Volume 14 , Issue 21

Duchess of Weaselskin

NW Okie wanted me to share this old photograph on the left showing Gene M. McGill and his younger brother Robert Lee McGill. Gene is standing on the back row, left, and Robert is on the front row, left. Next to Robert, we think, is Don Wilton. But as to the other two boys on the back row, we have no clue. Maybe someone from Northwest Oklahoma has come across or seen this photograph stored within their ancestor's photo albums?

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100 Years Ago Today - 21 May 1912

In The Washington Times, dated 21 May 1912, had the following front page headlines, Student Aviator Killed At Wright Experiment Field. "It was May 21, 1912, Dayton, Ohio, After having forced the lock on the Wright brothers airplane hangar and, against the advice of a mechanician, attempting his first flight unaided, Fred J. Southard, twenty-eight, a student aviator of Minneapolis, Minn., was instantly killed this morning on the Wright Aviation Field, at Simms station, near here."

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NW Okie's Corner

We found this little booklet about Alva, O.T., which is transcribed in this week's newsletter, and also some information concerning some business and attorneys at the time. I believe the booklet may date back to the latter part of the 19th century shortly after Alva was born, 16 September 1893.

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Highland County Virginia - Negroes In Highland

This week we mention a bit about slavery in Highland, values of slaves, slavery regulations, slaveholders in 1800, Manumission, and free negroes.

The negro appeared in Highland within ten years from the settlement, if one or more members of the race did not come with the first pioneers on the Bullpasture. The first known individual was a girl or young woman who was purchased for Ann Jane Usher by her guardian before the Indian War. It was very possible that she was the one whom Mrs. Loftus Pullin (nee Usher) set free by her Will in 1805.

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National Women Party 1922

The New York Tribune, dated 19 November 1922, in the Graphic Section, had a photograph of women at the desk of Susan B. Anthony, signing a new "Declaration of Independence."

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Alva (O.T.) 1893

As we were going through some old boxes this week, we found this 4 page booklet that we believe dates back to 1893, or thereabouts. The pages have aged to a brownish, delicate condition.

The image on the left is an AD in the booklet. Did you know that R. A. Cameron & L. W. DeGeer were attorneys at law, having an office two doors south of the post office, in Alva, "M" county (Woods), Oklahoma Territory (O.T.)? Also mentioned in the AD was O. C. R. Randall, county attorney, with 20 years experience before the U.S. Land Office at Boonville, Mo.; Wichita, Kans.; Guthrie, O.T.; Oberlin, Kans and Alva, O.T.

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History of the Sons of Veterans Band of Red Cloud, Nebraska

In The Red Cloud Chief, dated 8 September 1893, Red Cloud, Webster Co., Nebraska, there was this following article about the history of the sons of veterans band, of Red Cloud, Nebraska. You ask, "What were the Sons of Veterans Band?"

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From Oklahoma 1893

The Western Kansas World dated 30 September 1893, had this to say as the birth of Alva, Oklahoma Territory, 16 September 1893.

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Susan B. Anthony, The Woman

Why did Susan B. Anthony take up the cause of "Woman's Suffrage?" Why did she give her private, personal women's life to it? Susan B. Anthony was interviewed by Helen Dare for an article on, Susan B. Anthony, The Woman, that appeared in San Francisco Call, 30 July 1905, when Anthony was turning 85 years of age.

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