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DIAS A. SHRIVER
Vol. 3, p. 1178

Among the typical representatives of the agricultural element of
Oklahoma County, whose industry, energy and careful management in
farming operations have enabled them to relinquish active labors
while still in the prime of life and to enjoy in leisurely retirement
the fruits of former toil, is Dias A. Shriver, who is now living at
his comfortable home at No. 2949 West Tenth Street, Oklahoma City.
During the twenty years in which Mr. SHRIVER has been a resident of
the community, he has built up a reputation for substantial and
public-spirited citizenship, and for honorable dealing in all affairs
of life.

Born at Wadestown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, March 4, 1859,
Mr. Shriver is a son of Bazle G. and Mary Ann (WISE) Shriver, natives
of the same county, where the grandparents where also born and where
the family has been known and honored for many years. His father was
born January 7, 1833, and in 1864 they removed for the West, locating
on a farm in Scotland County, Missouri, where Bazle G. Shriver
continued to engage in farming operations during the remainder of his
life. In that county, amid agricultural surroundings, Dias. A.
Shriver was reared to manhood securing his education in the district
schools. He adopted farming and stockraising as a means of livelihood
on attaining his majority and continued to be thus employed there
until 895, when he disposed of his Missouri interests and moved to
the newly opened country of Oklahoma, settling with his family on a
farm three miles west of the business section of Oklahoma City. Here
he also farmed until 1905, when the young city spread out toward him
in such a tempting manner that he had his farm surveyed into small
tracts and town lots and sold all of it off with the exception of
twenty acres, upon which he still resides, and which he has improved
in a way that makes it one of the ideal places near the city, being
equipped with all modern comforts and conveniences, including natural
gas, water works and electric lights. After disposing of most of his
own land adjoining Oklahoma City, Mr. Shriver became a buyer and
seller of lands throughout the West, for a time handling large tracts
of Texas and Oklahoma. He is one of five heirs to inherit rich coal
and oil lands in West Virginia, from a brother of his late father,
valued easily at $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, but, naturally, it must
pass through a tedious litigation before being distributed among the
five beneficiaries. As a citizen, Mr. Shriver has always been active,
a liberal contributor to the material advancement of the county and
state and a conscientious and stirring booster for Oklahoma and the
Southwest.

At Memphis, Missouri, Mr. Shriver was united in marriage, April 14,
1881, with Miss Martha Jane BAKER, daughter of Franklin and Rosa
(SEDORIS) Baker, of Memphis, Missouri. Mrs. Shriver died December 9,
1911. To this marriage there were born four children, as follows:
Hugh H., born February 10, 1882; Beulah, born May 23, 1884; Arthur,
born August 11, 1887; and Eliza Vera, born February 13, 1899.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Jacque Pearce Reynolds, 27 October 1998.