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HENRY LOWNDES MULDROW
Vol. 3, p 1150

A number of enviable distinctions associated with the name and
activities of this well know business man of Norman, where he is head
of the firm MULDROW & LEWIS, state managers in Oklahoma for the
Minnesota Mutual Insurance Company, with offices in the First
National Bank Building. Mr. Muldrow is a marked man in Masonic
circles, and for his age has probably received more of the honors and
dignities from that ancient order in its various branches than any
man in the West. Mr. Muldrow was educated for the law, comes of
distinguished American ancestry and has been identified with Indian
Territory and Oklahoma for almost twenty years.



Born at Paducah, Kentucky, October 12, 1872, he is a son of Robert
and Annie (OLIVER) Muldrow. The Muldrow family came originally from
Scotland settled in South Carolina, and in the early generations of
their American residence they simplified the spelling of the name,
which in Scotland was MACMULDROW. During the Revolutionary war two
ancestors of Mr. Muldrow were officers under Gen. Francis Marion, the
famous "Swamp Fox" who performed such a valuable service in ridding
the Carolinas of their British enemies. One of the noted members of
the Muldrow family was United States Senator LOWNDES of South
Carolina. Mr. Muldrow's mother was a daughter of Simeon C. Oliver of
Mississippi, but originally from Georgia, and a man of prominence and
note in Mississippi affairs prior to the Civil war. By virtue of his
ancestral record Mr. Muldrow is eligible to membership in the Order
of Cincinnati, the Sons of the American Revolution and his daughters
are eligible to the D. A. R. Robert Muldrow, his father, born in
South Carolina, was reared and educated in Mississippi, and completed
his education at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where he
graduated as First Honor man. Up to the outbreak of the War Between
the States he was a planter, and during that war served as Major in a
Mississippi regiment under the command of General Forrest. Following
the war he moved to Paducah, Kentucky, and was engaged in the
manufacture of plows until his death in 1873. He had the distinction
of becoming the youngest member ever elected to the Mississippi State
Senate, having received nomination to that office while a student in
the university. His wife survived him many years, passing away in
1911.

In 1885 the Muldrow family returned to Mississippi, where Henry L.
Muldrow finished his literary education, first in the public schools
and later in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi.
He then went East and took his law course in the Columbian, now the
George Washington, University at Washington, where he was graduated
LL.B. in 1894.

Though thus qualified for the practice of law Mr. Muldrow has never
practiced. In the spring of 1895 he came to Indian Territory as a
member of the United States Geological Survey engaged on the
subdivision survey. In that capacity he ran the first section line
ever established in the old Indian Territory. He connected with this
survey up to 1898, and was then sent with the first party of the
United States Geological Survey to Alaska, where he remained about
one year. He was with the corps that officially estimated the height
of Mount McKinley. After that work, he again returned to Indian
Territory and with residence at Tishomingo became variously
identified with farming, real estate and insurance. While there he
was also married.

In recent years Mr. Muldrow has been an active and influential
factor in state politics. In 1910 he managed a campaign for W. H.
MURRAY at the democratic primaries for the nomination for governor.
He was president of the Murray State School of Agriculture at
Tishomingo for the years 1911-12-13. In December 1914, Mr. Muldrow
removed to Norman. He still has extensive farming interest in
Johnston County. He is also a member of the firm of Muldrow & Lewis
in the insurance business.

Mr. Muldrow's Masonic record deserves considerable comment. He has
been through both the general branches of Masonry, the York and
Scottish Rule, and is one of the few men upon whom is bestowed the
culminating honor of a thirty-third degree. He is a past-master and
honorary life member of Tishomingo Lodge No. 91, A. F. & A.. M., and
now has active membership in Norman Lodge; is past high priest of
Tishomingo Chapter, R. A. M.; past thrice illustrious master of
Tishomingo Council, R. & S. M.; and a member of Norman Commandery of
the Knights Templar. He served as honorary membership in all three of
the Temples of the Mystic Shrine in the State of Oklahoma. And is
active life member of Bedouin Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He has held
all the offices in the Grand Lodge of Masons, and in 1907 was made
grand master of the Grand Lodge of Indian Territory, being the last
incumbent of this office in that territory. On the coming of
statehood and the consolidation of the two territories, he was
elected in 1908 the first grand master of the grand lodge for the
State of Oklahoma. One of his greatest services in behalf of Oklahoma
Masonry was accomplished when he went to Washington and secured the
passage of the bill through Congress under which the Masonic
fraternity in Oklahoma acquired the old Cheyenne and Arapahoe [sic]
Indian school reservation at Darlington to be used for a Masonic
Home. After the expiration of his term as grand master he was for two
years a member of the board of control of that institution.. In 1912
Mr. Muldrow organized the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine in
Oklahoma and has since been its intendant general of the state. He
was a charter member of Indian Consistory at McAlester. In October
1909, he was elected a thirty-third degree honorary, and for a long
time was the youngest thirty-third degree Mason in the United States.
He was likewise the youngest grand master in the country. Mr. Muldrow
is a member of the Royal Order of Scotland.

In the spring of 1899 at Tishomingo Mr. Muldrow married Miss Mary
Daisy FISHER, daughter of Osborne Fisher, of Tishomingo and of
Choctaw Indian Descent. To their marriage were born five children:
Osborne Fisher, Mattie Annie, Henry L., Jr., Alvin M. and Lewis L.
Muldrow.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Donald E. Conley, October 28, 1998.