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Source for: Viva Demetra Tyner, 29 Jan 1904 - 8 Oct 1989
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Death source: S77Text: Viva Nutt was born 29 Jan 1904 and died 8 Oct 1989. Her last residence was 63857 Kennett, Dunklin, MO. Her Social Security number was #491-44-4573 issued in MO before 1956-1958.
General Source: S5General Source: S4Page: p 23
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Source for: Olive Rebecca Rittenhouse, 15 Apr 1877 - 10 Dec 1965
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Birth source: S79Page: ERL: B130 Doc 6, p. 1.
Note: Veriola was the name for small pox at the time.
Text: Beginning at the beginning, you might say that Olive was born "en route", as her mother didn't leave Iowa, where they were visiting with her parents, soon enough, and it was necessary to stop over in a small town in Missouri for the event. Ever since she has had a a travel bee in her bonnet and invariably wants to stop over as long as possible. Arriving in McCook nothing of importance is noted until on another trip to visit relatives in Kansas, small pox broke out and they barely managed to get out of town, when it was quarantined. Before getting back to McCook, however, all came down with veriloid, except the father, who was helpless---the Dr. leaving the medicine some distance from the house, and the grocer keeping his distance also. Written by Mrs. J. R. Dale for the Town Club Bulletin, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Date: 20 Mar 1964
General Source: S5General Source: S25Text: State of Oklahoma, County of Oklahoma, Precinct 12, Oklahoma City, Ward 1. 16 January 1920. Mrs. Beatrice M. Purdy, enumerator. Supervisor's district No. 5; Sheet No. 18, Enumeration District No. 126, Line 61. Place of abode, 116, Olive R. Rittenhouse, lodger. Female, white, 42, single. Father able to read, yes. Mother able to read, yes. Person born Missouri. Father born Ohio, Mother born Iowa. Person able to read, yes. Occupation, Accountant, Gas Co., wages.
Date: 16 Jan 1920
General Source: S27Page: Microfilm Roll 5867, page 58, line 23
Text: List of U. S. Citizens on the Ship S. S. Normandie sailing from Le Havre (France) on September 9th, 1936, arriving at Port of New York - U. S. A., Sep. 14th, 1936.
Line 23: Rittenhouse, Olive Rebecca, age 59, female, Born Apr. 15, 1877, Unioville(sic), Mo. Passport Number 287016. Address in U. S. 840 First National Bldg, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Source for: George Brown Rittenhouse, 25 Dec 1878 - 13 Jun 1925
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Birth source: S33Page: ERL File B143, Document 8b-8c
Text: The law firm of Rittenhouse & Rittenhouse was established at Chandler by A. J. Rittenhouse and George B. Rittenhouse, F. A. becoming a member in 1908. In 1913, George B. Rittenhouse was appointed a member of the Supreme Court Commission, and that firm was dissolved. In 1916, George B. resigned from the Supreme Court Commission to take up fire insurance litigation, and in 1921, the firm of Rittenhouse & Rittenhouse was reorganized at Oklahoma City, and continued until the death of George B. Rittenhouse in 1925. The present firm of Rittenhouse, Webster, Hanson & Rittenhouse is the successor to that firm.
General Source: S5General Source: S80Page: 1821470 Vol. 49
Note: Their daughter Margaret May Rittenhouse is not listed with them. She would have been 13 years old
Text: State of Oklahoma, County of Oklahoma, Volume 49, E.D. 154, Sheet 5, Line 28, lists George B. Rittenhouse as a lodger of an unnamed hotel at 200 Broadway. George is white, 40 years old, born Nebraska. Immediately below on line 29 is listed Mignon A. Rittenhouse, white 35 years old, born in Iowa. Both sets of their parents are listed born in Ohio. George is listed as a lawyer in general practice and Mignon has no occupation.
Date: 27 Jan 1920
General Source: S81Page: 318/132/136
Note: The George Rittenhouse family lives on 318 Eighth Street, Dwelling number 132, family visited 136.
Text: Rittenhouse, George B., Husb., M, age 30, married 4 years, born Neb., Father born Ohio, Mother born Ohio. Mignon, wife, female, age 27, married 4 years, born Iowa. Both her parents born in Ohio. Margarete M., daughter, female, age 2, born Oklahoma, Father born Neb., mother born Iowa.
General Source: S36Page: Roll 1851895, DraftBoard 2
Text: George Brown Rittenhouse, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. Birth date: 25 Dec 1879, age 39. Race: white. U.S. Citizen: natural born. Present occupation: Attorney. Place of employment: 400 Insurance Bldg. Nearest relative: Mignon A. Rittenhouse, resides 317 E. 11th, Okla, Okla, Okla. Registrar's Report lists he is medium height, medium build, blue eyes and brown hair. Date of Registration: 9-12-18.
