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Mr. Noble came to Oklahoma in the year that marked the opening of the territory to settlement and has been closely and worthily identified with the development of the vigorous commonwealth, where he has been concerned with business activities and where he has made specially admirable record as a public official, particularly during an administration of somewhat more than five years in the office of sheriff of LeFlore County. Mr. Noble was born in Collin County, Texas, in the year 1866, and is a son of Rev. John S. and Lucy Taylor (WILLOCK) Noble, both of whom were born and reared in Kentucky, where their marriage was solemnized. For more than forty-five years Rev. John S. Noble was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in 1818 he came to the Southwest as a pioneer missionary among the Choctaw Indians, his home having been established at Boggy Depot, in the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory. Here he continued his earnest and self-abnegating labors until 1853, when he removed with his family to Collin County, Texas, where he became concerned with agricultural operations upon an extensive scale, the while he continued his services as a minister in the pioneer community. In 1880 he removed to Denton County, Texas, and there he continued to be engaged in farming and stock-growing until his death, which occurred in 1894, his widow having been summoned to the life eternal in 1912, at a venerable age. They became the parents of six sons and six daughters, and of the number the subject of this review was the ninth in order or birth. Rev. John S. Noble was a man of exalted ideals and much intellectual ability. In the early days of his residence in Indian Territory he learned the Choctaw language with much thoroughness and was thus able to be of great service in teaching and otherwise uplifting the Indians among whom he labored. The early educational discipline of George B. Noble was carried forward until he had completed a course in Pilot Point Seminary, in Denton County, Texas, and thereafter he continued to be associated with the mercantile business in the Lone Star State until 1889, when he came to Oklahoma and settled at Hartshorne, one of the thriving cities of the present County of Pittsburg. There he was employed in a drug store until 1891, when he removed to Cameron, LeFlore County, and engaged in the same line of enterprise in an independent way. In 1899 he removed to Poteau, the present county seat of the same county, and there he continued to be successfully engaged in the drug business until 1907, when he sold his store, but he has since continued to maintain his home at Poteau. While at Cameron Mr. Noble was appointed deputy United States Marshal, of which position he continued the incumbent four years under Col. J. J. MCALESTER and about two years under Col. J. Porch GRADY. In 1907, the year which marked the admission of Oklahoma to statehood, Mr. Noble had the distinction of being elected the first sheriff of LeFlore County under the state regime, and his prior experience as deputy United States marshal made him specially resourceful and efficient in his administration during his two terms as sheriff, his record in this office having given him a reputation that extended throughout the entire state and his entire period of service having covered five years and three months. He served most of this time as president of the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association, and he retired from office in January, 1913. Thereafter he gave his attention principally to farming, in LeFlore County, until January, 1915, when there came to him further official preferment, due largely to the admirable record which he had made as sheriff. At this time Governor WILLIAMS appointed him state fish and game warden, and upon his work he has entered with characteristic enthusiasm and zeal, with the result that he has already given indubitable assurance that his administration will be one that shall adequately foster and protect the fish game of the state. He has worked earnestly to systematize and vitalize the affairs of his office, has obtained the co-operation of efficient assistants, and shows neither fear not favor in enforcing the fish and game laws of the state. On August 1, 1915, Governor Williams appointed Mr. Noble State Highway Commissioner, which position he still holds. In 1897 Mr. Noble wedded Miss Memora J. STALCUP, daughter of Elias M. and Addie May Stalcup, of Cameron, Oklahoma, and the three children of this union are Gird, Will Stalcup and Mary Lou. The family home is at Poteau, and the official headquarters of Mr. Noble are in the Mercantile Building in Oklahoma City. Typed for OKGenWeb by Carolyn Smith Burns, September 16, 1999.