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SAMUEL KING MCCALL
Vol. 3, p. 1295

The largest dry goods house in Cleveland County and one of the
largest of its kind in the state is the S. K. McCall & Company at
Norman. This is a business which was founded by Samuel K. McCall
about fourteen years ago. Beginning with a general stock of dry goods
he has developed his trade rapidly, has shown unusual genius as a
merchant until a few years ago the business was incorporated and now
ranks with any mercantile establishment of its kind in this section
of the state.

After ten years of successful business experience in Texas, his
native state, Mr. McCall came to Norman in 1902. In 1910 the S. K.
McCall & company was incorporated under a state charter with a paid
up capital stock of $36,000. Mr. McCall is president of the company,
with E. ROTAN of Waco, Texas, vice-president, and E. B. McCALL of
Norman, secretary and treasurer. The store is located at 311-315 East
Main Street and the salesrooms occupy a floor space 75x100 feet, with
a warehouse 24x60 feet. Trade comes to this large store from all over
Cleveland and surrounding counties.

The ancestors of Mr. McCALL came out of Ireland and located in
Pennsylvania during the colonial era, and some of his ancestors
fought in the colonial and revolutionary wars. Samuel K. McCALL was
born at Waco, Texas, June 19, 1870. His father, J. L. L. McCall, was
born near Crab Orchard Springs in Kentucky in 1828 and died at
Weatherford, Texas, in 1906. His early years were spent in Kentucky,
but in 1854 he went to Texas and was one of the pioneer settlers at
Waco, where he became well known as a lawyer and was active in civic
and political affairs. In 1872 he removed to Weatherford. In politics
he was first a whig and afterwards a republican, and at one time
filled office as judge. He was a member and elder at the Presbyterian
Church. Judge McCALL married Eliza Ann STRUM, who was born in
Rogersville, Tennessee, in 1830 and died at Weatherford, Texas, in
1896. Samuel K. McCALL was the youngest of a family of fourteen
children, three of whom died in infancy, and the others are mentioned
as follows: Esra, now deceased; Kate, who married D. ROTAN, who is
president of the First National Bank of Waco, and Mrs. ROTAN is
active in the Daughters of the American Revolution and in the
Colonial Dames; George is now deceased; J. S. is a retired capitalist
at Fort Worth; James is a contractor and builder at Dallas; Nannie,
who lives in New York City is the widow of F. C. GALLAGHER, who was
an expert accountant; Mattie is the wife of Charles BARTHOLD, a
merchant at Weatherford, Texas; John is a Presbyterian minister at
Hillsboro, Texas; William S. is a traveling salesman with home at
Waco; Mary resides at Melrose, Massachusetts.

Samuel K. McCALL acquired his early education in the public schools
of Weatherford, graduating from high school in 1886, and the
following four years he spent in the free and open life of the cattle
ranges of West Texas. In 1890, he entered and for two years was a
student in Austin College at Sherman, Texas. It was in 1892 that he
began his mercantile career, being located for two years at Colorado,
Texas, and then in the same line of business at Lott, Texas, until
1902, when he came to Norman.

Mr. McCALL is a republican, and is active in the Norman Chamber of
Commerce and the Oklahoma Retailers Association. At Lott, Texas, in
1893 he married Miss Minnie LINTICUM, daughter of the late W. T.
LINTICUM of Sherman, Texas. Their children are five in number,
namely: Anne, who is a senior in the Oklahoma State University of
Norman, has taught in the public schools of that city one year, and
is also an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution;
Laura is a sophomore in the State University; Lewis, twin brother of
Laura, graduated from the Norman High School in 1916; Sammy, a junior
in the Norman High School; and Dorothy, a student in the grammar
schools.

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