McAllister, J. W.

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Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 27, 1948
page 50

J. W. McAllister Rites Planned Today at 2 PM

Rites for J. W. McAllister, 72, early day telephone line builder who died Wednesday in his home at Harrah, will be at 2 pm Friday in Hahn funeral chapel. He will be buried in Memorial Park cemetery.

As a construction crew foreman, McAllister directed stringing of telephone lines across western Kansas and through southwestern Oklahoma in territorial days. From 1907 to 1912 he was foreman for the old Pioneer Telephone and Telegraph Co. here. _iding in construction of Oklahoma City's first telephone communications. He later worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and was retired in 1933.

Contributed by Marti Graham, December 2003. Information posted as courtesy to researchers. The contributor is not related to nor researching any of the above.

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