Henry Thomas
Douglas
Henry Thomas Douglas became president of the Shawnee National Bank
in 1900.
One of the ablest financiers of Oklahoma, he has
directed the affairs of this well known institution in a way to win
the confidence of all the depositors and the business interests of
this vicinity. The banking business has been his life work since he
was twenty-one years old. He was born in Windsor, Henry county,
Missouri, March 6, 1867, belonging to one of the oldest families of
that section of Missouri. His grandfather, Tames Douglas, moved to
Henry county in 1833. The "father, H. T. Douglas, Sr., who was born
in Howard county, Missouri, passed sixty years of his life in Henry
county as a farmer, and died there November 17, 1905, in his
eightieth year. He married, in 1842, in Henry county, Catherine
Parks Painter, a native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and she is still
living, aged seventy-four. Of the parents' family of five boys and
five girls, seven are living.
As one of these children,
Henry T. Douglas grew up at Windsor, attending the grade and high
schools of that town, and at the age of twenty-one became a clerk in
the Windsor Savings Bank. A year later he moved to St. Jo, Texas,
and his energy and ability quickly promoted him to the presidency of
the Bank of St. Jo, remaining at its head for eight years when, in
1900, he came to Shawnee. Besides his banking connections at
Shawnee, he is also owner of much real estate, and is identified
with the best civic and business interests of the city.
He was a director and the president of the Canadian Valley Bank, and
largely controlled and directed its affairs. He was also a
stockholder in numerous other banks and business concerns, including
the Shawnee National Bank, of which he was a director, the
president, and managing officer. Also, with N. Douglas, a brother,
he was owner of the Citizens' Loan & Investment Company.
It
appears that H.T. Douglas was convicted in the district court of
Lincoln county of larceny in borrowing money from a bank while
active managing officer thereof, and was sentenced to serve a term
of 15 years in the state penitentiary. This was reduced on appeal in
May 1935 to 8 years.
Fraternally, he is a Mason, a member of the Shrine at Oklahoma City
and the Consistory at Guthrie, and also affiliates with the Elks,
the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In
1896 he married Miss Mary Frances Belcher, a native of Missouri. Her
father has for many years been a prominent resident of Belcherville,
Texas.
Three children have been born of their marriage :
Edward, August 17, 1900; Henry Thomas, Jr., July 2, 1902 ; Donald
Avdelotte,
June 10, 1906.
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