William Fielding Brain
1851 - 1938 (87 years)-
Name William Fielding Brain Born 1851 Kentucky 
[1] Gender Male Census 1880 Washington Township, Boone County, Indiana Census 1910 Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma Census 1920 Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma Census 1930 Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma Died 29 Jun 1938 Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma [1, 2, 3] Buried Westview Cemetery, Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma [1, 3] Person ID I1207 Hedges Last Modified 8 Sep 2023
Family Mary Alice Carey, b. 25 Jul 1856, Rowan County, Kentucky , d. 19 Jul 1934, Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma (Age 77 years) Married 30 Aug 1874 Rowan County, Kentucky [4] Children 1. Clarence Brain, b. 13 Jun 1875, Kentucky , d. 3 Mar 1951, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (Age 75 years)2. Arlie Brain, b. 1877, Missouri , d. 12 Feb 1949, McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma (Age 72 years)Last Modified 18 Feb 2018 Family ID F687 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 1851 - Kentucky 
Married - 30 Aug 1874 - Rowan County, Kentucky 
Census - 1880 - Washington Township, Boone County, Indiana 
Census - 1910 - Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma Census - 1920 - Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma Census - 1930 - Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma Died - 29 Jun 1938 - Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma 
Buried - - Westview Cemetery, Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - William F. Brain, Editor Of Early-Day Political Journal, Dies in Atoka
William Fielding Brain, pioneer newspaperman and politician of eastern Oklahoma, died June 29 at the home of a daughter in Atoka, where he started his journalistic career in 1882. Funeral services were held June 30 in the Christian church of Atoka, and burial was in an Atoka cemetery.
Brain, an editor of the old school, worked on papers in Atoka until 1900, when he went to Muskogee and became a reporter on the staff of the Phoenix.
At one time Brain published a political journal which he called Brain’s Gladiator. During heated gubernatorial campaigns copies of the paper sometimes sold for as much as $1 each.
At a banquet for William H. Murray during the first Oklahoma legislative session, Brain made the only public speech of his life. In it he predicted that Murray some day would became governor. When his prediction materialized years later, Brain was the first honorary colonel to be appointed by the new governor.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. John Hammons, Atoka, and Mrs. J.S. Fulton, in whose home he died, and two sons, Clarence Brain, Oklahoma City, and William F. Brain Jr., Dallas, Tex.
Sooner State Press, Norman, Oklahoma. Saturday, 9 July 1938, page 1.
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- William F. Brain, Editor Of Early-Day Political Journal, Dies in Atoka
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