Frank Hilton Greer

Greer founded the Daily State Capitol in Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1889. The first three issues of the paper were printed in Leavenworth, Kansas and shipped to Oklahoma. He alo published the Weekly State Capital and the Oklahoma Farmer^[2] His papers propagandized for Guthrie and the settlement of Oklahoma Territory and became a leading influence in the Oklahoma Republican Party.^[1] His printing company, the State Capital Company, bought the first Linotype machine to be brought to the territory and built the Co-operative Publishing Company Building.^[2][3] He was elected to the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature in 1892 and helped found the Oklahoma Historical Society, serving on its board from 1896 to 1906. He was a founder of the Oklahoma Territorial Press Association and president from 1904 to 1905.^[1]

Greer designed the official Territorial Seal for Oklahoma Territory, which was later incorporated into the Oklahoma State Seal.^[2] His first wife died in 1906 and he moved to Tulsa in 1911 where he married Laura Leigh Hanson. He worked for the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign in Tulsa during World War I and died on August 8, 1933. He was Episcopalian.^[1]

He was adopted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1982.^[4] The Oklahoma Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists named their lifetime achievement award after Greer.^[5]