Data source is Mary Moomau Clark - Deceased
Data source is Robert W. Moomau. E-mail R.Moomau@sbcglobal.net
There are obvious errors in the following bio about JAMES M. MOOMAU found in Vol. 3, p. 1322 of "A Standard History of OKLAHOMA", Joseph B. Thoburn, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1916.
- John Moomau, the grandfather, did not emigrate from France. -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/books/thoburn/bios3/moomau_james.txt
"JAMES M. MOOMAU"
Since coming from the East and locating in Cleveland County ten years ago, James M. Moomau has advanced rapidly into prominence and success as a merchant and citizen, and now has one of the leading stores at Norman and is also president of the Chamber of Commerce of that city.
He was born at Greenbank, Pocahontas Co., WV, May 8, 1877. His grandfather, John Moomau, emigrated from France and settled in Virginia and died in Franklin of West Virginia, where he had been a farmer and stockman. The father was Dr. J. P. Moomau, who was born at Franklin, West Virginia, in 1840, and died at Greenbank in that state in 1908. He spent practically all his years in one general locality, and after graduating M. D. from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia practiced as a physician and surgeon and was a kindly family doctor for hundreds of patients in that locality. He also owned and conducted a farm. He was a man of considerable prominence and for two terms represented his home district in the West Virginia Legislature. He was a democrat and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Doctor Moomau married Nannie ARBOGAST, who was born in Greenbank, West Virginia, in 1850 and still lives there. Their children are: Flora C., living with her mother; E. S., a druggist at Lewisburg, West Virginia; Mary, wife of Dr. C. L. AUSTIN, a physician and surgeon at Cleveland County, Oklahoma; Dr. L. H., who is a graduate of the University of Maryland in the medical department, and succeeded his father in practice at Greenbank, where he now resides; Flora C.; Lillian, Nannie Boone, and Lucy, all living with their mother; and Fred, who manages the homestead farm back in West Virginia.
James M. Moomau was given a substantial education, first in grammar and high schools and subsequently in the Danville Military School at Danville, Virginia where he completed his course in 1895. During the vacation periods he helped to pay his way by various lines of mercantile employment and that was also a valuable experience when he entered business for himself. From 1895 he spent several years in mercantile employment, and from 1901 to 1902 had charge of a dry goods store in Coatsville, Pennsylvania. He was next manager of a general store at Belington, West Virginia.
In January, 1905, Mr. Moomau came to Norman, Oklahoma, and after one year as a farmer worked as a clerk in that city until 1908. Here he established a clothing and men's furnishing store on East Main Street under the firm name of Mooman & KIMBERLIN, a partnership which was dissolved in August, 1915, leaving Mr. Moomau sole proprietor and owner of one of the principal stores of its kind in Cleveland County.
For the past Three years Mr. Moomau has been an alderman of Norman and for two of these years was president of the council. He is president of the Chamber of Commerce, is a democrat in politics, is a director and secretary and treasurer of the Presbyterian Church, and affiliates with the Knights and Ladies of Security and with Norman Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America.
In 1896 at McDowell, Virginia, he married Miss Mattie PETERSON, daughter of the late Charles Peterson, who was a cattleman and land owner in that state. They have four children: Hattie Poyntz, now a freshman in the Norman High School; Mary Catherine, in the eighth grade; James P., in the third grade; and Fred Taylor.