Tulsa, Oklahoma - History (part 1 of 10)

Frank H. Reed

Frank H. Reed, a Tulsa lawyer who has won notable success in the oil industry, is the owner of a large number of oil producing tracts in the various oil fields of Oklahoma and has become widely known as a producer and investor. He was born in Geneva, Indiana, on the 20th of January, 1880, his parents being W. M. and Hannah (Tederick) Reed, the former a native of Indiana, while the latter was born in Ohio. The father during his active business career gained most favorable recognition as an editor and publisher. Mr. Reed's parents are both in Tulsa and are consistent and devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal church. To them were born five children, one of whom has passed away.

Frank H. Reed obtained his education in the public and high schools of Morris, Illinois, where the family home had been established when he was a lad of nine years. Inheriting a tendency toward newspaper work, Mr. Reed started as a newsboy, then became a printer's devil in the office of the Morris Daily Sentinel and learned the printing trade, at the same time continuing his school work. At the age of nineteen he became identified with journalistic work as a writer for Chicago papers and as reporter on the Morris Daily Sentinel, soon rising to the position of city editor of that paper, which position he held for three years. It was his desire, however, to become a member of the legal profession and with that end in view he devoted three years to the study of law at night, being admitted to the Illinois bar in February, 1902, when but twentytwo years of age. He was the youngest member of a class of seventy who were examined for two days by the Illinois supreme court. He began active practice at Morris, Illinois, where he remained until August, 1905, when he made his way to Wewoka, Indian Territory, a town which was then a typical frontier village but which later became the county seat of Seminole county, Oklahoma. Mr. Reed practiced his profession at Wewoka for nearly twelve years, and, although he limited his activities to Indian titles and their many complications, he soon built up a law practice of vast proportions. The versatile character of Mr. Reed is well illustrated by the fact that he gained a splendid knowledge of the language spoken by the Seminole Indians, and through his ability to converse with them in their own language and his straightforward business methods, he endeared himself to the Indian citizens to such an extent that he became the sole attorney of hundreds of them and confidential adviser to many of the leading members and officials of the Seminole tribe. After moving to Tulsa, Mr. Reed abandoned his law practice and has devoted all of his time to his oil interests and the care of his extensive landholdings. He is a typical American product, having climbed the ladder from newsboy to wealth, being one of the largest landowners in Oklahoma. His holdings are located in ten different counties and the number of his broad acres runs far into five figures. Besides his handsomely furnished oil offices in Tulsa, he maintains an office in Wewoka, Oklahoma, through which most of his land interests are handled.

In 1904 Mr. Reed was united in marriage to Miss Isabelle Steep, of Morris, Illinois, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Steep. They now have two children: Edward, who was born April 26th, 1907; and Margaret, whose birth occurred lune 9, 1918. They have a beautiful home at 1526 South Madison boulevard.

Mr. Reed is versatile, pleasant, agreeable, a good story-teller, a golf enthusiast and a popular member of the Country Club, the City Club and the Kiwanis Club. He is independent in politics and has never sought nor held public office. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, having taken all the degrees, of both the York and Scottish Rite bodies. He is a member of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Reed and his family are attendants of the Christian Science church.

Being public-spirited, Mr. Reed's name has become known in connection with philanthropic work of a varied character. He was the first man in Tulsa to suggest that the wealthy men of the city should build memorials by placing conveniences and equipment in the city parks, he having erected the Frank H. Reed wading pools for children in Locust Park and in Admiral Park. A young man of splendid executive ability, forceful, resourceful and enterprising, he well deserves the prosperity which has crowned his efforts and which places him among the leading and influential citizens of Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma.

Raymond Calvert Jopling

Raymond Calvert Jopling, of the firm of Jopling & Whiteside, conducting a real estate, insurance and loan agency in Tulsa, has the quality of determination and perseverance so necessary in the attainment of success. Actuated by a laudable ambition, he is making steady progress in his business career and is winning satisfactory results. He was born at Italy, Ellis county, Texas, April 28, 1891, and is a son of Benjamin L. and Leonore (Calvert) Jopling, both of whom were natives of Texas. The father was born in Tarrant county, near Fort Worth, his birthplace being Johnson Station, a military post, for his father, George W. Jopling, went to Texas with General Worth and established the military post at Fort Worth. He served as a soldier of the Confederate army during the Civil war. He also built the first cotton gin in Tarrant county and was one of the prominent and influential men of Texas in his day. He likewise owned the first house erected in the county, the construction work being done by the Indians. Benjamin L. Jopling became a cattleman and acquired extensive land holdings, devoting his entire attention to cattle raising for many years. He removed to Bellevue, Texas, and in 1908 came to Oklahoma, where again he continued to concentrate his efforts and attention upon the raising of cattle. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church and fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Raymond C. Jopling spent his youthful days in Bellevue, Clay county. Texas, where he attended the public schools and at sixteen years of age started out to provide for his own support. He is truly a self-made man, inasmuch as his success has come as the direct reward of industry, perseverance and integrity. In his boyhood his attention was given to cattle raising on the plains ol l.i and he served as straw boss on the Bar X ranch in that state for two years. He then turned his attention to the banking business at Ryan, Oklahoma, becoming assistant cashier of the People's Bank & Trust Company, a position which he occupied for four years. On the expiration of that period he entered the employ of the Waurika (Okla.) National Bank, where he spent two years. Because of impaired health he then returned to Texas and for a year was in charge of the pavilions of the Crazy Well Water Company at Mineral Wells. He then started out as a public auditor in the Texas oil fields and in 1913 came to Oklahoma, establishing his home at Tulsa, where he was connected with Carr & French in the insurance business as general manager. In October, 191 7, he removed to Wichita, Kansas, where he conducted business as a member of the firm of Jopling & Whiteside, general insurance agents, handling all kinds of insurance. It was in March, 1918, that he formed his partnership with C. B. Whiteside and their operations have covered Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Mr. Jopling had his initial experience as an insurance man when in Ryan in connection with the banking business. The firm of Jopling & Whiteside enjoys a liberal patronage and Mr. Jopling is also the president of the R. C. Jopling Company, real estate dealers, engaged in city building of medium-priced houses. They also conduct a real estate brokerage business, having a department that handles real estate on commission. Thus the activities of Mr. Jopling have constantly broadened in scope and importance and the energy which has been back of his operations has been a most forceful factor in producing gratifying results. Mr. Jopling belongs to the Real Estate Exchange of Tulsa, also the state and national organizations. In St. Louis, Missouri, July 20, 1917, Mr. Jopling was married to Miss Virginia Bell Wiet, a native of St. Louis, her father being a contractor there. One child has been born of this marriage, Raymond Calvert. During the World war Mr. Jopling was very active in support of many war measures and gave much time to the sale of Liberty bonds. His wife is very active in club circles and in church work. They both hold membership in the First Baptist church and Mr. Jopling is serving on its board. His political endorsement is given to the democratic party and he is much interested in its success. He belongs to the Lions Club, of which he is a past secretary; to the Automobile Club, having served on its first board of directors ; to the City Club, of which he was one of the first six members; to the Elks Lodge, No. 946; to Delta Lodge, No. 425. A. F. & A. M.; to the Knights of Pythias; and to the Chamber of Commerce. All of these associations are indicative of the interests of his life and the trend of his thought and progress. His helpfulness is a valuable asset in many measures for the general good and he is interested in all those activities which feature in the material, social, intellectual and moral advancement of the community.

Charles D. Crotchett

Charles D. Crotchett, manager of the Tulsa branch of the stock and bond business of Houston, Fible & Company, and a well known figure in financial circles of this section of the state, was born in Wyandotte, Kansas, May 14, 1882, his parents being L. D. and Mary Jane (Cooley) Crotchett. The father was born in Kansas and has devoted his life to teaching, now making his home in Osage county of his native state. The mother, who was born in Leavenworth county, Kansas, has passed away. The family numbered three children.

Charles D. Crotchett, reared in the Sunflower state, largely acquired his education in the public schools of Topeka, after which he became a telegraph operator, devoting a few years to that business. His connection with Tulsa dates from June 6, 1917. He had formerly made his home in Kansas City from the 28th of February, 1905, and has been with the big stock and bond house of Houston, Fible & Company of Kansas City, for a period of sixteen years. On the 6th of June, 1917, he was sent to Tulsa as their representative and manager at this point, where a very large business is carried on and he has gained many clients for the firm during his residence here. Mr. Crotchett has been very successful and popular in the management of the business and has made a large acquaintance and won the support of many of the leading men of Oklahoma. He is located in a fine suite of offices on the ground floor of the First National Bank building of Tulsa and as the weeks pass his clientele steadily increases.

