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WILLIAM H. MURRAY

    It is likely that the school books of a century hence will mention among the facts that all children of Oklahoma should know, that the first speaker of the house of representatives, as also the chairman of the constitutional convention that framed the constitution under which Oklahoma became a state, was William H. Murray. Whether the curiosity of people a century from now will be so strong respecting the personality and career of Mr. Murray that it will lead to a searching for additional facts concerning him, cannot be said positively, but it is possible for a historian to state that he is the most picturesque figure in the Oklahoma in the Oklahoma public life of the present. He is typical of Oklahoma citizenship, representing, as he does, the Indian race that inherited the land, and to a greater degree the white people who have occupied and developed the Oklahoma country. His family ties identify him with Texas and the Indian country, but by profession he has been a lawyer possessing a patriotism that knew no special section or civil divisions that would prevent his efforts for the welfare of his state.
    His family record can be quickly sketched. He was born in Collinsville, Grayson county, Texas, November 21, 1869. Uriah Darwin Thomas Murray and Bertha Jones were his parents. The Murrays came to Virginia from Scotland in colonial days. One of the early members of the family married a relative of George Bancroft, which accounts for the frequent appearance of that name in the Murray family. The speaker's father came to Texas from Tennessee when sixteen years old. He was one of Colonel Potter's Texas Rangers. By occupation he has been first a butcher and for the past twenty years or more a farmer.

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    One of the facts of interest about Speaker Murray that makes his early career seem very much like that of the ordinary citizen, is his activity as a school teacher and newspaper man, two occupations that brought him in close contact with human nature. After going to school in Wise and Parker counties, Texas, he got a place as teacher in order to support himself while continuing his education. He had left home at twelve years, and from that time supported himself. During the years 1885-88, he was alternately engaged in teaching school and in attending the College Hill Institute. He was a schoolmaster five years in all. During the days when the Farmers' Alliance was a power in business and in politics in Texas, he was officially connected with that organization, and in the promotion of those interests founded at Dallas the Farmers' World. He was twenty-three years old at the time. After accomplishing his purposes he sold out to the Texas Farmer, and returned to the school desk. An unsuccessful campaign for the office of state senator against George Jester left him in debt, and there followed a two years' period of strenuous self-denial and hard work, during which he established and conducted the Corsicana News. He was the sole proprietor and office force, circulation department, foreign correspondent, besides directing the minor details of this enterprise, and it is not strange that he succeeded. More than that, he read law when not getting out his paper, and after being admitted to the bar began practice in Corsicana.
    Following a prospecting visit in April, 1897, Mr. Murray located permanently at Tishomingo, in the Indian Territory, March 28, 1898. To keep up appearances he rode in the hack up town from the depot, but this extravagance cost him his dinner, for he had started for this new home with only a few dollars in his pocket. In practicing law he was successful almost from the start, and continued to take cases and maintain his law office in Tishomingo until December, 1902, when he moved to his farm. He had been associated as private secretary and as adviser with Governor Johnston of the Chickasha Nation, and by his marriage to Miss Alice Hearrell, a niece of the governor, he further allied himself with the interests of this nation. He has been a figure in Chickasha politics politics for the past ten years, and when the movements were set on foot that finally placed Oklahoma in the family of states, he became an active factor in the cause. In 1905 he was a member of the convention called by the five civilized tribes for the purpose of appealing to Congress for statehood for Indian Territory to be admitted as the state of Sequoyah. He served in that convention with C. N. Haskell; and the experience gained in the organization of that convention and the formation of the constitution was in large measure the foundation for the present political prominence of those two men. September 29, 1906, after a hot campaign Mr. Murray secured the primary nomination to represent his district, the One Hundred and Fourth, as a member of the constitutional convention. At the general election following, he was elected by a vote of two to one, in a district which had previously been gerrymandered, so it is claimed, to give a Republican majority. The convention met at Guthrie on November 20. In the large country of Oklahoma and Indian Territory the name of William H. Murray was at that time little known. But the Sequoyah movement still had power and influence, and among the thirty-four delegates in the convention who represented that movement Murray was one of the strongest and had their confidence and the

