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DAN M. PENDLETON
Vol. 3, p. 1180-1181

Now engaged in the practice of law at Ada, Mr. PENDLETON will be
readily recognized as one of the fortunate young men of the
Southwest. He has had all these natural endowments and cultural
advantages which furnish the best preparation for a life of service
and important accomplishment. He has birth and ancestry, and in his
lineage are found eminent patriots, statesmen, jurists and public
leaders in American life. He also came to the West with thorough
legal education and wide experience in association with prominent
men. During the few years, he has lived in Seminole and Pontotoc
counties, he has become a leader in his profession. Virile,
energetic, ambitious, Mr. Pendleton is of that class of worth-while
young men that is contributing so great a measure of elements to the
progress of Oklahoma.

Dan M. Pendleton was born in Spencer, West Virginia, April 6, 1887,
a son of Walter and Nellie (MCMATH) Pendleton. His father is one of
the distinguished lawyers of West Virginia and a man of national
reputation. He was the democratic nominee for congress in the Fourth
District of West Virginia in 1896 and the democratic nominee for
judge of the Supreme Court in 1908. Each time he was defeated by a
small majority, in the latter race running ahead of his ticket by
approximately ten thousand votes. He has traveled extensively in
Europe, the Holy Land and Egypt and has written extensively
concerning the countries of the Old World visited by him. Judge
Walter Pendleton is an attorney for the Carter Oil Company in West
Virginia, which is one of the largest producers in the well known
Cushing, Oklahoma oil field, and is also attorney for the Baltimore &
Ohio Railway Company and other corporations of the East. One of the
great-uncles of Dan Pendleton was Edmund Pendleton, the first
president of the Continental Congress, who assisted in drafting the
Declaration of Independence though not signer of that document, was
an opponent of Patrick Henry in many debates in the House of
Burgesses in Virginia, was associated with Thomas Jefferson and
George Wythe in drafting the first code in the United States and was
first president of the Supreme Court of Virginia. In his honor
Pendleton County, West Virginia, was named. Another prominent
ancestor was Nathaniel Pendleton, and was the second to Alexander
Hamilton in the duel with Aaron Burr. George Pendleton, of the Ohio
branch of the family, was a United States Senator and a member of
Congress from Ohio, was ambassador to Germany, and in 1864 was a
candidate for the vice presidency on the democratic ticket.

Mr. Pendleton received his common school education in Spencer, West
Virginia and later attended the University Preparatory School at
Morgantown, and in 1905 was graduated from the high school at
Parkersburg. Having already taken a year and a half in preparatory
school, he graduated from the law department of the University of
West Virginia in 1907. For the following year he was employed in his
father's law office and ws also engaged in abstracting land titles
for the South Penn Oil Company and later formed a partnership with
his father under the firm name of Pendleton & Pendleton at Spencer.
The firm subsequently became Pendleton, Matthews, Bell & Pendleton,
and in 1910 the firm had offices at Spencer, Grantsville, Point
Pleasant and Ripley, with the younger Pendleton in charge of the
Ripley office. In June, 1911, he came west and settled in Konawa,
Oklahoma for the practice of law. The following year he was a
candidate for the nomination for prosecuting attorney on the
democratic ticket, and though defeated was second in a race with four
other democrats. In September 1913, he removed to Ada and has since
become successfully established as a lawyer. He succeeded Judge C. A.
GALBREATH, who became a member of the Oklahoma Supreme Court
Commission, in the law firm of Galbreath, Epperson & Maxey; the new
firm became Epperson, Maxey & Pendleton. On November 1, 1914, Mr.
Pendleton retired from the firm and established an office of his own.

January 16, 1915, he married Miss Edna MORFORD of Parkersburg, West
Virginia. Mr. Pendleton is affiliated with the Elks Lodge at Ada,
having transferred his membership from Parkersburg, West Virginia. He
is a member of the Ada Commercial Club and of the Pontotoc County and
Oklahoma State Bar associations. He is considerably interested in the
development of sections of the oil fields of Oklahoma and owns
property in Pontotoc County.

It is said that Mr. Pendleton probably knows more men in public life
than any other young man of his age in the West. During the last ten
years he has been a frequent visitor to Washington and has attended a
number of sessions of Congress and knows personally and by sight a
large number of the members of both House and Senate of Congress.
This experience has naturally broadened him in matters of public
interest and has given him a ready fund of information on national
issues. He takes an interest in the democratic politics of Ada and
Pontotoc county, and willingly puts his services into any movement
for industrial and commercial advantage.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Jacque Pearce Reynolds November 1, 1998.