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PROF. HUGH GRAHAM FAUST
VOL. 5, p 1862, 1863

To a rapidly increasing number of Oklahoma school men Professor
Faust of Shawnee is becoming known for the ability with which he is
administering the fine public school system at Shawnee and also for
the influential work which he is doing in professional organization.
Ever since graduating from college Mr. Faust has been in schoolwork.
He has spent about fifteen years in the profession, and is a man of
ripe scholarship, of dignified manner, and of splendid character. He
is just the man for the heavy responsibilities which he now carries
as city superintendent of Shawnee schools. A Tennesseean by birth, he
is a native of Newmarket, Tennessee, where he was born, January 28,
1879. His parents were M. L. and Belle (PARROTT) Faust. The Fausts
came originally from Germany, but at a very early time in colonial
history, having located in Virginia and going across the mountains
into Tennessee about the time of the American Revolution. Another
branch of ancestors was the SAWYER family and representatives of that
name fought on the American side in the war for independence. Some of
the Fausts were soldiers in the Federal army during the war between
the states, while Mr. Faust's maternal ancestors were found in the
Confederate army.

M. L. Faust was born at Newmarket, Tennessee, in 1860 and has spent
practically all his life in that community being a substantial farmer
and stock raiser. He is also a good citizen and for a considerable
term of years has served as a member of the board of education in his
home locality. He has taken an especially active part in the affairs
of the Presbyterian Church, and served many years on the official
board. The mother, whose maiden name was Belle Parrott, was born in
Granger County, Tennessee, in 1847. She became the mother of seven
children, briefly noted as follows: Edna, wife of Beecher COXE, a
merchant at Newmarket, Tennessee, L. C. Faust, who lives at Newmarket
and is engaged in the raising of blooded stock; Professor Hugh
Graham; Professor C. J. Faust, who was superintendent of schools in
Knox County, Tennessee, and died in Knoxville in 1903; Lynn E., who
is an automobile dealer in Hood River, Oregon; Leon engaged in
mercantile business at Hood River, Oregon; and Dr. G. T. Faust who
was graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1914 and is now
practicing medicine at Dorchester, Virginia.

Hugh Graham Faust had the average opportunities and advantages of
the country boy. He had an ambition for things beyond the horizon of
the farmer's son, and was not satisfied with the education which the
public schools in the vicinity of Newmarket could afford him. He
afterwards entered one of the oldest and best small colleges in
Tennessee, the Carson & Newman College at Jefferson where he was
graduated A. B. with the class of 1906. At different times he has
interrupted his work and accepted the leisure afforded by vacation
periods in order to continue his studies in institutions. Much of his
post-graduate work has been done at the University of Chicago.

It was in 1900 that Mr. Faust did his first practical work as a
teacher in the public schools of Jefferson County, Tennessee. He
remained there two years, and in 1902 became principal of the Bearden
High School in Knox County, Tennessee, remaining there also two
years. This was followed by a position as teacher in Jacksboro,
Tennessee, where he was principal of the Campbell County High School
three years.

On coming to Oklahoma Mr. Faust was superintendent of the city
schools at Weatherford for two years, spent another three years as
superintendent of schools at Frederick and in 1914 was called to the
heavy responsibilities connected with the superintendency at Shawnee.
In 1915 he was re-elected on the basis of his first year's record and
for a term of three years.

Other activities should be referred to in this article. During the
scholastic year of 1905-06 he was instructor at Greeneville and
Tusculum College at Greeneville, Tennessee. After coming to Oklahoma
he served on year as president of the Tillman County Teachers
Association. During the summers of 1903 and 1904 he took post-
graduate work in the University of Tennessee. He is an active member
of the Pottawatomie County Teachers Association and in the Oklahoma
Educational Association is chairman of the City Superintendents
Division, of which Supt. H. L. NICHOLAS of Holdenville is secretary.
In politics he worked with the democratic party. He is a deacon in
the Presbyterian Church, and fraternally is identified with Shawnee
Lodge No. 106, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Shawnee Chapter No.
32, Royal Arch Masons; Shawnee Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar;
and with the Weatherford Lodge of Knights of Pythias, in which he is
past chancellor commander. He is a member of the Shawnee Commercial
Club, of the Provident Club of Shawnee and belongs to the Fidelity
Building & Loan Association. He was a member of the Avis Society of
the University of Chicago.

At Chicago in 1909 Professor Faust married Miss Bertha WEIMAN. Her
father was the late Judge Weiman, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Miss
Weiman graduated with the degree Bachelor of Arts from the
Unigversity of Chicago and for several years before her marriage was
a successful teacher, being an instructor in one of the high schools
in Chicago and in the public schools of Evanston, Illinois.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, November, 2000.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).