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support of the former Union representatives as well. The story of the contest over the chairmanship and the final outcome in the election of William H. Murray is still fresh in the minds of Oklahomans, and a part of recent political history. Sixty-two of the delegates gave their votes to Murray, and he presided over the convention during their historic deliberations lasting eighty-seven days, until their first adjournment and approval of the constitution on April 16, 1907.
    During the summer of 1907 many rumors were afloat that the original document of the constitution was lost, or secreted for political reasons, that a genuine certified copy was unobtainable, and that the convention's president was carrying the original about with him, and in the dead of night "doctoring the instrument to his taste." Of course those were largely press stories, and told mainly as flavor for the midsummer staleness of news topics, or to prejudice the president and the people against the result of the convention's labors. When the proper time came to exhibit the document, it was on hand, and exactly as it had left the hands of the engrossing clerks and been signed by the convention officers and delegates. It is true that few people knew the whereabouts of the constitution during the summer, and Mr. Murray explains his disposition of it during that time in the following way: The question came up, when the constitution was completed, of filing it with the secretary of the territory. The convention had previously selected seven lawyers to advise Mr. Murray, six of whom counseled that the original copy be filed in the regular manner, and one (now Supreme Judge R. L. Williams) advised that no filing be made, since an injunction was being sought against the submission of the constitution to the approval of the voters. The constitutional convention, Mr. Murray contended, was of a higher lawmaking order than any other body of legislators, and was limited in its actions only by the constitution of the United States, and the enabling act. For this reason Mr. Murray put the constitution in his pocket, and refused to file it until it was finally revised in the July session of the convention. On September 17 the people gave overwhelming approval of the constitution and at the same time endorsed thereby the work of the convention and its president. It is interesting to note that Mr. Murray's cherished political principles were embodied in the constitution with the one exception of the Torrence system of the registration of land titles, a feature in which he believes thoroughly.
    In the election of September, 1907, the former chairman was elected representative from Johnston county, and on the roll call demanded by him was unanimously elected speaker of the house. He has presided regularly over the deliberations of the house during its sessions in the old Guthrie city hall, and next to the governor is the most conspicuous figure at the state capital. During the progress of the campaign he had been considered among the possibilities for United States senator, but he refused to make the race, and as a candidate for representative received a majority of all the votes cast for the three candidates. As speaker, knowing that he would be held responsible for all legislation, good or bad, he has insisted that no bill be brought up without his first considering them. This policy has resulted in the house being actually the conservative side of the legislature, and under this influence many radical senate bills have been modified before presentation for the governor's signature.
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for Oklahoma to the national Democratic convention in Denver in 1908. In Johnston county he and his family are among the largest land owners. He has three children: Massena Bancroft, born January 1, 1901; Johnston, July 21, 1902; and William H., Jr., July 25, 1905.

ROBERT GALBREATH.   The story of Glenn Pool, said to be the richest petroleum deposit ever discovered, is the climactic chapter in the life history of Robert Galbreath of Tulsa. A pioneer of '89, formerly prominent in politics, a noted townsite boomer, and since the opening of the southwestern oil fields a persistent builder and developer of oil deposits, he has had many ups and downs in his experience. His persistency in continuing his search has finally been rewarded in the Glenn Pool, which has given him a fortune and at the same time has enriched all the surrounding country. He, Frank Chesley and Mr. C. F. Colcord, the Oklahoma City capitalist, own leases to several hundred acres in the heart of the Glenn Pool. At a recent date fifty-seven wells were flowing on these acres, and producing oil so rapidly that the railroads and pipe lines are unable to take it away. It being impossible to construct tanks rapidly enough to contain the output, a lake of many thousand barrels of oil has collected near the wells.
    Previous to beginning his career as an oil operator, Mr. Galbreath had made considerable money in real estate and other line of business. His capital was not enough, however, to back up his various adventures in search of oil, and before he had brought in a pay well in the Glenn Pool neighborhood he ran out of funds, and had to get additional backing from Frank Chesley, postmaster at Keystone. His own experience must be reckoned as a factor of value, and he was quite ready to risk his own judgment and the borrowed capital in the final prospect. His study of the country had caused him to select a spot four miles a little north of east of where Kiefer, the renowned tent city, later was established. As soon as permission was gained from the government's representatives drilling was begun on the allotment of Ida E. Glenn, a one-eighth Creek Indian, her husband being Robert Glenn, a white man. Early in the morning of November 22, 1905, the drill sank into the oil sands, and the first well in that vicinity began producing at the rate of about one hundred barrels a day. The name Glenn Pool, which was almost at once given the field, is in honor of the Glenn family on whose land the discovery was made.
    This strike produced a commotion among oil operators such as has seldom been equaled. Purchase of land was impossible because of its native ownership and the restrictions in the transfer of titles. But in the two years since the opening of the field a forest of derrick has covered that region, industry and trade have developed wonderfully, and there remains impressive evidence of the change which has produced millions of dollars' worth of oil since 1905.
    The Prairie Oil and Gas Company, a branch of Standard Oil Company, has a large tank farm nearby and a pipe line to its eastern connections, and there are two other pipe lines from this center. It is said that during October, 1907, the daily production of oil from this vicinity was 100,000 barrels, only three-fourths of which could be taken to market by the inadequate shipping facilities.
    Robert Galbreath, who thus made fame and fortune in the Glenn Pool district, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, a son of Robert and Sarah A. (Hill) Galbreath.

