JAMES H. WHITESIDE - Jefferson Co. Okla

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

JAMES H. WHITESIDE, cashier of the First National Bank of Ryan has passed the greater part of his business life in Oklahoma, and been connected with several banks in this state and Texas. He was born near Dawson, Navarro county, Texas, in 1872, and received his common school education at Dawson under the pioneer teacher of that section of Texas, E. J. L. Wyrick. In 1890 he moved with his parents to the Panhandle of Texas, located a claim in Greer county and spent about nine years on the farm and ranch. After completing a business course in the Metropolitan Business College at Dallas, Texas, he secured a position with the Quanah National Bank, Quanah, Texas, in 1900, with whom he was creditably connected till the fall of 1902 when he resigned his position to organize the First State Bank of Eldorado, Oklahoma. Selling out soon after organization, he accepted the appointment of special commissioner and receiver of the defunct Exchange Bank of Hollis, Oklahoma, and in 1903 accepted a position with the First National Bank, St. Jo, Texas, with whom he was connected as assistant cashier until 1905, when he accepted the cashiership of the First National Bank of Ryan. He has always felt interested and took an active part in the upbuilding of the community or town in which he has lived, serving on town council board and is now a member of the school board elt Ryan endeavoring to make that town one of the best for educational advantages in southwest Oklahoma.