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ALLEN WRIGHT
Vol. 3, p. 1339

To write the history of Oklahoma from the standpoint of personality,
with particular reference to those characters of creative energy and
influence of its life and growth, would fail of its essential purpose
without extended reference to members of the Wright family,
conspicuous among whom was the late Rev. Allen WRIGHT, chief of the
Choctaw Nation, Dr. E. N. WRIGHT and others whose eminent part in the
affairs of the Choctaw Nation have given the name many worthy
distinctions.

The Allen Wright named above is a son of the late Rev. Allen WRIGHT,
and has for twenty years had a successful career in the law in old
Indian Territory and Oklahoma. He is one of the best known members of
the bar of McAlester, and through his own career had added further
distinctions to an honored family name.

Born at Boggy Depot in Choctaw Nation, in what is now Atoka County,
Oklahoma, he grew up practically on the frontier, but through the
influence of his father and his own endowment of ability he acquired
a liberal education and returned to his birthplace to assume a
prominent role in the affairs of the old Indian Nation.

He prepared for college in the Kemper Military School at Boonville,
Missouri, and was graduated from Union college at Schenectady, New
York, with the class of 1893. After a thorough course in the law he
was admitted to the bar of Indian Territory by examination in May,
1895.

In 1897 he was made United States commissioner under Judge W. H.
CLAYTON at McAlester, and served seven years in that position,
resigning in October, 1904. He then formed a partnership for general
practice with R. E. CAMPBELL, now United States district judge at
Muskogee. They handled a large corporation practice and were local
attorneys for the Rock Island Railway and counsel for several coal
mining companies. Mr. Wright often appeared before the departments in
Washington, especially in matters relative to the interests of coal
corporations having coal leases in the Choctaw Nation.

He is one of the finest types of the educated representatives of the
old five civilized tribes of Oklahoma. He is a republican, has
attended various conventions and fraternally is affiliated with the
Masonic Order and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

At Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 22, 1902, he married Miss Helen
W. SKILES. Mrs. Wright died at her home in McAlester, December 20,
1912.

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