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The paternal ancestry is Scotch and the maternal Scotch-English, the Galbreath family having lived in America 300 years, being originally settlers of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandfather settled in Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1804, when that part of the Buckeye State was still known as the Virginia Military Reservation. Born and reared on a Pickaway county farm, Robert Galbreath, after getting his education in the country schools and living at home until twenty-one, made a trip to Southern California in November, 1888, and on his return passed through Indian Territory over the M., K. & T. Railroad. Though he saw the country from a car window, he was converted by its appearance of fertility and abundance of natural resources, especially in that section about Eufaula and South McAlester and Muskogee. Soon afterward Congress passed the law for the opening of the Oklahoma region, and he came from Ohio and took part in the run of April 22, 1889. He was at Kingfisher the first few days, then moved to Edmond in Oklahoma county, where he was made postmaster. In the real estate and townsite business he followed up the different openings by which Indian Territory was gradually parceled out to settlers—the Sac and Fox, Iowa and Pottawatomie reservations in 1891, the Cheyenne and Arapahoe in 1892, the Cherokee Strip in 1893, and the Kickapoo reservation in 1895. For several years he was a resident of Shawnee in Pottawattamie county.
    With the beginning of the oil boom in the southwest, caused by the strike at Beaumont, Texas, he joined the army of prospectors in the new fields of the southwest, and was one of the first prospectors in the Creek Nation, drilling some of the early wells at Red Fork. Since his fortunate discovery in 1905 he has become wealthy and one of the largest individual producers of oil in the country. It has been his policy never to sell an oil property that he develops, so long as it will produce. Therefore he is essentially a producer rather than a speculator.
    Even a pioneer, Mr. Galbreath has, with other associates, more recently discovered and developed the Bald Hill district, a large oil producing territory in Okmulgee county, about ten miles southwest of Haskell. They had the honor of sinking the first wild cat well (discovery well) in the new State of Oklahoma, at Bald Hill, on Severs Ranch, on November 21, 1907, five days after the admission of the State. His principal oil interests are located at Red Fork, Glenn Pool and Severs Ranch.
    Ever since coming to Oklahoma, Mr. Galbreath has been prominently identified with the Democratic party, especially in the earlier years of old Oklahoma Territory. For some time he was county chairman of Pottawatomie county, and in 1896 was chairman of the territorial Democratic central committee. As such he planned the notable campaign by which J. Y. Callahan was elected the delegate to Congress, defeating the Hon. Dennis T. Flynn for the first time. Mr. Galbreath was married at Edmond, Oklahoma to Miss Mary E. Kivlehen. They have four children, Robert, Jr., Leone, George Francis and Glenn Pool. Mrs. Galbreath was born at Elmira, New York, and was a member of the first graduating class in the Territorial Normal College at Edmond.

WILBUR E. CAMPBELL.     With the death of Wilbur E. Campbell at Tulsa, October 29, 1907, one of the notable careers of the Southwest came to a close. The life of Mr. Campbell throws some interesting light on at least two phases of Oklahoma history—the old cattle industry and the movement of settlement along the southern Kansas border preceding the opening of the Cherokee Strip. Coming to Kansas in 1870 he got a start in the cattle business about the time some of the famous cattle towns of the state were coming into prominence. His headquarters were at Wichita. The Indian country was open to grazing without restrictions except such as the Indian tribes placed upon the industry, and Mr. Campbell was one of the cattlemen who ran their herds from the Kansas border south to the Red river. A contact with the government for supplying beef to the Indians of the Kiowa-Wichita agency in southwestern Oklahoma also brought him in familiar

