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JUDGE WILLIAM MARSHALL ENGART
Vol. 5, p. 1846-1847

A prominent Shawnee attorney and vice president of the Shawnee
library board, Judge Engart was born in Boone County, Indiana,
October 14, 1849. The Engart family is of Dutch-Irish descent and
arrived in Virginia about the time of the Revolutionary war. His
father, Absalom Engart, was born in Virginia in 1818 and died in
Clinton County, Indiana, in 1886. He came to Boone County, Indiana,
about 1845, having been reared and married in his native state. He
was a farmer and stock raiser and about 1876 he moved to Clinton
County, where he died.

Absalom Engart married Elizabeth BRAWLEY, who was born in Virginia
in 1820 and died in Clinton County, Indiana, in 1876. Their children
were: Diana JOHNSON, a widow, who lives in Clinton County, Indiana;
Marietta, who married J.C. GHENT, a druggist, both being now
deceased; Martha, who married John PAULEY, a stockman, and they also
are deceased; Caroline, who married John JELF, a carpenter, and both
died at Chattanooga, Tennessee; Rush, a farmer, who died at
Frankfort, Indiana, and William M.

Judge Engart attended the common schools in Boone County, Indiana,
and for a time was a student at Thornton Academy, under John C.
Ridpath, the great popular historian. He graduated Bachelor of
Science in 1869 from Stockwell University. His early life was spent
on his father's farm, and for three terms he was a teacher in the
district schools of Boone County. In the meantime he took up the
study of law, and also attended the law department of the Indiana
University at Bloomington. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in
1873, and has had more than forty years of active experience as a
lawyer. His first practice was done at Colfax, Indiana, from 1873 to
1881. Then for a few years, until 1888, he was engaged in farming in
Jasper County, Missouri, and from there went to Dallas, Texas, and
was in the planing mill business there until 1892, in which year he
returned to Indiana.

Judge Engart is an Oklahoma pioneer, having come to the territory in
1893, and after securing admission to the bar practiced at Guthrie
for ten years. On January 1, 1904, he removed to Shawnee and has
since enjoyed a general civil and criminal practice, his offices
being over the State National bank. He has served as president of the
Pottawatomie County Bar Association and in politics he is affiliated
with the socialist party.

In Clinton County, Indiana, in 1875, Judge Engart married Mrs. Matie
J. (DEAN) LONG. Her father was a farmer in Carroll County, Indiana.
The seven children of their marriage are: Linus M., who is connected
with the Royal Typewriter Company and resides at Corpus Christi,
Texas; Zoe, wife of A. E. CHURCH, who is in the fire department at
Los Angeles; Grace, wife of Joe HAWKINS, proprietor of a restaurant
in Shawnee; Blanche, wife of N. L. HARDIN, connected with the Pacific
Railway at Los Angeles; C. R. with the L. C. Smith Typewriting
Company at Shawnee; and Gertrude, a stenographer at Shreveport,
Louisiana.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Allison Sheldon July 27, 1999.

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).

[NOTE: Gerre Engard Byrd (ggengard@aol.com) writes 13 Oct 1999 ~ It
is believed by this researcher that Absalom is the son of William
ENGART and Nancy EVANS of Botetourt Co., VA. William is a son of
Philip who is son of Philip, the 1728 immigrant.
William may be the twin brother of my gr gr gr grandfather, Peter
Engard.]