Word: forgan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroad brings prestige to a community. It may also bring prosperity by carrying to market what the community produces. So in 1912 the citizens of Forgan, at the entrance of the wheat-rich Oklahoma Panhandle, were glad when the Wichita Falls & Northwestern (now part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas) chose their town for a terminus.- And the folk of Beaver, the county seat seven miles to the south, were chagrined because railroadless Beaver was outdone. They pooled their wheat receipts, hired a teamster at $4 a day, graded the land by eye, started a railroad to Forgan. Before half...
...Forgan was founded by Frank Kell, then president of Wichita Falls & Northwestern. The road had banking connections with Chicago's famed Forgan family, in whose honor the town was named...
...scientific Laborites, a Dr. Robert Forgan and one Thomas Edward Groves, rose with a project to improve the atmosphere of the House of Commons by spraying Parliament with an atomized mixture of alcohol and oxygen. "We have had some highly successful tests in the committee rooms at St. Stephen's," said Dr. Forgan...