General Source: S82Page: Page 1
Text: Ranks of Little Group of Old Timers Broken For
First Time Services at Temple To Be Simple
Telegrams of condolence from all parts of the state were being received here Monday by members of the family of George B. Rittenhouse, whose sudden death Saturday night profoundly shocked his friends everywhere.
Friends from every part of Oklahoma will attend the Scottish Rite funeral service Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Masonic temple.
Rev. Clyde W. Howard, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will assist in the ceremonies at the temple. Burial will be in the mausoleum at Fairlawn cemetery.
The death of Rittenhouse makes the first break in a group of five friends who came here from the same town to Oklahoma City and exercised almost from the first a deep influence over the political destinies of the state.
Their home town was Chandler. The men were George Rittenhouse, his brother, F. A. Rittenhouse, J. B. A. Robertson, John Embry, former district attorney, and Gen. Roy Hoffman.
All came from Chandler and all stood together through many political endeavors.
Took Robertson's Job
J. B. A. Robertson, later to elected governor of the state, became a supreme court commissioner. When he resigned to make the race for governor, George Rittenhouse was appointed to fill his unexpired term.
That was the only political office Rittenhouse ever held, although in his twelve years in Oklahoma City he always was active in politics.
He was made liquidator for the accounts of many state banks which failed during the time he was practicing law in Oklahoma City. Among those was the Wilkin-Hale bank here.
Supporter of Short
Rittenhouse was a strong supporter of George Short, attorney general, and managed his campaign in the last election. He was returning from a fishing trip with Short and other friends when the accident occurred which cost him his life.
Rittenhouse was killed almost instantly when his car skidded into a ditch near Durrant. Mrs. Rittenhouse, who was in the car with him was thrown clear of the wreckage, and was bruised.
He turned out of the road to avoid hitting another automobile coming toward him, and was blinded by the headlights, according to Mrs. Rittenhouse.
Services to Be Simple
The body was met at the Santa Fe station at 3:30 Sunday afternoon by a committtee from the Oklahoma State Bar association which acted as an escort to the Street and Draper funeral home.
The Masonic services will be simple, in accordance with the wishes of his family, although his rank in Masonry entitles him to greater degree of magnificence.
Rittenhouse received the highest honor bestowed on Masons when he was given the thirty-third degree at the Guthrie consistory in 1915.
He became a Mason at Chandler some twenty years ago and was a member of Chandler lodge No. 58, A. F. & A. M.
Was Territorial Pioneer
Rittenhouse was born in Aurora, Neb., on Christmas day, 1878. He came to Chandler in territorial days, after receiving his education at the University of Missouri.
He leaves a widow; a daughter, Margaret May 17 years old, who is on her way here from Washington where she has been attending school; his mother, Mrs. Louise J. Rittenhouse fo Chandler; a sister, Miss Olive Rittenhouse, 319 West Nineteenth street; and two brothers, F. A. Rittenhouse of Oklahoma City, and Robert R. Rittenhouse of Ponca City.
Date: 1925
General Source: S83Text: Main Topic of Conversation
Is on Who Will Replace
Master Politician.
That the state democratic party organization has been dealt a severe blow in the death of George B. Rittenhouse, was the statement of many friends and associates Monday.
Who will replace the master mind in handling state politics was a principal topic of conversation.
Rittenhouse will be buried Tuesday afternoon at Fairlawn cemetery. Services will be conducted from the Masonic temple by members of the Guthrie Consistory, and at the grave a short ceremony will be given by the Blue Lodge of Oklahoma City.
Members of the city and county bar associations will attend the services in a body, said C. D. Bennet, county chairman. Services will begin at 4 o'clock in the Shrine auditorium.
A large delegation of Masons from Chandler, home lodge of Rittenhouse, is expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon to attend the services. Rev. W. Clyde Howard, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will assist in conducting the ceremonies.
No Shrine service will be held in addition to the Scottish rite service, said Leslie H. Swan, Shrine recorder.
Prominence of Rittenhouse in state politics dates back to his entrance into the practice of law at Chandler, according to friends. He was close to R. L. Williams, J. B. A. Robertson and J. C. Walton during their administrations, and was said to be preparing to enter a candidate in the coming gubernatorial race.
Date: 1925
General Source: S84Text: GUTHRIE, Jan. 21.-(Special.)- The class of 219 who received the thirty-second degree at the Scottish Rite anniversary reunion here Thursday voted to name it the "George Rittenhouse class."
