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CHARLES G. NESBITT
Vol. 5, p. 1838

CHARLES G. NESBITT.  In his capacity as editor and proprietor of the
Hinton Record Charles G. Nesbitt has a splendid opportunity of
voicing the public opinion in regard to general improvements.  He has
been a resident of Hinton since the fall of 1909 and his citizenship
here has ever been characterized by a loyal interest in all matters
tending to advance the good of the community.

A native of Nelson, Nebraska, Charles George Nesbitt was born May 9,
1879, and he is a son of J. B. and Evaline (LEE) Nesbitt, both of
whom are living, their home being at Watonga, Oklahoma.  The father
was born in the State of Ohio, in 1840, end as a young man he
journeyed west to Iowa.  In the latter state was solemnized his
marriage and there he continued to reside until 1873, when the family
home was established on a claim near Nelson, Nebraska.  In 1889
removal was made to Fairfield, Nebraska, but 1891 finds the family
again in the old community near Nelson.  From 1894 until 1905 the
Nesbitts resided at Eldorado Springs, Missouri, and in the latter
year came to Oklahoma, settling at Norman and removing thence to
Watonga in 1908.  Mr. J. B. Nesbitt has devoted much of his active
career to work as a contractor and builder.  He gave evidence of his
loyalty to the cause of the union during the Civil war by enlisting
for service in Company B, Twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.  He
served as a soldier for four years and five months and participated
in many important battles marking the progress of the war.  He and
his wife .are devout members of the Babtist Church and to them were
born seven children, as follows: E. F. resides at Altus, Oklahoma,
where he is manager of the wholesale grocery firm of WILLIAMSON-
HALSELL-FRAZIER; Walter died at the age of nine years; Paul, whose
home is at McAlester, Oklahoma, was a member of the State Legislature
in 1915; Lura Rose is the wife of C. E. HARRITT, a farmer near
Watonga; Maud married Louis SHAW, who is engaged in farming at
Fairfield, Nebraska; Charles G. is he whose name forms the caption
for this review and Howard is a newspaper man at Mounds, Oklahoma.

Charles G. Nesbitt was educated in the public schools of Nebraska
and lived at home on his father's farm until he had reached his
sixteenth year.  At that time he went
to Eldorado Springs, Missouri, where he was engaged in truck farming
until September 1899, at which time he removed to Watonga, Oklahoma.
In February, 1900 in partnership with his brother, Paul, he
established the Oklahoma Senator, which they edited for about a year.
In the fall of 1900 Mr. Nesbitt was matriculated as a student in the
University of Oklahoma and he attended that institution for eighteen
months.  From January 1902, until the fall of 1904 he was engaged in
newspaper work in Watonga and on the latter date he and his brother
Paul took over the Watonga Herald which they owned and edited until
1907.  For nine months thereafter Mr. Nesbitt worked in a newspaper
office in Oklahoma City and during that time he made up the first
sixty editions of the Oklahoma News.  In May 1908, he began to work
for Tom FERGUSON on the Watonga Republican and in the fall of 1909 he
bought the Hinton Record from Henry A. WHITE.  This publication was
established in 1902; it is independent in politics and has a large
circulation in Caddo and neighboring counties.  The offices of the
Record are on Main Street and the printing machinery and presses are
up-to-date in every particular.

Mr. Nesbitt is a democrat in his political allegiance and he is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In October, 1903, at
Watonga, Oklahoma, was celebrated his marriage to Miss Lillian
WOOLVERTON, a daughter W. C. Woolverton, a farmer in the vicinity of
Abilene Kansas.  Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt have four children, as follows:
J. Wellington, C. Hubert, Norms May and William N., the three former
of whom are attending school at Hinton.

Transcribed by Jeanne M. Misleh, 23 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)