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FRED MCDANIEL
Vol. 3, p. 1137

The appointment of Fred McDaniel as postmaster of Bartlesville on
February 13, 1913, was a well deserved honor bestowed upon one of the
native sons of the old Cherokee Nation and for many years one of the
most public spirited and successful of Bartlesville's business men.
Fred McDaniel has been actively identified with the life of
Bartlesville since the beginning of that city's marvelous growth and
prosperity.

Fred McDaniel was born near Fort Gibson in the old Cherokee Nation,
April 1, 1872, a son of Walter and Jane (VANN) McDaniel. His father
was of Scotch-Irish ancestry but with an important intermingling of
Cherokee blood, while the mother was of pure Cherokee stock. Fred was
their only child, and about a year after his birth his mother died
and his father married again, but died when he was six years old.
Both the children of the second marriage are also deceased.

Fred McDaniel spent his childhood largely in the home of an aunt
near Tahlequah, and finished his education in the Cherokee Orphan
Asylum near Pryor Creek in 1888. For a man who has reached
commendable distinction in later years he overcame many disadvantages
and hardships as a boy. He worked on farms and in stores and at any
legitimate occupation until 1894, and in that year became deputy
district clerk at Claremore. In 1897, on leaving that office he found
employment in a store at Talala under the direction of Chief ROGERS,
and early in 1900 located at Bartlesville. His first year in that
city was in the employ of George B. KEELER in the merchandise
business, and he has since brought the score of his activities and
has been prominent as a real estate man, in insurance fields, also in
the oil and gas industry and in political life. He established at
Bartlesville the Red Cross Pharmacy, and has been connected with the
First National Bank, the Bartlesville Foundry and Machine Works and
the Bartlesville-Dewey Interurban Company. As a real estate man he
opened McDaniel Addition comprising eight acres in Southern
Bartlesville.

While successful as a business man Mr. McDaniel has also been a man
of leadership in local politics. In 1903 he was elected mayor of
Bartlesville and served four consecutive one-year terms, and in 1908
was re-elected for two years, but served on 1 l/2 years before the
inauguration of the commission form of government. As a former
Cherokee citizen he was selected as a member of the commission, with
E. L. COOKSON and W. W. HASTINGS as associates, which during 1906-07
wound up the affairs of the Cherokee government as one of the steps
preparatory to statehood. In the democratic party he has served as
chairman of the County Campaign Committee and is one of the most
influential democrats in Northeastern Oklahoma. He assumed the duties
of his office as postmaster at Bartlesville on March 16, 1915. The
Bartlesville office is a first class office.

Mr. McDaniel is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the
Mystic Shrine, and also affiliates with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. His first wife was Miss Ella MUSGROVE, and his one
child, Fredrick William, comes from that union. In November 1908, he
married Miss Rosanna HARNAGE, a native of the Cherokee Nation and a
son was born by the second marriage, F. Maser McDaniel, born in 1909.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Earline Barger, December 16, 1999.