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JAMES M. MOOMAU
Vol. 3, p. 1322

Since coming from the East and locating in Cleveland County ten
years ago, James M. Moomau has advanced rapidly into prominence and
success as a merchant and citizen, and now has one of the leading
stores at Norman and is also president of the Chamber of Commerce of
that city.

He was born at Greenbank, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, May 8,
1877. His grandfather, John Moomau, emigrated from France and settled
in Virginia and died in Franklin of West Virginia, where he had been
a farmer and stockman. The father was Dr. J. P. Moomau, who was born
at Franklin, West Virginia, in 1840, and died at Greenbank in that
state in 1908. He spent practically all his years in one general
locality, and after graduating M. D. from the Jefferson Medical
College of Philadelphia practiced as a physician and surgeon and was
a kindly family doctor for hundreds of patients in that locality. He
also owned and conducted a farm. He was a man of considerable
prominence and for two terms represented his home district in the
West Virginia Legislature. He was a democrat and an elder in the
Presbyterian Church. Doctor Moomau married Nannie ARBOGAST, who was
born in Greenbank, West Virginia, in 1850 and still lives there.
Their children are: Flora C., living with her mother; E. S., a
druggist at Lewisburg, West Virginia; Mary, wife of Dr. C. L. AUSTIN,
a physician and surgeon at Cleveland County, Oklahoma; Dr. L. H., who
is a graduate of the University of Maryland in the medical
department, and succeeded his father in practice at Greenbank, where
he now resides; Flora C.; Lillian, Nannie Boone, and Lucy, all living
with their mother; and Fred, who manages the homestead farm back in
West Virginia.

James M. Moomau was given a substantial education, first in grammar
and high schools and subsequently in the Danville Military School at
Danville, Virginia where he completed his course in 1895. During the
vacation periods he helped to pay his way by various lines of
mercantile employment and that was also a valuable experience when he
entered business for himself. From 1895 he spent several years in
mercantile employment, and from 1901 to 1902 had charge of a dry
goods store in Coatsville, Pennsylvania. He was next manager of a
general store at Belington, West Virginia.

In January, 1905, Mr. Moomau came to Norman, Oklahoma, and after one
year as a farmer worked as a clerk in that city until 1908. Here he
established a clothing and men's furnishing store on East Main Street
under the firm name of Mooman & KIMBERLIN, a partnership which was
dissolved in August, 1915, leaving Mr. Moomau sole proprietor and
owner of one of the principal stores of its kind in Cleveland County.

For the past Three years Mr. Moomau has been an alderman of Norman
and for two of these years was president of the council. He is
president of the Chamber of Commerce, is a democrat in politics, is a
director and secretary and treasurer of the Presbyterian Church, and
affiliates with the Knights and Ladies of Security and with Norman
Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America.

In 1896 at McDowell, Virginia, he married Miss Mattie PETERSON,
daughter of the late Charles Peterson, who was a cattleman and land
owner in that state. They have four children: Hattie Poyntz, now a
freshman in the Norman High School; Mary Catherine, in the eighth
grade; James P., in the third grade; and Fred Taylor.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, October 12, 1998.