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HON. LUTHER C. MCNABB
Vol. 3, p. 1304-1305

The lives of those who have won success in American law are always
interesting studies, and particularly so when the subject under
discussion is so well known and pleasing a personality as Judge
Luther C. McNabb. His career is one which has been characterized by
success fairly and honorably won, by the attainment of a dignified
and eminent position at an age when most men are but starting their
life work, and by the sturdy, persevering characteristics which have
enabled him to overcome early obstacles and disadvantages in the
following out of well-defined purpose.

Hon. Luther C. McNabb, judge of the County Court of Sequoyah County,
Oklahoma, was born at Big Springs, Meigs County, Tennessee, May 8,
1881, and is a son of Dr. Nr. Nathaniel P. and Matilda (Solomon)
McNabb. On the paternal side he is of Irish ancestry, while
maternally he is of German descent, although his parents are both
Tennesseeans, the father born in Bradley County and the mother in
Meigs County. Dr. Nathaniel P. McNabb, one of the leading medical
practitioners of Meigs County, has been engaged in practice at Big
Springs for half a century, and is one of the prominent and
influential men of his community. During the Civil war his sympathies
were with the South and throughout the period of that conflict he
served gallantly as a private under the banner of the Gray. He was
given good educational advantages, and during a long and useful
career has enjoyed the regard and esteem of his fellow-men.

Luther C. McNabb is the fifth in order of birth of his parents'
seven sons, and was reared in his native Town of Big Springs, where
the foundation of his education was secured in the public schools.
His literary education was completed at Grant University, Athens,
Tennessee, but he had decided upon a career in the law and looked
about for some means of securing the means necessary to prepare
himself for that vocation. After his graduation he took up school
teaching, but after a short time he found that that calling was an
inadequate source of compensation for his purpose, and he finally
seized the pick and shovel and entered the mines as a laborer. In
bringing to the surface the precious "black diamonds" of the coal
country of Tennessee, Judge McNabb finally secured the finances for
his education and he matriculated in the law department of Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tennessee, where he was duly graduated in June,
1906, with the degree of Bachelor in Laws. His practice was commenced
at Paris, Arkansas, but after about two years, in the spring of 1908,
he came to Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, where he has since
remained. The young lawyer was not long in contracting a large and
prominent clientele and as his cases in court continued to bring him
before the people he grew in public favor. In the fall election of
1912 he was elected county attorney, the duties of which office he
assumed in January, 1913, and his services in that capacity led to
his election as county judge in the fall of 1914. He has shown
himself an able and qualified wearer of the ermine and is popular
with members of the bench and bar throughout the county. In politics,
Judge McNabb is a democrat; fraternally, he belongs to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World, and in
church faith is a Methodist.

In 1900 Judge McNabb was married to Miss Barbara ACUFF, who was born
near the Tennessee State line, in Georgia, and to this union there
have been born two daughter: Ruth and Barbara.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, October 3, 1998.