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C. Guy Cutlip Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-950

Scope and Contents

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Judge. Records (1930-1931) of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Board of Governors; speeches (1927-1936) by Cutlip; manuscripts regarding the history of Seminole County, Oklahoma, Wewoka, Oklahoma, and the Seminole Nation; Seminole Indian land allotment certificates (1901-1902); records (1905-1910) of the Wewoka Masonic Lodge; and a financial ledger (1867-1872) of the Wewoka Trading Company. C. Guy Cutlip Photograph Collection also in repository.

Many of the documents relate to C. Guy Cutlip's career and influence as a public figure. Some of these materials describe the history of Seminole County and Wewoka. Several records are associated with former Oklahoma Governor, William H. Murray. Other documents concern Cutlip's personal life and his family. A majority of the materials date from the 1920's and 1930's. The entire collection includes records from 1867 to 1967.

Dates

  • 1867-1967

Creator

Extent

5 ft. (5 ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Judge. Records (1930-1931) of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Board of Governors; speeches (1927-1936) by Cutlip; manuscripts regarding the history of Seminole County, Oklahoma, Wewoka, Oklahoma, and the Seminole Nation; Seminole Indian land allotment certificates (1901-1902); records (1905-1910) of the Wewoka Masonic Lodge; and a financial ledger (1867-1872) of the Wewoka Trading Company. C. Guy Cutlip Photograph Collection also in repository.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Maxine Cutlip.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Cutlip, Maxine. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1971.

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C. Guy Cutlip was born near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on April 6, 1881. In 1889 his family made the run into Oklahoma, settling at Kingfisher. In 1895 they moved to Tecumseh. After a public school education, Cutlip worked as a clerk and stenographer for Judge J. D. F. Jennings until 1901 when he became a stenographer for a lawyer in Wewoka. In 1902 he and his father tried the banking business for short time. Cutlip then became a clerk for the Atlas Abstract Company of Holdenville, which gave him useful training in oil leases. Through private study he became an attorney at Wewoka. From 1908 to 1911, he served as assistant county attorney for Seminole county. In 1919, he bought the Wewoka Trading Company and the Wewoka Realty and Trust Company, which were destroyed by fire in 1925. He was a law partner to Thomas J. Horsley. In 1930, Cutlip became a member of the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association. In 1931 Governor William H. Murray appointed Cutlip as judge of the newly created Superior Court at Seminole; he was then elected to the position in 1934. Late in 1936 Cutlip was incapacitated by a heart attack. Recovering, he returned to court in the summer of 1937 only to suffer a second attack that fall. He died on January 24, 1938. Cutlip was active in the Wewoka Masonic Lodge and a member of the Lions Club. He served as the first president of the local Chamber of Commerce. He was Wewoka's first mayor from 1921, 1926 and a delegate to the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Cutlip married Amo Butts in 1903. Their daughter Maxine (Mrs. Claud Douglas) was born in 1906. Amo Cutlip, who served as president of the Oklahoma Federation of Women's Clubs, died on January 14, 1945. The papers came to the Manuscripts Collection from the estate of Maxine Cutlip in 1971.
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Repository Details

Part of the Western History Collections Repository

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630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States