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398 Chronicles of Oklahoma
College in Arkansas; studied medicine at Washington University, St.
Louis, Mo., graduating in 1888, and receiving the degree of Doctor of
Medicine. Immediately after his graduation he located in the practice
of medicine at Canadian, Indian Territory, where he enjoyed an exten-
sive practice extending over a large section of the country, being local
surgeon for the M1. K. & T. Railroad Company. On the building of the
Ft. Smith & Western railroad in 1902 he founded the town of Crowder
at the intersection of said road with the M. K. & T. Railroad where he
laid out such townsite, and where he resided continuously until his death
on January 13th, 1928. He was not only a prominent physician, but an
honored and useful citizen, serving in practically every important office
touching the town's affairs, and was an active and prominent member of
the democratic party, exercising important voice in its councils. On the
16th day of January, 1906, he was married to Mrs. W. M. Roberts, of
Linden, Tennessee, (whose maiden name was Nora Dickson), and their
domestic circle at Crowder was one of complete happiness until inter-
rupted by his death. Dr. Crowder had previously been married, and by
that marriage one son was born, R. S. A. Crowder, who is now residing
at Brits Landing, Tennessee. From his second marriage two children
were born, J. D. Crowder and T. Dan Crowder, both of whom reside with
their mother at the Crowder home in Crowder, Oklahoma.
COL WILLIE W. WILSON
WILLIE W. WILSON, son of John and Jane Wilson, born in the
Choctaw Nation on April 11, 1857, in a two-room log cabin near old
Wheelock Academy and one-half mile distant from old stone Presbyterian
church founded by the Rev. Alfred Wright in 1846. His father, a hail
breed Choctaw Indian, was born in Jackson County, Mississippi, in 1827,
and his mother, Jane Wilson, who was also a member of the same tribe of
Indians, was born in Mississippi in 1837. They were married at old
Doaksville, in the Choctaw Nation, in 1851. His father was County
Judge of Towson County and held other offices under the Choctaw Gov-
ernment. Willie W. Wilson married Rosana Williams in 1878, who died
within a short time, one child, Reuben, being born, but not surviving his
father. In 1882 he married Nanny Carney, who died In 1905, leaving
one child, Oscar Wilson, surviving him, and one grandchild by name
of Clarence Wilson, survives him. In 1906, after the death of his second
wife, he married Ollie Blard, from which union came William Ward
Wilson and Ollie Jane Wilson, both of whom survive him, the former
being a mechanical engineer student at Southern Methodist University
at Dallas, Texas, and the latter having graduated from North Dallas
High School in June, 1928. Col. Willie W. Wilson attended the primitive
school near old Wheelock, taught immediately after the Civil War by
Miss Jane Austin, who afterwards became the wife of Jackson Mc-
Curtain, Principal Chief or Governor of the Choctaw Nation. When only
14 years of age he attended Spencer Academy when It was located about
10 miles north of Ft. Towson, It then being a mission school supported
by the Presbyterian Church. After finishing the course at that school
he engaged in farming and the cattle business, which he continued for
over forty years, at intervals being also engaged in banking and the mer-
cantile business. - In 1915 he was appointed by Governor Williams as