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William L. Couch
William L. Couch was born in North
Carolina in 1850. In 1866 his father's family moved to Johnson
county, Kansas, and four years later, settled at the town of Douglas
in Butler county.
In 1880 he became identified with
the Payne-Oklahoma Colony and remained one of the most active leaders
of that movement until, in November, 1884, he was chosen as Payne's
successor.
He was the first mayor of Oklahoma City
under the provisional government. He was shot during a dispute
over a homestead claim at Oklahoma City, April 14, 1890, and died six
days later.
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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