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Paden, Oklahoma

Okfuskee County
Location: on Main Street in Paden
Coordinates: 35.506979, -96.567939
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Paden Community Council/Paden High School Student Council
Topics: Government; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Urban Development

In 1903, the town was founded by and named for Deputy US Marshal Paden Tolbert, who served the federal court in the Western District of Arkansas presided over by Judge Isaac C. Parker, the “hanging judge.” After Paden’s death in 1904, his wife Lucy became the town’s postmaster. Paden is the only town in Oklahoma to be named after a deputy US marshal.

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