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WILLIAM H. DOHERTY, JR.
Vol. 3, p. 1269

The cashier of the First National Bank of Stilwell, William H.
Doherty, Jr. represents the kind of financial material to which the
older residents of Adair County look for a maintenance of stable,
progressive, conditions. His largest usefulness lies in the future,
for he is now but twenty-three years of age, having been born January
18.1893. at Grove, Delaware County, Oklahoma, and represents the
third generation of his family to reside in this state.

William H. Doherty, Sr. was born in what is now Adair County,
Oklahoma, in 1863, and his mother was born in the same county, theirs
being a strain of Cherokee in the family through her, although the
Dohertys are of Irish origin. He married Mollie HAMPTON, who,
although born in the Cherokee Nation, is of pure white blood and of
English lineage. William H. Doherty, Sr. has long resided in what is
now Delaware County, Oklahoma, and is one of the leading and
influential citizens of the Town of Grove, where he is a successfully
engaged in business as the proprietor of a flourishing dry goods
establishment. He has also been identified with financial matters for
a number of years, being interested in an official capacity in
several banks, including the First State Bank of Stilwell, of which
he is president.

William H. Doherty, Jr. was educated in the public schools of Grove,
Oklahoma, and Chillicothe and Springfield Missouri, this training
being supplemented by a commercial course in a business college at
Fort Smith, Arkansas. His career commenced when he was only seventeen
years of age, at which time he was made cashier of the Bank of
Kansas, at Kansas, Oklahoma, where he displayed such ability that he
was soon chosen as cashier of the First State Bank of Wagoner,
Oklahoma. In that position he remained until 1913, in which year was
organized the First State Bank of Stilwell and Mr. Doherty came to
this city to accept the cashiership [sic] of the new banking house.
This institution has a capital of $15,000 and has enjoyed a steadily-
increasing patronage from the time of its inception. Although a young
man Mr. Doherty is regarded as an able banker, and because of his
energy and a enthusiasm and sound business tactics is expected to
realize his highest ambitions.

Mr. Doherty was married in 1911 to Miss Vivian MORRIS, of Adair Co.,
and they are the parents of two children; Helen and Mildred.

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