Claremore, Oklahoma history

In 1842, Elijah Hicks established a trading post on the site of the old Osage village.

A post office was established there on June 25, 1874, thirty-three years prior to Oklahoma statehood, when the region was the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.

In 1880 John Bullette, a Delaware Indian, settled on the site, which he called Claremore for an Osage chief whose tribe once lived there.

In 1882 it was moved from the banks of the Verdigris River to its present location to meet the Frisco Railroad, where pioneer settlement began.

In 1883, Claremore was incorporated as a town under Cherokee law.

The old Journeycake Memorial Baptist Church of Dewey, Indian Territory, was formed June 3, 1900, by Rev.

When JM Bayless came to Claremore in August 1901,[ii] he proved to be a noteworthy visionary for Claremore’s urban development.

Theeson did not start his business from scratch; he purchased Henry Hansman’s bakery,[ii] known as the City Bakery, which Hansman had purchased in 1904,[iii] from Thomas Foster.

In August 1905, Bartlesville, Oklahoma’s Weekly Examiner announced, “Corner Stone Laying Wednesday.

By January 1906, anticipation increased, but there was a breakdown in the supply chain. “The new post office building is almost complete and the fixtures have been put in place.

Not long after the transition, in February 1909, “The Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian church were entertained in an elaborate manner at the Bungalow Hotel, by Mrs.

A real estate transition occurred four years later, February 1910, when “T.S. and Edith E. Chambers (sold back) to Geo.

Circa 1911, L.C. Amerman became manager of the Bungalow Hotel.

Rogers appeared in his first Broadway show, The Wall Street Girl, in 1912 and demonstrated his roping skills between acts.

Death 13 Mar 1913 (aged 25) Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma.

By April 1914, Doctor W.A. Dickie was no longer proprietor of the Bungalow hotel.

Then, a month later, Ernest L. Monson died, February 15, 1916. “Ernest L. Monson, aged 41 years, 6 months and 6 days, died at the Bungalow Hotel at 7:30 Tuesday evening, following a long illness, he being a sufferer from tuberculosis.

Theeson, Prop.”[xxiv] Yet, the United States had entered World War 1, that April (1917), and the war effort at home was beginning to effect the availability of food.

The outcome of a dramatic side story that could have easily altered the course of the Walker Department Store Co., appeared in The Claremore Progress in March 1918. “Local People Have Auto Accident Near Chelsea – Mr. and Mrs.

December 25, 1919, Howard Kaho joined in to assist in the toy department.

W.T. Williams, proprietor of the Bungalow and the Sanitarium Bath House in Radium Town, died suddenly at 11:55 Sunday night (December 3, 1922) of heart failure.

In 1929 Rogers signed a movie contract with the Fox Film Corporation and made his first talking picture, They Had to See Paris.

In 1931 the community was served by the St Louis and San Francisco Railway and the Missouri Pacific Railway companies as well as by the Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, Rankin Rapid Transit, Wardway, and Pickwick-Greyhound bus lines.

Construction on the present Rogers County courthouse, a project assisted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), started in 1937.

Noel Kaho, The Will Rogers Country (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941).

According to Horace S. Hughes, editor of Tulsa’s African American weekly newspaper, The Oklahoma Eagle, as early as May 1942, The Steady Workers Club of Claremore “met at the home of Mrs.

Until 1948, Claremore was a mission of St William’s Church, Skiatook.

When this president of the W.M.U. celebrated her birthday on May 18, 1954, at 7 o’clock p.m. at the church, “she had as her guests the entire W.M.U. young people’s department, deacons, and trustees.

Highly regarded, this “Worthy Matron of Golden Gate Chapter (Order of the Eastern Star) was selected ‘Queen’ of Radium Lodge to reign for 1957” (TOE,5-19-1957).

Zion Baptist Church of Claremore, Oklahoma, hosted the twenty-eighth annual session of the Creek District Baptist Congress of Christian Education and Singing Convention in July 1959, and Mrs.

Call RO 3-0797.”[xxv] However, by 1970, the popular Cadet bowling venue had moved and expanded.

About 1971, the Merle Norman Cosmetics Studio took up residence at 418 W. Will Rogers Boulevard remaining there for three decades or more.[xxvii]

July 1977, “marked the reunion of the Lincoln High School graduates of Claremore.

The History of Rogers County, Oklahoma (Claremore, Okla.: Claremore College Foundation, 1979).

Death 5 May 1986 (aged 83). Burial Woodlawn Cemetery, Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma.

Death 1988 ( aged 86/87). Rentie Grove Community Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51703581/m-lanier-sims

Death 1992 (aged 87/88). Rentie Grove Community Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51703580/mozelle_lee-sims