McNabb, Charles A.

Surname Index
Updated: 17 Jan 2012

Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
November 9, 1968, page 4

Charles A. McNabb, was born at Fairfield, Greene County, Ohio, December 11, 1861. In 1885, he moved west, settling at Winfield, Kansas. Subsequently, he engaged in the milling business at Douglass, Kansas, where many of the Oklahoma "boomers" lived.

He settled at Oklahoma City, April 22, 1889, where he embarked in the flour, grain and seed business. Several years later he located on a farm where he specialized in fruit growing. He was one of the organizers of the Territorial Horticultural Society, in which he successively served as secretary and as president. In 1903 he superintended the collection of the Oklahoma exhibit for the St. Louis World’s Fair and had active charge of the same throughout the exposition, in 1904. In July, 1905, he was elected secretary of the Territorial Board of Agriculture, serving in that capacity until the advent of statehood. He become identified with agricultural college extension work, as county agent in 1913.

He was later promoted to district agent and in 1916, was advanced to the position of "field agent in marketing," representing the Bureau of Markets of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Oklahoma A. & M. College. Since the beginning of 1918, he has occupied a similar position with the New Mexico College of Agriculture where he has rendered constructive and useful service.

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