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contact with this section during the early days. Near the present city of Chickasha might be pointed out a spot where he once had his headquarters.
    And now we come to an interesting fact about the cattle business, for which Mr. Campbell deserves credit, since it seems no one has disputed his claim to the honor. While in the range cattle business in the Territory, he brought back from Missouri a herd of shorthorn cattle, the first, it is said, ever seen in this section of country, where the longhorn native steers were still the sole occupants of the ranges. He was known then as "Shorthorn Campbell." The innovation satisfied him, and he was a pioneer in introducing blooded stock into a country from which the longhorn has disappeared. Besides being the first to bring in the shorthorn, he also introduced the Hereford, or white-faced stock, and from this fact, to distinguish him from several other Campbells, he received the name "White Face Campbell," by which his service to the stock industry was signalized during the rest of his life. He was the first to introduce and owned the first established herd of Hereford cattle west of the Missouri river. At the fat stock show at Kansas City in 1885 his steer, "Texas Jack," that weighed 1,695 pounds, won the prize of the world, and many of his stock were premium winners.
    Though he was one of the active cattlemen of the Strip, when the movement began to form a permanent Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association to fence the Strip, Mr. Campbell declared that he would never fence land that he did not own, and therewith moved back into Kansas, establishing a ranch for his white-faced cattle at Caldwell, in Sumner County. He later moved into Barber County, where he purchased 31,000 acres and fenced the entire lot, with a fence thirty-seven miles long, with barbwire that cost thirty-seven cents a pound.
    Next to his importation of blooded stock into the Southwestern ranches, his next accomplishment from a historical standpoint was the founding of the town of Kiowa, Kansas, which was an entry and supply point for the movement into the Cherokee Strip only second in importance to Caldwell and Arkansas City. An interesting story of this achievement is told in the Kiowa (Kan.) News-Review. During the summer of 1884 his plans of founding a town somewhere on his large body of land, forty or fifty miles west of Caldwell, matured, and associating himself with others, the Kiowa Town Company was organized. He built the first brick building in the town, Campbell's Block and Opera House, at a cost of $30,000. The town of Old Kiowa was four or five miles from the Campbell ranch, and its most enterprising spirits were Dennis Flynn, who was then running a paper; Alex. Hopkins, A. W. Rumsey and others. It is said that Campbell offered to pay Flynn for 350 new subscriptions to his newspaper if he would move to the new town, and Flynn moved. He also used the proper inducements to the Santa Fe people to build their extension through the proposed site, and the town began to grow, until in a short time nothing was left of Old Kiowa except a farm and the old shack in which Flynn had his paper and Hopkins his law office. In this way, by identifying himself with the town of Caldwell, and by starting the town of Kiowa, Mr. Campbell was instrumental in moving the line of settlement close to the borders of the Indian Territory, and the opening of the Cherokee country found these centers ready to pour a population into the new territory.
    Stories are current illustrating the determined spirit and courage of this frontiersman. One day at Caldwell a cowboy named Jim Sherman came into town with three or four followers and killed the mayor and the city marshal, and then made their escape. Passing through the Campbell ranch, they took one of his horses. Heading a posse, he followed them into the Territory, and at Deer Creek came up with them. When the battle ended Mr. Campbell found twenty-seven bullet holes in his clothes, one through his wrist, one through his groin and one struck a memoranda book in his breast pocket, this book saving his life. The band got away, but Sherman—said to be a nephew of Gen. W. T. Sherman—was afterwards apprehended in Cali-[fornia]

