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PERCIVAL E. MAGEE
Vol. 3 p. 1183-1184

On the 16th day of June 1906, the day that the President of the
United States signed the bill authorizing the admission of Oklahoma
as one of the sovereign states of the Union, this well known young
attorney of Tulsa became a resident of the city that is now his home,
and on the 10th day of June of the following year, which marked the
formal creation of the new commonwealth, he was admitted to the
Oklahoma bar, after having passed the required examination.
Thereafter he continued in the successful general practice of law at
Tulsa until 1913, when he assumed his present position as vice
president and attorney of the Hill Oil & Gas Company, one of the
important corporations operating in the oil fields of this part of
the state, his attention having since been given largely to the
executive and legal affairs of this company.

Percival E. MAGEE was born at Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa, on the
16th of January, 1885, and is a son of Rev. John C. and Jane (COLE)
MAGEE, the former of whom was born in Center County, Pennsylvania, in
1845, and the latter in Lawrence County, New York, in the same year.
Of the nine children Percival E. was the eighth in order of birth,
and of the others three sons and two daughters are now living.

John C. MAGEE was eleven years of age at the time of the family
removal from the old Keystone State to Iowa, and his parents, David
F. And Abigail (RANKIN) MAGEE, both likewise natives of Pennsylvania,
became early pioneer settlers in Jones County, Iowa, where the father
reclaimed and improved a farm, both he and his wife passing the
residue of their lives in the Hawkeye State. John C. MAGEE was
afforded excellent educational advantages, including those of Lenox
College, one of the representative institutions of Iowa, and after
having devoted several years to successful work as a teacher in the
Iowa schools he was ordained a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. With all of consecrated zeal and much intellectual power, he
served as a minister in the Upper Iowa Conference of his church for
forty years, and in 1909 he retired from the active work of the
ministry. He and his wife now reside in the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
where they are held in affectionate regard by all who have come
within the compass of their gracious influence.

Percival E. MAGEE acquired his preliminary education in the public
schools of his native state, and the period of his childhood and
youth was passed at various places in Iowa, as his father was called
to different pastoral charges, in consonance with the itinerant
system of the Methodist Church. After a course in the Iowa State
Teachers' College, at Cedar Falls, he continued his higher academic
studies in Upper Iowa University, at Fayette. Thereafter he devoted
one year to teaching school and in the meanwhile he had given close
attention to the study of law. In June, 1906, as previously noted, he
came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and here he continued his legal studies in
the office and under the effective preceptorship of his older
brother, Carl C., his admission to the bar of the new commonwealth of
Oklahoma having occurred on the 10th of June, 1907, a few months
prior to the formal admission of Oklahoma to statehood. Mr. MAGEE has
proved himself a resourceful and successful trial lawyer and well
fortified counselor, and is one of the prominent and popular younger
members of the bar of Tulsa County. He has not become an aspirant for
political office but is known as a staunch supporter of the
principles and policies for which the republican party has ever stood
sponsor.

In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. MAGEE has advanced to
high degree, his York Rite affiliations being with Tulsa Lodge, No.
71, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons; Tulsa Chapter, No. 52, Royal Arch
Masons; and Trinity Commandery, Knights Templars. In India
Consistory, No. 2, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in the City of
McAlester, he has received the thirty-second degree, and at Tulsa he
is affiliated with Akdar Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine. Both he and his wife hold membership in the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the 18th of November, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
MAGEE to Miss Lillian GREEN, who was born at West Union, Fayette
County, Iowa, and they have one child, Jane Ellen.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Jacque Hopkins Wolski, October 29, 1998.