The name honors Judge George Rittenhouse, Oklahoma City, who was killed in an automobile accident some months ago near Hugo.
It also was decided to raise a memorial to Rittenhouse on the grounds of the consistory. A fund of $800 for the memorial was contributed.
Officers eleced(sic) by the class are Charles W. Kimbrough, Tulsa, president; Richard Elam, Pawhuska, and Silas E. West, Pitcher(Picher?), vice presidents, and Theodore C. Morgan, secretary and treasurer.
The class started with 213 members and increased six before the degree was conferred.
Following the annual class banquet, the 2,000 Scottish Rite Masons at the reunion attended a musical entertainment and cosistory ball under direction of India Temple shriners of Oklahoma City.
Date: 1925
General Source: S85Text: Funeral Rites Will Be Con-
ducted by Masonic Order
Tuesday Afternoon.
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KILLED IN ACCIDENT
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Attorney Was Prominent In
Political Life After Rise
To Bar Position.
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Grandeur in the simplicity of the Scottish Rite funeral service will mark the burial of George B. Rittenhouse Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Masonic temple.
Friends from all over the state who followed the political career of Rittenhouse through the administration of three governors will mingle with those of the Masonic order in which he received the highest honor bestowed on Masons when he was given the thirty-third degree.
The ceremony at the temple in which Rev. Clyde W. Howard, pastor of the First Presbyterian church will assist, will be followed by a Masonic burial in the mausoleum at Fairlawn cemetery. Nothing of the magnificence of any of the other six modes for burial to which his standing in the order entitles him, will be asked by members of the family.
The body, escorted by George Short, attorney general, was met at the Santa Fe station at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon by a committee from the Oklahoma State Bar association, which acted as an escort to the Street and Draper funeral home.
Mrs. Rittenhouse, who was in the automobile which overturned in a ditch near Durant, Saturday night, pinning Rittenhouse beneath it, escaped with several serious bruises. She was able, however, to motor to the city, but was ordered to bed by her physicians.
Many Send Condolence
Telegrams of condolence are being sent from all parts of the state to members of the family.
Rittenhouse was closely associated with state politics from the last of the Cruce administration until the time of his death. During the Cruce's administration, he received the appointment to the only political office he held, that of supreme court commissioner, to fill the unexpired term of J. B. A. Robertson, who resigned to make the gubernatorial race against R. L. Williams.
"He was a stenographer in my office when his father and I were law partners," Robertson said. He was admitted to practice law in 1905, and did not enter politics until 1914, when he became supreme court commissioner, Robertson said.
Rittenhouse was made liquidator for the accounts of many state banks that went on the rocks during the last twelve years. Among these was the Wilkin-Hale bank here.
Aid To Short
Friends stated Sunday that it was through efforts of Rittenhouse that George Short received the appointment as attorney general of the state, and later was Short's campaign manager in the election.
Rittenhouse became a Mason at Chandler about twenty years ago. He was a member of Chandler lodge No. 58, A. F. and A. M., when the thirty-third degree, highest honor in Masonry, was conferred upon him at the Guthrie Consistory in 1915.
Cruce McLaughlin, secretary of the Chandler lodge, and Frank Derr, secretary of the consistory, will arrive in the city Monday morning to arrange services of the Masonic order in the funeral ceremony.
A large delegation of Masons from the Chandler lodge probably will attend the funeral service.
Killed Almost Instantly
Rittenhouse was killed almost instantly when his car skidded into a ditch. Mrs. Rittenhouse was thrown clear of the wreckage, and was bruised. He turned out of the road to avoid hitting another automobile coming toward him, and was blinded by headlights, according to Mrs. Rittenhouse.
They were returning to Oklahoma City from the Kiamichi mountains, where they had been with Mr. and Mrs. George Short and several other friends on a fishing trip. The car driven by Short was ahead, and a car driven by Fred Capshaw, member of the state corporation commission, was following.
Taken to Durant
By the time aid was secured to extricate Rittenhouse, he was dead. He was taken into Durant in Capshaw's automobile.
Rittenhouse was born in Aurora, Nebraska, December 25, 1878. He was educated in the University of Missouri, and came to Chandler in territorial days. In 1912 he moved to Oklahoma City.
He leaves a widow; a daughter, Margaret May, 17 years old, who is on her way here from Washington, where she has been attending school; his mother, Mrs. Louise J. Rittenhouse of Chandler; a sister, Miss Olive Rittenhouse, 319 West Nineteenth street; and two brothers, F. A. Rittenhouse of Oklahoma City and Robert R. Rittenhouse of Ponca City.
Date: 1925