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DAVID RUSSELL LUTTRELL
Vol. 3, p. 1119

In the insurance field of Oklahoma City, a name that has come
rapidly to the forefront in recent years is that of D. R. Luttrell,
head of the D. R. Luttrell Insurance Agency. Formerly connected in
various capacities with financial institutions, Mr. Luttrell entered
the insurance business in 1912, and in three years has developed one
of the strongest agencies in the state, representing six of the
largest fire insurance companies in the world. Mr. Luttrell was born
at Amissville, Virginia, May 19, 1876, and is a son of Burrell Edmond
and Mary (RICHIE) Luttrell, natives of the Old Dominion State.

Mr. Luttrell received his education in the public schools of his
native town, following which he took a complete course in a business
college, and fortified with this preparation entered upon his career
as a telegraph operator and stenographer. His first employment was
with the Norfolk & Western Railway, but shortly resigned this
position to accept a more advantageous offer with the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, and subsequently held important posts
with the Lake Erie & Western and Wabash Railroads, in the former
being chief clerk to the superintendent. Mr. Luttrell came to
Oklahoma City in 1908 to accept a position as bookkeeper in the
Columbia Bank & Trust Company closed, in 190, it was succeeded by the
Central State Bank, in which Mr. Luttrell was made assistant cashier,
but resigned that post a few month later to travel in the interests
of the Peoples National Bank, of Kansas City, Kansas. In 1910 he was
made assistant cashier of the Oklahoma State Bank, and continued to
act in that capacity until resigning to establish his present
business.

For some time prior to 1910, Mr. Luttrell had been interested in the
sale of fire insurance, which he had carried on as a side line, and
he finally decided that this field presented favorable opportunities
to an energetic and progressive concern. Accordingly, in the year
mentioned, he founded the D. R. Luttrell Insurance Agency, of which
he has been the directing head for three years and which he has built
up, as previously noted, to one of the foremost agencies in the
state. There is a loan branch now connected with the business. Six of
the largest old line fire insurance companies in the world are
represented, and the business has grown stay since its modest
inception, now occupying offices at Suite No. 908-10-11 Herskowitz
Building. As an active, efficient, courteous, polished business man
and of the list of bright young business men in a city which does not
lack for men of this character, and in the midst of stern competition
has steadfastly maintained his place. Mr. Luttrell is president of
the Sons of the American Revolution, which now has a membership in
the state exceeding 100.

At Detroit, Michigan, July 29, 1903, Mr. Luttrell was united in
marriage with Miss Edna CLARK, daughter of J. W. and Mary (RUFNER)
Clark, of that city. The family residence is at No. 1319 West
Sixteenth Street, Oklahoma City. Mr. and Mrs. Luttrell are members of
the First Christian Church of Oklahoma City, and he has served the
church as financial secretary and is now a member of the official
board.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Carolyn Smith Burns on October 30, 1998.