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JOHN E. LUTTRELL
Vol. 3, p. 1300

Norman, the vigorous little city that has the prestige of being the
seat of the University of Oklahoma and is the judicial center of
Cleveland County, claims as one of the representative younger members
of its bar John Edmund Luttrell, who has here maintained his residence
since 1911 and who has here been established in the successful general
practice of his profession since his admission to the bar, on the 20th
of June, 1913.

Mr. Luttrell was born in Hill County, Texas, on the 26th of January,
1889, and is a son of Thomas J. and Sarah Martha (GOODRICH) Luttrell,
the former of whom was born in the State of Tennessee, on the 11th of
December 1854, and the latter of whom was born in Missouri, in 1859.
Thomas J. Luttrell is a member of a sterling pioneer family of
Tennessee, where he was reared and educated and whence, as a young
man, he went to Central Texas and gained his individual quota of
pioneer experience. There his marriage was solemnized and there he
continued his residence until 1889, when he came to Oklahoma
Territory, at the time of its being thrown open to white settlement,
and became a pioneer settler near Noble, Cleveland County, where he
obtained land and engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock-growing,
with which lines of industry he has been identified during his entire
active career. He and his wife now reside at Norman, where they have
maintained their home since 1907 and both are zealous members of the
Baptist Church at this place, in which he holds the office of deacon,
his political support being given to the democratic party, in the
faith of which he was reared.

Of the children the eldest is Ethel May. Carter Wesley died at the age
of twenty-three years, in 1907, his death having occurred in New
Mexico, where he had entered and instituted the improvement of a claim
of Government land; John E., of this review, was the next in order of
birth; Robert Thomas is engaged in the grocery business at Norman; and
Pearl Edith, who is now a successful and popular teacher in the
schools of Cleveland County, was graduated in the Norman High School,
after which she attended the University of Oklahoma, where she was a
popular member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.

John E. Luttrell continued his studies in the public schools until he
had virtually completed the curriculum of the Norman High School, and
from 1905 to 1911 he was a successful representative of the pedagogic
profession, as a teacher in the schools of Cleveland County. He then
assumed the office of clerk of the County Court, of which he continued
the incumbent until 1913, and in the meanwhile he had given close
attention to the study of law, with the result that he so fortified
himself in the science of jurisprudence that he proved himself
eligible for and was admitted to the bar on the 20th of June, 1913. He
forthwith engaged in practice at Norman and he has achieved the
success that stands indicative of ability and of that personal
popularity which marks objective appreciation of worth and
earnestness. Mr. Luttrell has appeared in numerous important cases,
both civil and criminal, and has gained reputation for resourcefulness
as a trial lawyer and well fortified judgment as a counselor. He is
now the junior member of the representative law firm of WILLIAMS &
LUTTRELL, with offices in the Hullum Building, on East Main Street.
His unqualified political allegiance is given to the democratic party,
he is an active member of the Cleveland County Bar Association, and
his civic loyalty and progressiveness are vouchsafed by his incumbency
of the position of secretary of the Norman Chamber of Commerce. He is
affiliated with Lexington Lodge, No. 72, Ancient Free & Accepted
Masons, and with Norman Camp, Woodmen of the World.

On the 8th of July, 1915, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Luttrell
to Miss Mary Dorothy MORTER, daughter of William B. Morter, a retired
business man and prominent citizen of Norman.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, March 4, 2000.


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).