[Information taken from the book "Leaders and Leading Men of the Indian Territory, Choctaw and Chickasaw", by H. F. O’Beirne, vol. 1. Publisher is: American Publishers’ Association, Chicago, IL, printed in the year 1891. Page 120]

JOE W. EVERIDGE - [Choctaw.]

The subject of this sketch was born in Kiamichi county in June, 1853, and attended the neighborhood schools until seventeen years of age. He is the son of Hon. Joel Everidge Supreme Judge of the Choctaw Nation, and a man of rare ability and influence among his people. The young man engaged in business for himself in 1878,m and was soon appointed Captain of the National Light Horse, which office he held for four years. In 1882 he was elected Sheriff of Kiamichi county, and later became a member of the Indian Police force. In 1884 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives, and in 1885 was appointed a member of the Senate by Governor Edward McCurtain. The same year he was appointed District Collector of the Third district, was re-appointe in 1886 and held the ofice for two years. In 1871 he married Miss Susan Erwin, daughter of Calvin Erwin, of Doaksville, Towsen county. By this marriage he has six children -- Willie, Emma, Joseph, Ella, Robert, and Mary.

Mr. Everidge has a farm of six hundred and forty acres, a part which is under cultivation. He also owns about one hundred head of stock cattle.

Few men are as popular with the masses as Joe Everidge. Like his father, he is tall of stature and powerfully built, fair complexioned and intelligent looking. He is descended from the Hyah-pah-tuk-kalo clan and about one-eighth Choctaw.

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