William C. Carrick. One
of the successful and reliable practitioners of the Sapulpa bar,
Willlam C. Carrick has been the architect of his own personal fortune
and professional reputation. He is a man of firm convictions,
practical in his aims, whether as attorney or man, and has been
effective also in the realization of those projects which are
advanced by good citizens of modern tendencies. Mr. Carrick was born
at Minaville, Missouri, March 6, 1875, and is a son of Joseph and
Sarah (Tevault) Carrick.
Joseph Carrick was
born at Marietta, Ohio, December 24, 1839, and in 1874 came to
Missouri, where he was married in the same year to Sarah Tevault, who
was born in that state, in 1851. They have passed their lives in
agricultural pursuits, and are now residing in the vicinity of
Braymer, Missouri, on a farm. Ten of their thirteen children still
survive, William C. having been the eldest. He was brought up on the
home farm and it was the desire of his parents that he enter the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with a view toward
which end he studied for two years at Fayetteville. His own
inclinations, however, did not lie in that direction, and at the age
of twenty-three years he left home and enlisted in the United States
regular army as a private. His service of three years included two
years as a scout, a capacity in which he acted with the rank of a
commissioned officer, and following this he was employed for four
years as a member of the Insular Civil Service, part of this time as
postmaster and telegraph operator and part as telegrapher and
postoffice inspector, in the Philippine Islands. After touring the
world for the second time, he returned to his Missouri home and
entered the Kansas City Law School, in 1908, and when he completed
the course in 1911 was valedictorian of his graduating class. Prior
to his admission to the bar he secured some experience by practicing
in justice courts, and after his admission practiced in Kansas City
during 1912, following which he spent less than one year in Arkansas,
and then came to Sapulpa, where he has since built up a large and
representative business. While his practice is broad and general
in character, he has specialized in insurance and contract law, and
has gained a wide reputation for the able manner in which he presents
his cases to juries. Mr. Carrick has been faithful in following the
litigation entrusted him into the higher courts, and remains true to
the interests of his clients until the rendition of a final decision.
He has formed a professional partnership with W. D. Cope, who
maintains an office at Drumwright, and the association has proved a
mutually beneficial, congenial and profitable one. As a citizen, Mr.
Carrick is particularly interested in the public school system,
although he takes a helpful part in forwarding all institutions of
the state and is an enthusiast in regard to its climate and
opportunities. While he has supported republican candidates in the
main he was inclined to be liberal in his political views and is now
a socialist and a nominee for county attorney on that ticket. His
religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but he has leanings
toward Christian Science. A careful and discriminating student of his
profession, Mr. Carrick is also an investigator into other lines of
advanced thought, and has made a particular study of sociology.
Fraternally, he is well known and popular, and belongs to the Masons,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Improved Order of Red
Men.
Mr. Carrick was
married October 3, 1908, to Miss Katherine Miley, a native of
Missouri, and a daughter of M. B. and Stella Miley. One son, Charles
Miley, has been born to this union.