In 1901 Mr. Crotchett was married to Miss Anna Marie Kraemer of Topeka, Kansas, and they have become the parents of two children : Anna, who is attending the Missouri University; and Ruth. Mr. Crotchett belongs to Petroleum Lodge, No. 474, A. F. & A. M., and is also a Chapter Mason. He belongs to the Country Club, which indicates his fondness for golf, which he makes his source of recreation. He likewise is a member of the Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, South, and his conduct is at all times governed by its teachings. Enterprise and reliability are numbered among his marked characteristics and a laudable ambition has carried him steadily forward, winning for him an enviable place in the financial circles of his adopted city.

Clyde R. Thurlwell

The splendid vitality of Tulsa as an industrial and commercial center has drawn to the city men of exceptional ability not only in general business administration but also those representative of the best in- the various professions. Clyde R. Thurlwell is one of the men who is here upholding effectively the prestige of the legal profession, in which he controls a successful practice, with office headquarters in the Unity building, giving his attention largely to law business pertaining to land titles and to the handling of probate matters.

Mr. Thurlwell was born in McHenry county, Illinois, on the 8th of September, 1880, and is a son of John and Ruth (Wilkins) Thurlwell, the former born near the city of Liverpool, England, and the latter in the state of New York. The father was a youth when he came to the United States, and in the early '50s became a resident of Illinois, where eventually he gained prestige as a successful contractor and builder.

The public scnools afforded to Clyde R. Thurlwell his early educational discipline and in 1902 he was graduated from the law department of Valparaiso University, at. Valparaiso, Indiana. In the same year Mr. Thurlwell assumed a clerical position in a law office in the city of Chicago, where he gave a part of his time to stenographic work and where also he gained his initial experience in the practice of his profession. He continued his residence in the great western metropolis until 1908, when he came to Oklahoma and accepted the position of court stenographer or reporter at Okmulgee. Since 191 1 he has been established in the practice of his profession at Tulsa, with naught of spectacular activity but with resourcefulness and discrimination in the handling of the very substantial law business which he has here built up. In politics Mr. Thurlwell supports men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespective of strict partisan lines. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and is an active member of the Tulsa County Bar Association.

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Mr. Thurhvell was twenty-eight years of age at the time of his marriage to Miss Clara Bramer, who was born and reared in the state of Wisconsin and who graciously presides in their pleasant home in Tulsa. They have no children.

Nat L. Sanders

Nat L. Sanders, postmaster of Broken Arrow, is well known throughout Tulsa county as one of its substantial citizens. Coming to this county before the town of Broken Arrow was a reality he realized the many advantages it offered and engaged in a variety of pursuits connected more or less closely with the development and improvement of the county and the establishment of the town in which he is now residing. Like many other prominent men of Tulsa county Mr. Sanders is a native of another state, his birth having occurred in Greenville, Texas, on the 16th of March, 1864, a son of Charles B. and Viola (Polk) Sanders. The maternal grandfather was a cousin of the well known James K. Polk, eleventh president of the United States and the grandparents on both sides located in Arkansas in 1829 and 1S30. Charles B. Sanders was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and his wife in Huntsville, Arkansas. In 1849 the father crossed the plains to California but later returned to Huntsville, Arkansas, where he engaged in the stock business until about 1863. when with his family he removed to Greenville, Texas. Upon the outbreak of the Civil war his sympathy was with the south and he enlisted in the Confederate army, serving under General Price throughout the conflict. After the close of hostilities he moved his family back to Madison county, Arkansas, and there purchased land which he operated for many years. This old home place is still in possession of the family. In addition to farming he conducted a hotel in Huntsville for several years and likewise bought and sold stock. In every undertaking in which Mr. Sanders was active he won success. He died in September, 1898, at the age of seventy-two years, financially independent. Mrs. Sanders lived until 191 1, when her demise occurred at the age of seventy- four.

In the acquirement of an education Nat L. Sanders attended the schools of Huntsville, Arkansas, and later entered the State University at Fayetteville, from which he was graduated in the required time. After putting his textbooks aside he accepted a position as clerk in a Huntsville store and was active in that capacity for fourteen years, the entire time being spent in the employ of one man. In 1893 ne received the appointment as collector of internal revenue for nine counties in northwestern Arkansas, the appointment having been made by President Cleveland, and for four years and nineteen days he was active in that capacity. He then became cashier of the Madison County Bank at Huntsville, but in 1901 tendered his resignation and came to Indian Territory, building a store and cotton-gin six miles south of where the town of Broken Arrow now stands. For nineteen months he was active in the operation of those interests and upon the establishment of the town of Broken Arrow removed his buildinigs there and became active in the development and improvement of that place. He was among the first to buy property there and after six years spent in the conduct of his old store he purchased a new building and engaged in the mercantile business for four or five years, when he was elected county commissioner. He then disposed of his business and realized a substantial amount on the sale. He was on the board that built the present county courthouse and after serving in that capacity for two years was in July, 1913, appointed postmaster by Woodrow Wilson. He has served for eight years in this connection and has won the confidence and respect of the entire community. As stockholder and director of the Arkansas Valley State Bank of Broken Arrow he is prominent in financial circles and is likewise one of the directors of the Farmers Cooperative Grain Company. He is a stockholder in the Tulsa Light Corporation and is the owner of a valuable farm property near Broken Arrow, on which two small oil wells have been located. He has always taken a great interest in the growth of his community and has invested in a good deal of good business and residence property.

In December of the year 1884 Mr. Sanders was united in marriage to Miss Lutie Berry, and to them five children have been born: Ruth, who is the wife of H. L. Hollmsworth of Broken Arrow; Hugh B., who is now farming after serving for eight years as county treasurer; Belle, who is the wife of T. F. Jamison, manager of the Farmers Union Grain Company of Coffeyville, Kansas ; Julian B., who resides at home where he is engaged in the real estate business , and Amy C, the wife of H. E. Barnard, a merchant of Broken Arrow. Mrs. Sanders is widely known in the community where she is conceded a model housewife and mother.

The political allegiance of Mr. Sanders is given to the democratic party, he having firm belief in the efficacy of the principles of that party as factors in good government. Fraternally he is a Mason, in which order he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and the Shrine and he likewise holds membership in the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America and Woodmen of the World. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, of which organization he was at one time trustee. During the World war Mr. Sanders took an active and prominent part in all local war drives and he received a medal from the post office department for the sale of stamps. His son, Julian B., served as regimental sergeant major but did not get across to France. For many years he has been a resident of Tulsa county arid his labors have brought about the settlement and development of various districts. He has thoroughly identified his interests with those of his community and there is no more enthusiastic booster of Broken Arrow than he, having already gained recognition as a leader in movements calculated to promote its welfare.

Ernest B. Huston

Ernest B. Huston, while treasurer of the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company, one of the largest corporations of this character operating in Oklahoma, has also found time and opportunity for activity along other lines that have been of marked benefit to the state in the support of high principles of American manhood and citizenship. Mr. Huston comes to the southwest from New England, his birth having occurred at Newton, Massachusetts, August 5, 1876. He is a son of Daniel 1). and Emma (Orchard) Huston, the former a native of Maine, while the latter was born in England. They became the parents of two children, the brother of Ernest 1!. being William I"). Huston, now living in Boston. Massachusetts. The parents have departed this life.

Ernest I'.. Huston, having attended the public schools of his native city until he had completed the high school course there, started out in the business world as an employe in a dry goods store of Boston, in which he remained for a brief period. He then turned his attention to the insurance business in Boston, in which he won notable success, but the opportunities of the growing west attracted him and in 1904 he made his way to Independence, Kansas, where he continued for nine years, having charge of the financial interests of the Sinclairs at that place. The year 191 1 witnessed his arrival in Tulsa and through the intervening period he has been financial man for the Sinclair interests and his official position is that of treasurer of the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company. He thus controls very large and important interests, for the corporation is one of the foremost operating in the oil fields of Oklahoma. One who has known him long and well says of him : "In a business way he has always acted in a most straightforward, considerate and upright manner, and I have always regarded him as a man of the most sterling integrity. He has that fortunate and happy, although uncommon, human faculty of being able to see the other man's side of the argument as well as his own, and it certainly helps in this busy world of high strung humanity." Mr. Huston is ever painstaking in handling details, is an excellent organizer and an indefatigable worker. These qualities have been strong elements in the attainment of his success, bringing him to the prominent and creditable position which he occupies in connection with one of the chief industries of Oklahoma.

In October, 1907, Mr. Huston was married to Miss Alice Chandler, a daughter of Joseph Chandler, a pioneer settler and prominent resident of Independence, Kansas. They have become parents of one son, Donald E., born November 2, 1915.