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[Cali]fornia, brought to Sumner County for trial and acquitted.
    Mr. Campbell made a great reputation as a horseman by purchasing from Leland Stanford the noted horse "Campbell's Electioneer," for which at one time he refused $30,000. The horse was shipped to him from California to Kiowa, Kansas, by express. He also bred and raised the pacer, "Symboleer," whose record of 2:11 for two-year-old pacer still stands. In later years Mr. Campbell established a smaller ranch in Woods county, Oklahoma, about thirty miles west of Kiowa, Kansas, the postoffice being Winchester. In 1903 he moved his family to Tulsa and engaged in the oil business and other enterprises.
    The late Wilbur E. Campbell was born at Brownville, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1847, and at the age of three years the family home was moved to Fairfield, Iowa. He was one of the youngest soldiers of the Civil war. He enlisted at sixteen, at Knoxville, Iowa, in the Third Iowa Cavalry, and was a sharpshooter, one of the best pistol shots in his regiment, and always a brave and efficient soldier. He disobeyed a superior officer but once, when the latter order him to shoot a woman who had been making herself obnoxious in the camp. "I will shoot your men, but will not kill a woman," was his reply. He was four times wounded during the war. His service was in the command of Gen. John M. Noble, who was secretary of interior under Harrison, and who at one time was a business associate of Campbell. The captaincy of a colored regiment was offered him once, but he refused. After the war the young soldier engaged in railroad construction work on the Union Pacific in Wyoming, and in this way was introduced to the life of the West.
    Mr. Campbell was of Scotch stock, as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Emily M. Duncan. Mrs. Campbell, who resides at Tulsa, was born near Dodgeville, Wisconsin, June 23, 1852, and they were married at Wichita, Kansas, January 18, 1871. She lived on the frontier many years, and brought up her family in the environment of the old southwest. She was living in Sibley county, Minnesota, when the Sioux massacre of the Civil war time scourged that vicinity, and later came to southwestern Kansas. She was the only white woman at Chickasha in 1875, and at one time when in camp alone with two babies two Indians came. After she gave them their dinner, they became impudent. She took the Winchester down and drove them away. On account of the Indians they had to leave this ranch, going in an ox-cart to Wichita, Kansas. Her father, Robert Duncan, still lives in Wichita. The surviving sons and daughters of Mr. Campbell are: Wilbur D., fruit grower, of La Grande, Oregon; Robert B., assistant postmaster at Alva, Oklahoma; Charles D., postmaster at Apache, Oklahoma; Roy H., of Oregon; Frank L., contractor, of Santa Barbara, California; and Miss Gladys E. Mr. Campbell was a thirty-second degree Mason and was orator of same. The thirty-second degree Masons held Knights Kadosh funeral services at midnight over his remains at his home. A Republican, he would never accept office, but was quite active for friends and party. In Barber county, Kansas, he was bondsman for the county treasurer, who was preparing to leave and allow bondsman to pay his shortage. Mr. Campbell went to his house and captured him and held him prisoner in his own house for three days until his father-in-law came and fixed it up.

FRANK M. MATHEWSON, who has lived at Tulsa since 1893, is one of the pioneer cattlemen of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Thirty years ago, when he began grazing his first bunch of cattle in the valley of the Arkansas river near Wealaka, in the Creek Nation, he did not own a dollar free of incumbrance, but by honest and legitimate business methods has since become one of the most substantially prosperous citizens in the Tulsa country. He was a young man of twenty when he mad his start in Indian Territory and had already had a variety of experience in the battle of life. Born in Marion county, Iowa, September 6, 1856, he accompanied the family to Atchison county, Missouri,

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in 1863, and when fourteen years old left home to rely on his independent exertions. He lived and worked at farming in Nebraska until driven out by the grasshopper plague of 1873. After spending a short time in Sheridan, Iowa, he came to the Southwest in the spring of 1874, and during the following years was employed at lumbering, making staves, railroad ties, etc., at Clarksville, Texas. He moved to Wealaka, Indian Territory, in 1876. Careful, conservative methods, instead of the plunging means resorted to by many of the cattlemen of that day, brought him a steadily increasing success, and without going into debt he extended his cattle interests until in a few years he grazed some of the largest herds in his section of Indian Territory, and was known to reap constant profits from his business. In the earlier years, in the days of the open range, before wire fences were thought of, his cattle ranged over the old Territory from the Kansas line to the Red river. Although without the conveniences of modern life, there were many pleasurable phases of the pioneer days, now permanently passed away, that old settlers like Mr. Mathewson recall with regret; particularly the unbounded hospitality of the people, their freedom from restraint and the affectations of modern life, their adherence to the principles of the square deal, their strict sense of honor as between man and man in all business deals, a man's simple word being as good as his bond and no such thing as a note or security being required.
    Mr. Mathewson finally retired from active direction of his stock business in 1904, having accumulated enough to satisfy his ideas of a competence. He is the owner of valuable farming lands and city real estate and business property, and, from the standpoint of material possessions, is one of the best situated men in Tulsa. He has no ambition to be numbered among "the big rich," and is quite content with the rewards of thirty years in active business. His first wife was Miss Hattie Perryman, a member of the well-know Creek family of Perrymans that has furnished two chiefs to the Creek Nation. After her death, Mr. Mathewson married Miss Levina Jack, daughter of the revered pioneer, John Jack, who died February 14, 1908, at eighty years. By his first marriage Mr. Mathewson had two children, Minnie and Phebe, the former of whom died at the age of eighteen. There are five children of the present union, namely: Pearl, Benjamin H., Archie, Ruth and Leonard. Mr. Mathewson is a Republican and was alderman from the Second ward of Tulsa three years, when he resigned. He is a member of I. O. O. F., Aurora Lodge No. 121, of Tulsa.

