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C. A. LAMM
Vol. 3, p. 1097

One of Oklahoma's thriving cities that have made great progress in
municipal improvements along with reduced taxation under the
commission form of government if Bartlesville. The first commission
mayor as well as the present executive officer of the municipality is
C. A. LAMM, whose administration has commended itself to citizens of
all classes and who has the satisfaction of knowing that Bartlesville
is a greater and better city as a result of the six years since the
commission charter was adopted.

C. A. Lamm was born in Omaha, Nebraska, July 13, 1871, a son of
Charles L. and Josephine (STICH) Lamm. His father was born in Baden
Baden, Germany, in 1845, and his mother in Switzerland in 1843. She
crossed the ocean to America in a sailing vessel in 1862, landing in
New York City, while Charles L. Lamm came over in 1864, landing at
New Orleans. They were married at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1870. The
mother died in June, 1912, at Chanute, Kansas, while the father died
in July, 1815. They located on a farm near Chanute in Neosho County
in 1880. Of their eight children, seven are living, four sons and
three daughters.

C. A. Lamm, the oldest of the sons, spent his boyhood on a farm, and
had to walk three miles to school. His schooling was limited in time
and otherwise, but in spite of lack of early advantages he has made
himself a practical and efficient worker and one who can be depended
upon in every undertaking. At the age of twenty-four he learned
telegraphy in the office of the Santa Fe Railway, and following that
was for ten years operator or agent, sometimes combining the duties
of both positions. In 1905 Mr. Lamm came to Bartlesville as joint
agent for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Santa Fe Railroad,
and continued in the railroad service for one year after locating in
this great center of the oil industry in Northern Oklahoma.

He then took up another line of enterprise, and became connected
with the Oil Well Supply Company, operating for five years in the mid-
continent field. From business he was drawn upon for services as the
first mayor under the commission form of government, taking office
October 31, 1910. Under the Bartlesville charter there are three
commissioners, and the chairman of the commission is mayor. Mr. Lamm
is now serving his third term, and at this writing has one more year
to serve. The first term was of only six months' duration, as
provided for by the charter. Mr. Lamm gives all his time to the
municipal government, and is constantly looking after the details of
municipal work and planning for future betterment. In the past five
years Bartlesville has gone ahead rapidly in practically all
departments of civic enterprise, and at the same time the citizens
instead of being burdened with increased taxes have actually had
their tax bills decreased. At the last election Mr. Lamm led a field
of six candidates for the office of mayor, and was elected by a
handsome majority. Mr. Lamm is six and a half feet tall, and is often
referred to as the tallest mayor in Oklahoma, and is just as
efficient as an officer as he is long in physical proportions.

Mr. Lamm is vice president of the Oklahoma Municipal League. He is a
Wilson Democrat and the only office he has ever held is the one he is
now filling. Fraternally he has taken thirty-two degrees in Scottish
Rite Masonry and is also a Knight Templar and member of the Mystic
Shrine and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
On October 11, 1900, he married Miss Mary TROXEL, who was born at
Longton, Elk County, Kansas. To their marriage have been born two
children: Ruth Josephine, now five years of age; and Carl, who died
at the age of one and a half years.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Dorothy Marie Tenaza, November 24, 1998.