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LAURENCE L. DUNLAP
Vol. 3, p. 1203-1204

It is perhaps the unique distinction of the Dunlap family that both
father and son are now serving as postmasters in Oklahoma, the father
at Ringling and the son at New Wilson. The Dunlaps have long been
prominent in Southern Oklahoma.

The postmaster at New Wilson is Laurence L. Dunlap who was born at
LaGrange, Texas, August 10, 1890, at son of Thomas R. Dunlap, who is
now the postmaster at Ringling. The Dunlaps are of Scotch ancestry,
long identified with South Carolina, and of Revolutionary stock.
Thomas R. Dunlap was born in Gibson County, Tennessee, February 11,
1853, a son of J. M. and Elizabeth (CARTER) Dunlap. Thomas R. Dunlap
grew up on a Tennessee farm, and after his course in the public
schools attended the Southwestern Baptist University at Jackson,
Tennessee, and in 1880 graduated. A. B. from Eminence College in
Henry County, Kentucky. He had been primarily an educator. He was
superintendent of the schools in Texas up to 1894, and then became
superintendent of the schools at Ardmore, Indian Territory. For four
years he was principal of the Chickasha Collegiate Institute, and for
four years had charge of the Jarvis Institute at Granbury, Texas. He
was also president of Sulphur College at Sulphur, Kentucky; was
connected with the college at Wilson, North Carolina, and also with
the Virginia Christian College at Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1914 he
removed to New Wilson, Oklahoma, but early in the same year
identified himself with the townsite of Ringling, and was made
postmaster there in July, 1915. Thomas R. Dunlap married Miss Sallie
E. YOUNG.

One of a family of four children, Laurence L. Dunlap spent his
childhood and early youth in the various localities where his father
was engaged as an educator. He attended the public schools in Texas,
and in 1896 went to Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he also attended the
public schools. He took a four years' course in the preparatory
school at Sulphur in Henry County, Kentucky, where he finished in
1908. He then lived in Ardmore for two years, and from there went to
Wilson, North Carolina, and was in Wilson College to the end of his
junior year, spending three years altogether there. In 1912 he
entered the employ of the American Tobacco Company as foreman in the
machine department in New York City, and worked in that capacity for
one year.

On September 1, 1913, Mr. Dunlap took part in the founding of the
Town of New Wilson, Oklahoma, and established and perfected one of
the first stores on the townsite. To his service as a merchant were
added the duties of postmaster in March, 1914.

Mr. Dunlap is a democrat, a member of the Church of Christ, and is
affiliated with Hewitt Lodge No. 89, A. F. & A. M., Lodge No. 417, of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at New Wilson of which he is
noble grand; is clerk of Wilson Camp No. 11885 of Modern Woodmen of
America; and also belongs to the Brotherhood of American Yeomen at
Wilson. Mr. Dunlap is not married.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, October 12, 1998.