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SCHUYLER C. FRENCH
Vol. 3, p. 1302-1303

This energetic insurance man of Tulsa up to six years ago had
acquired some important business interests in Michigan, of which
state he is a native. Mr. French has been doing for himself since
early youth, and has shown capacity in whatever relation he has stood
with business affairs.

Schuyler C. French was born in Tekonsha, Calhoun County, Michigan,
September 23, 1868. His parents were James M. and Catharine C.
(Osborn) French. His father was born in Whitney's Point, Broome
County New York in 1837, and died in 1913, while the mother was born
in Tekonsha, Calhoun County, Michigan, in 1835 and died in 1906. Mr.
French was the fifth of their six children, four of whom are still
living. The French family located in Calhoun County, Michigan, among
the pioneer settlers of that beautiful and prosperous district when
James M. was none years of age. Two years later he lost his father
and as the oldest son had to assume the chief responsibilities of the
household. At the age of twenty he married, went out to California,
was engaged in the hotel business and in farming for about five
years, then returned to Calhoun County and was identified with the
hardware and produce business at Burlington, Michigan, and also with
farming. Subsequently he retired and lived at Marshall, Michigan, the
last few years of his life. He began his political career as a
democrat, and was a strong supporter of Stephen A. Douglas until
after 1860, when he became a republican.

Schuyler C. French grew us in Calhoun County, Michigan, attended the
public schools of Burlington, and his first practical experience was
in the newspaper office of the Union City Local, now known as the
Union City Register. After two years as a newspaper man he began
assisting his father in the hardware business at Burlington, and
three years later entered the wholesale hardware house of Buhl Sons &
Company at Detroit, Michigan. He was also in the retail hardware
business in Marshall, Michigan, from 1894 to 1898. In 1898 he went on
the road representing the Morley Bros., wholesale hardware dealers at
Saginaw, Michigan, and was with that firm and others in the hardware
trade up to 1906. In that year Mr. French organized the New Process
Steel Casting Company, and was in the concern about three years.

Having sold out his business interests in Michigan Mr. French came
to Oklahoma and located in Tulsa December 1, 1909. He has since been
building up a prosperous insurance and loan business associated with
M. Carr. The firm of Carr & French are general agents of the London &
Lancashire Indemnity Company of America and district agents for the
Standard Accident Insurance Company of Detroit. Mr. French is also a
stockholder in the Merchants and Planters Bank. His business offices
are at 11 East Fourth Street, and his residence at 1430 South
Cheyenne Street.

Mr. French is affiliated with Lodge No. 83 of the Knights of Pythias
and with Delta Lodge No. 425, A. F. & A. M. He was very active in the
building of the Y. M. C. A. Building and in raising the necessary
money. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. And in
Politics he takes an independent stand. On August 16, 1910, he
married Miss Martha Lockwood, daughter of Marcus L. Lockwood, of a
family of considerable prominence in Oklahoma, mentioned elsewhere in
this work. Mrs. French was born in Pennsylvania. The first child born
to their union died in infancy, and the second is Thomas Lockwood,
Born August, 16, 1914.

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