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The Men Who Guided Oklahoma
City's
Affairs from
1899-1919
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2
News
Articles,
Death
Notices,
Obituaries
of
family
members
LIKES THE PLAN
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EX-MAYOR
ALLEN SAYS THE OFFICES OF MAYOR AND JUDGE
SHOULD
UNITE
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OFFICIAL'S
TIME
NEEDED
Which
a Business Man
Cannot
Afford to
Give So
Liberally
Without
Somre
Recompense
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"I strongly advocate the plan of combining the offices
of
may and
police
judge, as
suggested by
the
Oklahoman,"
said
Probate
Judge J.
P.
Allen
yesterday. "Such a
combination was
provided
for in a
bill
presented
in
the
legislature
of 1897,
but
the
election of
a
school
board had not
been
provided
for,
and
when
the bill
was
finally
passed the
provision
for
mayors
acting
as
ex
officio
police
judges was
stricken out,
which I
believe
was an
error. "It
is
foolish to
expect
any
man to act as
mayor
of a
city of 25,000
inhabitants
without any
measure of
recompense.
Mayor
Jones is
doing it,
Ex-Mayor Van
Winkle also
did it
and I had a
share
of the
experience, but under
no
consideration
would I
repeat the
experience.
Properly
administered
the
mayorality
takes
up much
of one's time, and
with
the citys
present
growth
its may
can not
give
much
of his
time to
anything
else
witwhout
neglecting his
duties. "Isee
wherein
the
administration of
the
police judge's
office in
the
proper
manner
would
yield
a
large
revenue to the
city,
prioners
unable to pay
fines could be
worked
to
advantage on
the
streets, and the mayor and
police judge would not
only pay himself a
sufficient salary, but
would increase the
city's revenues and
create a more orderly
community.
"I am
heartily in
favor
of
combining the
two
offices and
believe it
would
result
in getting
a capable man
in the
office,
and that
is what
we need,
whether he be
democrat,
republican
or
populist."
Prepresenative Campbell
is
giving the
matter
earnest
consideration
and
will
probably
introduce such a bill at the
coming
session of the
territorial
legislature.
When
seen by an
Oklahoman
representative
yesterday
he
said:
" I
have seen this
combination of the
two
offices in
Texas
cities
and
it
seems to
operate
satisfactorily
in
that
state, and I am
told
that in
Missouri
it
is a
success."
Source;
The
Oklahoman
January 3,
1903
Page
5
JUDGE ALLEN
RECOVERS
Sacramento (Cal)
News
After a serious illness of over a year
Judge J.P.
Allen, of this
city, has recovered,
and
regards
himself most
fortunate
in
successfully
battling
with what
is
generally
regarded as
a
fatal
malady,
Bright's
Disease of
the
Kidneys.
In
speaking
of
his
case,
Judge Allen
said:
"I
believe
that the
treatment given
me
by my
phhysician
was
in
accordance
with
the best
methods
used in
the
regular
practice
of
medicine, but if
afforded
me no
relief.
Hearing of
the
Fulton
Compounds I
went
to San
Francisco to
investigate, and
was
soon
convinced that
I
should
undergo
the
treatment.
It
was three
months
before I
noticed
a change
for the
better,
I used the
medicine
faithfully for
nearly a
year and
can
now find no
evidence
of the
disease and
am
satisfied
it
is entirely
eliminated.
My
appetite is
good.
I
have
gained seventeen
pounds in weight and
will be pleased to
describe my experience to
anyone who will call
or
write,"--Sacramento
News. The editor
of the News himself was
the friend who
told Judge Allen of the
Fulton
Compounds.
They
are the
only
things
known
that
cure Bright's
Disease and
Diabetes.
About 87
per cent
of all
cases
recover.
Send
for
free
booklet.
The
Scott Drug
Co., 209 W.
Main, agents
at
Oklahoma
City,
Okla.
