Name came from Milan, Sunmer County, Kansas. Name changed to GoodwinĬounty Seat of "E" County, Oklahoma TerritoryĬounty Seat of Day County, OK Territory until. Named for Grandville Alcorn, son of Robert Alcorn, a county judge. Territory, from until statehood.Ĭounty seat of Ellis County from statehood to Named for Elgy Craft, the first Postmaster.Ĭounty seat of Day County, OK. Name came from the community adjoining Jerusalem in the Holy Land. Named for Queen Alexandra of England, Consort of Edward VII. Geographic Names Information System GNIS Query Form Shattuck, Director of the Santa Fe Railway. Post office established ĩ Miles northwest of Arnett. Goodwin, assistant treasurer of the Santa Fe Railway.ġ1 miles east of Arnett. Helen is reported to have been the first child born in Gage.ġ2 miles west of Arnett. Helen Lauretta McConaughy, daughter of Albert and Laura McConaughy, was born in a log cabin on the land homesteaded by her grandparents, John and Ida Barr. The town consists of seven churches, a Quick Stop, a cafe, one bank, a post office, five beauty shops, an accounting firm, a cattle and feed company, two mechanic garages, a pet store, a feed mill, a transport company, a tavern and "Junky Jim's" a junkyard art shop. The town consisted of three churches, two newspapers, two banks, a flour mill, a cotten gin, a broom company, a telephone system, three hotels, 2 drug stores, one grain elevator, six general stores, two hardware stores, one music store, two Doctors, two Dentists, three coal compaines, a cold storage house, three livery barns, one sale stable, three implemment houses, three blacksmiths, three meat markets, one lawyer, one undertaker, one machine shop and two realtors The town was incorporated in Woodward County, Indian Territory of Oklahoma with a population of 800. Also under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1901-1902. Gage, a prominant Chicago financier and banker who was later Secretary of Treasury under President McKinley. In July 1887, a side track and a station for the Railroad were established near the conflux of Wolf and Little Wolf and named GAGE in honor of Lyman J. Name was coined from the first letter in the names of six local families.Ĭarey, Hull, Adams, Nichols, Edmonds, Yarnold.įormely Oleta. Named for Catesby ap Roger Jones, hero of the Mexican and Civil Warsġ3 miles northwest of Gage. Located in the northwest part of Ellis County.
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