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JOHN ATLAS HASTE
Vol. 3, p. 1194

A graduate in law from the Cumberland University of Lebanon,
Tennessee, where he took his LL. B. degree in 1905, being admitted to
the Tennessee bar in the following fall, John A. Haste has been an
Oklahoma lawyer since the year of statehood, 1907. He came to Murray
County, in that year, and since 1910 has been in active practice at
Sulphur. His offices are in the Cook Building.

He was born near Trenton, Gibson County, Tennessee, March 17, 1877,
and his people were long identified with that section of the state.
Mr. Haste has some childhood memories of his great-grandfather, who
lived in the home of his grandfather David Haste, who was born in
North Carolina in 1822, was a Baptist minister and did much pioneer
work for the church in Tennessee. Grandfather Haste died at Trenton,
Tennessee, in 1892. The members of this family originally came from
England and settled in North Carolina.

Mr. Haste's father is D. P. Haste, who was born November 26, 1851,
near Trenton, Tennessee, and has lived in that general locality all
his life, chiefly as a farmer, though at one time he conducted a
store. In politics he is a republican, and for several years served
as constable. He has long been active in Baptist Church work and for
a number of years served as clerk of his church. D. P. Haste married
Mary BURRESS, who was born December 5, 1851, in Gibson County,
Tennessee. Their children are: William H., Jr., who is a Baptist
minister and preacher living at Halls, Tennessee; John A.; Grace,
wife of R. M. MORRISON, a teacher at Ti, Oklahoma; George Melvin, who
lives on the old homestead farm near Trenton, Tennessee.

John Atlas Haste acquired his early education in the common schools
of Gibson County, and in 1901 graduated Bachelor of Science from
Laneview College, Tennessee. He also attended for one year the
Southwestern Baptist University at Jackson, Tennessee, an institution
now known as Union University. For several years he has occupied a
place in the educational field, having taught in Tennessee during
1903 and 1904, and for two years after completing his law course and
before coming to Oklahoma. Since 1910 he has been a teacher in the
public schools of Sulphur.

Like his father Mr. Haste is a republican. He is a trustee of the
Sulphur Baptist Church, is affiliated with Hickory Camp of the
Woodmen of the World, and is a member of the Murray County Bar
Association. At Kenton, Tennessee, in 1905, he married Miss Tossie
WRIGHT, daughter of J. W. Wright, a merchant at Trimble, Tennessee.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, October 26, 1998.