Volume 8 , Issue 15

The Share Brothers of NW Oklahoma Territory...

S. B. Share -- S. B. Share was a native of Michigan, came to Harper, Ks., about 20 years ago and engaged in the mercantile business; came to Alva in the spring of 1894 and opened a large general merchandise store; served two terms on the city council, years of 1894-5; always very liberal and enthusiastic in furthering the interests of the city. In 1909 he was of the firm of S. B. Share and Bros. large department store.

C. C. Share -- Share was a native of Michigan, but engaged in the mercantile business at Harper, Kansas, for several years. He moved his stock of goods to Alva in 1901 and consolidated it with that of S. B. Share & Bros' department store and had been cashier of that big institution in 1904. He was also in the class of Woods County progressive citizens.


J. D. Share -- native of Michigan. He located in Wellington, Ks., 1872, and engaged in the drygoods business until he came to Alva in Sept. 1895, where he was already interested with his brother, S. B., and they built the first brick business house in the city, afterwards adding two more brick rooms, making the buildings combined 75 by 150 feet. They also built the Alva National Bank block of four business rooms, with offices upstairs, and later the postoffice building. Mr. Share was vice-president of the first commercial club, and has always been active in furthering any enterprise for the genera benefit of the city. He served one year, 1900, as a member of the Territorial board of Education for Normal Schools, and in 1901 was elected a member of the city council and was active in re-organizing Alva as a city of the first class, making its laws, among other things.
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