Individual Details

Mark Kirkpatrick

(20 Aug 1876 - 15 Apr 1924)

Surveyor of townsites in the Choctaw Nation (now a part of Oklahoma). Source: A Kirkpatrick Genealogy, Edited by Melvin E. Kirkpatrick and David Hudson, 1995, page 79.

On the 1920 U. S. Census of Ardmore, Carter Co., Oklahoma, Mark is listed as born in Kansas, works doing oil leases from an office. His wife Maude is 35 and born in Kansas Their son, Mark Jr., is 8 years old and born in Oklahoma.

Ardmore Daily Ardmoreite, Ardmore, Oklahoma, Tuesday, April 15, 1924, Page 1, Col. 5: Kirkpatrick Answers Last Call Monday. Manager of Gates Oil Company Has Long Business Connections in Ardmore. Funeral To Be Held Wednesday. Came to Oklahoma in 1900 and to County 22 Years Ago From McAlester.

Mark Kirkpatrick, 48 years old, died at his home shortly after midnight last night, following a protracted illness and operation.

Mr. Kirkpatrick was manager of the Gates Oil Company, with offices in Ardmore, and was taken ill while at work. He was a tireless worker for the good of Ardmore, and it [is] thought that his run-down condition at the time of taking ill was a factor in his death.

Funeral services will be held from his late residence, 109 G street southwest, at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Dr. C. C. Weith of the First Presbyterian church, officiating. Interment will be in Rose Hill cemetery.

Born in Kansas.

Mr. Kirkpatrick was born in Fredonia, Wilson county, Kansas in August 1876. He was a graduate of the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Kansas, and came to Oklahoma in 1900 as a surveyor for the township commission.

After being stationed in McAlester for about two years, he moved to Ardmore, where he had resided continually. He became associated with P. C. Dings in the Bankers Trust company at that time, but in 1910, he and Charles G. Harlan bought an insurance company from Mike Gorman, which he managed until 1912. He became associated with Homer Hinkle in the insurance business under the firm name of Kirkpatrick and Hinkle, but in 1919 Hinkle purchased the entire business. When Mr. Kirkpatrick joined the Gates Oil company.

Eighteen years ago he was married to Miss Maude Spaulding of Garvin, Oklahoma, and he was the father of one son, Mark Jr., age 13.

He had been a member of the Presbyterian church for many years and while he was critically ill, members of the Brotherhood class of the First Presbyterian church offered silent prayer for him several times.

Besides his wife and son, the following persons survive him: Three brothers, Otto of Chicago, Byron of Tulsa, and Hobart of Eureka, Utah; one niece Mrs. Arthur L. Nigard of Dallas. Mrs. Nigard and Otto Kirkpatrick were at his bedside.

Events

Birth20 Aug 1876Kansas
Death15 Apr 1924Ardmore, Carter Co., Oklahoma
BurialRose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Carter Co., Oklahoma

Families

SpouseMaude Spaulding (1879 - 1958)
ChildMark Kirkpatrick Jr. (1911 - )
FatherSnyder Solomon Kirkpatrick (1847 - 1909)
MotherRose H. Bowen (1848 - 1887)
SiblingElsie E. Kirkpatrick (1868 - )
SiblingOtto Bernard Kirkpatrick (1872 - 1938)
SiblingByron Kirkpatrick (1878 - 1930)
SiblingHobert Kirkpatrick (1880 - 1945)

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