Post by Eric Standridge on Oct 27, 2011 9:27:57 GMT -6
James W. Boozman, of Cameron, is one of the leading merchants of the city and of Le Flore county. He is also a stockholder in the Bank of Cameron, owns considerable real estate in Cameron, and all of his circumstances and surrounumgs indicate his substantial position in the community. A native of Meridian, Neshoba county, Mississippi, born December 14, 1864. James W. Boozman represents an old family which was founded in that locality by his grandfather, Monroe Boozman. His father. James M., is a native of the same county, and his career as a farmer and plantation owner was interrupted by his service in the Confederate army under the famous General Longstreet. He faithfully and pluckily followed the varying fortunes of his leader throughout the war, and stood in the tattered ranks of Lee's army when it surrendered at Appomattox court house. His mother was formerly Anna Jane Tolbert, a daughter of Jack Tolbert, whose plantation was near Meridian, Mississippi. In 1871 Mr. and Mrs. Boozman migrated west to Arkansas and established their home in Sebastian county, thence after a few years crossing the line of the Indian Territory into the Choctaw country. Mr. Boozman is now a prosperous farmer of Le Flore county. The children born to him and his wife were as follows: Jane, now the wife of T. C. Collins, of Shady Point, Oklahoma; James W., of this biography; Arthur, who died in Le Flore county at theage of twenty-two. the father- of a family; Eliza, who married William Burton and is also a resident of Shady Point; John P., who died in Oklahoma, leaving a family; Lue, the wife of J. E. Park, of Red Oak, Oklahoma; and Robert E., of Cameron.
James W. Boozman was seven years of age when the family moved from his Mississippi home to Sebastian county, Arkansas, where he received a crude education but a splendid practical training for progress in the southwestern country. When young he became a thorough farmer and clung to that vocation until he was twentysix years of age, when he became a clerk in the store of C. J. Green and Company at Cameron. His career as an employee and merchant has therefore extended over a period of about twenty years, although he is still in the prime of early middle life. Following his services with C. J. Green and Company he entered the firm of the BattlesGreen Company as a partner, and subsequently became a member of the firm of Boozman and Edwards, continuing in the latter connection until fire destroyed the store and stock of the firm in December, 1905. In July, I906, the firm of Johnson and Boozman was formed, which conducts a general merchandising business at Cameron, Oklahoma. As stated, the store at Cameron is the chief mercantile house of the town and is under the general management of Mr. Boozman. Its trade covers a wide area of the country and the house is a positive factor in the handling of the chief crops produced in the Castle Mountain region. While Mr. Boozman takes no active interest in politics he is a staunch Democrat. He is also a Master Mason and belongs to the Eastern Star.
Married in Sebastian county, Arkansas, November 3, 1882. before he had celebrated his eighteenth birthday, Mr. Boozman commenced married life with virtually no assets except a team, a few farm implements and a few articles of furniture, but he and his girl wife bravely commenced housekeeping in a tiny house near Wicherville, now Huntington. His wife was formerly Lucy Stroud, a daughter of W. J. Stroud, and was born in Sebastian county in 1865, and died at Cameron December 12, 1896, the mother of the following children: Ordie, Bert (now his father's bookkeeper). Bertha, Claud, May and Barney. In 1897 Mr. Boozman married Mrs. Janie Norvell, a daughter of Pinkney Turham, a native of Tennessee, but an early settler of Sebastian, Arkansas, where Mrs. Boozman was born and reared. The children born to them are Burl, Curtis, Fay and Herman Boozman.
James W. Boozman was seven years of age when the family moved from his Mississippi home to Sebastian county, Arkansas, where he received a crude education but a splendid practical training for progress in the southwestern country. When young he became a thorough farmer and clung to that vocation until he was twentysix years of age, when he became a clerk in the store of C. J. Green and Company at Cameron. His career as an employee and merchant has therefore extended over a period of about twenty years, although he is still in the prime of early middle life. Following his services with C. J. Green and Company he entered the firm of the BattlesGreen Company as a partner, and subsequently became a member of the firm of Boozman and Edwards, continuing in the latter connection until fire destroyed the store and stock of the firm in December, 1905. In July, I906, the firm of Johnson and Boozman was formed, which conducts a general merchandising business at Cameron, Oklahoma. As stated, the store at Cameron is the chief mercantile house of the town and is under the general management of Mr. Boozman. Its trade covers a wide area of the country and the house is a positive factor in the handling of the chief crops produced in the Castle Mountain region. While Mr. Boozman takes no active interest in politics he is a staunch Democrat. He is also a Master Mason and belongs to the Eastern Star.
Married in Sebastian county, Arkansas, November 3, 1882. before he had celebrated his eighteenth birthday, Mr. Boozman commenced married life with virtually no assets except a team, a few farm implements and a few articles of furniture, but he and his girl wife bravely commenced housekeeping in a tiny house near Wicherville, now Huntington. His wife was formerly Lucy Stroud, a daughter of W. J. Stroud, and was born in Sebastian county in 1865, and died at Cameron December 12, 1896, the mother of the following children: Ordie, Bert (now his father's bookkeeper). Bertha, Claud, May and Barney. In 1897 Mr. Boozman married Mrs. Janie Norvell, a daughter of Pinkney Turham, a native of Tennessee, but an early settler of Sebastian, Arkansas, where Mrs. Boozman was born and reared. The children born to them are Burl, Curtis, Fay and Herman Boozman.