Mr. Huston is a member and elder of the First Presbyterian church and is also serving as assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. He has never neglected his religious duties but performs them in a way befitting a true American Christian, being thoughtful of those in distress and charitable to those who have needed kindly assistance. He is one of the directors and the vice president of the Tulsa Young Men's Christian Association and his generous support is given to all movements that tend to promote moral progress. He seeks the best in literature and keenly enjoys everything of an instructive or educational nature. A member of the Rotary Club, he was active on its board and as one of its officials. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a Knight Templar and Shriner. The friends of his youth and early manhood as well as those of his later years speak of him in terms of the highest regard because of the life that he has lived and the high standards which he has pursued. His position as a business man is today a very important one in Oklahoma, but he is equally a dynamic force in the advancement of those interests which make for the upbuilding of the community and the commonwealth and for the uplift of the individual.

Hulftte Fuqua Aby

Hulette Fuqua Aby, senior partner in the firm of Aby & Tucker, attorneys of Tulsa, was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, January 15, 1879. His father Samuel H. Aby, was a native of Copiah county, Mississippi, and spent much of his life at Crystal Springs. He became a newspaperman and was publisher of a paper for many years. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, South.

In early manhood he wedded Mary J. Spencer, who was born at Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and they became the parents of three children, all of whom are living.

After acquiring his early education in the public schools of his native state Hulette F. Aby attended the University of Mississippi and Louisiana State University. In 1901 he won his LL. B. degree at Millsaps College. He was admitted to the bar in Mississippi in 1901 and for a time engaged in law practice in Mississippi but on the 9th of January, 1902, came to Tulsa, which was then a small town of little importance. He practiced alone for a time and then in 1905 organized the firm of Aby & Tucker, which has maintained a continuous existence through the intervening period of sixteen years. The firm engages in civil practice, making a specialty of corporation law and this is today the oldest firm of attorneys in continuous practice in Tulsa. Its clientage is now very extensive and of a most important character, as the firm is the legal representative of some of the largest corporation interests of the city. Mr. Aby belongs to the Tulsa County, Oklahoma State and American Bar Associations.

In 1906 Mr. Aby was married to Miss Cora Mae Hansel of Missouri, a daughter of John Hansel of Joplin, Missouri. They have become parents of two sons : H. F., Jr., now thirteen years of age ; and William Willing. Mr. Aby turns to fishing for recreation, greatly enjoying this pastime when his professional duties permit. He has always been keenly interested in everything pertaining to public progress and improvement and was the first secretary of the Commercial Club of Tulsa, filling the position in 1902. This is now the Chamber of Commerce, with which he is still connected. He belongs to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also has membership in the Lions Club and the Country Club. He belongs to the Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, South, of which he is a trustee. His ideals of life are high, his activities far-reaching and resultant. He stands for those principles which make for upright manhood and honorable citizenship and through the careful utilization of his time and talents has gained a position among the eminent lawyers of his adopted state.

Patrick Henry Moroney

Named in honor of one of America's most illustrious patriots, this representative member of the Tulsa bar has shown in his individual career the same high spirit of loyalty and patriotism that characterized Patrick, Henry when he uttered the immortal words, "Give me liberty or give me death," and mindful of the sorrows and afflictions of the land of his forefathers, it is but natural that Mr. Moroney should likewise be found as an opponent of tyranny and oppression in the fair Emerald isle and thus be a stalwart advocate of the cause of Irish freedom.

Mr. Moroney was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on the 2d of January, 1867, and is a son of James P. and Mary (Shiel) Moroney, both representatives of the stanchest of Irish ancestry. James P. Moroney was, however, born in London, England, on the 22d of February, 1839, his wife having been born at Laughrea, County Galway, Ireland, on the 4th of March, 1840. His death occurred in 1898, his loved and devoted wife having passed away in the preceding year. James P. Moroney gained a common school education in the city of his nativity and his alert and receptive mind caused him to profit fully by the discipline Which he thereafter gained through individual effort, as a great student and reader and acquired a true perspective of human affairs through his association with the practical duties and responsibilities of life. He was a youth when he came to the United States, where he became identified with newspaper work on the Xew York Sun, of which Charles A. Dana was then the presiding genius. From the national metropolis he made his way to Ohio, and became editor and publisher of a newspaper at Bucyrus, that state. However, he subordinated all personal interests to tender his aid in defense of the nation when the Civil war was precipitated. He enlisted as a member of Company E. Fortyfirst Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he took part in many engagements and lived up to the full tension of the great conflict through which the integrity of the nation was preserved. At the battle of Chickamauga he was wounded, but he was not long incapacitated by his injuries. In later years he vitalized his deep interest in his old comrades by maintaining appreciative affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. His marriage was solemnized in 1865, in Ohio, and in that state he became a prosperous farmer and influential citizen of Huron county, where he and his wife continued to reside until their death.

The public schools of the old Buckeye state afforded to Patrick H. Moroney his early education, which included the discipline of the high school, and thereafter he completed a normal course in what is now the great Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Indiana, in which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He became a successful teacher in the schools of Ohio and Louisiana, as well as in the city of Chicago, where simultaneously he availed himself of the advantages of the law department of Northwestern University, from which he received in 1896 his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the following year he engaged in the practice of law in Chicago, continuing his professional activities there until 1903, when he removed to Parkersburg, West Virginia, where he became a successful general practitioner of law and also influential in public affairs, as a vigorous advocate of the principles of the republican party. He was elected police judge of Parkersburg and in his rulings on this bench he was specially considerate of boys and young men, whose misdemeanors he endeavored to correct by suspending sentence and giving the judicial advice that might turn them from their evil practices. In this connection he followed' virtually the same kindly policies as has Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, Colorado, who has made fame for himself in the field of juvenile jurisprudence. After having made a splendid record on the bench of the criminal branch of the municipal court of Parkersburg, Judge Moroney sought a broader field of professional endeavor and thus it was that in 19 13 he came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he has built up a substantial and representative law business, mainly in the department of civil practice, and where he has secure status as an able lawyer and loyal and public-spirited citizen. He is a member of the republican county committee of Tulsa county and has shown much ability in connection with the manoeuvering of political forces. He was one of the organizers of the Mid-Continent Brick & Tile Company, of which he is secretary, and which has developed one of the important manufacturing industries of Tulsa.

Special attention should be directed to the very active part Judge Moroney has taken as a member of the American Committee for Irish Independence and as a vigorous member of the Friends of Irish Freedom. In this connection he was prominently concerned with the drafting of resolutions, issued at a representative assemblage of American citizens at Tulsa, signifying unqualified approval of the independence of Ireland, copies of these resolutions having been sent to the secretary of state at Washington and also the British ambassador.

His zeal in this cause is a characteristic exemplification of the broad humanitarian spirit and the ideals of justice maintained by Judge Moroney. He and his wife are earnest communicants of the Catholic church, in which they are members of the parish of Holy Family church in Tulsa.

On February 22, 1898, occurred the marriage of Judge Moroney to Miss Margaret Patterson, who was born at Pittsfield, Illinois, and who is a daughter of John and Margaret (McDonald) Patterson, who were born in County Mayo, and County Clare, Ireland, respectively, and were young folk when they immigrated to the United States. Mr. Patterson landed at New Orleans and later went to Galveston, Texas. When the Civil war was initiated he there became a soldier of the Confederacy, while his brothers who had settled in the northwest became Union soldiers. After the close of the war Mr. Patterson engaged in farm enterprise in Illinois, and in the early '70s he became a pioneer farmer near Avoca, Iowa, where he developed a fine farm property and became a leader in his community, both he and his wife having there continued their residence until their death. Judge and Mrs. Moroney have six children: Helen Frances, Donald Patrick, Mary Elizabeth, Margaret Mona, John Charles Carroll, and Catherine Anna.

Dr. Garabed A. Z. Garabedian, who in the practice of medicine in Tulsa specializes in the treatment of children's diseases, came to the United States from the most interesting and historic old city of Constantinople, Turkey, where his birth occurred September 10, 1888. He is of Armenian nationality, his parents being Zacar and Virginia (Balian) Garabedian, both of whom were born in Constantinople. The father engaged in the banking business, being an official of the Imperial Ottoman Bank. He was, moreover, one of the oldest Protestant Armenians of Turkey and was very prominent in establishing a number of Protestant churches in the Ottoman empire. He did most effective work as the founder of the Armenian Evangelical church and his forceful character and qualities of leadership made him very successful in all that he undertook. He died in 1919 when sixty-three years of age, when warfare had reached his native country.

