U. S. Supreme Court of Oklahoma Territory
Chief Counsel ~ Federal Trade Commission
Published by Bowen-Merrill Press 1898
2010 Reprint by Cornell University Library
by Bayard Taylor Hainer
Oklahoma Chronicles
Biography of Hainer
Bayard Taylor Hainer was appointed Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court of Oklahoma Territory by President William McKinley in 1898. He served in that capacity until Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907.
Hainer was born in Columbia, Missouri, May 31, 1860. He was the son of Hungarian emigrees Etelka Barthos Hainer and Ignace Hainer - Madarasz..
Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Bayard Taylor Hainer was graduated from Iowa State College and Michigan State University, where he received a law degree. He was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1887 and practiced law in Larned, Kansas from 1887 to 1889, when he and his family settled in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
He served as city counsellor for Guthrie, prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court.
When Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, Hainer was appointed chief counsel for the packers and stockyard administration in Washington, D.C.
He was appointed chief counsel for the Federal Trade Commission in 1927.
Hainer was the author of a textbook The Modern Law of Municipal Securities and of many magazine articles pertaining to legal subjects.
He was a Republican, an Episcopalian and a 32nd degree Mason.
He died at his home, 918 N. W. 17th St., Oklahoma City on July 10, 1933.
Justice Hainer was survived by his wife, the former Florence Weatherby, whom he married at Des Moines, Iowa in 1891; and by a son, Bayard Jr.
Hainer's father, Ignace Hainer, also a lawyer, served as a member of the staff of Hungarian Premier Lajos Batthyani during the Hungarian War for Independence of 1848. He was a journalist for Louis Kossuth's revolutionary newspaper. After emigrating to America in 1854, he settled in Chicago, then was appointed a professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri in Columbia until the beginning of the Civil War, when he sided with the Union as a staunch abolitionist. He later served as a member of the United States Grand Jury.
Hainer's brother Dr. Julius C. Hainer (Cornell University School of Law) was a lawyer and professor of medical jurisprudence at St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, now a part of Washington University..
Hainer's brother Congressman Eugene Jerome Hainer served in the 53rd and 54th Congresses of the United States, as a Republican representing Nebraska.
Hainer's nephew was E. F. Blaise, Oklahoma oil baron, who served as president of the Farmer's National Bank of Tulsa, as president of the State Bank of Kiefer, as president of the Admiralty Zinc Co. and of the Cushing Refining & Gasoline Company.
Banker & Oil Baron
Eugene Frank Blaise
Eugene Frank Blaise was born in Memphis, Tennessee November 21, 1878. A nephew of OT Supreme Court Justice Bayard Taylor Hainer, he was the son of Ada Hainer Blaise, native of Hungary, and of John (Johannes) Theodore Blaise, native of Germany. He was a grandson of Hungarian-American statesman Ignace Hainer.
Blaise studied business at the Burlington school in St. Louis and arrived in Oklahoma Territory soon after his uncle was appointed to the Supreme Court. He was appointed a court reporter for the 4th District Court.
Beginning with the formation of a "wildcatting" partnership with jurist Charles J. Wrightsman, Blaise went on to become a successful independent oil producer.
Early in their careers Blaise and Wrightsman joined Harry Sinclair and William Connelly to form the Chaser Oil Company.
Blaise served as president of the Farmer's National Bank of Tulsa. When the bank was reorganized as the Exchange National Bank in 1910, Sinclair became president. It is today known as the Bank of Oklahoma.
E. F. Blaise and Friend Martin Aiken founded the Inland Refining Company at Fort Worth, Texas and at Cushing, Oklahoma, which Blaise headed as vice president.
Blaise, Aiken and Joshua Cosden founded the Peerless Refining Company in Texas and Oklahoma.
E. F. Blaise later served as treasurer, then president of the Cushing Refining and Gasoline Company, Tulsa until the company was sold to Mid-Continent Oil Company, prior to becoming Sunray DX, then Sun Oil Company. Cushing was the first oil company to produce a lead-free safe gasoline.
Blaise also served as treasurer of the Admiralty Zinc Mining Company in northeast Oklahoma, of which Aiken served as president. Following Aiken's death in 1929, Blaise served as president until it was sold to the Mary M Company in 1936.
E. F. Blaise was also an owner and director of the El Cedro Silver Mining Company at Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico, which his son, D. E. Blaise served as president..
A member of the Episcopal Church and the Masons, Blaise died in 1958 at his home, The Sophian Plaza, 1500 South Frisco, Tulsa.
He was survived by two grandsons, John Snyder Blaise-Shepherd and Thomas Mitchell Blaise-Shepherd.
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Blaise Family Portrait
Mexico City - 1938
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A Treatise on the Modern Law
of Municipal Securities:
Rights and Remedies as Determined by the Courts & Statutes of the United States
~ With Forms and Directions ~ 800 pp.
by Bayard Taylor Hainer
First published by Bowen-Merrill, Kansas City & Indianapolis in 1898 ~
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Gallery of Notable
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Portrait of Biographer:
Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd
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Judge Bayard T. Hainer
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Thomas Blaise Shepherd
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A History of the Oil and Banking Industry
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