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OWEN FREDERICK RENEGAR
Vol. 5, p. 1840

One of the younger professional men of Cordell is Owen Frederick
Renegar, who has been engaged in a general law practice here since he
was admitted to the bar in 1913. Mr. Renegar is of Tennessee birth
and parentage. He was born near Fayetteville, Lincoln County,
Tennessee, on June 23, 1892.

The Renegars settled in Virginia and North Carolina in early
colonial days, and many of the name will be found in those states
today, while at least three generations of them have helped to
develop the state in which the subject was born. His father, J. F.
Renegar, passed his early life as a stockman and farmer in Lincoln
Co. and in 1905 came to Oklahoma and settled near Cordell. J. F.
Renegar married Elsie SNODDY, the daughter of prominent Lincoln
County farmer and of the union there were four children: Owen F. was
the first born; Carrie and Loris are living and Alton, the youngest,
died in infancy.

Owen Frederick Renegar attended the country school of Lincoln County
and finished the common school work there. Soon after his parents
decided to move west and this seemed to bring somewhat of a stop to
school work for Mr. Renegar. He quit school work for about three
years and followed the work of a printer in the emulation of
Franklin. Soon he began to realize the necessity of a higher
education and he entered Cordell Academy and finished high school and
did some college work there, and was graduated therefrom. After
graduation he taught school for a while and was very successful in
that field holding a number of good positions among them
superintendent of Cowden Consolidated School.

All the time he was teaching he studied law and higher literary work
attending school whenever he could and taking extension work and
graduated from Potomac University, Washington, District of Columbia
in the law school and in the arts and sciences department with the
degree A. B. and LL. B. He was admitted to the bar in 1913, since
which time he has conducted a general office practice. He has thus
far enjoyed a reasonable measure of success and his future seems well
assured.

Mr. Renegar is a democrat and a Christian. He is a member of the
Mason, Odd Fellows, and Woodmen of the World. He has already shown
himself a leader in politics, and is the organizer and manager of the
democratic clubs of the Seventh Congressional District. Renegar is a
member of the Commercial Club of Cordell and is a member of the
County, State and National Bar Associations.

Mr. Renegar is a young man filled with the vim and power to
accomplish something in this world. He is progressive and believes in
the motto: "Lead always when the opportunity is right and just;
follow never without thorough consideration." He has accepted the
call of the world: "Young man, show us what thou canst do."

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Connie Ardrey, July 1999.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).