family, dentistry may, perhaps, be considered the most important branch of surgery, and yet, until within a comparatively few years, it was left largely in the hands of charlatans and itinerant professors. Owing to the demands of the present time, dental surgeons must be properly equipped for their calling, and, judging Dr. Luallen by the success he has attained in his profession, he has met all of the requirements, and is taking his proper position among the best known and most popular dentists of this part of Oklahoma. Born in 1865, in Fairfield county, Ohio, he attended the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, and there took, also, a partial course in the Ohio Dental College.
     Going to Barber county, Kansas, in 1890, Dr. Luallen finished his course of dentistry at an office in Medicine Lodge, where he subsequently began the practice of his profession. At the opening of the Oklahoma strip in 1893, the Doctor made the race to Alva, located a claim, opened a dentist's office, and was there a resident until 1899. Coming in that year to Gage, Ellis county, he has since built up a fine practice in this community, his reputation for excellent and durable work having extended in many directions, winning him a most satisfactory patronage. The Doctor still lives on his claim, five miles out from the village, driving to his office daily.
     Dr. Luallen married, in 1888, Martha C. Karr, and into their home three children have been born, namely: Elizabeth A., Doyle, and William V. Public spirited and liberal, the Doctor takes great interest in educational matters; and while living in Alva was president of the Public School Board. Fraternally he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and of the Court of Honor.

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L. YOUNT. In the annals of Ellis county, which, owing to its comparative youthfulness, are necessarily brief, the name of L. Yount, of Gage, holds an honored position among its active and valued citizens. A native of Ohio, he was born, November 9, 1851, in Miama county, where his early childhood days were spent. Taken by his parents to Iowa when he was five years of age, he was there bred and educated, until fourteen years old assisting his father in the labor incidental to an agricultural life. [pg. 498]  Beginning the battle of life when very young, L. Yount worked for a while at various employments, subsequently being for twenty years identified with the music business of the Central states as a wholesale and retail dealer in pianos and organs, six years of the time having his headquarters at Kansas City, Missouri. He was afterward a travelling [traveling] salesman for twenty-one years, continuing in that employment until 1897, when he located in that part of Woodward county now included within the boundaries of Ellis county. The ensuing nine years Mr. Yount was engaged in mercantile business at Gage, in his well-kept and well-managed store carrying a complete stock of general merchandise. In 1906 he was elected city justice, and given charge of all business pertaining to elections, and is now serving as justice of the peace for the town and the county. In his present official position, Mr. Yount is giving most satisfactory service, his rulings being almost invariably considered just and commendable. He has achieved success in financial matters, owning town property of value, including his store building.
     Mr. Yount married, in 1872, Evelyn Park, and their pleasant home is a center of social activity, ever open to their many friends and acquaintances. A stanch Republican in politics, Mr. Yount has been an able assistant in winning Ellis county over to his party, making it a Republican stronghold. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and does what he can to promote the good of that organization.