Frederick Drummond

Frederick Drummond (May 2, 1864August 22, 1913) was a Scottish-born American businessman and politician and the founding patriarch of the Oklahoma Drummond family. Early life Frederick Drummond was born on May 2, 1864, in Ardrossan, Scotland. He immigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1882 and lived in New York. He moved to St. Louis in 1884 and to Pawhuska, Oklahoma (then part of the Osage Nation in Indian Territory) in 1887. During this time he obtained a license to trade on the Osage Nation. Settlement in Hominy In 1903, the Drummonds moved to Hominy, Oklahoma where Frederick founded the Hominy Trading Company. The Victorian-style Fred and Adeline Drummond House was built in 1905 in Hominy, Oklahoma by Frederick and Addie; the same year he became the first vice-president of Hominy's first national bank. Political career Prior to Oklahoma statehood, he was a founder of Hominy Public Schools and the first secretary of the school board in 1905. He was re-appointed to the school board for the following year. He was a county commissioner in 1907 before statehood. The last territorial governor, Frank Frantz, appointed him to attend the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress in 1907. In 1908, Frederick Drummond became the first mayor of Hominy and served for two years. He was a Republican candidate for Osage County's 2nd county commissioner district in 1910, but he lost the election.