OKGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any
format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must
obtain the written consent of OKGenWeb State Coordinator.

Presentation here does not extend any permissions to the public. This
material can not be included in any compilation, publication,
collection, or other reproduction for profit without permission. Files
may be printed or copied for personal use only.
=====================================================================

W. LUSK
Vol. 5, pp. 1834, 1835

One of the pioneers of the Town of Morris, Okmulgee County, W. Lusk
has been a very energetic factor in local business affairs and has
supplied much of the capital and enterprise for the upbuilding of
that section.

He was born in Springfield, Missouri, February 5, 1866, a son of
Alfred T. and Elizabeth (BOND) Lusk, both of whom were born in
Tennessee and came to Missouri in 1835, in childhood, with their
respective parents. They married in Missouri and lived in that state
on a farm the rest of their days. The father passed away in 1901 at
the age of eighty-three and the mother in 1908 at the age of seventy-
three. Their four children were: C. D. Lusk of Fort Scott, Kansas;
W.·Lusk; Isabella, wife of Robert KIMMONS at Missouri; and Benjamin,
of Missouri.

W. Lusk lived on the Missouri farm with his parents until he was
eighteen years of age. Since then he has been in active business,
working for himself and others, and was principally identified with
the drug business until 1914, when he sold out. He acquired his
knowledge of pharmacy in the St. Louis School of Pharmacy, from which
he received a diploma in 1886. For a number of years he worked as a
drug clerk in Kansas City, Missouri.

It was in 1907 that he came to Morris, Oklahoma, and invested his
small capital and started the Morris Drug Company, a business which
is still conducted under the, same name. Since then his interests
have taken on a much wider scope, and for the past two years he has
been in the oil business, having four wells in the district around
Boynton. He has been associated with a number of other men in
developing this section of the country, and owns himself about 320
acres of farm land [sic] in Okmulgee County. It was his money and
enterprise that constructed the garage on Main Street, one of the
largest buildings in the town, which he sold in 1915. He is now
having built an opera house, which will be used for moving picture
shows.

Since statehood Mr. Lusk has served as township committeeman of the
democratic party and has also been a member of the school board and
of the town board the greater part of the time since Oklahoma entered
the union. One example of his public spirit was the donation of a
portion of the site for the Morris Library. He is affiliated with the
Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Fraternal
Order of Eagles.

On June 30, 1908, Mr. Lusk married Myrtle M. GRISSOM of Okmulgee.
She was born in Okmulgee, a daughter of J. E. Grissom of that town.
They have one daughter, Wynema, who is now four years old.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Jeanne M. Misleh, 20 July, 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).