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BOUDINOT REAM
Vol. 3, p. 1082-1083

Few men of the former Chickasaw Nation possess as much blood
relationship to persons of distinction and prominence as Boudinot
Ream, a prominent farmer and stockman of Wapanucka, and long
identified with public affairs. His mother is a daughter of former
governor GUY of the Chickasaw Nation, who now lives in Sulphur. She
is a sister of Mrs. Charles LEFLORE, who was mother of the wife of
former Governor Lee CRUCE of Oklahoma. Mrs. Mary FULLER, now about
eighty years of age, a sister of Mr. Ream's father, has for more than
forty years been a clerk in the Interior Department at Washington,
while the paternal grandfather, Robert Ream, now seventy-five years
of age, has been connected with the United States Geological Survey
in Washington for many years. Another sister of his father was the
late Mrs. Vinnie Rea HOXEY, after who the City of Vinita, Oklahoma,
was named. She made a name for herself as a sculptor, and designed
the statues of Lincoln and Admiral Farragut now standing in
conspicuous position in the City of Washington. The husbands of Mrs.
Fuller and Mrs. Hoxey were Union soldiers in the Civil war, and the
Government since that conflict has shown them many special favors.

The influence of Boudinot Ream in the public life of the old
Chickasaw Nation deserves some mention at the beginning of this
article. Some of the now notable McMurray Indian contracts out of
which a law firm of McAlester made $750,000 and which were entered
into that the Indian rolls might be kept clear of fraudulent
claimants, would not have been approved by the Legislature of the
Chickasaw Nation in 1900 had enough members of that body agreed with
Mr. Ream. He opposed the approval of the contracts on the theory that
they were too expensive and that there were probably other and more
satisfactory ways of obtaining the desired ends. Later, contracts
similar to these caused a scandal in public life in Washington,
resulting in a congressional investigation. While a member of the
Chickasaw Legislature Mr. Ream, foreseeing that statehood was but a
few years distant, sought to have passed a measure that would permit
the Legislature to subdivide the nation into counties and request of
Congress the approval of the act in the passage of the statehood
enabling act. This measure was defeated, and its discussion developed
the fact that a majority of members of the Legislature were not
anxious for statehood.

At the well known old Indian Territory town at Boggy Depot[,]
Boudinot Ream was born in 1873. His father, Robert L. Ream, was a
native of Wisconsin, but the grandfather was born in Pennsylvania and
belonged to an old Dutch family. Mr. Ream's mother, whose maiden name
was Anna GUY, is a native of Indian Territory and of Chickasaw Indian
blood. She is now Mrs. Anna ADDINGTON, and the several years has been
superintendent of Bloomfield Academy, and Indian school at Hendrix,
Oklahoma. Mrs. Addington and her brother at the outbreak of the Civil
war were taken to Massachusetts by their guardian and educated before
returning to the Indian country. The primary education of Boudinot
Ream was acquired in the Chickasaw Industrial Academy at Tishomingo.
Later he spent three years in a preparatory school in Tennessee, that
being followed by two years in Vanderbilt University at Nashville.
His career has been an exceedingly active one. On leaving university
he enlisted in the First Tennessee Regiment of Volunteers for the
Spanish-American war, and accompanied his regiment to San Francisco,
where he received his discharge. Returning to Indian Territory, he
then settled on his farm, two miles from Wapanucka, where he has
since lived, with the exception of the time spent at Mannsville.
While at the latter place he was elected a member of the Chickasaw
Legislature, serving one term during the first administration of Gov.
D. H. Johnston. Later he was office deputy United States marshal. He
has served on the board of township trustees at Wapanucka and is a
member of the Wapanucka Board of Education, in which position he has
shown an active interest in educational affairs, and from every point
of view is one of the community's most progressive men.

April 22, 1901, he married Miss Mattie TAYLOR of Wapanucka. She is a
granddaughter of the Rev. W. J. B. LLOYD of Bennington, a pioneer
missionary and minister of the Choctaw country. Her father, Dr. A. A.
Taylor, was an early settler in the vicinity of Wapanucka, and many
years ago was associated with the Rev. Allen Wright, a distinguished
Choctaw minister and historian who gave Oklahoma its name. Mr. and
Mrs. Ream have a family of six children: Mary, aged thirteen; Vinnie,
aged eleven: Boudinot, aged nine; Helen, aged seven; Lloyd, aged
five; and Lavinia, aged two. Mr. Ream is a member of the Presbyterian
Church and affiliates with the Masonic Order. He has served until
recently as a member of the County Election Board of Johnston County.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Carolyn Smith Burns on December 3, 1998.