a preacher
both parents b Tn
John H. Dunkin, Tulsa, Oklahoma He was the "heavy hitter" on a team
of supporters headed by Newt Graham to promote navigation on the Arkansas River.
He was co-manager and partner in a large department store that carried his name and
was widely advertised in Oklahoma. When Newt Graham wanted a meeting to
promote the Arkansas River Navigation project, he scheduled it at the Tulsa Chamber
of Commerce and had Dunkin as the speaker. He knew Dunkin would get a large
audience and the speech would result in good news coverage. Dunkin visited
waterways in Europe in some detail and realized what navigation could do on the
Arkansas River. He was a forceful individual who helped Graham at a particular stage
in his campaign to develop strong civic leadership for the navigation project.
Oklahomans had thought of the Arkansas River project as a series of dams for flood
control, but had not considered what navigation would do for the state. Dunkin spelled
it out for them.Had ranch near Wagoner and later Hominy Ok that son John eventually took over managing. H may be Holloway. Together with his brother in law John A Brown formed Brown-Dunkin dept store in Tulsa abt 1927. Later Brown store in OKC and Brown-Dunkin merged and became part of Dillards in 1960.
have seen b abt 1891-2 and other years..as late as 1906.
built home at 30th and Birmingham,.later David Sipes owned. His wife Jane later built home next door and later sold to R Siegfried.
lived on 30th st tulsa...later part of RHSiegfried home..home partially razed to put in entertainment barn of RHS: 1/09 totally finally razed.
article showed her d 1998. SS shows 1994. ..and 74114 zipPhilanthropist Jane Randolph Dunkin Dies 3/14/1998
Jane Randolph Dunkin, the widow of Brown-Dunkin Department Store founder John Haskell Dunkin and a philanthropist in her own right, died Thursday. She was 88. Memorial services are set for 11:30 a.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church under the direction of Stanleys Funeral Service. A Bradford, Penn., native, Dunkin moved to Tulsa after World War I. She married John Dunkin in 1933, six years after he co-founded the department store with his brother-in-law, John A. Brown. John Dunkin served as vice president of Brown-Dunkin and John A. Brown Co. until his death in 1958. The widows of Dunkin and Brown sold the company to William Dillard in 1960. He later renamed the Brown-Dunkin stores, adding them to his existing Dillard's chain, and relocated his headquarters to Tulsa. Jane Dunkin, who had attended the University of Iowa after taking a year to study art in Italy, became a shrewd businesswoman after her husband's death, said her granddaughter Christy Pense. "She knew every stock price on the New York Stock Exchange," Pense said. When the family wondered how to describe the woman they considered to be "the epitome of a lady, down to the big hat and long white gloves," they settled on businesswoman. "She was not a homemaker," Pense said, but she was a philanthropist and an art patron. Dunkin was a former vice president of the Tulsa Junior League and was involved in the Community Chest, predecessor of the United Way, as well as the Gilcrease Museum, the Ruskin Art Club, the Tulsa Garden Center and the Tulsa Opera. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Southern Hills Country Club, where her husband was a charter member. At the University of Iowa, Dunkin belonged to the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and she stayed involved with the Oklahoma chapters. She was recently presented with a 60-year pin by her "Kappa granddaughter," Courtney Dunkin. Dunkin is survived by a son, John Randolph Dunkin of Tulsa; a daughter, Della Jane Pettit of Stillwater; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Friends are contributing to First Presbyterian Church and the Tulsa Garden Center.in 1920 census in Tulsa
pr Martha Sharp b abt 1907
may be spelled originally as HARALSON