Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 

                       NATHANIEL KENDRICK
                       
  NAT KENDRICK-Prominently identified with the lumber business in Oklahoma for a 
quarter of a century, Nat Kendrick, of Duncan, has been head of the Kendrick-King 
Lumber Company since 1918, with branches at Chickasha and Ada. Mr. Kendrick is a
man of great industry and of practical application of talents. He has been a 
successful farmer as well as a prosperous merchant and is one of the leading
citizens in a community where activity on the part of all is common and where the 
drone is an unknown quantity. Devoted to the best interests of the State and to 
the districts in which he operates, he is one of the substantial members of the 
commercial machine whose wheels revolve in making the progress apparent on every 
side. Representative of a sturdy and industrious race, he conducts his business 
along lines of fairness and honor that makes its appeal to the honest citizen, 
brings him hosts of friends and commands the respect of all.  Duncan and Mr.
Kendrick are necessary to each other and each appreciates the bond that holds 
them together and that works for the benefit of the entire business body in
cooperative harmony.
  He was born in Freestone County, Texas, September 22, 1877, a son of J. S. and 
Laura (Terry) Kendrick, and is the third born of five children of his parents. 
Zem Kendrick is in the lumber business in Duncan; W. B. is a druggist at Mexia, 
Texas; J. E. is a retired resident of Duncan, and Coleman Kendrick is also retired 
and lives in Waco, Texas. Nat Kendrick was educated in the country schools of 
Texas, and after school hours worked on a farm, keeping at this occupation until 
1904, when he worked in a drygoods store for a year, then coming to Duncan,
where for four years he worked in the employ of R. B. Spencer. He became yard 
manager for the Spencer lumber industry at Marlow after four years with the 
Duncan plant, and spent nine years there, when he determined to engage in the 
trade independently and, in 1918, opened his own establishment in Duncan. Later 
he established the branch yards at Ada and Chickasha. He is a member of the 
Christian church. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Free and 
Accepted Masons, of Duncan; the Guthrie Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish 
Rite Masons, and India Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, 
of Oklahoma City. 
  Mr. Kendrick married, December 27, 1903, Georgia Brock, and they are the parents 
of one child: Laura, who married F. C. King, of Duncan.