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JESSE A. PENDERGRASS
Vol. 3, p. 1063

Jesse A. Pendergrass, of Lawton, Oklahoma, was born in Putnam
County, Tennessee, in 1889, the son of F. R. and Angie (GREIDER)
Pendergrass, who are both living at Cooksville, Tennessee, where the
father is a prominent hardware dealer. Mr. Pendergrass, the subject
of this sketch, is the second child of a family of three children. He
was reared and educated in both common and high school at Cookeville.
When just a boy he secured a position in a dry goods store at that
place, but being energetic and with a desire to see the West, he came
to Lawton in 1910, and clerked in the shoe store of J. F. WITNEY for
about eight months. He then became night clerk at the Midland, which
position he held for a year. But anxious to advance he affiliated
with an automobile concern. But on account of ill health returned to
Tennessee and remained until August, 1914, when he returned to
Oklahoma, becoming night clerk of the Tulsa Hotel at Tulsa, remaining
eight months, at which time he returned to Lawton. And is now
assistant manager of the Midland Hotel.

Mr. Pendergrass has oil interests in Comanche County and at Tulsa.
He is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, No. 1056,
and is one of the most popular and congenial hotel men in the state
and well worthy of notice and mention in the history of Oklahoma.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Sherry Van Scoy Hall, November 1, 1998.