James K. Beauchamp

James K. Beauchamp (1859–1935), a native of Delaware, moved to Missouri in 1871, with his parents where they became farmers. He also read the law in the offices of a local law firm until he passed the bar exam in 1879. He moved to Kansas for a year, but a period of poor health forced him to return to Missouri. In 1893, he joined the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in Oklahoma Territory, where he secured a homestead in Enid. He was elected Garfield County probate judge in 1898, serving until he was appointed Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Territory in 1902. He resigned from that position, which would be eliminated when Oklahoma was granted statehood in 1907, and went back to the private practice of law in Enid. Provided by Wikipedia