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...Grover Cleveland's time he was making 75? a day as a farm hand near Henryetta, Okla., living in a miserable shack, dressing in dirty blankets. The people of Henryetta knew him as Crazy Jack but on the Government's records he was set down as Jackson Barnett...
...Benjamin Harrison's time the Department of Interior began to allot farms to the members of the Five Civilized Tribes. To Jackson Barnett, for his very own, went 160 acres in eastern Oklahoma which he did not bother to go and look at. In 1912 after Crazy Jack had lived peaceably through the administrations of 18 Presidents, something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth...
Other oil-rich Indians squandered their money on grand pianos and limousines. But Jackson Barnett continued living on $50 a month. He was on every "sucker list" in the land and untold sharpers tried to victimize him but he understood too little to fall for their blandishments. During the War his guardian invested $1,400,000 of his money in Liberty Bonds. By 1920 he was worth probably $4,000,000. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs let him give $25,000 each to seven local churches. $400,000 for missionary work and $1,000,000 to found an Indian hospital...
Adventure came to him in the person of Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow woman. A court decision described what followed: "Barnett was kidnapped by an adventuress." All through one night they rode in a taxi to Coffeyville, Kans. where they were married. Then they crossed the State line to Missouri and were married again...
Marriage Voided. Jackson Barnett, 90, "wealthiest" Oklahoma Indian; and Mrs. Anna Laurie Lowe Barnett, white; by a U. S. District Court; in Los Angeles. The court held Indian Barnett "mentally incompetent," gave his $300,000 estate to the U. S. Department of the Interior for administration, declared Mrs. Barnett might be employed in the Barnett household, should not be considered Barnett's wife (TIME...