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J. S. MAYTUBBY
Vol. 5, pg. 1867, 1868
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Few men of the Chickasaw country have had a more picturesque career
than J. S. Maytubby, now a farmer-stockman at Wapanucka, but a lawyer
by profession, long closely identified with the affairs of the old
Chickasaw Nation. Common sense was a usual trait among members of the
old Chickasaw Legislature, and oratory is an attribute of the Indian
tribe that has been manifested in nearly every family that rose to
distinction. But as a rule the leading men were lacking in an English
education and many of them were unable to correctly frame bills
introduced into the Legislature. It became necessary therefore that
the governor select a draftsman for that important duty of framing
bills. During an administration of Governor Johnston, Mr. Maytubby
was selected for this important post. He was especially qualified for
the work, having been educated in the Rock Academy at Wapanucka,
Trinity College at Durham, North Carolina, and completed a course in
law at the University of Texas. He was assisted by a law committee of
the Legislature in the preparation of bills and all measures before
introduction had to pass through his hands and the hands of the law
committee. This, however, was not the first official distinction of
Mr. Maytubby in the Chickasaw Nation, since he filled it after the
fortunes of politics has caused his resignation from the office of
superintendent of public instruction, which he filled under the
administration of Governor S. H. Harris, and after he had served
under Governor D. H. Johnston, the successor of Governor Harris, as
auditor of public accounts of the Chickasaw Nation.

Mr. Maytubby was born of a fullblood father, Tony Maytubby, and a
white mother, Mary LAMB, in what was then Kiamichi County of the
Choctaw Nation, in the Village of Goodland on the site of which the
present Town of Hugo stands. Both parents died when he was a small
child, and he has no recollection of them neither does he know the
year of his birth, but estimates his age as about forty-five. Cast
out into the world an orphan, he was taken in charge by officials of
the Chickasaw Nation and sent to school at Caddo, Indian Territory,
in an educational institution owned and controlled by the Chickasaw
Nation. Later he attended Rock Academy, subsequently known as
Wapanucka Institute, and while there was a student under Cicero A.
SKEEN, who is now superintendent of the State Boys Training School at
Pauls Valley. In 1892 Mr. Maytubby entered the Trinity College of
Durham, North Carolina, where he was graduated Ph. B. in 1896. In the
same fall he entered the University of Texas, and completed his law
education there. His career as a practicing lawyer covers less than
ten years. In 1897 he began practice at Tishomingo in partnership
with S. L. GARRETT. Mr. Garrett, who was a first cousin of United
States Senator Charles A. CULBERSON of Texas, was United States
Commissioner at Tishomingo during the administration of President
Cleveland. Later he became a member of the firm of Wolf, Bleakmore &
Maytubby, his partners being Nick Wolf and Willard Bleakmore, the
latter now a member of the Oklahoma Supreme Court Commission. In 1905
Mr. Maytubby retired from the practice of law and moved to his farm
near Wapanucka, where he has since enjoyed the various interests of
country life and has been very successful in the raising of fine
horses and in the intensive cultivation of his land.

Mr. Maytubby is a nephew of the noted Peter Maytubby who was a
captain in the Confederate army, and who during the days of the Dawes
Commission represented the Chickasaw Nation before that body, and
subsequently served as an interpreter before the commission. Peter
Maytubby was one of the best informed men of the Chickasaw country,
and assisted the United States Government in keeping out fraudulent
claimants when the first annuity was paid to these Indians. The
instruction of Peter Maytubby was a means of giving his nephew a
knowledge of many things regarding the history and traditions of the
Indians, but the latter owing to the fact that his education was
obtained in schools where only English was spoken never learned to
speak the tongue of his father.

In 1903 Mr. Maytubby married Miss Theodoshia KEMP of Tishomingo.
They have one son, Joel Kemp, now five years of age. Mr. Maytubby has
also one sister, Mrs. Mary CORRELL, wife of a farmer-stockman at Ada,
Oklahoma. Mr. Maytubby is a member of the Methodist Church, belongs
to the Johnston County Bar Association, is a republican in politics,
and has been a leader in public affairs. He has the distinction of
having been elected to first mayor of Tishomingo, and his election is
the more interesting on account of the fact that he defeated William
H. Murray, who was his rival for the office. Mr. Murray is now a
member of Congress from Oklahoma. Mr. Maytubby has served as precinct
committeeman, as a member of the finance committee of the state
organization, and also as a member of the Congressional Committee.

Transcribed 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).