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Pioneer Lindsey Lowder Long, M.D. - Cimarron Territory
It was in that historic section of Western Oklahoma that was designated as "No Man's Land" and organized into Cimarron Territory in a local way prior to the opening of Oklahoma Territory to settlement.
It had become of the vital and prosperous sections of the state, and one of the important counties is Beaver, in which Doctor Long controlled a large and important practice as a physician and surgeon and had gained precedence as one of the representative members of his profession in Western Oklahoma.
Dr. Long maintained his residence and professional headquarters at Beaver, the county seat, and was one of the progressive and loyal citizens of the town and county.
Dr. Lindsey Lowder Long was born on a farm in Neosho County, Kansas, on September 22, 1875, a date that clearly demonstrates that his parents were numbered among the pioneers of that section of the Sunflower State. Lindsey Long was a son of David and Jeanette (Lowder) Long, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Indiana, in which latter state their marriage was solemnized in 1850.
David Long was born in North Carolina on October 15, 1824, and his parents claimed the Old Dominion State of Virginia as the place of their nativity, the respective families having been founded in the colonial era of our national history. In 1828, when he was a child of about four years, the parents of David Long moved from North Carolina and became pioneer settlers in the wilds of Greene County, Indiana, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where the father reclaimed a farm from the wilderness.
In Greene County, David was reared under the conditions and influences of the early pioneer days, in the meanwhile availing himself of the advantages of the schools of the locality and period, and in 1850, when about 25 years of age, he married Jeanette Lowder, who was born in Lawrence County, Indiana, on July 2, 1832, a daughter of John R. and Aesah (Hodson) Lowder, pioneers of that county, to which they moved from their native State of North Carolina.
After his marriage Mr. Long continued his activities as a farmer in Greene County, Indiana, until 1871, when he moved with his family to Kansas and became one of the pioneer settlers in Neosho County. He purchased a tract of land two miles south of old Osage Mission, and there reclaimed a productive farm.
He became one of the substantial and representative citizens of Neosho County and continued to reside on his fine homestead farm until his death, which occurred on March 7, 1896. His widow survived him by nearly fifteen years and was a resident of Erie, the judicial center of Noesho County, when she died November 25, 1910.
Their children were:
Lindsely Lowder Long passed the days of his childhood and early youth on the homestead farm in Neosho County, Kansas. He acquired his preliminary education in the district schools and thereafter attended the public schools of Erie, the county seat, where he was graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1895.
In the meanwhile he had formulated definite plans for his future career, and in the year that marked his completion of his high school course he entered the University Medical College at Kansas City, Missouri, in which institution he was graduated March 19, 1898, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Immediately after his graduation in the medical college, Dr. Long came to Oklahoma Territory, and, on April 20 of the same year, he opened an office at Alva, judicial center of Woods County, where he continued in the successful practice of his profession during the ensuing eight years.
Dr. Long then took an effective post graduate course in one of the leading medical institutions of the City of Chicago, and in May, 1906, he established his home at Beaver, Oklahoma, where he had since been engaged in active general practice and where he had secure prestige as the leading representative of his profession in Beaver county.
Dr. Long served as mayor of Beaver, besides holding other local offices of minor order, and had shown a lively interest in all that touches the welfare and progress of his home town and county.
While a resident of Alva he served as a member of the city council and also of the board of education, besides which he did effective service as county health officer of Woods County. He held membership in the Oklahoma State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, had completed the circles of both York and Scottish Rite Masonry, in the latter of which he had received the thirty-second degree, besides being affiliated with the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the Knights of Pythias.
On September 10, 1899, Dr. Long marriage was solemnized to Maude Beegle of Alva. She was born in Kingman County, Kansas, on March, 13, 1875, and was a daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Jane (Crottzer) Beegle, both natives of Pennsylvania and both honored pioneers of Kansas.
Mr. Beegle was born in 1836 and his death occurred June 10, 1908. His wife was born in 1832 and died on December 25, 1911. Prior to her marriage Maude (Beegle) Long had been a successful and popular teacher. Her work in the pedagogic profession having continued for three years after she had completed a course of study in the Colorado State Normal School at Greeley.
Doctor and Mrs. Long had one child, Lenore Madge, who was born at Alva, Oklahoma, on November 12, 1902. -- Vol. V, pg. 1818, A Standard History of Oklahoma, by Joseph B. Thoburn
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