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JACK RANSOM
Vol. 3, p. 993

Jack Ransom, county clerk of McIntosh County, was born in Ozark,
Franklin County, Arkansas, on July 17, 1873, and is a son of Andrew
J. and Margaret (TWEEDY) Ransom. The parents were native of Arkansas,
and in 1878, they moved with their family to what is now McIntosh
County, Oklahoma, and there the father died in 1879, when he was
fifty-six years old. He was a farmer and cattleman, and was a
Confederate veteran of the Civil war.

Jack Ransom is the seventh born in a family of nine children. He was
reared in McIntosh County, and secured a public school education in
Oklahoma schools, - none too good at the time of his boyhood. For
some years he was employed with the BURDETTE Mercantile Company of
Eufaula, and he came in time to the managership of their grocery and
hardware departments. Later, for two years, he kept books for Mr. C.
E. FOLEY, a merchant of Eufaula. His next enterprise was as a
merchant on his own responsibility. This venture was not a complete
success, and after a year he abandoned the project, after which for
three years he served as city clerk for Eufaula. In 1914 he was
elected to the office of county clerk, entering upon his duties in
January, 1915.

Mr. Ransom is a democrat, and has been prominent in party politics
in the county. He is a Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-second
degree, and a member of the Shrine. He was married in 1903 to Miss
Maude LINZEY, and they are members of the Methodist Church South.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, December 18, 1998.