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ARTHUR JEFFERSON BIDDISON
Vol. 3, p. 1306-1307

Among the lawyers of the present generation who have won honor and
public recognition for themselves and at the same tome have honored
the state to which they belong, Arthur Jefferson Biddison is worthy
of mention. He is a man of high intellectuality and imbued with
clearly defined principles and for a number of years has sustained a
very enviable reputation in legal circles of Oklahoma, at present
being a member of the firm of Biddison & and Campbell, at Tulsa.

Mr. Biddison was born at McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio, June
6, 1864, and is a son of the Rev. Jeremiah and Drusilla (Hull)
Biddison, natives of the Buckeye State. The father was educated in
the common schools and at Oberlin College, and is a young man entered
the ministry of the Methodist Protestant Church, becoming president
of the Southern Ohio Conference. In 1895 he removed to Kansas as a
pioneer preacher, and located at Ottawa, where he became a minister
of the Methodist Episcopal faith, and subsequently had charge of
churches at Olathe, Centralia and other points. He died February 11,
1907. In his younger years Reverend Mr. Biddison was a republican,
but in later life became a strong prohibitionist. Mrs. Biddison died
in 1866, the mother of two children: Valeda H. and Arthur Jefferson.

Arthur J. Biddison attended the public schools of Kansas, Johnson
County Commercial College at Olathe and Baker University, Baldwin,
Kansas, where he was graduated in 1884, when twenty years of age,
with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In the meantine, at the age
of eighteen years, he had commenced teaching school and was thus
engaged for three years. He was then elected to the chair of
Mathematics and Mental Science at Farmington College, Missouri, for
two years. He was admitted to the bar in 1885, and 1886 was elected
president of Whittier College, Salem, Iowa, a position which he held
for two years, and in the fall of 1888 engaged in the practice of his
profession at Coffeyville, Kansas, continuing there in the law until
1893, Mr. Biddison removed to Pawnee, Oklahoma, and established
himself as the first attorney of that dity, and tried the first case
in the courts there. He continued as a practitioner at Pawnee until
February 1, 1907, when he came to Tulsa, and here formed a
partnership with Lewis M. Poe and Harry Campbell, under the firm
style of Poe, Biddison & Campbell, this association continuing until
Mr. Poe was elected district judge, when the firm became as at
present, Biddison & Campbell, having offices at 605-9 Daniels
Building. The concern carries on a general civil and criminal
practice and is known as one of the strong combinations of the city,
having met with success in a number of important cases. Mr. Biddison
is a republican, and while at Pawnee was United States commissioner,
and subsequently, in 1899 was elected to the state senate. He is a
member of the various organizations of his profession and of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.

On May 20, 1907, Mr. Biddison was married to Mrs. Nina (Wroe)
Redgrave, who died May 27, 1914.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, October 4, 1998.