Frederick Drummond (May 2, 1864August 22, 1913) was a Scottish-born American businessman and politician and the founding patriarch of the Oklahoma Drummond family.

Early life

Frederick Drummond was born on May 2, 1864, in Ardrossan, Scotland. He immigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1882 and lived in New York. He moved to St. Louis in 1884 and to

Pawhuska, Oklahoma Pawhuska ( osa, 𐓄𐓘𐓢𐓶𐓮𐓤𐓘 / hpahúska, ''meaning: "White Hair"'', iow, Paháhga) is a city in and the county seat of Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named after the 19th-century Osage chief, ''Paw-Hiu-Skah'', wh ...

(then part of the

Osage Nation The Osage Nation ( ) ( Osage: 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘ ('), "People of the Middle Waters") is a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Great Plains. The tribe developed in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 700 BC along ...

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) in 1887. During this time he obtained a license to trade on the

Settlement in Hominy

In 1903, the Drummonds moved to Hominy, Oklahoma where Frederick founded the Hominy Trading Company. The Victorian-style Fred and Adeline Drummond House was built in 1905 in Hominy, Oklahoma by Frederick and Addie; the same year he became the first vice-president of Hominy's first national bank.

Political career

Prior to

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statehood, he was a founder of Hominy Public Schools and the first secretary of the school board in 1905. He was re-appointed to the school board for the following year. He was a county commissioner in 1907 before statehood. The last territorial governor,

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, appointed him to attend the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress in 1907. In 1908, Frederick Drummond became the first mayor of Hominy and served for two years. He was a Republican candidate for Osage County's 2nd county commissioner district in 1910, but he lost the election.

Osage Reign of Terror

Frederick and his son Frederick Gentner both spoke the Osage language. During the

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in Osage County the Drummonds were creditors against and administrators for Osage estates. They also owned a funeral home that performed funerals for the deceased that would be paid for by the estate. Some families sold their allotments to the Drummonds to cover the costs of their debt to the Hominy Trading Company.

Personal life and Death

Frederick would marry his wife, Addie Gentner of Coffeyville, Kansas on July 6, 1890. Fred and Addie had six children including three sons, Roy Cecil Drummond, Frederick Gentner Drummond, and Alfred Alexander "Jack" Drummond. One of their children, Conrad Hubert Drummond, died as an infant in 1910. He was sometimes referred to as "Colonel" Fred Drummond. Drummond was a member of the

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and

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. Frederick Drummond died on August 22, 1913, in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

References

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