Editing Enid, Oklahoma (section)

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of people from Enid, Oklahoma|List of mayors of Enid, Oklahoma}}
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[[File:Enid Boomer.jpg|thumb|Boomer, a sculpture by Harold T. Holden sits in downtown Enid by the Cherokee Strip Conference Center.]]
Enid's [[Frank Frantz]] was the seventh and final Oklahoma Territorial Governor. Enid has been home to several successful entrepreneurs from oilman [[H. H. Champlin House|Herbert Champlin]] to casino owner, [[Sam Boyd]], founder of the [[Boyd Gaming]] Corporation.  The arts have also flourished among Enid natives,  from [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] painter [[Paladine Roye]] to Pulitzer Prize winning author [[Marquis James]]. Three Oklahoma State Poets Laureate, [[Betty Lou Shipley]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Oklahoma Poets Laureate : a Sourcebook, History, and Anthology|last=Holliday|first=Shawn|publisher=Mongrel Empire Press|others=Holliday, Shawn, 1969-, Barnes, Jim, 1933-, Brown, Nathan L. (Nathan Lee), 1965-, Davis, Delbert, 1883-1965., Fry, Maggie Culver, 1900-1998., Hamilton, Carol.|year=2015|isbn=9780990320432|edition= First|location=Norman, Oklahoma|pages=190|oclc=905700998}}</ref> [[Bess Truitt]] and [[Carol Hamilton]], grew up in Enid.<ref name=Poettruitt>"Man releasing book on poets laureate," ''Enid News & Eagle'', Feb 24, 2015</ref><ref name=Poethamilton>"Poetry reading is set in Norman on Sunday", ''The Oklahoman'', May 17, 2012</ref> In 1937 the ''Enid Morning News'' referred to [[Don Blanding]] as the poet laureate of Enid, Oklahoma,<ref name="EnidPL">{{cite news |title=Carnegie Library Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/908779572/ |access-date=2 February 2024 |agency=The Enid Morning News |date=23 May 1937}}</ref> and later he was dubbed the Poet Laureate of Hawaii<ref name="USCongress">{{cite book |title=United States Congressional Record, Proceedings of the 85th Congress First Session, Vol 103, Part 7 |date=1957 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=8879 |access-date=28 October 2023| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Dyh7-sU-HIC&dq=%22don+blanding%22+%22poet+laureate+of+Hawaii%22&pg=PA8879}}</ref> and Honolulu.<ref name="LATimesobit">{{cite news |title=Don Blanding, author and illustrator dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/161004666/?terms=%22Poet%20Laureate%20of%20Honolulu%22&match=1 |access-date=28 October 2023 |agency=The Los Angeles Times |date=10 June 1957}}</ref> The local Don Blanding Poetry Society is named after him.<ref name="enedbps">{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Jessica |title=Passion for Poetry: Works Inspire Readers at Don Blanding Poetry Society |url=https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/passion-for-poetry-works-inspire-readers-at-don-blanding-poetry-society/article_5da01c43-4bbd-5151-9856-710aae98a031.html |access-date=1 August 2022 |agency=The Enid News & Eagle |date=18 May 2014}}</ref> Poets [[Quraysh Ali Lansana]], [[J. Quinn Brisben]], [[Louis Jenkins (poet)|Louis Jenkins]], and [[D.L. Lang]] also once called Enid home.

Actors [[Richard Erdman]], [[Glenda Farrell]], [[Lynn Herring]], and [[Thad Luckinbill]] were all born in Enid, as was [[Emmy Award]] winning director, [[Sharron Miller]]. Many musicians have called Enid home, including violinist [[Kyle Dillingham]], jazz great [[Sam Rivers (jazz musician)|Sam Rivers]], jazz pianist [[Pat Moran McCoy]], folk singer and banjoist [[Karen Dalton (entertainer)|Karen Dalton]], fingerstyle guitarist [[Michael Hedges]] and opera singer [[Leona Mitchell]], with the last two having streets in Enid bearing their names. Mitchell's brother, Hulon Mitchell Jr ([[Yahweh Ben Yahweh]]) was the founder of the religious group, [[Nation of Yahweh]].<ref>{{cite web
| title = The Yaweh ben Yahweh Cult
| url = http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/yahweh_cult/2.html
| access-date = 2010-03-14}}</ref>  Attorney [[Stephen Jones (attorney)|Stephen Jones]] defended [[Timothy McVeigh]] after the [[Oklahoma City bombing]].

