The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-03-31
v. F, BOURLAND
FOR COUNTY JUDGE
MAN OF FINE EDUCATIONAL. AT
TAlNMENTS AND WELL VERSED
IN THE LAW.

Mr.. Wm. Franklin Bourand, whose
announcement for county Judge of
Carter county appears in another part
of this paper, is of mixed blood
ChickasawOhoctaw Indian and
Scotch-lrsh descent, was born at
Tishomingo, now Johnston county
Okla, March 2S, 1878.
He received his Urinary education
in the Chickasaw Indian schools, haV-
ing completed the course at Hardy
Institute at TiShomngo, in 1893, in
which year he was sent by the Chick
asaws for a term of five years in Ten
nessee After two years he finished
the classical course at the Battle
Ground Academy, Franklin, Tenn,
and entered Vanderbilt University
with the class of 1899, where he spent
three years in the academic depart
ment. In 1895, while he was in Frank
lin. the Hon. Charles d. Carter Wis
tied the Chickasaw students there, as
superintendent of the National schools
of the Chickasaw nation.
BY reason of i'll health Mr.. BOnr-
land transferred his university ere
dts and matriculated in Leland Stan
ford University, California, a great
western institution, from which he
graduated with the A. b. degree in
1901, having also taken two years in
the law school there. Upon his re-
turn he settled at Ardmore where he
was admitted to the bar in 1901.
After a year in the National audi
tors office at Tishomingo under the
Hon. Richard McLish, and after some
service as craftsman for the Chick
asaw Legislature, he became associa-
ted with Nj. Geo. w. Burris, one OF
his Chickasaw classmates in Tennes-
see. Many school teachers in the for
mer Chickasaw nation will remem-
ber Mr. Bourland as member of the
Chickasaw board of examiners of ap-
plicants for positions in schools
teaching Chickasaw children at the
expense of that nation He was for
five years associated in this work with
former Prof Elihu B. Hinshaw and
former Federal Supt. of Indian
Schools, the Hon. John d. Benedict.
His father William lBilD H. Bour-
land, was a member of the Chickasaw
citizenship commission who made up
the final rolls of the Chickasaws. Up.
on the death of his father in 1904,
! Mr.. BOlUland removed to his fathers
farm at Petersurg in jefferson csnn.
| tY, Oklahoma, Being disposed TO the
law, he left the farm early in 1909
removing to Ardmore, where he has
since dealt some in real estate and
practiced law, save six months in
1910 when he was in Washington
D. C. as delegate for The Chickasaws
having been elected to that post by
the Chickasaw legislature.
Mr.. Bourland is familiar with th9
details of the Chickasaw triba, af
fairs and is widely read man. MIC
always seeks to keep posted as tc
current events. He has not hereto
fore taken any hand in politics, pre-
fering never to make public sta'e
ment of his personal views. He is a
fluent writer and logical in orgument
and should be able 10 starn As
ground in competition with the best
his country can produce.
Mr. Bourland is a progressive dem
ocrat, believing in doing his best &c
promote the progress of his state N
all things affecting the general wei
fare of his countrymen. In entering
the race, he will do so without any
handicap watever, owing his can.
didacy to no faction or persona in
fluence. His fellow townsmen will
certainly have a right to expect HIN
to make good wherever he is found