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THOMAS LOVE LILLARD
Vol. 5, p. 1862

An extensive and progressive agriculturist of Osage County, and a
prominent citizen of Pawhuska, Thomas Love Lillard is a man of worth
and stability, and enjoys the fullest confidence and esteem of the
community in which he resides. A native of Kentucky, he was born,
September 20, 1860, in Boyle County. His father, Thomas Madison
Lillard, was for many years engaged in the cattle business, during
his earlier life buying and selling in Charleston, South Carolina,
and in New York City, his operations being largely confined to those
two cities. Subsequently buying land in Kentucky, he devoted the
remainder of his years to the raising of stock, and to farming, both
he and his wife dying on their Kentucky plantation. To him and his
wife, whose maiden name was Mary BRIGHT, eleven children were born.

Remaining on the home place until after the death of his father,
Thomas Love Lillard was well trained in the art and science of
agriculture, which he selected as his occupation in life. Coming to
Oklahoma in 1901, he resided at Ponca five years. In 1906 he located
at Pawhuska, where he has since been profitable engaged in general
farming, making a specialty of stock growing, in partnership with T.
P. KIGER, being widely known as a junior member of the enterprising
firm of Kiger & Lillard. He is a democrat in his political relations,
and both he and his wife are valued members of the Christian Church.
Fraternally he belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Lillard married September 20, 1893, Miss Alice HUBBLE, who was
born in Boyle County, Kentucky, March 3, 1865, a daughter of Levi and
Martha (STIGALL) Hubble, who reared three children, namely: William,
who died at the age of twenty-four years; Alice, now Mrs. Lillard;
and Laura, wife of George SHELBY. Mr. Hubble spent his entire life in
Central Kentucky, his death occurring there in 1896. His widow
survived him many years, dying in 1915, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, where
she had been a resident for eight years.

Mrs. Lillard is a woman of rare ability and accomplishments,
scholarly in her attainments, and possessing a winning personality.
As a young lady she received excellent educational advantages, being
graduated, in 1882, from Hamilton College, in Lexington, Kentucky
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1884 taking a post-
graduate course at the same institution. She then taught a year in
the Miller School, in Cincinnati, taking charge of the classes in
English, after which she established a private school in which she
prepared pupils for college. Subsequently she attended to
correspondence and banking business of her father, who was an
extensive stock grower and breeder of fine saddle horses, and an able
assistant in making Kentucky famous in that line of industry. The
family meeting with financial reverses after the death of her father,
Miss Hubble again assumed her duties in the school room, and after
teaching for a time in Ponca, Oklahoma, accepted a position in the
Pawhuska High School, with which she continued two years.

Interested in everything pertaining to the advancement of the
educational status of Oklahoma, Mrs. Lillard assisted in the
organization of schools, and since Oklahoma assumed the garb of
statehood she has been a member of the examining board for teachers
in Osage County, a position for which she is amply qualified. In
October, 1912, she was appointed county superintendent of the Osage
County schools to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of W. E.
GILL, and in November of that year was elected to the same
responsible position. Giving such eminent satisfaction in the
discharge of her duties during the next two years, Mrs. Lillard was
honored with a re-election to the same high office in 1914 for a term
that will not expire until July 1, 1917. In the performance of her
duties Mrs. Lillard covers an area of 2,300 square miles, some of the
schools of which she has the supervision being widely separated. She
was elected to her present office on the democratic ticket, and has
the distinction of being the first woman to fill the position in
Osage County.

Mrs. Lillard is an active worker in the church, and is prominent in
club affairs, belonging to both the mother's department and the art
department of the Pawhuska Woman's Club.

Mr. And Mrs. Lillard have a fine family of children, three in
number, namely: William H., Alice, and Mary Bright, and they have
also reared a nephew, William Lillard. Mr. Lillard has in his
possession a complete genealogy of the Lillard family, compiled and
published in 1890 by his brother, John T. Lillard, an attorney in
Bloomington, Illinois.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, August 8, 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).