Bio of Schrock, Lennes L. - Grady County, Oklahoma

Transcribed by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>   18 Jun 2006
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LENNES L. SCHROCK. Prominent among the more active, intelligent, and 
progressive citizens of Tuttle is Lennes L. Schrock, who for many years 
has been identified with the settlements about old Silver City, and is now 
intimately associated with the business affairs of rattle as a dealer in 
real estate, handling not only the interests pertaining to his own several 
family allotments, but those of others. While "seeing the country," 
winning his way from place to place with the card of a "Union" printer, 
Mr. Schrock happened upon this section of the Indian Territory, and being 
pleased and fascinated with the novelty of the situation his intended 
brief stay resulted in his permanent location here, his marriage, and his 
adoption as a citizen to the Chocktaw Nation. An Ohio man by birth and 
breeding, he was born, July 7, 1871, in Delaware county, that state, a son 
of Rev. Homer Schrock.

Coming from Pennsylvania-German stock, Homer Schrock was born, about 
sixty-five years ago, in Westervelt, Ohio, coming from a family of 
prominence and distinction, his parents having furnished the Union army 
with four of their sons during the Civil war, and having four sons who 
became ministers of the gospel, in their zealous work promoting the 
interests of the Methodist denomination. Homer Schrock married a Miss 
Getzendantier, of Pennsylvania. She died in early life, leaving three 
children, namely: Lennes L. of this sketch; Ella, wife of Harry Reed, of 
Delaware, Ohio; and Artie, of Meridian, Mississippi.

Receiving excellent educational advantages as a youth, Lennes L. Schrock 
was graduated from the high school Of his native town when eighteen years 
old. Subsequently learning the trade, of a job printer in the office of F. 
T. Evans, in Delaware, Ohio, he followed it there for a time. In 1893, 
with the restless spirit characteristic of the Americans, he conceived the 
brilliant idea of making his trade useful in showing him the country. 
Therefore, armed with his Union card, he traveled through the Mississippi 
basin, Over the Rockies, onward to the Pacific coast, in the meantime 
working on such metropolitan papers as the Cincinnati Enquirer, the 
Louisville Courier Journal, and the San Francisco Examiner. It was then, 
while on his return trip, that Mr. Schrock made his advent in the 
Chickasaw Nation, in which he has since resided, happy, busy and 
contented. From the type case to a cow ranch, and the humdrum of farm 
life, was surely a radical departure but one in which he has ever taken 
delight, and which to him has proved both congenial and profitable.

In November, 1898, Mr. Schrock married Frances, daughter of Mr. Williams, 
of the Choctaw Nation, and established his home on his substantially and 
attractively improved allotment, adjoining the village of Tuttle. Four 
children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Schrock, namely: Arthur, 
Lennes, Homer and Foster.
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