A number of military heroes have also come from Enid, including former US Army Special Forces operator
[[Bo Gritz]], [[Medal of Honor]] recipient [[Harold Kiner]], and Pearl Harbor hero USAF General [[Kenneth M. Taylor]]. Enid has a history of aviation professionals from aviation pioneer [[Clyde Cessna]], founder of the [[Cessna]] Aircraft Company, to [[Enid Woodring Regional Airport|Irving Woodring]], one of the Army's Three Musketeers of Aviation. Cessna's pioneering flights earned him the nickname the "Birdman of Enid".  One of Enid's main streets is named after [[Astronaut]] [[Owen K. Garriott]], and Enid's air force base is named for [[Medal of Honor]] recipient [[Leon Vance]].
[[Mark Kelly (bassist)|Mark Kelly]], bass player of the Christian rock band [[Petra (band)|Petra]] calls Enid home. Former White House photojournalist David Scott Holloway, recipient of the Getty Grant and photographer for ''[[Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown]]'' on CNN was born in Enid, attending Longfellow Jr. High School, before his family moved near Waukomis where he attended Pioneer Pleasantvale High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.enidbuzz.com/david-s-holloway/|title=David S. Holloway, Photojournalist|website=www.enidbuzz.com}}</ref>

Even some fictional characters hold Enid as their home town, including Paul and Amanda Kirby (portrayed by William Macy and Téa Leoni) in ''[[Jurassic Park III]]'', Maggie Gyllenhaal's character, journalist Jean Craddock, in ''[[Crazy Heart]]'',<ref>{{cite web|last=Mullin |first=Jeff |url=http://enidnews.com/opinion/x1745486630/Hooray-for-Hollywood-and-for-Enid-too |title=Hooray for Hollywood ... and for Enid too! » Opinion » The Enid News and Eagle, Enid, OK |date=6 March 2010 |publisher=Enidnews.com |access-date=2011-03-24}}</ref> and in ''[[The Rifleman]]'', [[Lucas McCain]] and his son Mark lived in Enid before settling in North Fork, New Mexico Territory.<ref name=Rifleman>"The Rifleman" (Season 5, "The Guest")</ref>

Some even claim two figures from the [[Abraham Lincoln]] assassination lived and died in Enid.  In 1901, Osborn H. Oldroyd wrote ''The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Flight, Pursuit (sic), Capture, and Punishment of the Conspirators'' which claimed that Sgt. [[Boston Corbett]], the man who killed John Wilkes Booth in Virginia, resided in Enid, employed as a medicine salesman.<ref name=Oldroyd>Oldroyd, Osborn H., ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=KoY17sUW11EC The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Flight, Pursuit, Capture, and Punishment of the Conspirators]'', p. 101</ref><ref name=Walker>Walker, Dale, "The Mad Hatter and the Assassin", ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=lDAYE5C7XSgC Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West]'', pp. 170–174</ref>  Local legend holds that Corbett is buried in one of the unmarked graves in the [[Enid Cemetery and Calvary Catholic Cemetery|Enid Cemetery]].<ref name=Bass>"[https://kerussocharis.blogspot.com/2008/08/setting-record-straight-abraham-lincoln.html Boston Corbett]", ''Personal journals of H.B. Bass'', February 15, 1959</ref> In 1907, [[Finis L. Bates]] wrote ''The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth''.<ref name=Bates>Bates, Finis L. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PX9RjixQc6kC Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth]'', Memphis, Tenn.: Pilcher Printing Co., 1907</ref> The book claimed that David E. George, a tenant at the Grand Avenue Hotel who committed suicide by poison in 1903, was actually [[John Wilkes Booth]]. After sitting for years in Penniman's Funeral Home, George's mummified body later toured the carnival circuit.<ref>Logsdon, Guy, "[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BO016.html Booth Legend] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105081547/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BO016.html |date=2009-01-05 }}", Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture</ref> The 1937 short film ''The Man in the Barn'' by [[Jacques Tourneur]] revisits the story of David E. George as Booth.<ref name=Fujiwara>Fujiwara, Chris, ''Jacques Tourneur: the cinema of nightfall'', 1998, p. 51</ref>