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- 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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