LEE W. LINDSEY, of Tulsa, was one of the pioneer contractors and builders of the Territory and one of the leading men of the Creek Nation. He completed the walls and enclosure of the old council house, or capitol building, of the Creek Nation at Okmulgee. The trees surrounding the council house were set out by Colonel Lindsey (as he is nearly always called). While these facts served to identify him in a special manner with the history of the Creek Nation, they are incidental to the larger career of Colonel Lindsey in the industrial, business and political life of this section of Oklahoma. He is a pioneer resident of the Creek Nation, having come here in 1876, before there was any civil court jurisdiction or government for white people in Indian Territory. In 1886 he established his home at Tulsa, then a small village of five years' growth, but already important as a trading center. As a contractor and builder he continued in active business here until 1892, since which year he has devoted his energies to the development of business interests in the Creek and Chickasaw Nations. He built and owns the Lindsey block at that place, and is also the owner and promoter of the Lindsey addition, one of the best residence subdivisions. In the Creek Nation, besides owning fine farm property, he is promoting the Lindsey additions to Tulsa. These additions, the First and Second, lying in the southwest part of the city, are in the most picturesque part

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of the city, overlooking the Arkansas valley. In the Second addition, Colonel Lindsey has built his own residence, at the corner of Guthrie and Cypress Streets. This home is one of the show places of Tulsa. A handsome structure both within and without, it was built for actual comfort and convenience, in which features it excels. There are more than twenty rooms on the two stories, besides a basement and attic floor, and the cost of construction was about $15,000, though it is worth more since the Colonel built it himself. It is of the solidest frame construction, with 2 by 6 studdings reinforced by sills, then ship-lapped, covered with building paper, and then the regular outside slab siding. Oak and pine of native growth enter into the building. The floors are all double, the rooms beautifully furnished, gas and electric lighted. Air pressure pumps, installed in a small building at the rear of the house, supply, alternately just as desired, hard or soft water from the well and cistern—an arrangement that few houses in the state could claim.
    In public affairs Colonel Lindsey's position is best indicated by his having received, in the statehood election, the Republican nomination for member of the Legislature from Tulsa county. While his career since coming to Indian Territory has been one of remarkable activity and success, he has an interesting personal history before that time. He was born in Clermont county, Ohio, December 13, 1845, was reared on a farm, and at Batavia, the county seat of his home county, in 1863 enlisted in L troop of the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, being sent immediately to join Sherman's army. Though only eighteen years old, he was an active soldier in the siege of Atlanta, was on the march to the sea, and thence through the Carolinas and Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland, and discharged at Columbus, Ohio. He was in the last battle, at Bentonville, just before the surrender of Johnston's army. He returned home after the war, but in the early seventies went South and was present at the laying off of the town of Birmingham, Alabama. At that time he superintended the work of getting out the stone material for the machine shops of the North and South Alabama railroad at Birmingham. Having learned the trade of stonemason, he began the contracting and building business in the South, and about 1875 located at Van Buren, Arkansas, whence he moved soon afterward to the Creek Nation.
    Mrs. Lindsey is one of the notable women of Eastern Oklahoma. She has served as president of the Indian Territory Women's Christian Temperance Union and is well known in various phases of church and reform work. Before her marriage to Colonel Lindsey, which occurred at the Wealaka Mission in 1885, and while she was known by her maiden name of Miss Lilah Denton, she was an accomplished teacher in the Indian schools. She belongs to one of the leading Indian families of the Creek Nation, her mother being of a Creek family and her father a Cherokee. She received her early education at the old Tullhassee Mission, then attended a seminary at Fulton, Missouri, and from there entered Highland Institute, Hillsboro, Ohio, where she graduated with honors in the class of 1883. She then taught for a time in the Wealaka Mission of the Presbyterian Church, also at Coweta Mission, and for about three years at Tulsa, making ten years altogether in mission schools. She was the first Creek girl to graduate, and was appointed by the board of missionaries to take charge of a mission school before she graduated. She is an active worker in the Relief Corps. An extensive traveler, she was appointed by Governor Haskell to attend the tuberculosis convention at Washington, D. C. In April, 1908, she was state delegate to Richmond, Virginia. She has attended three receptions at the White House.