Garabed A. Z. Garabedian, whose name introduces this review, pursued his education in the American high school at Bardezag, a suburb of Constantinople, where he completed his course in 1905. In 1896 when a lad of but eight years he had been obliged to flee with others of his family to Bulgaria, owing to the Armenian massacre in Turkey, but after four years spent in that land he returned to Constantinople in 1900 and pursued his education as indicated. When that course was completed he entered Robert College at Constantinople but was soon obliged to leave the city on account of the political situation. Such was the condition of the country at that time that during one summer he was arrested three times for getting mail from America, the arrest being made when he was leaving the British post office. He traveled in Egypt for six months and later went to the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, where he remained until iqoj, when he tame to America. He then entered the College of Science of the University of Illinois and studied night and day, finishing his course in 1910, having completed four years' work in three years and receiving the A. B. degree. During the last year he acted as instructor in physiology in the University. He next entered Rush Medical College, the medical department of the University of Chicago, making his way through college with scholarships that he had earned. He completed his course in March, 1913, winning the M. D. degree, after which he spent a year as interne in the Ravenswood Hospital. From 1914 to 1918 he was connected with the department of children's diseases in his alma mater, being assistant to Dr. John Milton Dodson, who was head of the department and dean of the medical college. Upon a competitive examination he was appointed health officer in 1915 for the public schools in Chicago but resigned the position in 1918 to come to Tulsa. Here he arrived in the month of September and through the intervening period has devoted his attention exclusively to children's diseases. Already his practice has assumed extensive proportions and is constantly growing as his ability is becoming more and more recognized.

In Chicago, in 1915 Dr. Garabedian was married to Miss Estelle Barakian, who was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, a daughter of the Rev. Haig Barakian, a Congregational minister. Dr. Garabedian belongs to Petroleum Lodge, No. 474, A. F. & A. M., and to Oklahoma Consistory, Xo. 1, A. A. S. R., at Guthrie. He is likewise a member of the Rotary Club and the University Club, and his religious faith is indicated in his connection with the First Methodist Episcopal church. Along professional lines he is identified with the Tulsa, Oklahoma State and American Medical Associations. He is a man of pronounced professional ability and one who deserves the greatest credit for what he has accomplished. There is much that is stimulating and inspiring in his life record. Reared in a land where people of his nationality and faith were in constant danger he improved every opportunity for the acquirement of a liberal education and at length sought "the land of the free" that he might enjoy the advantages, opportunities and liberties accorded in the new world. While restricted somewhat financially his ambition and energy secured for him the way to make possible the fulfillment of his hopes and his ambitions, and today he is recognized as a man of wide general learning as well as of professional skill - a man with whom association means expansion and elevation.

Warner P. Fraker

One of the popular and well known citizens of Broken Arrow, Tulsa county, is Warner P. Fraker, president of the Citizens National Bank, in which connection he has been active since 1912. He is likewise prominent in the agricultural circles of the county as a progressive and successful stock raiser and general farmer. He was born in Greene county, Tennessee, on the 23rd of October, i860, a son of George W. and Rachel (Milburn) Fraker, both natives of Tennessee. The father was a minister of the Methodist church and for many years held various pastorates throughout his native state. He also operated a farm for a number of years. He met his death in 1002, while crossing the railroad near the place where he was bora. In the passing of Rev. Mr. Fraker the community mourned the loss of a representative citizen. Mrs. Fraker passed away in October, 1898.

Warner P. Fraker is indebted to the schools of Greene county, Tennessee, for his preliminary education and in due time entered Tusculum College near Greeneville. He completed his course in the required time and in i88r went to Iowa and bought land in Jasper county. He was active in the operation of the farm until 1900, when he came to Oklahoma and located in Canadian countv.

In 1903 he came to Broken Arrow, Tulsa county, became an associate of a number of leading business men there and in July of that year assisted in the purchase of the First State Bank of Broken Arrow. He served as cashier of that institution from 1903 to 1912; In 1903 the bank had a capital stock of five thousand dollars and deposits amounting to six thousand dollars. In 1904 the capital was increased to twenty-five thousand dollars. The success of the bank seemed assured from the start and in 1912 it was reorganized as the Citizens National Bank, and the deposits at present amount to over two hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. The surplus and undivided profits of the institution now total twelve thousand, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars. Upon the reorganization of the bank Mr. Fraker was made president, a position he has since held, and his executive ability has been a dominant factor in the constant development of the bank. In 1904, the quarters of the bank becoming too small, a newer and more modern building was erected, part of which is used for public offices. Mr. Fraker is also identified with the cattle industry and he is active in the management of a fine farm property of two hundred and eighty acres.

In September, 1889, the marriage of Mr. Fraker to Miss Jennie Wells took place. Mrs. Fraker was born in East Tennessee and she is well known in the club and social circles of Broken Arrow.

Since age conferred upon Mr. Fraker the right of franchise he has been a stanch supporter of the republican party and always keeps well informed on the vital questions and issues of the day. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and fraternally he is identified with the Masons, in which order he is a Shriner and has attained the thirtysecond degree of the Scottish Rite. For thirty years he was a member of the Odd Fellows but has withdrawn from that organization. Mr. Fraker has quickly grasped every opportunity that presented itself and his courage, initiative and executive ability have been dominant elements in his success. Mr. and Mrs. Fraker have a large circle of friends and their home on East G street is a center for social and intellectual gatherings.

Josefh Marshall Reed

Joseph Marshall Reed, secretary of the Home Building & Loan Association, is a man whose keen discernment enables him to take cognizance of every phase, side and problem of the business and whose executive force enables him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. He is splendidly qualified for the duties which devolve upon him in his present position and his labors are constituting a tangible element in Tulsa's improvement in the way of home building. Mr. Reed is a native of Tennessee, his birth having occurred on a farm in Overton county, June 1, 1884. His father, George Gideon Reed, was also born in Tennessee and is now living retired at Overton. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and belongs to the Masonic fraternity. In early manhood he wedded Elizabeth Peek, a native of Tennessee, who passed away at the age of thirty-four years. Of the six children of this marriage four are living.

In his youthful days Joseph M. Reed was a pupil in the Pleasant Hill school of Cumberland county and thus qualified for life's practical and responsible duties until he reached the age of seventeen years, when he became a resident of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and completed his education there with a high school course. He afterward became a resident of Oklahoma City and entered into active connection with the Home Building & Loan Association as secretary, a position which he has occupied for eight years. He came to Tulsa in April, 1919, and through the intervening period has been secretary at this place. He is connected with some of the most progressive and reliable business men of Tulsa and the state and is engaged in promoting a business of great value to the city. Through the Building & Loan Association many homes have been erected and loans placed and the successful management of the business during the past two years has been attributable in no small measure to the efforts of Mr. Reed.

In April, 1905, was celebrated the marriage of Joseph Marshall Reed and Miss Jennie Litherland of Mount Carmel, Illinois, a daughter of Abner Litherland. They have become parents of three children : Morton, thirteen years of age; Margaret Jean, aged five; and Byrnie Marcelle, who is in her first year. Mr. Reed belongs to the Kiwanis Club, is the secretary of the City Club and a member of the Advertising Club. Fraternally he is a Mason and religiously a Presbyterian. He takes a most active and helpful part in the work of the church and Sunday school and does all in his power to further the moral progress and advancement of the community. His ideals of life are high and he strives eagerly to attain them. Men who know him - and he has a wide acquaintance - speak of him in terms of the highest regard, knowing that he is a man to be relied upon under every condition and that his word is as good as any bond solemnized by signature or seal.

John R. Clark

Now engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the city of Tulsa John R. Clark is distinctively one of the pioneer members of the Oklahoma bar, and he has the honor of being one of the company of one hundred persons who organized and platted the town of Stillwater, now one of the important industrial, commercial and educational centers of the state.

Mr. Clark was born at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, on the 25th of March, 1856, and is a son of Patrick and Anna (Richards) Clark. Patrick Clark was born in the north of Ireland, was there reared and educated and thence came to the United States in 1852. He became a successful farmer in Ohio, was a man of fine mentahty and good business ability, unassuming in his ways, had no desire for political activity or preferment but stood an exemplar of upright and loyal citizenship and commanded unqualified popular esteem, both he and hi* wife having been residents of Franklin county, Indiana, at the time of theideath.

John R. Clark gained in his boyhood and youth a practical fellowship with the work of the home farm and received the advantages of the public schools of his native state and there attended college both at Oxford and Lebanon. He made a record of successful work as a teacher in the schools of both Ohio and Indiana, and at Lebanon, Ohio, studied law in the office and under the effective preceptorship of Judge William McBurney. In 1884 Mr. Clark established his residence at Winfield, Kansas, where he engaged in the real estate business and gave more or less attention to the work of his profession. In 1889 he became one of the pioneers and founders of Stillwater, Oklahoma, aided in the platting of the town and was one of its first practicing lawyers. He served several terms as mayor of Stillwater and also presided on the bench of the county court. He was one of those prominently concerned in the formulating and developing of the admirable educational system of Oklahoma, and was a member of the first board of trustees of the state agricultural and mining college at Stillwater. As a member of the board of trustees of the university at Norman he aided greatly in bringing order out of the chaos into which the affairs of the institution had fallen. He still maintains a lively interest in educational matters and in this connection his advice and counsel are greatly valued.