When
to
suspect
Bright's
Disease--weakness
or
loss of weight;
puffy
ankles, hands or
eyelids;
Dropsy,
Kidney
trouble
after the
third
month
urine may
show
sediment;
failing
vision;
drowsiness; one
of
more
of
these.
Source:
Daily Oklahoma Feb 7,
1906 Page 5
MOTHER
OF
MAYOR
CALLED
TO
HEAVEN
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MRS.
SALLIE
SCALES,
AGED
66,
DIES AT
SON'S
HOME
SUNDAY
AFTERNOON
After two years of almost constant
suffering, Mrs.
Sallie
Scales,
mother
of Mayor
Henry M.
Scales,
died
at the home
of
her
son Sunday
afternoon
at 4
o'clock.
The
funeral
services
were
held
at
the residence,
225
West Twelfth street,
yesterday
afternoon
under
charge
of the Rev.
Percy
Knickerbocker,
assisted
by
Rev. J.H.O.
Smith.
All
the
city officials,
including the
entire
council
membership, were
present
as a
mark of
respect to
the
bereavement of
the
chief
executive
of
the city. The
services
were
short and
impressive
and
were
preceded
by
the
christening of
the
two-months-old
child
of
the
may under
the
name
Lily
Houston
Watkins
Scales.
The
modest
Scales home
at
225 West Twelfth
street
was
unable
to
accomodate
the
friends
who
attended
the
funeral
and
they
stood
outside
during the
service
and
with bared
heads
when
the
flower-laden
casket,
followed
by the
mayor
and
his wife, arms
circling and
supporting
each
other, was borne
through
the
warm,
shadowy
spring
afternoon
and
started on
its
last
journey to the
cemetery.
Gus
Taliferro,
C.B. Ames,
Fred Sutton,
B.F. Gill,
Frank
Staton and
Tom
Boydston were
pallbearers.
Mrs.
Scales
was 66 years
old,
being
born in DeSoto
county, Miss., February
5,
1843.
She
was a
member
of
one
of
the
most
prominent
families
of the
south and
was
personally
acquainted
with
many of
the south's
most
brilliant
sons.
In
February
1867,
she was
married
to
Henry
Minor
Scales,
but
August 8,
1868, less
than
two years
afterward,
her
husband was
accidentally
killed
and
the
only
child of
the
union, Henry
Minor
Scales, present
mayor
of
Oklahoma
City, was
born
eight
months
afterward.
Mrs.
Scales had
been
unable
to
leave her bed
since
last November and
death
had been
expected
at
almost any
hour.
Saturday at
noon
it was
thought the
end
was
near, but
she ralied
and
lived
until Sunday
afternoon. A
devout Christian woman,
Mrs. Scales had lived
for years with her
son,
her one great hope
in
life. All her
hopes, her ambitions
and her prayers
were
centered in
and
around
him.
Her
affection
was
returned
in
full
and
friends
of the
family
speak
happily of
the
love
that
existed
between
the
two.
"I
have
never seen a
man
have as
much
affection
for his
mother,"
said Mrs.
Fred
Sutton
yesterday.
For
several years
she
lived a
next door
neighbor
to
the Scales
family.
"He
attended her every
want
and
the two
were
more like
mother
and daughter than
mother
and
son.
He
tucked
the
bed
clothing
around
her at
night
just
as a
mother does
her
child."
Source:
The Oklahoman April 6,
1909 Page
5
H. M. Scales, Mayor Two Terms,
Dies
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PNEUMONIA CAUSES DEATH OF
REALTOR;
WAS
FIRST
ELECTED
IN
1907
Henry Minor
Scales, 50
years
old,
mayor
of
Oklahoma
City for
two
terms, died
yesterday
noon at
his
home, 620
West
Thirteenth
street,
of
pneumonia.
His
wife
and two
children
are
left.
Funeral
services
will be
held
Tuesday
afternoon
at 3
o'clock
from
the
Scales
residence.
Mr.
Scales
was
born in
Mississippi, and
was
graduated from
Vanderbilt
University and
from John Hopkins
University,
being
an
honor
graduate
from each
institution.
