Bios.Tulsa,OK SMILEY, Thomas Emmett
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Posted by Linda on Sat, 27 Feb 1999
Surname: SMILEY, HALL, PERRYMAN, SMITH, FORTNER, DICKINSON, GOODMAN
THOMAS EMMETT SMILEY
Vol. 3, p. 966 
Thirty years a resident of Oklahoma and a pioneer business man of Tulsa, Mr. Smiley was born at Belfast, Marshall County, Tennessee, December 19, 1863, son of Newton J. and Sarah Elizabeth (HALL) Smiley, both natives of Marshall County, the former a son of Hugh Smiley, who was born in Scotland, of Irish parentage, and who came to America when a young man, first settling in South Carolina and then removing to Tennessee. 
Reared on the old homestead farm, Thomas Emmett Smiley attended the schools of Marshall County, Tennessee, and lived at home until 1882. At the age of nineteen he went to the Southwest, remaining in Texas about one year, and in the summer of 1884 came to Indian Territory. He reached Tulsa, then a mere village on the 2d of June. He was employed for some time as a clerk in the pioneer mercantile establishment of the H.C. HALL Merchandise Company, and later worked in the carpenter's trade. For some time he was on the Turkey-Track Ranch in the Sac and Fox Indian Nation. Later at Tulsa Mr. Smiley developed a business in buying and selling of walnut logs and other hardware products, and finally became of the interested principals of the DICKINSON-GOODMAN-Smiley Lumber Company, of which he was one of the organizers. With the company he continued actively for a period of fourteen years. At Tulsa he has had at different times a share in the local government, and has identified himself with most of the movements of a social and civic nature. He is a democrat, and in the Masonic fraternity has affiliations with Tulsa Lodge No. 71, A.F. & A.M.; Tulsa Chapter No. 52, R.A.M.; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine; and Indian Consistory, Scottish Rite at Guthrie, in which he received the thirty-second degree. He is a member of Tulsa Lodge no. 946, B.P.O.E. 
Mr. Smiley married Miss Nora PERRYMAN, who was born and reared in Indian Territory, and who died October 6, 1898. She is survived by three children: Lottie, Emmett and Allen, and the only daughter is now the wife of William SMITH of Tulsa. June 16, 1901 Mr. Smiley married Miss Sarah FORTNER, who was born in Kansas. The two children of this union are Keith W. and T.E. Jr. Mr. Smiley has his business office in the First National Bank Building and his home is at 61 South Detroit Street. 
Transcribed: February 15, 1999. 
[Joan Case [lcase@manti.com] wrote on Sun, 22 Aug 1999,
Emmitt Smiley is on my web page:
http://members.tripod.com/perryman_2]