He helped found and develop Sand Springs as a model city that included all components of a total community.

Sand Springs was incorporated as a city in 1912, with a population of 400.

Sand Springs became one center of glass production in Oklahoma.

He retired as director of athletics at Sand Springs in 1988.

"Across the river, or out near Sand Springs," it offered.

He stopped one last year near Sand Springs that cost us a pretty penny.

On this land, he eventually founded a town that he named Sand Springs.

There is also a park and a library named for him in Sand Springs.

It is the only public high school in Sand Springs.

He then went into business for himself on a paving project in nearby Sand Springs.