In
1903 Mr.
Scales
and
his
family
moved
to
Oklahoma
City,
where he
engaged
in
the real
estate
and
insurance
business.
In
1907
he was elected
mayor
and
was
re-elected in
1909. His mother
died the
night
before
his
re-election.
He
resigned in
1911.
Mr.
Scales
moved to
California in
1913,
returning in 1915,
and
again
engaged
in the
real
estate
and
insurance
business.
Source:
The Oklahoman
Dec.
16,
1918
Page
1
Funeral for Stricken Republican Leader To Be Held
Tuesday; Dies After Fishing
Trip
Byron D. Shear,
61
years old, prominent city
attorney and
Republican
politican, died at 2:30 o'clock
Sunday
morning in his
home, 919 West
Seventeenth
street.
Death
resulted
from a heart
attack.
Shear had
been fishing
at his
cabin on
the North
Canadian river
where he was
accustomed
to go
each
week-end and
returned
Saturday
night in
fine
spirits,
friends
said. Death
came
in less than 30
minutes
after a
heart
attack.
Funeral
services
will be
held at
3 o'clock
Tuesday
afternoon
from the
First
Unitarian
church,
Thirteenth
street
and
Dewey
avenue.
Rev.
Homer
Lewis
Sheffer,
pastor, will
officiate. Other
arrangements will be
announced later by the
Street and Draper
funeral home. Bearers
will be Judge J.
S.
Ross, John Tomerlin, John
A. Campbell, Mont P Highley, George
Frederickson and Ed
Galloway. Chairman
of the state
Republican
committee during the
Coolidge administration,
Shear previously had
been municipal
counselor
under Ed
Overholser,
when
the
later was
mayor
from
1915-1919.
He was
born
at Hillsboro,
Wis.,
May
12,
1869, and
was
graduated
from the
University of
Wisconsin
in law
and in
literature
in
1889. He
came to
Oklahoma
in 1890
where
he
met and
married
Miss
Ida
Cunningham.
Shear
was first
clerk
of
the
district court
here
when
the tribunal
was
organized under the
lated Judge B.
P.
Burwell. He
succeeded
Overholser as
mayor
when
Overholser
resigned
on
accounty of
his
health,
December 24,
1918.
He
continued to
serve
until
April
6,
1919. He
was
a
former
president
of
the
Oklahoma County
Bar
Association
and a
member of the
First
Unitarian
church.
Besides his wife
he is
survived by
two
sisters,
Mrs.
O.
A.
Mitscher,
Oklahoma
City, and
Mrs.
Helen Kinelt,
Hillsboro,
Wis.;
by a
brother,
Wesley Shear,
Oklahoma
City, and
by
five
nieces
and
four
nephews.
Source:
The
Oklahoman June 10,
1929
Page
1
LONG ILLNESS OF MRS. SHEAR PROVES
FATAL
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Wife of One-Time Mayor Dies
in
Hospital
Mrs.
Ida
Cunningham
Shear,
929
Northwest
Seventeenth
street,
widow of
Byron
D. Shear,
prominent
Republican
leader
and
one-time
mayor of
Oklahoma
City died
Sunday
in
a
city
hospital.
She had
been
in
poor
health for
more
than a
year
and
became
seriously ill
several
months
ago.
Mrs.
Shear,
a
60-year-old
'89er,
was
socially
active,
being
a member of the
Oklahoma
City Golf
and
County
club, the
Oklahoma club,
the
Town
club, Modern
Classics,
music
groups
and several
bridge
clubs.
She
came to
Oklahoma
with her
parents, Mr.
and
Mrs.
James
Cunningham,
and
settled
on a
homestead
near
Edmond.
Her future
husband
came
to
Oklahoma
in
1890.
Shear
served as
municipal
counselor from
1915-1919
and also
served as mayor
for
five
months
after
the
resignation of
Ed
Overholser. During
the
Coolidge
administration
he served
as chairman of
the
state
Republican
committee.
