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Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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f great assistance to them in arriving at an understanding of theproblems and conditions which the abolition of tribal governmentand tribal land titles presented. XAPOLEOX BOXAPAKTE MOORE Judge X. B. Moore was a prominent Creek whose name willIons: be revered bv those who knew him. He was born in Alabamaon Januarv S. 1S2S. and came to Indian Territorv when but ayoung lad and spent his boyhood days on a f aim. At the beginningof the Civil war he enlisted in the Confederate array and became alieutenant in Col. D. X. Mcintoshs regiment of Indians. Afterthe war he returned home and was soon chosen to represent histown in the Creek Council and a few years later was called to fillthe office of Supreme Judge of the Creek Xation. In 1SS9 he wasselected as a delegate to Washington to represent Creek interests.He was sincerely interested in the education and welfare of hispeople and devoted much of his time to performing the duties ofvarious honorary positions which were thrust upon him. During
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Vol. 1—19 MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 291 his later years he served as treasurer of the Creek Nation anddisbursed the last tribal funds which came into the hands of theCreek officials. He died at Battle Creek, Michigan, October 10,1911, where he had gone for medical treatment and was buried athis Indian Territory home, leaving his widow, Mrs. Augusta R.Moore, as his only heir. Mrs. Moore is a daughter of Rev. W. S. Robertson, one of theearly Missionaries and a sister of Miss Alice M. Robertson. GENERAL PLEASANT PORTER General Pleasant Porter, who served for about eight years asChief of the Creek Nation was one of the most remarkable Indiansof the Nineteenth Century. He was born and reared in the IndianTerritory, near the present town of Coweta and although hisopportunities for securing an education were very limited, yetby close observation and thoughtful reading, he became well in-formed, in fact well educated. His father was a white man andhis mother was a Creek, the daught

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