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THE CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA
10 Plat of Taft, Indian Territory, Muskogee County Court House, instrument dated
September 22, 1905, filed September 26, 1905.
11 "Sketches of Taft."
12 The Muskogee Cimeter, May 8, 1908.
13 Shirk, "First Postoffices," 231.
14 Pamphlet issued by the Reeves Realty Company, no date. However, the College
Heights Addition was established with the opening of Halochee Institute and the
plat for the addition was filed in the Muskogee County Court House in 1906.
1 The Muskogee Cimeter, December 21, 1905.
16 U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth
Census of the United States, 1910, Population. See also E. Hastain, Township Plats of
the Creek Nation (Muskogee, Oklahoma: Model Printing Company, 1910).
17 The Muskogee Cimeter, January 12, 1905; January 17, 1905; February 9, 1905;
February 25, 1905; March 16, 1905; personal interview with Bennie Scott, wife of
Grant Scott, Taft, Oklahoma, July 13, 1987; telephone interview with Alexander
Springs, Superintendent of Schools, Taft, Oklahoma, November, 1986.
18 A petition for incorporation of Taft, scheduled for hearing May 8, 1907, was
published in The Muskogee Cimeter, April 12, 1907.
19 Jimmie Lewis Franklin, Journey Toward Hope (Norman: The University of
Oklahoma Press, 1982), 22-31.
20 Personal interview with C. R. Grimmett, Postmaster, Taft, Oklahoma, July 13,
1987.
21 The Muskogee Cimeter, January 12, 1905; March 9, 1905.
22 "Sketches of Taft"; Grant Scott interview; Bennie Scott interview.
23 Grant Scott interview; "Sketches of Taft."
24 Property Deed, Muskogee County Court House, Book 77, 276; The Muskogee
Cimeter, February 28, 1908.
25 Bank of Taft indentures filed at the Muskogee County Court House, Muskogee,
Oklahoma.
26 Grant Scott interview.
27 Ibid.
28 "Sketches of Taft"; Grant Scott interview; Bennie Scott interview. Taft's mayors
have been Charlie E. Ford, J. C. Springs, R. Baker, William Sanders, D. C. Noble,
George Scott, Elizabeth Scott, Cecil Linebarger, Duncan Curl (son of pioneer Boson
Curl), Ezra Gaines, Billy Ray Phillips, and Lelia Foley Davis.
29 The Muskogee Cimeter, July 21, 1904; Grant Scott interview; Bennie Scott
interview.
30 The Muskogee Cimeter, November 17, 1904.
31 Franklin, Journey Toward Hope, 22-31; "Sketches of Taft"; Grant Scott inter-
view.
32 U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census, Population of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, 1907, Bulletin 89: 23, 32.
33 "Sketches of Taft"; Bennie Scott interview.
34 Arrell M. Gibson, The History of Oklahoma, 4th ed. (Norman: The University of
Oklahoma Press, 1986), 237.
3 Franklin, Journey Toward Hope, 44-46.
36 The Muskogee Times Democrat, December 7, 1907.
37 Ibid., February 15, 1908; February 18, 1908.
38 The Muskogee Cimeter, February 28, 1908.
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