Ancel S. Earp

Ancel Earp was born on April 14, 1893, in McLennan County, Texas, to S. N. Earp and Nina Elouise Jones. He moved with his family to Oklahoma Territory in 1897. He graduated from Ardmore Public Schools, and clerked for Judges Robert L. Williams. He would later work as the treasurer for Williams campaign for governor, as his chief clerk after his election, and later as the appointed Adjutant General of Oklahoma. He served in France during World War I and returned to Oklahoma City after the war to start an insurance company. He married Lillian Mary Tidnam and the couple had two children.^[1] He died on May 25, 1976, in Oklahoma City.^[2]