In 1905 Mr. Clark became one of the pioneer members of the Tulsa bar and in addition to his active practice as a lawyer he here served more than five years as judge of the municipal court.

At Tulsa, in the year 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Clark to Mrs. Mattie Maclay Kennier, whose father, a physician and surgeon of marked ability, was a representative of one of the old and honored families of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have no children.

Judge Clark is loyally appreciative of the manifold advantages and attractions of the state of his adoption and in an unostentatious way has done much to further the civic and material development and progress of Oklahoma. He is liberal in the support of charitable and benevolent objects and organizations and he and his wife attend the Christian Science church. In the Masonic fraternity his affiliation is with Tulsa Lodge, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, while he still holds membership in the chapter of the Royal Arch Masons and the Knights Templars commandery at Stillwater.

Joseph Wiley Simpson

Although one of the younger representatives of the Tulsa bar, Joseph Wiley Simpson has already attained a position that many an attorney of twice his years might well envy, this being due to his close and comprehensive study of legal principles and his power of analysis, which enables him to recognize readily the relation between facts and the law applicable thereto. Mr. Simpson was born in Oakman, Alabama, February 7, 1894, a son of Z. H. and Theresa Ann (Rayburn) Simpson, both of whom were natives of Tuscaloosa county, Alabama. The father was a soldier cadet of the University of Alabama and followed farming prior to the Civil war and afterward acquired large land holdings and engaged quite extensively in agricultural pursuits. He took great pride in his fine stock, especially horses, and was largely instrumental in increasing the production of the thoroughbred horses raised in his part of the state. He was likewise widely known as a successful breeder and raiser of Hereford cattle, Berkshire hogs, Angora goats and Southdown sheep. In fact he raised some of the best live stock in the country and also took great pride in raising fine turkeys. His labors were directly beneficial in improving the grade of stock raised in Alabama, where his position in that field of business was long one of leadership. He now makes his home in Oakman, Alabama, and is a consistent member of the P.aptist church there.

Joseph W. Simpson attended the public schools and the high school of Birmingham, Alabama, and later spent two years as a student in the University of Alabama, where he gained the liberal education that has constituted an excellent basis for his knowledge of law. lie began preparing for the bar in the office of I.. J. Cox of Birmingham and was admitted to practice in Oklahoma 111 hiiw. In the meantime lie had served his country as a soldier of the World war, enlisting on the 22A of May, 1917, at Chattanooga, as a private. He was in the quartermaster's department for a year and for three months was sergeant. He was afterward transferred to the Engineer Corps at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and was made regiment sergeant major. He sailed for France on the 17th of September, 1918, with the Six Hundred and Fifth Engineers, and was at Chaumont, attached to general headquarters. He was transferred to general headquarters of the Eighth Corps at Montigny-sur-Aube and was mustered out on the 3d of August, 1919.

Since his admission to the bar Air. Simpson has devoted his attention to general law practice. He belongs to the Tulsa and to the State Bar Associations and is also a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. In politics he is quite active as a supporter of democratic principles. Alert and enterprising, the future undoubtedly holds for him success, for he is not afraid of that hard labor and thorough preparation which constitute the basic elements in progress at the bar.

A. E. Landsittel, secretary of the Export Oil Corporation of Tulsa, was born in Lowell, Washington county, Ohio, February 5, 1890, his parents being John \Y. and Elizabeth (Rothley) Landsittel, who were likewise natives of the Buckeye state. The father was an oil well contractor, devoting his life to that business. He belonged to the Lutheran church and passed away in that faith. In the family were four children, two of whom have departed this life.

A. E. Landsittel became a pupil in the public schools of Lowell at the usual age and mastered the various branches of learning until he had completed the high school course. Starting out in life on his own account he became identified with the oil business as a pipe lineman, living in Illinois, where he remained for eight years, being identified through that period with the Indiana Refining Company in various capacities. In January, 1916, he left the middle west and came to Tulsa, where he is now secretary of the Export Oil Corporation and manager of the western division He ;s familiar with many phases of the oil industry and his activity has been a source of gratifying profit.

In 191 1 Mr. Landsittel was married to Miss Ola Day, of Lawrenceville, Illinois, a daughter of Charles Day, and they have become parents of one daughter, Josephine. Mr. and Mrs. Landsittel hold membership in the Christian church and he belongs to Delta Lodge, No. 425, A. F. & A. M., and to the Royal Arch chapter. He is a member of the Rotary Club, is a baseball fan and is fond of reading. There have been no esoteric phases in his career and his well defined characteristics have ever been such as to gain for him the respect and confidence of his fellowmen, while his qualities have insured him success in business.

Herbert Leslie Standeven

Herbert Leslie Standeven. vice president of the Exchange Trust Company of Tulsa, was born in Boone, Iowa, November 20. 1878. His father, Joseph H. Standeven, was a native of Paterson, New Jersey, and was a youth of eleven years when he took up his abode at Boone, Iowa. He served as a bugler in a Missouri regiment during the Civil war and at all times gave his political sup- port to the democratic party, while fraternally he was a Mason. He married Susan Norton and they became the parents of seven children who are yet living. The mother is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. The father has passed away.

Herbert L. Standeven largely acquired his education in the public and high schools of Omaha, Nebraska, and in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and afterward taking up the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1900. For a year thereafter he practiced his profession in Omaha and then came to Oklahoma, settling in Hobart, Kiowa county, in 1901. There he continued to engage in law practice and served as county attorney of Kiowa county, following the admission of the state into the Union. He removed to Tulsa in January, 1914, and continued in law practice until 1916, when he was appointed county judge of Tulsa county and remained upon the bench until January, 1918, when he resigned and became one of the organizers of the Exchange Trust Company. Elected to the vice presidency, he has since served in this position and has done much to direct the policy and shape the destiny of the institution, which is today one of the strong financial concerns of the city.

In 1902 Mr. Standeven was married to Miss Iva Norton of Omaha, a daughter of James Norton, a pioneer settler of Omaha. Four children have been born to them: Norton, a youth of seventeen; Ruth, who is fifteen years of age; and Ora Gertrude and Flora lone, twins, eleven years of age. Mr. Standeven belongs to the Masonic lodge of Hobart, Oklahoma, also to the chapter and commandery and to Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His religious faith is that of the Christian Science church, in the work of which he is very active. His beliefs and his policies connect him with the activities which are of greatest value in the upbuilding and promotion of city and state and those who know auajit of his career recognize the worth of his work.

William T. Dalton

For the past six years William T. Dalton has engaged in real estate and building in Sand Springs. He was born in Macoupin county, Illinois, on the 7th of November, 1857, a son of Jesse and Christiana (Williams) Dalton. Both parents were natives of Illinois and there the father engaged in the operation of a sawmill for sixteen years, or until the spring of 1872, when he left Macoupin county and went to Nebraska. He liQmesteaded land in Clay county in 1872, and although he suffered severe loss during the grasshopper ravages, remained there until 1895, when he removed to western Kansas. For the remainder of his life he lived with a son and passed away in that state in November, 1903. Mrs. Dalton passed away on the old Nebraska homestead in September, 1SS1.

William T. Dalton was reared and received his education in the schools of his native county and Clay county, whence he removed with his parents, and he lived with them until becoming of age. He then worked as a farm hand until he was twenty-six years of age, when he returned to Illinois for a time. subsequently going back to Nebraska and locating at Edgar. There he was engaged in the operation of rented land for eight years, at the termination <<( which time he came to Oklahoma and located in Stillwater in the spring of [892. There he engaged in the grocery, flour and feed business, achieving a substantial amount of success in that connection, and after ten years residence in that place, in [903 came to Tulsa county and the new town of Broken Arrow.

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Mr. Dalton in association with others organized the Coweta State Bank of Coweta, Oklahoma, and was vice president for three years and for fifteen years operated the Coweta Gin. Coal and Mill Company's business at Broken Arrow. In 1915 he disposed of the cotton gin, in the erection of which he had been a dominant factor. For the past six years he has devoted his time and attention to buying, selling, and improving residence and business properties of Tulsa county and four of the finest business houses in Sand Springs were erected by him and his brothers, J. C. and C. L. He built his own home in Broken Arrow and purchased a modern business structure. He has initiative and keen business ability and those factors, together with his determined effort, have won for him the success he now enjoys.

On the 10th of January, 1884, Mr. Dalton was united in marriage to Miss Minnie B. Rohrer and to them seven children have been born: Clarence G., who is the editor of the Tri-County News at Mounds, Oklahoma, and also the Poultry Journal; Lelah M., wife of S. E. Bailey and a resident of Tulsa; Bertha, who married Quay Y. Johnson, cashier of the bank at Jenks ; Carl \V., residing at home; Ralph R., a resident of Jenks; Charles J., at home; and James J., the third in order of birth in this family, who passed away in October, 1890, at the age of ten months.