JACK BELL.   Incidents in the careers of persons often mark the growth of a city or community. It serves to measure the rapid growth of the city of Tulsa to recall that Jack Bell, one of the well-known citizens who has lived here since 1896, once plowed corn in the now thickly built up part of the city where stands the Midland Valley depot. To such an extent has Tulsa

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overspread all the limits of its earlier importance and within the last few years attained to influence and size of a metropolis.
    Mr. Bell's present homestead is a fine estate adjoining Tulsa on the southeast. Onone of the hills in that part of the city, stands his residence, commanding an excellent view of the city and the broad sweep of the Arkansas valley. The residence section of the city has gradually encroached on his land, and from his estate he has laid out a residence subdivision known as Bellview. Mr. Jack Bell, who with his children owns valuable farming lands east of Tulsa in the old Creek Nation, is a Creek citizen by marriage, but was born in Texas county, Missouri, April 11, 1870, and was reared on a farm in that county. He lost his parents while he was a boy, and since 1895 has lived most of the time in Indian Territory, being at Muskogee before moving to Tulsa. In Tulsa he married Miss Clarissa Hodge. Her father is Alvin T. Hodge, who lives on a farm adjoining the Bell place. Mr. Hodge is one of the oldest of the living natives of the Creek Nation. He was born here in 1844, his mother being of Creek blood, and his father, Nathaniel Hodge, a native of New York state. Alvin T. Hodge built the first house, or one of the first, in Tulsa, and is on all accounts one of the pioneers of the city, as also one of the wealthy citizens of the Creek Nation. He has been a farmer and stockman all his life. Most of his education was obtained in the old Presbyterian Mission School at Tullahassee, and his intelligence and strong character have for years made him influential in the councils of his people, having served as a representative in the Creek council, as district judge, and in other positions. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bell are the parents of three children: Aaron, Lela May and Marie. Mr. Bell is independent in politics.

DR. S. DeZELL, HAWLEY.     In the party campaign for Republican nomination of the office of governor in the new state of Oklahoma, the second in the race, following Governor Frantz, was Dr. S. DeZell Hawley, a prominent young physician and surgeon of Tulsa and one of the Republicans leaders of the new state. Though a comparatively recent resident of Oklahoma, he has identified himself very closely with its public life, besides taking a prominent place in the profession of medicine and surger. He has served as alderman of the city of Tulsa, and is otherwise active as a citizen.
    Dr. Hawley became a general practitioner of medicine at surgery at Tulsa in 1903, and almost at once came into professional favor and gained a large patronage. He was born in Webster county, Nebraska, in 1877. His parents, Dr. J. E. and Alice J. (Stephenson) Hawley, are both still living at their home in Burr Oak, Jewell county, Kansas. Dr. J. E. Hawley is a native of New York state, a descendant of the well-known New England family of Hawleys (Connecticut), of which Senator Hawley is a distinguished member, the ancestry goiong back in direct line to the time of William the Conqueror. J. E. Hawley was one of the pioneer physicians of Nebraska, and has been a practicing physician for a long number of years, being still active in his profession at Burr Oak. Mrs. J. E. Hawley was born in Indiana, of an Ohio family of Scotch ancestry. The Hawleys are a hardy, longlived race, and in the Doctor's immediate family (he having a sister and two brothers) there has never been a death. S. DeZell Hawley spent his youth at Burr Oak, Kansas, graduating from the high school, and from the University of Kansas at Lawrence was graduated with the class of 1899. He at once began preparation for the medical profession, studying at the University Medical College of Kansas City, where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in March, 1903. He soon afterward came to Tulsa. He is member of the County, State and American Medical Associations and member of the Medical Association of the Southwest. He affiliates with the F. & A.M., B. P. O. E. (and treasurer of the local lodge), Modern Woodmen and Past Venerable Counsel of the local lodge. At Burr Oak he was married to Miss Vida S. Faidley.