O'Daniel, W. Lee "Pappy", Papers 1911-1951

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O'Daniel, W. Lee "Pappy", Papers 1911-1951

The scrapbooks and manuscript material of the W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel Papers, 1911-1951, document the life and career of O’Daniel as a politician, businessman, and entertainer.

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Politician and businessman Wilbert Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel (1890-1969) was born in Malta, Ohio, one of two children of William Barnes and Alice Ann (Thompson) O’Daniel. Following his father’s death, shortly after O’Daniel’s birth, his mother remarried and moved the family to Reno County, Kansas. A 1908 graduate of Salt City Business College, O’Daniel became a stenographer and bookkeeper for a flour milling company. In 1917, he married Merle Estella Butcher, with whom he had three child...