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LEE DANIEL
Vol. 3, p. 1235

At the age of twenty-five Lee Daniel has already achieved the honors
of position and a promising reputation in the Oklahoma bar. Mr.
Daniel soon after finishing his university career came to Oklahoma,
and for the past three years has been actively identified with the
bar at Tulsa. His offices are in the Palace Building of that city.

Lee Daniel was born in Ackerman, Mississippi, May 5, 1890, a son of
William John and Millie V. (WHISNANT) Daniel. Both parents were born
in Choctaw County, Mississippi. His father was born in 1862 and died
in 1912, at the age of fifty-two while Mr. Daniel was a child when
his mother died. He is the older of two living children, one being
deceased. William J. Daniel was also a lawyer, was educated in the
University of Mississippi and Cumberland University at Lebanon,
Tennessee, and for more than twenty-five years was engaged in general
practice at Ackerman, Mississippi. He was a Mason, Odd Fellow, and
Knight of Pythias, and in politics a democrat.

Mr. Lee Daniel was also given the equipment of a liberal education
preparatory to his professional career. He attended the Washington
and Lee University in Virginia, the University of Mississippi, and
finished his law course in the Cumberland University at Lebanon,
Tennessee, where he graduated with the class of 1911. He was soon
afterwards admitted to all the courts of Mississippi, and in July,
1911, came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was admitted by examination to the
Oklahoma court. In December 1912, Mr. Daniel set up in active
practice associated with R. W. KELLOUGH. At the age of twenty-two, in
1912, he was elected a justice of the peace and took up the official
routine on January 1, 1913.

Mr. Daniel while in college and university belonged to the Sigma
Alpha Epsilon and the Tau Nu Epsilon Greek Letter Society, and in
Masonry is a member of the Tulsa Lodge No. 171, A. F. & A. M., of
McAlester Consistory of the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, and
of Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Tulsa. He is also a member of
the Tulsa Lodge No. 946, B. P. O. E., of the Tulsa Country Club, and
is president of the Pulsa Panhellenic Club. In politics he acts with
the democratic party.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith 3 November 3, 1998.