218                         HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

January 1, 1889. Health again failing him, and thinking a milder climate
and more active life desirable, early in the month of March, 1889, he
moved to Texas, locating at Amarillo, where he bought a section of
state land; three miles from the town, and, leasing several other sections,
engaged in cattle ranching, living on the ranch and practicing law in the
town. Owing to the demand for land and its advance in value as popu-
lation increased, he sold his ranch and cattle in the year 1902 and located
his family in Amarillo, In the campaign of 1904, the Prohibition party
of the state of Texas nominated Mr. Russell, attorney general.
    There are in this family six children—one son and five daughters.
The eldest, Horace M. Russell, who is a graduate of Butler College,
Indianapolis, occupied the chair of Latin, for one year, at Hereford
Christian College, Hereford, Texas, was for two years city editor of
the Amarillo Daily Panhandle, and is now on the editorial staff of the
Fort Worth Daily Record. The three eldest daughters have each taken
two years at Butler, one being there now. Mr. Russell is a member
of the Teeter-Russell Real Estate and Investment Company, Amarillo.
    The concluding paragraph of Mr. Russell’s correspondence, as here
quoted, will be read with pleasure by the many friends of the family
here in Clay county: "I have seen Amarillo grow from a hamlet of a
dozen houses on the extreme frontier to a modern, bustling, thriving city
of fifteen thousand. I have always been active in public matters and
reasonably diligent and successful in my private business. We are com-
fortably fixed here with a good home in the best part of the city, with
a good list of well located rental property, which brings an income suffi-
cient to keep us comfortable, whether I work or play."

    Fred M. Elkin, a successful and prominent lawyer at Guthrie, Okla-
homa, is a native of Clay county, son of Walter C. and Maria (Markle)
Elkin, who, in his boyhood, attended the public schools of Bowling
Green and Middlebury. He read law at Terre Haute, with G. B. Davis
and S. C. Davis and was admitted to the bar in 1888. His first cases in
the Vigo circuit court were against the Car Works Company, in which he
made a good impression with the bar and the court. He has won some
distinction in his profession, and has filled the position of assistant
attorney general for the state of Oklahoma.

    Joseph Cary Crist, a native of Clay county, son of Henry W. and
Lucinda (Liston) Crist, born in Lewis township, September 22, 1862,
his training that of the farm and the common schools. At the age of
eighteen he entered the Lebanon (Ohio) Normal school, then attended
the State Normal, at Terre Haute, and later the Valparaiso Normal,
from which institution he entered the Northwestern LTniversitv Medical
school, Chicago, from which he graduated March 29, 1887. His first
location in the practice of his profession was Richfield, Morton county,
Kansas, where he stayed but fourteen months, going thence to Lexing-
ton, Missouri, where he practiced medicine and surgery successfully for
twelve years. In his practice at Lexington he performed surgical work
so skillfully as to attract the attention of the profession throughout the
state and was frequently called hy the surgeons of Kansas City to assist
in critical and difficult operations there. In the month of November.
1900, he went to Chicago, locating in the practice at 3343 Calumet avenue,