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JAMES HIRAM EARP, M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1325, 1326

Though a physician of high standing and many years' experience,
Doctor Earp since locating in Oklahoma City in 1903 has been
primarily concerned with the development of local real estate. Many
of the fine homes in the northwestern quarter of the city were
constructed by Doctor Earp, who lived in that district for several
years, but now occupies an ideal suburban home on the south Side,
situated on the rural free delivery route No. 8. Doctor Earp is also
prominent in the democratic party of Oklahoma, and is regarded as one
of the strongest influences in this section of the state and a
campaigner of notable energies and success.

James Hiram Earp is a native of Texas, born in Gilmer, Upshur
County, November 3, 1863. His parents were Buel M. and Mary H.
(WILSON) Earp, the former native of Lawrence County, Alabama, and the
latter of Tennessee. His father had a prominent military record. As a
young man he was a soldier in the war with Mexico in 1847, and
fourteen years later when the conflict broke out between the North
and South, he joined the Confederate army and was fighting the
southern cause until the end of the war. He was wounded at
Chickamauga, but soon recovered and was back on the fighting line. At
another time he was captured, and spent about three months in an Ohio
federal prison. The greater part of his service was under General
Hood.

Doctor Earp received his early education in the common schools of
Texas, and in 1889 graduated from the Louisville Medical College of
Kentucky. Some years later he took a post-graduate course in the
Policlinic at New Orleans, finishing in 1896. For fifteen years
Doctor Earp carried on a successful practice as a physician in Texas,
being located at San Antonio and Corsicana.

When Doctor Earp came to Oklahoma City in August, 1903, he entered
actively into the real-estate business, building, buying and selling.
About that time the city entered upon its career of expansion, and he
interested himself in the development on the Northwest Side. He
purchased a number of lots in the Putnam Heights Addition, and built
more than thirty fine homes in that one quarter. He sold most of
these, but still owns the finest of all the large homes he
constructed on that addition, though the place is now occupied by a
tenant. Several years ago Doctor Earp moved to the South Side, and on
ten acres of land close to the Moore interurban has improved one of
the ideal rural residences of Oklahoma City. On his suburban home he
has everything modern, including his own waterworks plant, lighting
plant, a fine pond stocked with game fish, a splendid bearing
orchard, vineyard, and all the surroundings and facilities which
represent his ideals of a home.

In politics Doctor Earp is regarded as a partisan democrat, but most
of his work has been accomplished within the ranks of the party in
behalf of his friends and political favorites. He is not an aspirant
for political honors himself, but any man in Oklahoma politics counts
himself fortunate if he can secure the friendship and support o this
Oklahoma physician. In state affairs he has always been an ardent
supporter of Congressman W. H. MURREY, with whom as a boy he went to
school and picked cotton in Texas. Those ties of early friendship
have never been abandoned, and when Mr. Murrey announced as a
candidate for governor, Doctor Earp dropped all his own business and
spent his time and money freely to further his cause. He was also an
enthusiastic supporter, in the fall of 1914, of Chief Justice HAYS,
when that able jurist was a candidate for the democratic nomination
for United States senator against Senator GORE. While he worked
emphatically and energetically in behalf off his own friends before
the primaries, after the ticket is made up he is equally stanch and
regular with his party, and is a strong factor in every election
wherein the votes of Oklahoma City and are concerned.

At Crockett, Texas, July 3, 1895, Doctor Earp married Miss Mary
NUNN, daughter of Col. D. A. and Helen (WILLIAMS) Nunn. Colonel Nunn
was a Confederate captain of the Civil war. His wife's brother was
Judge F. A. Williams, one of the prominent lawyers and judges of
Texas. Hardly six months after their happy marriage Mrs. Earp died,
December 1, 1895. Doctor Earp married for his second wife, at San
Antonio, Texas, April 10, 1900, Miss Nellie THOMPSON, daughter of Tom
and Julia (Luthey) Thompson. Both her parents were natives of St.
Louis, and her father was for years head of the St. Louis Baggage &
Transfer Company. To this union two daughters were born: Mary
Annette, born March 25, 1908; and Nelsie May, born April 8,m 1910.
Mrs. Earp is a member of the St. Luke Methodist Episcopal Church of
Oklahoma City.

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