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

ANGUS A. SPRING, for years a successful stock man of Ryan, Jefferson county, and a resident of Oklahoma since 1886, has always performed a good citizen's part in the public affairs of the place. He has filled some of the minor offices, has been a firm supporter of higher education, and has ever been ready to share his means to improve the material, intellectual or moral welfare of his community. Mr. Spring's youth and early manhood were passed on his father's farm in Louisiana, and what little education he acquired he fully earned by many miles of footwork. In his young manhood he began active life as a renting farmer, but gradually drifted entirely into the cattle business. In 1883 he left Louisiana, and, in the cattle interests ofM. S. Newsome, removed to Fisher county, Texas, that gentleman having also live stock in Jones county. In payment for his services, he soon entered into partnership with Mr. Newsome, his compensation being a portion of the increase of the herd. In 1888 they divided the cattle, according to agreement, and Mr. Spring brought his portion across the Red river into the "territory." Establishing himself twelve miles northeast of Ryan, and being a citizen by blood (his great-grandfather was a full blooded Choctaw), Mr. Spring fenced a generous tract of country in this locality, and occupied it as pasture land. For ten years he handled his stock at a substantial profit, marketing it off the grass. He then began feeding somewhat extensively, but unsatisfactory selling prices ate up most of his former profits. He has since returned to his old plan, so that fluctuations no longer seriously affect him, and he has continued to handle from three to six hundred animals yearly with most satisfactory results. He is an especially well known shipper in the markets of Kansas City, St. Louis and Fort Worth. .
Angus A. Spring is a native of Tangipahoe parish, Louisiana, where he was born on the 21st of May, 1858. His father, John S. Spring, a farmer, was born in Pontotoc county, Mississippi, in the year 1838, and died in the Louisiana parish named, in 1907. He was a man of rather limited education, and was a son of a slave owner. During the Civil war he served as a lieutenant in the Confederate army, and the result of hostilities was practically to ruin the family. An active Democrat, after the war he played quite a part in Louisiana politics, serving for twelve years as sheriff of Washington parish. William Spring, the grandfather, was also born in Mississippi and died in Louisiana, at the age of eighty years. He was a half breed Choctaw Indian and married Mary Franklin, a woman of the same blood. The paternal great-grandfather was a full blooded Choctaw and a farmer, and his wife (a Miss Morris) died in Mississippi.
John S. Spring, father of our subject, married Drusilla Cooper, a daughter of Henry and Martha (Stecker) Cooper, of Louisiana. The wife still resides in Washington parish, that state. The children of this union are: Angus A., of this article; John F., Paugus T. and Bartola P., all of Washington parish; Glaris T., who resides in Fisher county, Texas, and Ruble, of the home parish in Louisiana. .
Mr. Spring married in 1878 Miss Dora Elliott and they are the parents of five children: Clatile, Edith, Earl, Vernice, and Letrice.