Bios of CLYDE R. THURLWELL.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   The splendid vitality of Tulsa as an industrial and commercial center 
has drawn to the city men of exceptional ability not only in general 
business administration but also those representative of the best in- 
the various professions. Clyde R. Thurlwell is one of the men who is 
here upholding effectively the prestige of the legal profession, in 
which he controls a successful practice, with office headquarters in 
the Unity building, giving his attention largely to law business 
pertaining to land titles and to the handling of probate matters.
 
   Mr. Thurlwell was born in McHenry county, Illinois, on the 8th of 
September, 1880, and is a son of John and Ruth (Wilkins) Thurlwell, 
the former born near the city of Liverpool, England, and the latter 
in the state of New York. The father was a youth when he came to the 
United States, and in the early '50s became a resident of Illinois, 
where eventually he gained prestige as a successful contractor and builder.
 
   The public schools afforded to Clyde R. Thurlwell his early 
educational discipline and in 1902 he was graduated from the law 
department of Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Indiana. In the 
same year Mr. Thurlwell assumed a clerical position in a law office 
in the city of Chicago, where he gave a part of his time to 
stenographic work and where also he gained his initial experience 
in the practice of his profession. He continued his residence in 
the great western metropolis until 1908, when he came to Oklahoma 
and accepted the position of court stenographer or reporter at 
Okmulgee. Since 1911 he has been established in the practice of his 
profession at Tulsa, with naught of spectacular activity but with 
resourcefulness and discrimination in the handling of the very 
substantial law business which he has here built up. In politics 
Mr. Thurlwell supports men and measures meeting the approval of 
his judgment, irrespective of strict partisan lines. He is affiliated 
with the Masonic fraternity and is an active member of the Tulsa 
County Bar Association.
 
   Mr. Thurlwell was twenty-eight years of age at the time of his 
marriage to Miss Clara Bramer, who was born and reared in the state 
of Wisconsin and who graciously presides in their pleasant home in 
Tulsa. They have no children.