Marshall Co., OK; History of area Businesses --------------------------------- Trudy Marlow jmarlow@texoma.net Joyce Hayward joyce_hayward@bin.sww.net Source: "Memories of Marshall County Oklahoma - Then and Now" --------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ---------------------------------------------------- Newspaper Business *** "J.I. Henshaw was the first editor of the paper (The Oakland News), re-named The Madill News, after it was moved to Madill." About 1900 Marshall County Abstract Co. Bonded Abstracters Madill, Oklahoma S. P. Boyd, Owner Phone 258 *** "Marshall County Abstract Co. was operated by S.P.. Boyd and was purchased from his heirs by Ollie Logan Beard in Feb, 1944" (also S.P. Boyd was a member of the Rotary Club about 1926) (these were the only mention of S.P. Boyd, but a Thomas Boyd became a Mason about 1893 and about 1894 a T.M. Boyd was duly installed as an officer in the Masons.) Barbershop *** R.L Lankford - (a Mr. Lee Lankford is mentioned from 1900 til about 1920 as owning a barbershop but he sold about 1920 and there isn't any other information about him) Notary Public *** M. U. Ayres Notary Public in and for Southern District, Indian Territory R. L. Lankford Notary Public in and for Marshall County Please email any additions to jmarlow@texoma.net