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Vol. 5, p. 1818 That historic section of Western Oklahoma that was designated as No Man's Land and organized into Cimarron Territory in a local way prior to the opening of Oklahoma Territory to settlement, has become one of the vital and prosperous sections of the state, and one of the important counties is Beaver, in which Doctor LONG controls a large and important practice as a physician and surgeon and has gained precedence as one of the representative members of his profession in Western Oklahoma. He maintains his residence and professional headquarters at Beaver, the county seat, and is one of the progressive and loyal citizens of the town and county. Dr. Lindsey Lowder Long was born on a farm in Neosho County, Kansas, on the 22d of September, 1875, a date that clearly demonstrates that his parents were numbered among the pioneers of that section of the Sunflower State. He is a son of David and Jeanette (LOWDER) Long, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Indiana, in which latter state their marriage was solemnized in 1850. David Long was born in North Carolina on the 15th of October, 1824, and his parents claimed the Old Dominion State of Virginia as the place of their nativity, the respective families having there been founded in the colonial ear of our national history. In 1828, when he was a child of about four years, the parents of David Long removed from North Carolina and became pioneer settlers in the wilds of Greene County, Indiana, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where the father reclaimed a farm from the wilderness. In Greene County David was reared under the conditions and influences of the early pioneer days, in the meanwhile availing himself of the advantages of the schools of the locality and period, and in 1850, when about twenty-five years of age, he there wedded Miss Jeanette Lowder, who was born in Lawrence County, that state, on the 2d of July, 1832, a daughter of John R., and Acsah (HODSON) Lowder, pioneers of that county, to which they removed from their native State of North Carolina. After his marriage Mr. Long continued his activities as a farmer in Greene County, Indiana, until 1871, when he removed with his family to Kansas and became one of the pioneer settlers in Neosho County. He purchased a tract of land two miles south of old Osage Mission, and there reclaimed a productive farm. He became one of the substantial and representative citizens of Neosho County and there continued to reside on his fine homestead farm until his death, which occurred on the 7th of March, 1896. His widow survived him by nearly fifteen years and was a resident of Erie, the judicial center of Neosho County, when she, too, was called to the life eternal on the 25th of November, 1910. Concerning their children the following brief data are entered: Rev. Matthew T., who was born October 16, 1851, is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and maintains his home in Oklahoma. In 1875 he wedded Miss Etta NOBLE, and they have four children-Stella, Frederick, Ethel and Ruth- the eldest daughter, Stella, being now the wife of Rufus O. RENFREW, a prominent capitalist and influential citizen of Woodward, Oklahoma, one individually mentioned on other pages of this work. Linda A., who was born November 9, 1953, is the wife of John J. FIELDS, editor and publisher of the Sentinel Leader at Sentinel, Washita County, Oklahoma. Their marriage was celebrated in 1875, and they have four children-Robert, Cornelius, David and May. Cornelius, the next in order of birth of the children of David and Jeanette (Lowder) Long, was March 6, 1855 and died on the 13th of the same month. Finley, who was born March 30, 1857, died December 20, 1908. Henry, who was born January 22, 1861, is a leading lawyer in the City of Ottawa, Kansas. John R., born February 23, 1864, is a prosperous farmer of Neosho County, Kansas. Rolla E., who was born April 27, 1869 is superintendent of the city schools of Galena, Kansas. May M., who was born March 28, 1871, is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of the City of Sherman, Texas, and Doctor Long of this review is the youngest of the nine children. Passing the days of his childhood and early youth on the homestead farm is Neosho County, Kansas, Doctor Long acquired his preliminary education in the district schools and thereafter attended the public schools of Erie, the county seat, where he was graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1895. In the meanwhile he had formulated definite plans for his future career, and in the year that marked his completion of his high school course he entered the University Medical College at Kansas City, Missouri, in which institution he was graduated March 19, 1898, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately after his graduation in the medical college Doctor Long came to Oklahoma Territory, and, on the 20th of April of the same year, he opened an office at Alva, judicial center of Woods County, where he continued in the successful practice of his profession during the ensuing eight years. He then took an effective post- graduate course in one of the leading medical institutions of the City of Chicago, and in May, 1906, he established his home at Beaver, Oklahoma, where he has since been engaged in active general practice and where he has secure prestige as the leading representative of his profession in Beaver County. He has served as mayor of Beaver, besides holding other local offices of minor order, and has shown a lively interest in all that touches the welfare and progress of his home town and county. While a resident of Alva he served as a member of the city council and also of the board of education, besides which he did effective service as county health officer of Woods County. He holds membership in the Oklahoma State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, has completed the circles of both York and Scottish Rite Masonry, in the latter of which he has received the thirty-second degree, besides being affiliated with the ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the Knights of Pythias. On the 10th of September, 1899, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Long to Miss Maude BEEGLE of Alva. She was born in Kingman County, Kansas, on the 13th of March, 1875, and is a daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Jane (CROTTZER) Beegle, both natives of Pennsylvania and both honored pioneers of Kansas. Mr. Beegle was born in 1836 and his death occurred June 10, 1908. The mother of Mrs. Long was born in 1832 and was summoned to eternal rest on the 25th of December, 1911. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Long had been a successful and popular teacher, her work in the pedagogic profession having continued for three years after she had completed a course of study in the Colorado State Normal School at Greeley. Doctor and Mrs. Long have one child, Lenore Madge, who was born at Alva, this state, on the 12th of November 1902. Typed for OKGenWeb by: Geraldine Olson KING, July 19, 1999. 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).