Samuel F
Whitman
(source of picture, Daily
Oklahoman,
printed November 27,
1910)
Samuel F. Whitman was born April 19, 1859 in Adams County,
Indiana. In 1890 he moved to Pike county,
Missouri. He married
Blanch
Bidd on April 25, 1894
in Lincoln
County, Missouri.
He and
Blanch
moved to
the Oklahoma
Territory settling at first in Muskogee, moving then to
Sallisaw, where they are found on the 1900
census. He immediately
became involved in local
politics
and was elected to
the
State House
representing
Pittsburg
County in November of
1910. In 1910 they
are living
in McAlester in Pittsburg County. The
1920 and 1930
census shows them in
Ardmore in Carter County,
Oklahoma. Samuel was raised by Phillip Everett
and
his wife. His mother
later
married Calvin Moorehead.
REPRESENATIVE ELECT WHITMAN OF
PITTSBURG
Represenative elect S.
F.
Whitman of Pittsburg
County, has
been in Oklahoma since
1898. He was born in Adams
county,
Indiana, April
10, 1859, and
was educated in the common schools of that
state. In 1890 he moved to Pike county,
Missouri,
and formed the
acquaintance of Champ Clark. When he
came to this state, he lived for a
sshort time in
Muskogee, going
thence to Sallisaw, and removing to McAlester in
1901,
where he has lived ever since. Nobody except a
few
know what that S.
F. stands for, because he is known
all over Pittsburg county as "Grandfather"
Whitman, even
though he is on the
sunny side of 55. He earned this title
(the use of
that word earned was intnetional) by the vigor
with which
he
entered late into the fight for the
grandfather cause last summer.
Judging from results
in Pittsburg
county, by the way, there is something
happening
when he starts fighting. He has been
engaged in
newspaper work
and in mercantile pursuits since
he has been in Oklahoma, and he has worked and
worked hard
at both. Now he is
ready to work hard in the legislature, and
doesn't mind
saying what he's going to work for.
Here's what he
says: "I stand for the adoption of
wholesome laws, for the protection of
the home, for
education, for the
safeguarding of life first-then property-for
the vital
interests of labor, and for giving capital its
proper
sphere." "I have
not came into the political arena
with one singled idea, but to what others make
the laws of
the great State of
Oklahoma liberal and just to all."
The
Oklahoman
Nov. 27, 1910 Page 12
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