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ALLEN. Located nineteen miles northeast of Ada on State Highway 1 in the northeastern corner of Pontotoc County, Allen was named for Allen McCall, the son of U.S. Marshal William McCall. The post office was established April 9, 1892, with Dr. John Trigg Gilmore as postmaster.
WRIGHT, ALLEN (1826–1885). A Choctaw statesman, Allen Wright was born in Mississippi in 1826. He moved with his family in 1833–34 to present McCurtain County, Oklahoma, the former Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Called Kilihote at birth, he was renamed Allen Wright upon attending school in 1834.
Settlements, including large numbers of white intruders and lawless elements, began spreading through the county after the Civil War. The first post office was established at Stonewall in 1878. Center, Roff, Francis, Allen, and other communities were all settled by 1890, the year that Ada was founded.
The town Wapanucka (pronounced Wop´-uh-nuck´-uh) is located in northeastern Johnston County at the intersection of State Highways 7 and 48, twenty miles northeast of Tishomingo. The name, which means "Eastern Land People," refers to the Delaware Indians who came to the area before the Civil War.
The history of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma began in 1820 when tribal leaders in central Mississippi signed the Treaty of Doak's Stand, ceding rich cotton lands in the delta region east of the Mississippi River for approximately thirteen million acres in the Canadian, Kiamichi, Arkansas, and Red River watersheds in southeastern Oklahoma.
Weekly newspaper from Allen, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
ROOSA, STUART ALLEN (1933–1994). An astronaut, Stuart Allen Roosa was born on August 16, 1933, in Durango, Colorado, into the family of Dewey Roosa. The Roosa family later moved to Claremore, Oklahoma.
The Gateway to Oklahoma History currently provides access to 138 issues (970 pages) from 5 years of this newspaper's run. The earliest date held is July 3, 1925 . The last date is April 22, 1932 .
CHAPMAN, JAMES ALLEN (1881–1966). One of Oklahoma's leading entrepreneurs in the first half of the twentieth century, James Chapman was born April 3, 1881, in Ellis County, Texas, to Phillip and Roxanna Chapman. In 1901 James Chapman moved to the Holdenville area.
Weekly newspaper from Allen, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.