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Christopher Springer was born in Germany in 1849 and came to USA prior to 1870. He arrived in Pittsburg County in 1870 per his McAlester Masonic Blue Lodge papers. He worked on the building of the MKT railroadthrough McAlester in the early 1870s. In 1905 he served as Mayor of McAlester (now called North McAlester or old town). His name is listed in the 1905 city directory as Mayor. Although he was ofGerman ancestry and had no Choctaw blood, he learned to speak Choctaw.  He was a druggist and owned the Springer Drug Company in North McAlester.  He was active in the Grand Avenue Methodist Church, Trustee of the library, Vice President of the Bank, and very active in the Masonic Lodge holding many
titles as well as serving as Grand Master of Oklahoma.  He was also instrumental in the building of the Royal Arch Masonic Temple called Mount Moriah on a mountain on the outskirts of McAlester. The building of the temple started in 1908 and continued until 1914. The temple was used by masons until 1925. (Records about Mount Moriah are in the McAlester Public Library in McAlester)
He died in July 1926 and was buried in the Oak Hill Masonic Cemetery.

Submitted by Great Granddaughter Joan Lahtinen.

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Descendants of Morris and Jane Brown :

• Robert Brown
• Minna Pearl Brown
• William C. Brown
• Mary Frances Brown m. Rufus Perry Hubbard
• Albert Brown
• Juda Allen Brown
• Matthew Ford Brown
• Benjamin Brown
• Jane Brown
• Morris Brown Jr.
• Mary Brown

• Bobbie Hubbard
• Bonnie West Hubbard m. James Stanley Brown
• Floyd Foyl Hubbard
• Jannie Elizabeth

• Mildred Lasater Brown m. Henley Chitwood

My Great Grandfather, Jacob Henry DuPont came to McAlester with the MKT railroad. Lived in the section house just north
of north town. Was married to Mary Wycoff DuPont. Children were Scott, Flora, Daniel, Sarah, Oliver. Flora and Scott went
to Edmond Doyle grade school, then when St. Joseph's catholic school opened, were sent by horse to the catholic school in
Krebs, Ok. A story of Great Grandmother Mary Wycoff DuPont taking young Flora and Scott with her back to Ohio and
bringing back railroad supplies in a covered wagon. The children played along as she drove the wagon. At night she would bed
the children down then sleep with her back up against a tree with a shotgun across her lap. I have more stories from my
grandmother, Flora DuPont about growing up with the Katy railroad.

Submitted by: Andra Collier