"Leaders and Leading Men of the Indian Territory", Vol. I, Choctaws and Chickasaws By H. F. O'Beirne published 1891. Page 147 J. L. WARD The subject of this sketch was born in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, in 1861, being the son of Joseph Ward of New Jersey, who served as a Captain in the Union Army during the war. The subject of this sketch moved with his family to the Indian Territory when quite a child, and was educated in a public school until 1870, after which he recieved private tuition for fully ten years. In 1880 he commenced stock raising, and three years afterward married Lettie Simmons, an English girl, whome he met in Atoka County. By this marriage he has four children living: Colman James, Lucy Elizabeth, David Robb, and Joseph Henry. In 1890 Mr Ward. was appointed on the Indian Police. He has one hundred and fifty acres of good farm land, one hundred and thirty of which is under cultivation, besides two hundred head of stock cattle. He is a brother of Judge Henry Ward, late senator of the second district, while his second brother, William, has recently been elected as representative of the third district of the Choctaw Nation. Joseph Ward is a young man of excellent business qualifications, is energetic, ambitious, and persevering. These traits are sufficient to suggest great possibilities for his future career. -------------- Nalora