Bio of Marrs, Samuel O. - Grady County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Gene Phillips 18 Jun 2006 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== SAMUEL O. MARRS, M. D., of Chickasha, is an excellent representative of the medical fraternity and especially worthy of mention in a work of this kind. A popular and successful physician, he identified himself with the leading interests of the city before its incorporation, coming here when it was but a small town and having since ably assisted in its rapid growth and development. He was born May 13, 1867, in Metcalfe county, Kentucky, which was also the birthplace of his father, Samuel H. Marrs. He comes of English stock, the emigrant ancestor of the Marrs family having emigrated from England to the United States at a very early period of its settlement. His grandfather, Samuel W. Marrs, was a resident of Metcalfe county, Kentucky, living there until his death in 1880, at the age of fourscore and four years. Born in, 1835, Samuel H. Marrs was liberally educated for his time and during his earlier life taught school in Metcalfe county. In the Civil war he served the Confederacy as captain of a company of militia. Subsequently he was actively employed for many years in tilling the soil of his native county, chiefly as a tobacco raiser, remaining thus engaged until 1894, when he removed to Tarrant county, Texas. Locating in Mansfield, he continued there as a farmer until his death in 1900. He married Telitha Woodward, who was of Irish descent, her grandfather Woodward having been born in Ireland. She survived her husband and is now residing in Mansfield, Texas. She bore her husband the following named children: Silas T., of Mansfield, Texas; Nancy G., wife of Charles Kinnaird, of the same place; James K., of Abilene, Texas; Samuel O., of this review; Sudie, deceased; William G., of Cleveland, Oklahoma; and Henry C. Marrs, deceased. Although the father of Samuel O. Marrs was a thorough believer in education and its benefits both to the individual and the community, he was not able financially to give his children a thorough schooling. The Doctor's systematic mental training was therefore virtually deferred until he had attained his majority and was able to defray his school expenses himself. As a boy he performed faithful labor in the tobacco field and his earnings of later years enabled him to acquire an education which fitted him to teach; but after serving as a teacher in his native county for three terms he went to Nashville, Tennessee, for the purpose of prosecuting his medical studies in the State University Medical College. In 1893 he was graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D. Dr. Marrs began the practice of his profession at Mansfield, Texas, remaining there until November, 1897, when he settled in Chickasha, where he has since resided, with the exception of the period he spent in Chicago, during 1902, pursuing a post-graduate course. Skilful and faithful to the interests of his patients, Dr. Marrs has here identified himself with the practice of medicine and surgery, in which he has acquired a large and remunerative patronage. His first residence in the place was located on Chickasha avenue, where the business of the Indian town was transacted, largely in frame buildings, the residential area then covering but a few blocks. The Doctor became the owner of a choice corner on the west side of the town, on Seventh street, upon which he erected two residences and otherwise improved the property. This location, which is his office, is now in the midst of a well populated district, and represents a valuable piece of property. On February 14, 1894, Dr. Marrs married, in Mansfield, Texas, Bertie A. Smith, daughter of Joel and Parmelia (Clark) Smith, who moved to that place from Minnesota. She is an only child. The Doctor and Mrs. Marrs have one child, LaRue, born on the 6th of March, 1895. Dr. Marrs belongs to several fraternities and is a member of both the County and State Medical societies, at one time serving as president of the former. He is also a member of the United States Board of Pension Examiners, of which he is secretary, and is examiner for many of the old-line insurance companies, as well as for several fraternal societies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html