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PLUMER W. LUTMAN
Vol. 3, p. 1877-1878

Maintaining his residence in the thriving little City of Edmond,
Oklahoma County, and prominently concerned in its development and
upbuilding, Mr. LUTMAN has been a resident of this county since 1898,
and that he has an impregnable place in popular confidence and esteem
needs no further voucher than the statement that he has served
consecutively since 1910 as a member of the board of county
commissioners of Oklahoma County-- a body whose functions are of the
most important order, and involve the expenditure of many thousands
of dollars of public funds in the county in which is situated the
metropolis and capital city of the state. Mr. Lutman has been closely
and successfully concerned with the agricultural and livestock
industries during the entire period of his residence in Oklahoma, has
been vigorous and progressive as a dealer in real estate, and his
influence and co-operation are invariable given in the furtherance of
judicious policies of local government and in support of measures and
enterprises projected for the general good of the community.

Plumer Wartes Lutman was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, on the
14th of February, 1866, and is a son of John Miller Lutman and
Margaret E. (COMP) Lutman, both of whom were born and reared in the
old Keystone State. Mrs. Comp was the daughter of Rev. Andrew Comp.
Mr. John M. Lutman removed with his family to Morgan County,
Missouri, in 1867, both he and his wife having passed the residue of
their lives in that state.

He whose name introduces this article was about one year old at the
time of the family immigration to Missouri, and he was reared to
adult age in Morgan County, that state, where he continued to attend
the public schools until he had completed a course in the high school
at Versailles, the county seat. That he made good use of the
advantages thus afforded him is evidenced by the fact that after
leaving the high school he was for three years a successful and
popular teacher in the public schools of Pettis County, Missouri. He
then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and during the
long intervening years he has never severed his allegiance to this
great basic industry. He is at the present time the owner of valuable
property in Oklahoma, where he has maintained his home from the time
of coming to the territory, in 1898. He established his residence
that year in the little village of Edmond, and he has been one of the
prominent figures in the development of the town into one of the most
attractive and prosperous cities of the state, besides having
contributed much to the general industrial and civic progress of
Oklahoma County.

From 1900 until 1909 he served as assistant postmaster at Edmond and
in the meanwhile controlled a large and prosperous business in the
handling of real estate. In 1910 Mr. Lutman was elected, as a
republican, a member of the board of county commissioners, and of
this office he has since continued the loyal, circumspect and valued
incumbent, through re-election in 1912. Concerning his association
with this service for his county the following estimate has been
given: "As a member of this important board, Mr. Lutman has
distinguished himself as a most proficient and capable official, and
his counsel has frequently resulted in saving to the tax-payers of
the county large sums of money, through his having prevailed upon his
associate members to coincide with his conservative and judicious
policies. A successful business man and one of utmost civic loyalty,
he has naturally brought to bear in the discharge of his public
duties marked efficiency and safe business methods."

Mr. Lutman is known as a zealous and effective advocate of the
principles and policies of the republican party, has attained to the
thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of the
time-honored Masonic fraternity, besides which both he and his wife
are affiliated with the adjunct organization, the Order of the
Eastern Star. In the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he has filled
all official chairs in both the subordinate lodge and the encampment.
Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church.

At Billings, Noble County, Oklahoma, on the 15th of August, 1900,
Mr. Lutman wedded Miss Beulah M. SEARS, a daughter of Wiggins W. and
Mary (CUSHINGBERRY) Sears, both natives of Kentucky, in which state
Mrs. Lutman's paternal grandfather was a slaveholder and an extensive
breeder of fine horses and mules prior to the Civil war, he having
been said to have had the largest number of mules in the Bluegrass
State, long famous as a center for the breeding and raising of high-
grade stock. Mr. and Mrs. Lutman have no children.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Dorothy M. Tenaza, July 17, 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).