1. SSN 313-26-7272
1. SSN 313-26-7272
1. The history of Buffalo, Oklahoma, is intimately woven into and around the life of Charles McMinn. He was born in Texas and went to Buffalo with his parents at the age of nine.
2. He spent practically all of his life in Buffalo, and since his attaining manhood, "there was no worth-while movement in the community in which he did not figure as a leader".
3. On his graduation from the eighth grade, he immediately began work in the old Bank of Buffalo, in which his father and brother, Reo [who moved to Denver], owned a controlling interest. Since that time he was always in the banking business in Buffalo. When the Bank of Buffalo was sold in 1919 he immediately set out to organize another bank, which he accomplished with the aid of his father and S. J. Cooper, in the organization of of the Central State Bank, which he managed as his father had. He owned a decidedly controlling interest in the bank at the time of his death.
4. Charles Edward McMinn was killed in a tragic gun accident at the age of 39 in Buffalo, Oklahoma.
5. K. A. Vermillion reports (a) that Charles was member of the Masonic Lodge, Easter Star, Woodsmen of America, Rebekah Lodge, Chamber of Commerce. (b) Occupation 1: 1907, Bank of Buffalo, Buffalo, Harper, Oklahoma (since the 8th grade). (c) Occupation 2: 1925, President, Central State Bank, Buffalo, Oklahoma.
(d) Residence 1: Bet. 1894 - 1903, Marfa, Presidio, Texas. (e) Residence 2: Bet. 1903 - 1933, Buffalo, Harper, Oklahoma.
1. News Article about Richard D. McMinn, shot down over the North Sea in WW II.
RICHARD McMINN IS MISSING FOR YEAR
Richard D. McMinn, formerly of Buffalo was reported missing in action April of last year, according to the Spartan News, a magazine published by the Spartan School of Aeronautics and the Spartan Aircraft commpany. Just previous to this report he was promoted to the rank of Captain. An excerpt from the magazine article follows:
McMinn was the leader of a group of U. S. Army fliers who shot up a freight train in enemy occupied France late in October, 1942. After the attack the train came to a halt with steam spouting from cannon holes torn in the sides of the locomotive. All the raiders returned to their base.
Richard was a student at Spartan from May to September, 1941. He was sent to England during that September. At first he was assigned to pursuit plane duty and was based somewhere near London.
He bacame a member of the Seventy-First Eagle Squadron of the R.A.F., but later transferred to the Eighth Army Air Force of the United States.
While he was a First Lieutenant he received the Air Medal. He figured in many raids acros the English Channel.
Like many of the heroic men, McMinn wrote very little about his expolits and actions.......
1. Lennie and her husband, Lloyd Hoy, lived in Buffalo, Harper County, Oklahoma for many years. They rented a wheat farm.
2. In the early 1930's she and Lloyd moved to Chico, California, along with many others from the "dust bowl". Life was much easier for them in California, but as Lennie used to say, it came too late.
3. Source: Kathryn A. Vermillion
1. Eldon was a lawyer.
2. Source: K. A. Vermillion
1. Ethel grew up in Buffalo, Harper County, Oklahoma.
2. Ethel lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the time of her father's death.
3. Ethel was a good homemaker.
4. Ethel & Eldon spent their married life in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and were divorced after about 27 years.
5. She worked at Hill Field near Ogden, Utah for several years and then went to work at the Walker Insurance Agency until she retired.
6. She spent her retirement years in Salt Lake City, making her home with her sister, Ruth.
7. Source: K. A. Vermillion
1. Newton was killed pre-WW II while piloting a plane from one base to another when the engines failed.
2. Source: K. A. Vermillion