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THOMAS W. SHACKLE
Vol. 3, p. 1127, 1128

A native son of the West and exemplifying in his personal career its
typical progressiveness, Thomas Weir Shackle has been identified with
the drug business from the time of his youth and is today one of the
leading exponents of this line of enterprise in the City of Tulsa,
where he has maintained his residence for nearly a quarter of a
century and where he now owns and conducts a finely equipped retail
drug establishment of essentially metropolitan order, its substantial
trade being founded on effective and careful service and on the
unqualified personal popularity of the proprietor, who is with all of
consistency to be designated as one of the sterling pioneer business
men of the vigorous young commonwealth of Oklahoma.

Mr. Shackle was born at Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, on the 6th
of April, 1869, and is a son of Dr. Peter F. and Elizabeth M. (WEIR)
Shackle, the former of whom was born in the City of Toledo, Ohio, and
the latter in Henry County, Illinois. Doctor Shackle, who has
attained to the venerable age of eighty years, is now living
virtually retired at Columbus, the judicial center of Cherokee
County, Kansas, being one of the honored pioneer physicians and
surgeons of that state, as is he also of the State of Iowa. His
devoted wife, who endured with him the vicissitudes of pioneer life,
died at the age of sixty-seven years. They became the parents of two
sons and three daughters, and three of the number are yet living,
Thomas W., of this review, having been the third in order of birth.

Dr. Peter F. Shackle has long been known and honored as a physician
and surgeon of high attainments and as one who has labored with all
of zeal and unselfishness in the alleviating of human suffering and
distress. He was graduated in the Philadelphia Medical College and as
a young man he established his residence in the little frontier
village of Morning Sun, Iowa, where he engaged in the practice of his
profession and also established and maintained a drug store, his
having been the prestige of being the pioneer physician and druggist
of that section of the Hawkeye State. In the late '80's he removed
with his family to Columbus, Kansas, and became there also a pioneer
in his profession as well as in the conducting of a drug business. He
has been one of the influential citizens of Columbus during the long
intervening years, and has been retired from active practice since
1905, and is one of the best known and most revered pioneer citizens
of Cherokee County, his political support having been given to the
democratic party since his young manhood and both he and his wife
having been active in church work until his loved companion and
helpmeet was summoned to the life eternal.

Thomas W. Shackle was a child at the time of the family removal to
Columbus, Kansas, where he was reared to adult age and was afforded
the advantages of the public schools. When but twelve years of age he
began to assist in the compounding of medicines in his father's drug
store, and his services gradually touched all departments of the
business, in which he gained accurate and comprehensive knowledge of
materia medica and all other details of the drug business under the
effective direction of his father. He continued to be associated with
his father in business until he had attained to his legal majority,
and in the meanwhile had passed the required examination and become a
licensed and registered pharmacist in Kansas, the same status having
later been given him in Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory, even
as he is one of the pioneer registered pharmacist of the State of
Oklahoma

Mr. Shackle continued his residence in the Sunflower State until
1891, when, within a short period after the organization of Oklahoma
Territory, he came to Tulsa, where he arrived on the 4th of April of
that year. Here he was employed as prescription pharmacist in the
drug store of John M. MORROW until the 1st of January, 1897, when he
engaged in the drug business in an independent way, his success in
this field of enterprise having been on a parity with his recognized
ability in a technical way and as an honorable and steadfast business
man. The civic loyalty and progressiveness of Mr. Shackle were
significantly shown in 1907, the year that marked the admission of
Oklahoma to statehood, since in that year he erected, at 113 South
Main Street, The Shackle Building, to which he removed his drug
business. Later he sold this building , and in 1913 he erected at 922
South Main Street his present business block, which is of concrete
block construction and one of the attractive modern structures of
Tulsa. Here he has his finely appointed drug store, which caters to a
significantly large, representative and appreciative patronage. Mr.
Shackle is a prominent and honored member of the Tulsa Druggists'
Association and actively identified also with the Oklahoma State
Pharmaceutical Association, in the affairs of which he has been
prominent and influential.

Mr. Shackle has at all times given his co-operation in the
furtherance of measures and enterprises projected for the general
good of the community and is essentially liberal and public-spirited
as a citizen. He has manifested no predilection for political office
but accords a staunch allegiance to the democratic party in all that
concerns general governmental and state affairs. In the time-honored
Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he maintains affiliation
with Indian Consistory, in the City of McAlester. His basic
affiliation is with Delta Lodge, No. 425, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, at Tulsa, where also he is a loyal and valued member of Akdar
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and
Tulsa Lodge, No. 946, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, besides
being identified with the local organizations of the Knights of
Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

In 1905 Mr. Shackle wedded Miss Rosa May DOWELL, who was born and
reared in Kansas and whose death occurred at her home in Tulsa in the
year 1908, she being survived by one son, Clarence Weir Shackle.

In 1912 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shackle to Miss Henrietta
HARDIN, a native of Meade County, Kentucky, and she is the popular
chatelaine of the attractive family home in Tulsa, no children having
been born of this marriage.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, December 10, 1999.