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MALCOM E. ROSSER
Vol. 3, p. 1189
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Malcom E. Rosser, now engaged in active practice as of the
representative members of the bar of the City of Muskogee, not only
has the distinction of having served as a member of Supreme Court
Commission of the State of Oklahoma, but is also to be considered as
one of the pioneer representatives of his profession in the state.

Malcom Edward Rosser was born on the parental homestead farm near
Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, and the date of his
nativity was January 16, 1870. He is a son of William E. and Virginia
Frances (HUDSON) Rosser, the former of whom was born in Campbell
County, Virginia, and the latter of whom was born in the State of
Mississippi: she still survives her honored husband and maintains her
home in Washington County, Arkansas.

William E. Rosser was a scion of an old and influential, Virginia
family and his father, Colonel Rosser, was a prosperous planter in
the Old Dominion State, besides serving as an officer in the Virginia
militia and as high Sheriff of his county. About the year of 1850
Colonel Rosser removed with his family to Texas, and after the end of
the Civil war he established his residence in Washington County,
Arkansas, where he passed the residue of his life. William E. Rosser
was a boy at the time of the family removal to Texas, and thus he was
reared and educated under the conditions and influences that obtained
during the pioneer era in the history of the Lone Star State. He was
an ambitious student and actually became a man of high scholastic
attainments. When the Civil war began he tendered his aid in defense
of the cause of the Confederacy, and he served as a valiant soldier
during virtually the entire period of the great conflict between the
North and the South. He took part in numerous engagements in Missouri
and Arkansas, as a member of a Texas regiment, and in one engagement
was severely wounded. While recuperating from the injury thus
received he sojourned in Washington County, Arkansas, and after the
close of the was it was largely through his persuasion that his
father and other members of the family established their home in that
county. William E. Rosser became an agriculturist and stock-grower in
Washington County, but during the greater part of his active career
he followed the pedagogic profession, in which connection he was long
a successful and popular teacher in the schools of Washington County,
Arkansas, the while he gave also a general supervision to his farm.
He was a teacher for more than forty years and his death occurred on
his old homestead in Washington County, in 1914, at which time he was
seventy years of age.

The early educational discipline of Malcom E. Rosser was largely
gained in the schools of his native county and under the able
direction of his honored father, besides which he attended an
excellent graded school at Prairie Grove, Arkansas. In preparation
for the work of his chosen profession he was signally favored in
being able to complete his technical course in the law department of
the historic old University of Virginia, in which he was graduated as
a member of the class of 1891 and which he received his degree of
Bachelor of Laws. Shortly after his graduation he came to Oklahoma
Territory and initiated practice at Mangum, the present county seat
of Greer County. Soon afterward, however, he transferred his
residence and professional headquarters to Talihina, LeFlore County,
in which county he remained nearly a score of years and where he
gained precedence as one of the leading members of the bar of that
section of the territory. In the meanwhile he removed to Poteau, the
judicial center of the county, of which progressive little city he
was elected mayor in 1902, his administration continuing for one
term. He was twice elected to the bench of the fifth judicial
district as judge of which he continued in effective service four
years, at the expiration of which he resigned the office to assume
that of Supreme Court Commissioner of Oklahoma, a position to which
he was appointed in 1911 and which he resigned in 1913, for the
purpose of resuming the private practice of his profession, his field
of labor as an attorney and counselor at law having since been in the
City of Muskogee, where he controls an excellent practice of
representative order and is known as one of the prominent and
influential legists [sic] and jurists at the bar of Muskogee County.

The political allegiance of Judge Rosser has ever been given to the
democratic party, he is identified with the Muskogee County Bar
Association and the Oklahoma State Bar Association, and he is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias.

In the year of 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Rosser to
Miss Mary E. RODGERS, who was born and reared in Oklahoma and who is
a daughter of Walker E. and Frances (RUTHERFORD) RODGERS, sterling
pioneers of this commonwealth. Judge and Mrs. Rosser have three
children -- Frances, Malcom E., Jr., and Louise.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, October 22, 1998.