Bio of Garland, Dan N. - Grady County, Oklahoma

Transcribed by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>   18 Jun 2006
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DAN N. GARLAND, as he is known, is one of the leading business men of 
Chickasha and proprietor of the most extensive dairy interests in Grady 
county. He is the owner of the famous Garland Dairy, established some 
fourteen years ago by J. P. Nail. The farm comprises 610 acres at the foot 
of Fourth street, and the dairy is supplied by 150 milch cows which yield 
two gallons each per day. The product is all marketed in Chickasha, and 
consists of milk, cream and butter, the city being covered by two routes. 
Mr. Garland, who is at the head of this important enterprise, has passed a 
quarter of a century in what is now Oklahoma, for he came into the Choctaw 
Nation in 1883, a youth of nineteen with domestic responsibilities 
equivalent to the head of a household, and on the threshold of what has 
proven to be a successful business career.

The Garland family originated in Tennessee, but Peter Garland, the father 
of Daniel N., migrated to Hood county, Texas, at an early period in his 
life and in the pioneer times of the Lone Star State. The son was born in 
that county on the 9th of April, 1864, and, almost uneducated, came into 
the Choctaw Nation as a hardy youth of nineteen who looked out with 
fearless eyes into the semi-civilized country of the southwest. As his 
father had died when the boy was only nine years of age and he was the 
oldest son of the family, the heaviest responsibilities for its support 
and general guidance fell upon him. When he thus entered Oklahoma with the 
family in charge he located at McAlester, in the Choctaw country, and, 
with five dollars in his pocket, went to work as a clerk in the store of 
his uncle, T. J. Phillips. After spending three years in that capacity he 
established a drug business of his own in Lehigh, continuing the same for 
some six years. With his modest savings of this period he located three 
miles east of Chickasha, where for a few years he engaged in farming and 
stock raising. He then removed to Pocassett, on the Rock Island road, 
where he opened and improved a splendid ranch and where he afterward took 
a portion of the family allotment, to which he was entitled by his 
marriage in 1888. He was actively identified with that locality until 
1903, when he allotted almost a section adjoining Chickasha. At that time 
the tract was devoted to the dairy business, which he purchased as a sort 
of aid in the interest of his allotment. The dairy feature has proven to 
be the most valuable interest of his fine property. In addition, he is a 
stockholder in Everybody's Gin and Mill and in the Human Stalk Cutter 
Company, the latter one of the most promising manufacturing enterprises of 
Chickasha.

When Peter Garland, the father, removed from his Tennessee home to Hood 
county, Texas, during the period of the Civil war, he fixed his new 
homestead on the very fringe of civilization. After the war the thieving 
Kiowas and murdering Comanches were especially active, and his home was 
twice broken up by them. During this, troublous period he spent much of 
his time with the band of white settlers organizing Red river to protect 
the homes of the settlers and recapture stolen property, either animate or 
inanimate. He also contributed to the last rites of the last seven 
warriors who infested that county and carried off and murdered children of 
the sett1ers. It was in Mississippi that Peter Garland met and married 
Miss Louise Phillips, and three of their five children survive: Puss, wife 
of J. G. Sharp, of Tharp Springs, Texas; Sadie, who married Lee Nutts, of 
Cranberry, Texas, and Daniel N. Garland, of this sketch. Mr. Garland died 
in 1873, at the age of sixty-five years, while his widow passed away 
December 31, 1903, and is buried at Chickasha. On January 18, 1888, Daniel 
N. Garland married, in Canadian, Oklahoma, Miss Inez, daughter of Alfred 
Toole, a gentleman widely known for his business connections in the 
Choctaw Nation. He was by nativity an Alabaman. The children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Garland are Ollie, Mary and Louise. Mrs. Garland is a member of 
the Choctaw Nation, and through her Mr. Garland acquired his rights of 
citizenship and property. In matters of religion the wife was reared as a 
member of the Methodist church, toward which Mr. Garland also leans, in 
honor of his mother who was a lifelong disciple of that faith. In his 
fraternal connections he is a Master Mason and a Knight of Pythias.
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