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Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. . Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1
Summit View Cemetery (established 1890) is a historic cemetery located in Guthrie, Oklahoma.. Operated by the city of Guthrie (the territorial capitol) since 1915, the cemetery is the final resting place for many prominent Oklahoma pioneers, including at least two territorial governors (Cassius McDonald Barnes and Robert Martin) and Frank Dale, the Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court.
Guthrie is a city and county seat in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City Metroplex. The population was 10,191 at the 2010 census , a 2.7 percent increase from the figure of 9,925 in the 2000 census . [ 5 ]
Logan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 49,555. [1] Its county seat is Guthrie. [2]Logan County is part of the Oklahoma City, OK metropolitan statistical area.
The Guthrie Historic District (GHD) is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the commercial core of Guthrie, Oklahoma, US.According to its National Historic Landmark Nomination it is roughly bounded by Oklahoma Avenue on the north, Broad Street on the east, Harrison Avenue on the south, and the railroad tracks on the west; it also includes 301 W. Harrison Avenue. [3]
Laura and L. D. Nelson were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. [1] [2] They had been seized from their cells in the Okemah county jail the night before by a group of up to 40 white men, reportedly including Charley Guthrie, father of the folk singer Woody Guthrie. [3]
Gene Stipe (1926–2012), longest-serving member of the Oklahoma State Senate, from McAlester, Oklahoma Clarence L. Tinker (1887–1942), Air Force major general killed in action in World War II Elizabeth Warren (born 1949), US senator for Massachusetts, Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Guthrie was born July 14, 1912, in Okemah, a small town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, the son of Nora Belle (née Sherman) and Charles Edward Guthrie. [16] His parents named him after Woodrow Wilson , then Governor of New Jersey and the Democratic candidate who was elected as President of the United States in fall 1912 . [ 17 ]