The political allegiance of Mr. Dalton is given the democratic party and he was a member of the constitutional convention of Oklahoma in 1906-07. He is fraternally identified with the Odd Fellows and his religious faith is that of the Seventh Day Adventists. His wife is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. Thoroughness is one of the marked characteristics of Mr. Dalton and he has mastered every detail of his business. He has a very wide acquaintance and occupies a position of prominence by reason of his business ability and standing, his social qualities and his public spirit.

Randolph Shirk

Randolph Shirk of the law firm of Randolph, Haver & Shirk of Tulsa, is regarded as an expert on all matters of law pertaining to oil and gas, also on the law having to do with titles 'in Oklahoma, especially those affecting Indian lands. Thoroughly qualified in every way for the successful practice of his profession he has won an enviable name and place as an attorney of Tulsa. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1871, a son of Charles C. and Louise (Wilson) Shirk, both of whom were natives of the Keystone state. The father, also born in Erie county, devoted his life to the manufacture of stoves, but at the time of the Civil war made business and other interests subservient to his duty to his country and joined the Federal army in defense of the Union. He was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian church, devoted to its teachings, and the sterling worth of his character was recognized by all with whom he came into contact. To him and "his wife were born five children, all of whom are living.

Randolph Shirk was a pupil in the schools of Erie, Pennsylvania, and after his general education had been acquired he concentrated his efforts and attention upon the study of law, being admitted to the bar in Erie in 1896. He there opened a law office, continuing in practice at that place for four years. He had started in business with the Devonian Oil Company and after entering upon the practice of law, naturally turned to that branch of the profession which has to do with oil and gas. In 1903 he came to Tulsa and for a time practiced alone as a representative of oil companies. Later he entered into his present partnership relation as a member of the firm of Randolph, Haver & Shirk. The)' have a large and important practice, representing a number of the leading oil corporations, and they occupy a large suite of rooms in^the Cosden building, where they have an extensive law library. Not only is Mr. Shirk thoroughly informed concerning the principles of jurisprudence having to do with oil and gas, but is regarded equally an expert on Indian land titles and has taken care of much important legal business in that connection.

In 1894 Mr. Shirk was married to Miss Netta Flint, a native of the state of New York. They are well known in Tulsa, where their circle of friends is constantly increasing as the circle of their acquaintance broadens. Mr. Shirk is a member of Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, A. F. & A. M., and has attained the thirtysecond degree of the Scottish Rite in the consistory. He belongs to the Presbyterian church and is active in its work. A man of modest demeanor, he is free from ostentation and display and those who know him speak of him in terms of high regard.

I. G. Long

I. G. Long, president of the American Engraving Company of Tulsa, and one of the substantial and valued residents of the city, was born in Montgomery, Texas, December 15, 1889. He was one of a family of twelve children, ten of whom are living. The parents are J. D. and Mattie (Weatherford) Long, the former a native of Florida, while the latter was born in Texas, and is a daughter of Colonel Weatherford, prominent in the south. Mr. Long is a ranchman living at Montgomery, Texas, and at the present time has retired from active business, his success in former years enabling him to put aside the more arduous duties which formerly claimed his attention. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil war. He belongs to the Baptist church, as does his wife, and they are highly esteemed in the community where they make their home.

I. G. Long, at the usual age, became a pupil in the public schools of Texas, passing through consecutive grades to the high school. Later he was a student in a business college at Fort Worth, from which in due course of tune he was graduated. He then entered an engraving house at Fort Worth as a stenographer, serving eight years in that establishment, during which time he gained comprehensive knowledge of the business. In the spring of 1918 he came to Tulsa and soon after entered the army, being attached to the Seventy-second Replacement Unit of the Medical Corps. After his return from military duty he established his present business under the name of the American Engraving Company, <>f which he is the president. In this connection be is building up a business of gratifying and substantial proportions. He is also the vice president of the Triangle Printing Company.

< in the 28th of November, IW17, Air. Long was married to Miss Eleanor Baker of Fort Worth. Texas, a daughter of A. T. Baker, a real estate dealer there. Mr. Long is widely known through various connections that have to do with improvement of business conditions and with the advancement of social, intellectual and moral progress, lie is now the president of the Advertisers Club, is a charier member of the Kiwanis Club, and is serving on the board of directors of the Retail Merchants Association. lie is likewise one of the directors of the Better Business Bureau, and was a member of the County Advisory Board of the Salvation Army. His religious belief is indicated in the fact that he is a member of the First Baptist church and is serving on its board. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the vital questions and issues of the day. He studies systematically and thoroughly many problems which come up for settlement that have to do with public welfare and his influence is always on the side of right, progress, reform and improvements.

Hon. Stephen R. Lewis

Stephen R. Lewis, attorney at law and an untiring worker in everything that he attempts, is numbered among the pioneer residents of Tulsa and in many ways has contributed to its progress and upbuilding, interested at all times in its material and intellectual progress and upholding ever its legal and moral status. He was born on a farm in Hill county, Texas, December 27, 1873. His father, Alexander S. Lewis, was born in Blountsville, Alabama, became a farmer and cattle man and eventually a Texas ranger. He was also a soldier on the Mexican border where he represented the United States government in that connection for some time, but is now living on the old homestead near Dawson, Oklahoma. He was active in early territorial affairs, his position being one of leadership. He gives his political support to the democratic party, and has long been a faithful member of the Presbyterian church. He married Elizabeth P. Dawson, daughter of Samuel R. Dawson, and they have become parents of eight children, six of whom are living. The mother is a native of Texas.

Stephen R. Lewis has a strain of Indian blood, perhaps about one thirtysecond Cherokee, and his father was born in the Cherokee country of Alabama. Removing to Oklahoma in pioneer times when a lad, Stephen R. Lewis was educated in a mission school near Skiatook, Oklahoma, this being a Quaker mission Indian school. He came to Tulsa in 1887 when there were not more than forty people living in the town. Attracted by the profession of law he began reading in Tulsa and was admitted to the bar in 1902 before the supreme court of Oklahoma in 1910, being licensed to practice in the courts of Oklahoma and in the United States district courts, and was admitted to the supreme court of United States in 1916. His practice has largely related to Indian lands and he is a most prominent attorney as representative of Indian interests. One who has known him long and well speaks of him as "the most untiring worker in all his endeavors I ever met." He enjoys a well merited reputation by reason of his loyalty to the interest of his clients, his hard work, fair dealing and sound judgment. He prepares his law cases with great thoroughness and care and his efficient application has been one of the strong forces of his success. He belongs to the Tulsa County Bar Association, the Oklahoma State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association, and enjoys in large measure the respect and confidence of his colleagues and contemporaries in the profession. Aside from his law practice he has become largely interested in the development of coal lands in Oklahoma, near Dawson, and the company of which he is a representative is operating the largest steam shovel in the state.

On the 12th of June, 1907, Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Elizabeth Schrimsher of the Cherokee nation, who was born near Claremore, Oklahoma.

democratic county central committee as representative of Tulsa county and is an active worker in promoting party successes, yet has never been an office seeker. He has served as lieutenant colonel on Governor Williams' staff, and he did very effective work as a member of the State Council of Defense during the World war. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, which indicates his interest in everything pertaining to community welfare and he was formerly a commissioner of the Tax Payers League of the state. He also belongs to the Automobile Club. His religious belief is that of the Methodist church, and fraternally he is a Mason, being one of the charter members of Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, A. F. & A. M. He has also taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite and is a life member of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He finds his recreation in big game hunting and has secured many interesting trophies of the chase. The major part of his time and attention, however, is given to his law practice and he is particularly active in conducting the litigation of Indian land titles. Loyalty to his clients is one of his marked characteristics and his ability places him as one of the leading members of the Tulsa bar.

Arthur F. Sweeney

In his mercantile and real estate activities Arthur Francis Sweeney has contributed definitely to the material development and civic advancement of the city and county of Tulsa, but aside from this he is known as a broad-gauged, progressive and public-spirited citizen of positive views and positive action. In -the conduct of his general real estate business he maintains his offices in the Robinson building, and he takes vital interest in all that concerns the welfare of his home city and state.

Mr. Sweeney was born at Louisburgh. County Mayo. Ireland, on the 12th of July, 1871, and is a son of John and Catherine McEvilly Sweeney, the father having been a representative teacher and influential citizen of County Mayo, and one of the organizers of the Irish Land League, in the early '70s. In this connection it is interesting to record that the nationalism of the father has passed as a heritage to the son, whose intense interest and sympathy for his native land is coupled with the utmost loyalty to the land of his adoption. He has spoken and written with characteristic vigor and earnestness in support of the national independence of the Emerald isle, with the noble history and gallant struggles of which he is informed most thoroughly and is a member of the state directorate of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic.

