NEWTON S. FIGLEY - Jefferson Co. Okla

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Information below was copied from:
"History of Oklahoma" by Luther Hill, published in 1908"

NEWTON S. FIGLEY, postmaster of Hastings, one, of the pioneer farmers and dealers in horses and mules, in his locality, is a man moral worth and substantial character. He was educated in the country schools of Brown county, Kansas, and reached manhood on his father's farm near Horton. Here he became thoroughly posted in all that pertains to the live stock industry, but when forced to leave the family homestead on account of paternal reverses he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and temporarily worked as a freight brakeman for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Company. He was thus engaged when the Comanche country was opened to settlement, and, absenting himself from work long enough to register, drew No. 1554, and located the northeast quarter of section three, township four, S., range nine, W. In the main he has been engaged in farming ever since. His faithful Republicanism, combined with his solid and popular qualities, secured his appointment to the postmastership of Hastings in the month of February, 1908.
Postmaster Figley is a native of Carroll county, Ohio, born November 5, 1869, son of James J. Figley, who was for years a stockman and farmer of Brown county Kansas, where he settled in 1873. There also he died in August, 1899. The Elder Figley was a man of great industry and natural ability, and at one time owned one of the best improved and most abundantly stocked of the many good tracts of land near Horton. He was also an active and representative Republican of his county but his good comradeship induced him to become the endorser for too many unreliable or unfortunate associates and he himself suffered financial ruin. James J. Figley married Sarah M. Huston, who yet resides in Brown county, Kansas, and they became the parents of the following: Andrew, of Brown county; Eva, wife of John Gray, a resident of Jackson county, Kansas; Newton S., of this sketch; Lizzie, who is the wife of James Farmer and lives in Thomas county, Kansas; and Anson, of Canton, Ohio.
Newton S. Figley was married in Brown county, Kansas, on December 29, 1896, to Anna Hopper, daughter of Joseph B. and Charity (Henion) Hopper, the famity coming from Bergen county, New Jersey, where Mrs. Figley was born August 20, 1874. The children of the Hopper family were as follows: Rachel, who married A. V. Berry and died in Brown county, Kansas; Arthur, living at Maryville, Missouri; Mrs. Newton S. Figley; Myra and Irving, also of Brown county, Kansas, and Lloyd, of Cairo, Illinois.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Figley are Joseph M., Florence, Gertrude and Preston N.