1905 Boone Williams LEHIGH INDIAN TERRITORY letterhead COMMERCIAL CLUB Oklahoma

Description

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I sell ONLY ORIGINAL items and NOT ANY reproductions.
This sale is for ONE
advertising
LETTERHEAD
from
B
OO
NE WILLIAMS
as the
President
of
LEHIGH COMMERCIAL CLUB
in
LEHIGH, INDIA
N
TERRIT
O
RY
during
the
year
of
1905.
Interesting historical content to the letter.
This letter is signed by
B
OO
NE WILLIAMS .
OFFICERS' NAMES LISTED AT THE VERY TOP RIGHT ARE:
BOONE WILLIAMS
as
President
ALONZO T. WEST
as
Vice Secretary
R. R. CUNNINGHAM
as
Treasurer
CONDITION:
It has normal letter folds, slightly tattered left edge but, is still in excellent condition.  SOLD AS IS - IN THE SCAN.  The "EBAY ITEM" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached to the letterhead.
Approximate size is 8 1/2" X 11".
HISTORICAL NOTES:
BOONE WILLIAMS
,
son of Benjamin Franklin Williams and Mollie Boone Williams, born at Rienzi, Mississippi, October 9,
1872.
A page in the Mississippi Legislature at the age of ten years, former United States Senator Thomas P. Gore, who had not then entirely lost his eyesight, being also a page at the same time. His father was elected sheriff of Alcorn County, Mississippi, in 1878, being reelected and holding said office until his death in 1887, at which time his son Boone was between fifteen and sixteen years of age. His disabilities being removed by the court he was appointed sheriff to fill the unexpired term of his father. In 1888 he removed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was employed in an abstract office for about two years, and two years later he removed to a point near Sisterville, West Virginia, where he took charge of a coal mining company,
remaining there until 1893, when he removed to Lehigh, Indian Territory,
becoming bookkeeper for the J. J. Phillips, Mercantile Company, which afterwards was succeeded by the Felix Phillips Mercantile Company. Later with Felix Phillips, V. S. Cook and Dr. L. A. Conners, all now deceased, he and some others organized the first bank in that part of the Choctaw Nation, it being the Bank of Lehigh, later succeeded by the First National Bank of Lehigh. Boone Williams and others before the leasing act of 1904 was passed, secured leases from the Creek Nation on the famous Glenn Pool land, but same were not recognized by the Federal authorities. This oil company was known as the Indian Territory Oil Company. At another period, Boone Williams with Ex-Governor Humphrey of Kansas and others secured leases on zinc and lead territory in what is now Ottawa County, Oklahoma, and started operations but were forced to abandon the project for the reason at that time the machinery which is used today was not known and operation under the old system was too expensive.
He was an outstanding citizen in the territory now embraced by Coal County during his residence there, progressive and patriotic in every public endeavor such as building of school houses and commercial organizations and development of coal fields. At one time he was president of the Cattlemen's Association in the Choctaw Nation. He promoted the organization of an ice plant which was located at Phillips half way between Coalgate and Lehigh. He was a member of the executive committee of the single statehood association which fostered the movement for the admission of Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory as one state. Being nominated as the Democratic candidate for delegate to the constitutional convention from the Lehigh and Coalgate District, he was elected. In 1910 he was appointed by Governor Haskell as a member of the Capitol Commission. Afterwards he engaged in the insurance and real estate business until 1915, when he was appointed under the administration of Governor Williams as Warden of the penitentiary at Granite, Oklahoma. Holding this position for four years, he then resumed his insurance and real estate connections at Coalgate. In 1924 he removed to McAlester, Oklahoma, becoming secretary of the McAlester Chamber of Commerce. In 1926 he removed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, engaging in the brokerage business dealing in oil leases and oil royalties.
In 1927, his health failing, he retired from business and died on January 12, 1930.
He belonged to the Masons, Elks and Knights of Pythias, being a member of the Alpha Class of the Masonic Lodge at McAlester, Knight Templar, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was buried at Lehigh on January 14th, 1930, burial services being conducted from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Farmer and laid to rest in the Lehigh cemetery under the auspices of the Masonic
lodge.  In 1900 he was married to Miss Agnes Larmour of Lehigh, Oklahoma.
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