Bios.Tulsa,OK GETMAN, Roy R. 
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Posted by Lois L. Coffelt on Wed, 11 Nov 1998
Surname: GETMAN, CORLISS, MCNAUGHTON
ROY R. GETMAN
Vol. 3, p. 1159 
One of the oldest drug men of Tulsa is Roy R. Getman who for the past fourteen years has been identified chiefly with the drug trade, and is now proprietor of one of the largest and highest class drug stores in the city. Mr. Getman has possessed that quality of enterprise which enables his activities to expand and keep pace with the development of such a rapid growing city as Tulsa. When he first became identified with the town it was a mere village, and he has been both a witness and a factor in its growth to one of the most important cities of the state. 
Roy R. Getman was born at Darien, Erie County, New York, December 30, 1883, a son of Simon J. and Ida H. (CORLISS) Getman. His father was born in Erie County near Darien in 1858, and died January 11, 1908. The mother was born at Plessis, Herkimer County, New York, in 1862, and died December 18, 1911. Of their two children the daughter, Eva Fern, died at the age of four. Simon J. Getman was educated in the district schools and early in life learned the drug business, which he followed at Bairdstown, Ohio, subsequently established a hotel on Keuqa Lake in Western New York, and in 1892 moved out to Charles City, Iowa, where he was in the wholesale cigar and notion business for several years. In 1901 he removed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and bought and sold real estate in Northeastern Oklahoma for about a year, and in 1902 bought the P. E. Coin drug business in which he was engaged until his death. He was a republican in politics, and was affiliated with Tulsa Lodge No.
946, B. P. O. E. 
Roy R. Getman acquired his early education and training in several different states, in New York, at Charles City, Iowa, and in the German Methodist College at Charles City. At the age of seventeen, having successfully passed a civil service examination, he became employed in the government railway mail service, and that was his work until the age of twenty-one. Then employed by C. F. D. Smith in the drug business, he continued that until the fall of 1902, and then came to Tulsa. Here he and his father were together in the drug trade, and after the latter's death in 1908 Mr. Getman continued in the business alone until 1911. He then sold out, but in 1912 returned to his former vocation, and now has one of the first class drug stores in the city. 
Mr. Getman was married September 14, 1906, to Miss Winifred G. MCNAUGHTON, who was born in Wisconsin. They have one daughter, Virginia Fern. Mr. Getman is well known in social circles and is a member of Tulsa Lodge No. 71, A. F. & A. M., Tulsa Chapter No. 52, R. A. M.; Trinity Commandery, K. T., No. 20; Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine; and India Consistory of the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite. He is also affiliated with Tulsa Lodge No. 946, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a democrat. 
Transcribed by Lois L. Coffelt, November 6, 1998