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Healdton is located in western Carter County. Oklahoma State Highway 76 passes through the city, leading south 5 miles (8 km) to U.S. Route 70, west of Wilson and north 5 miles (8 km) to Oklahoma State Highway 53. Ardmore, the Carter County seat, is 23 miles (37 km) to the east via OK-76 and US-70.
Wyatt Tate Brady (January 20, 1870 – August 29, 1925) was an American merchant, politician, former Ku Klux Klan member, and a founder of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Early life [ edit ]
Brady continued his criminal career, serving time for forgery, petty theft and other minor offences, [2] and was imprisoned in Oklahoma for forgery in 1922 and armed robbery in 1925. Upon his release in 1931, Brady joined Clarence "Buck" Adams in the robbery of $5,300 from a bank in Texhoma, Oklahoma on September 15, 1931.
The original Brady Hotel, a three-story wood-frame building, was built in 1903 at Archer and North Main in Tulsa, Oklahoma by W. Tate Brady.It was the first hotel in Tulsa with baths, conveniently located to the Frisco railroad depot, and very popular among the oil men attracted by the new oil discoveries at Glen Pool.
Tom Adelson, member of the Oklahoma State Senate; Alicia Andrews, chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party; Bob Ballinger (born 1974), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, reared in Tulsa; Dewey F. Bartlett (1919–1979), former governor of the state of Oklahoma and U.S. Senator; Dewey F. Bartlett Jr. (born 1947), former mayor of ...
Wirt is an unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States, [1] approximately three miles west of Healdton. [2] First called Ragtown because of the tents the oil workers lived in when the petroleum boom started, [2] the town was formally named after Wirt Franklin, who was in the oil business [3] and drilled the first local well. [2]
SS Healdton was an oil tanker that was launched in Scotland in 1908 as Purelight. In 1916 the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey acquired her and renamed her Healdton, after the city of Healdton, Oklahoma. In March 1917 two explosions sank her off the Dutch coast in the North Sea. 21 of her crew were killed, including seven US citizens ...