Arthur F. Sweeney was afforded the educational advantages possible in the schools of his native land until he was twenty years of age. when, in [891, he severed home ties and came to the United States. He found employment in a mercantile establishment in the city of New York and remained in the national metropolis until [894, when he came west to Chicago, where he lived until the beginning of the Spanish-American war, when he promptly showed his deep loyalty to his adopted country and its institutions by enlisting in [898, as a member of Company F, Seventh Illinois Infantry, the famed Irish regiment that long held high rank in the city of Chicago, lie accompanied his command to Camp Alger, Virginia, and later to Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, but the regiment was no( called into active service on the Stage of conflict. Mr. Sweeney received bis honorable discharge in < (ctober, 1898, and shortly after returning to

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Illinois he established his residence at Clinton, where he became actively identified with the newspaper business, as a member of the staff and later editor and publisher of the Clinton Daily Times. In 1903 he moved to Mattoon, Illinois, and later became news editor of the Kankakee Republican, in the city of Kankakee, Illinois, and there he continued his residence until 1907. when he visited the land of his birth. On his return he came to Tulsa. Oklahoma, in company with Martin H. Bassett, their purpose having been here to establish a daily newspaper, to be known as the Tulsa News. The death of Mr. Bassett, however, caused this project to be abandoned, and Mr. Sweeney entered the mercantile field. After a brief experience in dry goods he bought a small grocery at 418 West Third street, and within a few years passed from this through successive stages until he became president of the Overton Grocery Company and manager of its store, said to be the finest place of its kind in the southwest. This establishment was closed out in 191S and the building leased to the Woolworth Company. Since that time Mr. Sweeney has been in the real estate business. A man of broad views and well fortified convictions, Mr. Sweeney never fears to express his opinions when occasion warrants and he has made close study of economic and governmental questions. Although a democrat in politics he voiced his opposition to the League of Nations, in 1920, and aligned himself with the republican forces of the state during the election of that year. Mr. Sweeney is a fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus, and as a communicant of the Catholic church he and his wife hold membership in the parish of the Church of the Sacred Heart.

At Clinton, Illinois, in the year 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sweeney to Miss Mayme Sharkey, daughter of James and Hannah Sharkey. Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney have one child, Arthur Francis, Jr., who was born on the 8th of July, 1908.

Air. Sweeney makes occasional contributions to the newspaper press, and so well is his outlook shown and exemplified in an article which he wrote relative to the discussion of the need of more governmental departments, that this review offers the following extracts : "The federal government is the only agency in these United States which seems to exercise authority, and is not local government more or less of a failure anyhow? We ought to have departments to regulate everything. Instead of the dear departed daylight-savings law we ought to have a get-up-early department, which would see to it that every man and woman in the United States is out of bed before six o'clock and that the hour for retiring is also set. Then there should be a domestic science department which would oversee the efforts of the newlvweds in the matter of preparing the morning toast without burning it. and this department should have also the supervision and control of the number of rooms to be occupied by each family, the number of dogs, cats and birds each should be permitted to keep in 'Cities of the first class.' Then there should be a department of proper attire, to decide when to nut 'em on and take 'em off as well as to regulate the distance between the tops of the shoes and the bottoms of the dresses. A department of beverages could fix the buttermilk season and warn the public at what temperature it was safe to indulge in more than one 'coke,' and this could be provided for in connection with the enforcement of the Volsted act. Of course we ought to have a department of cemeteries and public parks, and a department of public buildings, which would fix the number of stories in city skyscrapers, and a department of fireworks and skyrockets, to attend the proper celebration of the Fourth of July. A department of ancestors is an absolute necessity if we are going to put any limit to the number of people who claim to be descended from the passengers on the Mayflower. Other departments might be suggested, for what is government intended for anyhow, if not to govern, and you can't have too much of a good thing. Besides, look at all the cabinet possibilities we have. What are you going to do with them if there are only a few cabinet positions? And look at the large number of our fellow citizens who have no desire to regulate other people and who are now putting in their time minding their own business. What are we going to do to make all these people respond to the 'uplift' and to join the 'forces that make for good?' Let us have all the federal departments necessary, so there will be no initiative, no personality, no private ambition, no personal responsibility, nothing to think about except to keep the departments properly employed in thinking for us. Life will thus be made one long siesta, and we can all join the chorus, 'let the rest of the world gjo by,' or words to that effect."

Calvin Otis Smith

Nature has been most bountiful in her gifts to Oklahoma. Her hillsides have contained rich mineral deposits, her rolling prairie land responds readily to the labors of the agriculturist, her forests have constituted a fruitful field for the work of the lumberman, and with her rich oil deposits there has evolved the tremendous oil industry in this state, represented by many men whose foresight and ability have enabled them to utilize the opportunities offered and contribute to the operation of oil lands that have constituted a splendid source of the state's prosperity. Well known in this connection is Calvin Otis Smith, who has been identified with a number of the leading companies operating in the oil fields of the southwest. He is yet a young man and what he has already accomplished indicates that his future career will be well worth watching. He was born in Linneus, Missouri, October 10, 1890. His father, R. R. Smith, a native of Findlay, Ohio, removed to Missouri in his boyhood days and afterward engaged in merchandising, in banking and in the insurance business. He also became one of the board of managers of the Modern Woodmen of America and is now living in Kansas City, Missouri. He married Sally E. Phillips of Linneus. Missouri, and to them were born four children, all of whom are living.

While spending his youthful days under the parental roof Calvin O. Smith was graduated from the high school of Brookfield, Missouri, and afterward continued his education in the University of Chicago, which he attended from rox>7 until km 1. winning the Bachelor of Philosophy degree upon his graduation. He later became a law student at Harvard, where he studied in [91] and 1912. Thus splendidly qualified by liberal educational training for life's practical and responsible duties Mr. Smith became identified with the municipal bond business in Chicago in [913 and was connected with the Cooke-Holtz Company fur a year. lie afterward traveled through the territory adjacent to Xew York, Philadelphia and Boston in the advertising business and subsequently he spent a brief time in the surety business in Xew York, connected with the National Surety Company. ( »n leaving that position he went to Kansas City. Missouri, where lie engaged in the municipal bond l>nsmess, and he became an investor in the nil fields of Oklahoma in i < 1 1 5 . Mis early connection with the nil industry was thai of secretary and treasurer of the Benland < >il Company and of the Heinie < >il & Gas Company, lie is president of the Smith Oil Corporation, which was organized in December, 1919, and is operating in the Okmulgee fields and is also developr^y ing properties in the Creek county and Osage districts. In his business affairs Air. Smith is associated with other members of his father's family, his brother, Maurice R. Smith, a Yale graduate, being also well known as an oil man. lie was a captain in the balloon service in the World war. Calvin O. Smith is interested in aviation and has made many flying trips in connection with his business and personal affairs. He is a prominent figure in club circles, belonging to the Country and Petroleum Clubs of Tulsa, the Kansas City Club, the Hillcrest Country Club of Kansas City, the Kansas City Athletic Club, the Hamilton Club of Chicago, the Harvard Club of New York city and also to the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He was much interested in football and other athletics at college and is at present interested in golf and other outdoor sports. His political is given to the republican party, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him. He resides in a beautiful California type bungalow in the Maple Ridge section of Tulsa and his unusual home in its furnishings and construction indicates that he is a lover of the beautiful and substantial in various forms of art.

Ralsa F. Morley

A fine sense of stewardship and a deep appreciation of the dignity and responsibility of his chosen vocation have significantly characterized the professional career of Ralsa F. Morley, a representative member of the Tulsa bar, his practice being confined largely to civil cases and the handling of probate work, as he has had no desire to enter the field of criminal law. One familiar with the career of Mr. Morley attributes his success primarily to his industry, energy and sound business judgment, as coupled with an accurate knowledge of the law and marked facility in the application of that knowledge. From the same source is drawn the following estimate : "Mr. Morley is a man of exceptional oratorical ability, is a ready speaker and is always ready to use his talent in the behalf- of any good cause. As a public speaker his style is fervent and magnetic on occasion. He is active politically and is an advocate of clean politics and a high standard of government."

