Bio of English, A. Houston - Grady County, Oklahoma

Transcribed by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>   18 Jun 2006
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A. HOUSTON ENGLISH, of Rush Springs, Grady county, a prominent stock 
dealer of this section of the state, and for twenty years variously 
identified with the material development of the country, is a native of 
Grayson county, Texas, born on the 25th of June, 1871. His father, Jack 
English, was early left an orphan and reared in Missouri, and at the time 
of the outbreak of the Civil war was living in Joplin, Missouri. He served 
in the Confederate army, and in 1864 married Miss Amanda Hackler, whose 
father was a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, where he died. Shortly after 
his marriage Mr. English located with his wife in Grayson county, Texas, 
and the family afterward removed to Beef Creek (now Maysville), Oklahoma, 
and in 1889 Mrs. English passed away there, at the age of forty-six years. 
The father later settled in Ninnekah, Oklahoma, where he still resides. 
The children of his family are: B. W. English, engaged in the elevator 
business at Bradley, Oklahoma; A. Houston, of this sketch, and Lella, wife 
of Thomas Marshall, of Ninnekah, Oklahoma.

As his parents came into the Chickasaw Nation in the early eighties, the 
boyhood and youth of A. Houston English were passed amid primitive 
conditions, in which the log school house and the wild pursuits of the 
range played the most conspicuous parts. As a cowboy, his earliest 
employers, aside from his father, were Messrs. Witherspoon and Stephens, 
widely known at that time. But in 1891 the young man abandoned the range, 
married, and assumed the more settled pursuits of agriculture near 
Maysville, Oklahoma. For about six years he rented land without much 
success, then moving his family and homestead to Bradley, the five years 
of his residence in that locality gaining him a substantial foothold on 
the substantial things of life. In November, 1903, he abandoned the farm 
and located in Rush Springs, first as a butcher and grocer, and later as a 
stock dealer. He retains his farm as a feeding ground for live stock, has 
furnished it with good buildings and other conveniences for that purpose, 
and, with his growing business in town, he is now classed among the 
substantial citizens who are typical of the progress of the new state. He 
is also a property owner of the town; was one of the organizers of the 
First National Bank of Rush Springs and is a director of the institution, 
and has also served as a .member of the Rush Springs Council. In politics, 
he and his have always been unswerving Democrats. The wife of Mr. English, 
to whom he was married March 13, 1891, was Miss Martha Worsham, daughter 
of Thomas Worsham, a Kentuckian. The children of this union are Jessie and 
Jack.
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