Mark Gough

Mark Gough
MARK GOUGH—Farmer, schoolmaster and industrialist, Mark Gough, postmaster at Tipton, has proved himself a good and progressive citizen of Oklahoma, with a wide circle of loyal friends and the unanimous respect of the entire community. He was successful as an agriculturist in three States and under differing conditions of soil and climate. He was successful as an educator and he has been successful as custodian and distributor of the United States mail. Loyal to trust, faithful to country and to State, he is a fine example of upright manhood and a valuable unit of this community. Interest in the civic operations of a political organization, such as the State of Oklahoma or the town of Tipton, is an index of the character of one privileged to give expression to his opinions through the medium of the ballot. Postmaster Gough has always been deeply interested in these things and is, therefore, a citizen of distinct worth, He was born in Delaware County, Indiana, December 1, 1867, a son of Augustus and Anna (Kern) Gough, both natives of West Virginia, who removed to Indiana in 1863 and lived there until their deaths. Augustus Gough was a farmer and a carpenter, and he and his wife were the parents of four children. Mark Gough was reared in his native State and trained in the art of agriculture on his father’s farm. In 1897, equipped with this knowledge and having had the benefits of a standard education in Indiana, he farmed there for eleven years, as well as teaching in the local schools. He then moved to Oklahoma and located on a farm he acquired four miles west of Tipton, where he farmed until 1925, when he came to Tipton and worked a cotton ginning enterprise, conducting it successfully for two years, when he gave it up in order to accept the appointment of postmaster, tendered him by President Coolidge, February 15, 1927. He is a member of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Methodist Episcopal church. For four years he was a mem- ber of the School Board. Mark Gough married, in 1889, Ellen Bennett, a native of Ohio. Their children are: 1. Lela, married B. H. Bank, a farmer, conducting the two hundred and sixty-three acres owned by Postmaster Gough, a finely improved and productive property. 2. C. A., a rural mail carrier, resident of Tipton. 3. Inez, a school teacher, living at home with her father. Her mother’s death occurred February 19, 1924.
Oklahoma: A History of the State and its People Lewis Publishing Co, New York. 1929

MARK GOUGH—Farmer, schoolmaster and industrialist, Mark Gough, postmaster at Tipton, has proved himself a good and progressive citizen of Oklahoma, with a wide circle of loyal friends and the unanimous respect of the entire community. He was successful as an agriculturist in three States and under differing conditions of soil and climate. He was successful as an educator and he has been successful as custodian and distributor of the United States mail. Loyal to trust, faithful to country and to State, he is a fine example of upright manhood and a valuable unit of this community. Interest in the civic operations of a political organization, such as the State of Oklahoma or the town of Tipton, is an index of the character of one privileged to give expression to his opinions through the medium of the ballot. Postmaster Gough has always been deeply interested in these things and is, therefore, a citizen of distinct worth,

He was born in Delaware County, Indiana, December 1, 1867, a son of Augustus and Anna (Kern) Gough, both natives of West Virginia, who removed to Indiana in 1863 and lived there until their deaths. Augustus Gough was a farmer and a carpenter, and he and his wife were the parents of four children. Mark Gough was reared in his native State and trained in the art of agriculture on his father’s farm. In 1897, equipped with this knowledge and having had the benefits of a standard education in Indiana, he farmed there for eleven years, as well as teaching in the local schools. He then moved to Oklahoma and located on a farm he acquired four miles west of Tipton, where he farmed until 1925, when he came to Tipton and worked a cotton ginning enterprise, conducting it successfully for two years, when he gave it up in order to accept the appointment of postmaster, tendered him by President Coolidge, February 15, 1927. He is a member of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Methodist Episcopal church. For four years he was a mem- ber of the School Board.

Mark Gough married, in 1889, Ellen Bennett, a native of Ohio. Their children are: 1. Lela, married B. H. Bank, a farmer, conducting the two hundred and sixty-three acres owned by Postmaster Gough, a finely improved and productive property. 2. C. A., a rural mail carrier, resident of Tipton. 3. Inez, a school teacher, living at home with her father. Her mother’s death occurred February 19, 1924.

Oklahoma: A History of the State and its People
Lewis Publishing Co, New York. 1929