Mr. Morley was born on a farm near Baraboo, Wisconsin, December 12, 1874, and is a son of Ralsa A. and Rose M. (Clark) Morley, the former born near Mentor, Lake county, Ohio, and the latter at Walworth, Wisconsin, mi which latter state their marriage was solemnized. The father served with the famous "Squirrel Hunters Brigade" during the Civil war and after the close of that conflict established his residence in Wisconsin, where he became a prosperous farmer of Sauk county and also developed a prosperous enterprise in the raising and shipping of high-grade shorthorn cattle. He was active and influential in county and state politics and was chairman of the board of county commissioners at the time when the courthouse, the county insane hospital and all buildings of the county farm were erected in Sauk county. He was a stanch republican, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and was an earnest member of the Presbyterian church, as is also his widow, who now maintains her home at Baraboo, Wisconsin', his death having occurred in 1898. Mr. Morley was a man of marked business ability but he met with severe financial reverse's through his operations on the Chicago Board of Trade.

cousin and Lake Forest University, at Lake Forest, Illinois. From the latter institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and thereafter completed a three years' course in the law department of the University of Chicago. He was admitted to the bar of Illinois but during the period of his residence in the city of Chicago he gave virtually no attention to the work of his profession, but there became actively identified with the real estate business. In February, 1906, Mr. Morley came to old Indian Territory and engaged in the real estate business at Tulsa, the development of this future metropolis having then been in its incipient stages. He became a pioneer in the building of houses and the developing of residence properties at Tulsa, as a member of the firm of Morley & Wells. He was admitted to the Oklahoma bar and has been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession at Tulsa since 1908, his law business being entirely in the civil department. Mr. Morley has taken a vital and constructive interest in the development of his home city and state, along both civic and material lines, and he is the owner of the fine Meadow Lawn dairy farm, which is one of the attractive places of Tulsa county, the property being situated six miles distant from the city of Tulsa, comprising five hundred and ninety acres and having modern improvements that mark it as a model farm property. On this farm he has a la'rge herd of Holstein cattle, including representatives of some of the finest strains of this type to be found in the United States. The physical improvements at Meadow Lawn are of the most approved order, comprising modern buildings, the best of sanitary provisions for the handling of the dairy cattle and the most improved machinery and accessories.

Mr. Morley is a stanch and effective advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and he and his wife are zealous and influential members of the Presbyterian church in their home city. Mr. Morley holds membership in the American Bar Association, the Oklahoma State Bar Association and the Tulsa County Bar Association. He continues his loyal service in exploiting the many advantages and attractions of his home city and state, and his faith in the further progress of the city of Tulsa has been recently shown by his initiating the erection of a modern office building, at the corner of Fourth and Cincinnati streets. The self reliance of Mr. Morley was significantly shown by his depending upon his own resources in completing his higher academic, as well as his professional, education, his father's losses on the Chicago Board of Trade having made it impossible for the latter to extend to his son the financial aid which he would most gladly have given.

At Mattoon, Illinois, in the year 1905, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Morley to Miss Augusta M. Moore, a daughter of William I'. Moore, a prominent lumber merchant of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Morley have one daughter, Lucille Elizabeth.

Frank Hilton Greer

Frank Hilton Greer is a native of Kansas, born at Leavenworth on Inly 21, [862. He has lived all his life in the west. The parents of Mr. Greer were pioneers in Kansas and the boy at twelve years of age began making his own living. He is a son of Samuel W'vlie and Clotilda (Hilton) Greer. The father was bom in West Moreland county. Pennsylvania, in 1824. He was educated in the Pennsylvania schools and graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, a- .1 Presbyterian preacher. He came to Kansas in 1*54. in tin- turbulent days pre- ceding the war, and took an active part in all the anti-slavery campaigns, of which Kansas was the center. He was one of the first state superintendents of public instruction in Kansas and did much in laying the foundation for the splendid public school system of that state. Just prior to Lincoln's inauguration he went with seventy-four other sturdy westerners to Washington City as a personal guard for the president. These organized as the "Frontier Guards," the first organization growing out of the Civil war. These men were the first to enlist in that war. The duty of guarding the president having been discharged Mr. Greer returned with the other Kansans and organized Company I, Fifteenth Volunteer Kansas Cavalry, of which company he was elected captain and served with it throughout the war. The mother was born in Xenia, Ohio, and became a school teacher, and it was at her knee that he received most of his education, as his opportunity for other schooling was scant, and then only in the common schools. The printing office has been called the best of universities, and it proved so in this case. Here it was that Mr. Greer got his broad and practical education. The father died in '1882 at the age of fifty-eight years, and the mother in 1897 at the age of sixty-four. There were eight children in the family, of whom six are living, Frank Hilton being the fourth in order of birth.

Early in life Frank Hilton Greer went into a newspaper office as a printer's devil and graduated in all the departments of the business, continuing the newspaper profession until nine years ago when he moved to Tulsa. He is now president of the Greer Investment Company, with offices in the Simmons building.

Mr. Greer is a member of all branches of Masonry - the Scottish Rite and York Rite, and the Shrine - and is a K. C. C. H. of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, A. O. U. W., Elks and Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Episcopal church. He has held but one public office, that of Member of the Oklahoma legislature in 1893.

In 191 1 Mr. Greer was married to Laura Leigh Hanson, a woman of fine literary and social attainments, and they reside at 1501 South Baltimore. Tulsa.

Mr. Greer has taken prominent part in all the public affairs of Oklahoma, having located in Guthrie in 1889 on the day of the opening of old Oklahoma to settlement. He is a republican in politics, unswerving in his beliefs, not only in politics but in everything else, and although not seeking public office has been active in what he believed would forward the political welfare of Oklahoma. He has taken a prominent part in the state's material progress.

He is a fluent and popular public speaker. His diversion from business is literature and his home contains probably the largest and best selected private library in Oklahoma.

Carter Smith

A lawyer of ability and admirable adherence to the best ethics of his profession Mr. Smith has been engaged in the general practice of law in the city of Tulsa since the year 1912. He was born at Winchester, Franklin county, Tennessee, and is a son of Preston and Luella (Carter) Smith, both representatives of fine old southern families.

farm, and in the meanwhile made good use of the advantages offered by the public schools of the locality. A valuable discipline was that which he initiated when sixteen years of age, for it was then that he entered the employ of the Brandon Printing and Publishing Company, at Nashville, the largest concern of its kind in the south. While thus engaged Mr. Smith showed his ambition and good judgment by continuing his studies in Bowen Academy, at Nashville, his own efforts having provided the funds that enabled him to complete an academic and a law course" in Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, from which excellent institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Upon coming to Oklahoma he first engaged in practice at Thomas, Custer county, where he remained until 1912, when he numbered himself among the members of the Tulsa bar. In 1914-15 he served as assistant United States district attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, and in 1917-18 he was assistant county attorney of Tulsa county. Aside from these positions he has been continuously engaged in the general practice of his profession and he now controls a substantial and important law business of representative order, his practice extending to all state courts of Oklahoma, as well as the Federal court. In politics he gives his allegiance to the democratic party, is an active member of the Tulsa County Bar Association, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, tht Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the City Club and Automobile Club of Tulsa, and his religious faith is that of the Christian church.

As a member of the Oklahoma National Guard Mr. Smith gained the rank of second lieutenant and when the nation became involved in the great World war he entered the officers' training camp at Waco, Texas, and was at Camp McArthur, Texas, at the time of the signing of the armistice. Mr. Smith's name is still enrolled upon the roster of eligible bachelors in Tulsa.

Horace Henry Hagan

Horace Henry Hagan, one of the prominent young attorneys of Tulsa, was born at St. Marys, Kansas, October 13, 1891. His father, Horace Hagan. was a native of Kentucky, whence he removed to Kansas and afterward became a resident of Oklahoma. He devoted his life to cattle raising and was also prominent in early days in political circles as a supporter of the democratic party. He died in 1903. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Eulalie Droege. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and became the mother of four children, all of whom are living.

Horace II. Hagan of this review obtained his education in public and parochial schools of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and afterward attended St. Mary's Col lege, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of [910. He next entered Georgetown University and won his II B degree in [913. In December of the same year he was admitted to the bar in ( Iklahoma, standing in first place on the examination of the class with which he was admitted. lie then began practice in Oklahoma City and has made steady progress in his profession, his success as a lawyer being attributable to bis thorough preparedness and bis eloquence. He was appointed to the office of assistant attorney general under Attorney General Charles Wesl and served in thai important position from 1913 to h » 1 5 inclusive. He then became a member of the firm of West & Hagan at Oklahoma City. In January, \>)\~. he accepted a position as attorney for the Texas Company and in that capacity removed to Tulsa. Later he practiced in a partnership relation under the firm style of Conner & Hagan. This was formed in 1919 and is still in existence. Tulsa classes him with her representative lawyers. He has won notable success, for added to his comprehensive knowledge of the law and ability accurately to apply its principles is a most persuasive eloquence that makes him very strong in the trial of a case before the court. He has also had extensive experience and success in the branches of law peculiarly applicable to the great oil and gas industries for which his home city of Tulsa is noted. He belongs to the Oklahoma State and American Bar Associations and enjoys the high respect and confidence of his professional colleagues and contemporaries wherever he is known.