Arrangments will be made
at the Street and
Draper funeral
home. The nearest
surviving relative is
Ray R.
Cunningham,
604
Eubanks,
a
cousin.
Source:
The
Oklahoman
March
16,
1936
page
2
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Mrs. Byron D.
Shear
Rites for Mrs.
Byron D. Shear, widow of the
Republican leader and
former mayor of Oklahoma
City, will be
conducted
at 2 p.m. Tuesday from
the family residence,
929 Northwest
Seventeenth
street, by
Rev.
John
Ogden
Fisher.
Burial in
Rose
Hill
cemetery
will
be
directed by the Street and Draper funeral
home. Mrs. Shear,
an '89er, died Sunday
in
a
hospital
after
an
illness
of 3 1/2
months.
The
family
requested no
flowers
be
sent.
Source: The
Oklahoman March 17,
1936
Page
10
Former Mayor of Oklahoma City
Dies
Oklahoma
City
lost
a
pioneer
indeed
with the
death of
Joseph
P.
Messenbaugh,
55
years
old, 746
West
Eleventh
street.
Death
resulted
from
peritonitis.
Elected mayor
of
Oklahoma City in
1904,
Messenbaugh
was
instrumental
in
many
??????? civic
impovements
for
the
growing
city.
He
came to
Oklahoma
in
19??.
Messenbaugh
was
president of
the
Washington
University
Alumni
association
and
was a
member of
many
civic
clubs. He is
survived by a brother,
E.
T. Messenbaugh of
Praymer, Mo.
Source: The
Oklahoma
6/20/1928
Page
10
Early Mayor's Rites
Pending
Services
for
Daniel
V.
Lackey,
Tulsa,
former
mayor
of
Oklahoma
City, who
died
in a
Tulsa
hospital
Wednesday
at 81,
are
pending.
Lackey,
who
was
mayor
here in
1910 and
1911, was
hospitalized
January 5
following a
heart
attack.
He
was a
civic
booster who
was active
in
the
chamber of
commerce
here. He was
chairman of the famous Jack
Walton
inaugural
barbecue. He served as
a
consulting engineer
in
the original
survey
for
Lake
Overholser and
put in two terms on
the
Oklahoma City
council. He left here
during World war II
and
went to Abilene,
Texas. Soon after that
he moved to Tulsa
and
then retired about
1947. Surviving
are the wife: four
sons,
Daniel Jr.,
Richard
O.
and Phil, all
of Tulsa,
and W. W. of
Oklahoma City;
three
daughters, Mrs.
William
R.
Ainsworth, Tulsa,
and
Mrs. T. M. Beinsdorf
and Mrs. John N.
Ainsworth,
both
of
Oklahoma
City.
Source: The
Oklahoman
January 16, 1959 Page
3
OKLAHOMA CITY'S FIRST MAYOR
DIES
Funeral
of David W. Gibbs, in
Toledo
Today
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David
W.
Gibbs,
chairman of the
Oklahoma
City
townsite
committee
in
1890,
which
held
office
under
authority
of
congress, died
Wednesday in
Toledo,
Ohio at
the home
of
his
daughter, Mrs.
D. L.
Stine, according
to
advices
received
by
A.
C.
Scott of
this
city
yesterday.
The
office of
chairman of
the
townsite
committee
corresponded to
that of
mayor, and Mr.
Gibbs
therefore is
considered
the
first
legally
constituted may of
Oklahoma City, and his
picture now hangs in the
city hall as that of
Oklahoma City's
first
mayor.
Mr.
Gibbs
was an
architect of
note,
one of his
degins
being that of the
Wyoming state
capitol.
He
was
also deeply
interested
in art
and
music.
Until
the
death of
his
wife, five
years ago,
Mr. Gibbs
lived in
this
city,
at
Third
street
and Harvey
avenue. He
is
survived by his
daughter, Mrs.
Stine, and two sons, John
and
David.
Source:
The Oklahoman October
19, 1917 Page
11
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