Corinne is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in southern Pushmataha County,

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, United States, located 19 miles east of Antlers. Using the

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commonly in use in Oklahoma, the community is located in T22-4S-R19E. A

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opened in Corinne, Indian Territory on August 24, 1904, and operated until September 30, 1958. It was named for Corinne Estill Lesueur, a local resident. Corinne, the daughter of Captain Alexander A. Lesueur—early promoter of Antlers—later moved to Antlers and served as an officer of its Citizens National Bank. The bank later became First National Bank, and, decades later, FirstBank. It continues to operate in the building in which Corinne Lesueur worked. Captain Lesueur, Corinne's father, was a noted military officer during the

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, serving in the

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from

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. During post-war years he served as secretary of state of Missouri, later moving to Antlers. Corinne, founded during the latter days of the

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, was located in Cedar County, a part of the Apukshunnubbee District of the

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. Its county seat, Sulphur Springs, Choctaw Nation, was near the present-day community of

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. After Oklahoma's statehood and Pushmataha County's establishment on November 16, 1907, Corinne was site of the new county's first murder. Alfred Holman was killed after a relative argued with brothers Solomon Nihka and Bob Nihka, both Choctaw Indians who were also

Snake Indians Snake Indians is a collective name given to the Northern Paiute, Bannock, and Shoshone Native American tribes. The term was used as early as 1739 by French trader and explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Verendrye when he descr ...

. Snake Indians were opposed, sometimes violently, to statehood. The Nihka brothers, as was Choctaw custom, turned themselves in to law authorities after being charged.''Antlers News'', December 18, 1908

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