Celebratg the centennial: Who is Gaylord named after?

Contents:

• CELEBRATG THE CENTENNIAL: WHO IS GAYLORD NAMED AFTER?
• GAYLORD HOTELS
• WHAT IS A GAYLORD BOX?
• WELE TO GAYLORD
• WELE TO GAYLORD TEXAN RORT & CONVENTN CENTER
• CAB RENTALS GAYLORD
• BRG YOUR MEETG TO GAYLORD TEXAN RORT & CONVENTN CENTER
• WELE TO GAYLORD
• WELE TO GAYLORD ROCKI RORT & CONVENTN CENTER

CELEBRATG THE CENTENNIAL: WHO IS GAYLORD NAMED AFTER?

On January 29, 1903, an amb 29-year-old named Edward Kg Gaylord purchased tert a stgglg newspaper lled The Daily Oklahoman. Gaylord traveled to Oklahoma Cy, a bourgeong Wild Wt town of 10, 000, and found Roy Stafford, publisher of the ne-year-old Oklahoman. He weled Gaylord as someone who uld not only share the fancial burn but actually manage the paper’s bs algs and day-to-day operatns.

Along wh two bs partners, Ray Dickson and Roy McCltock, Gaylord paid Stafford $15, 000 for 45 percent ownership of the paper.

Together, Stafford and his new partners formed the Oklahoma Publishg Company (OPUBCO), of which Gaylord was first named Secretary-Treasurer. Gaylord managed The Oklahoman, and unr his learship the paper’s circulatn ballooned. Nearly a century later, on September 15, 2011, Gaylord’s granddghter, Christy Gaylord Evert, announced that OPUBCO and all of s holdgs would be sold to Denver billnaire Philip Anschutz, a secretive tyon wh terts energy, sports, entertament, and publishg.

GAYLORD HOTELS

Anschutz’s own bs sensibili and polil leangs seem to eerily reflect those of the Gaylord fay. The Oklahoman is the state’s largt paper, and the fluence of the Gaylord name reach far and wi across the state and beyond. The Universy of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communitn is a rpected, petive J-School thanks large part to the lns of dollars the Gaylord fay has vted the program.

All the while, the Gaylords have played an important role the shapg of our state’s history and culture. Gaylord has more than once been lled the “Father of Oklahoma. The Gaylords have spent an entire century amassg wealth and fluence.

In 2003, David Dary, a Pulzer nomee and one-time head of the Universy of Oklahoma’s Gaylord School of Journalism, thored The Oklahoma Publishg Company’s First Century: The Gaylord Fay Story. In chapter five, “Polil Inpennce, ” Dary reunts Gaylord’s purchase of the Oklahoma Cy Tim 1916, and a subsequent edorial published the Tim clarg a new policy of polil pennce for both papers:. Gaylord was an aggrsive nservative wh strong opns who routely wrote ont-page edorials champng or cryg some e, ndidate, or piece of legislatn.

WHAT IS A GAYLORD BOX?

’s right-wg Free Congrs Foundatn—that not only moniz unns, environmentalists, femists, Planned Parenthood, and public tn, but also seems obssed wh lecturg gays? From an Oklahoman edorial tled, “S no more”: “There’s no solid proof that anyone is born a homosexual … Homosexualy is a s … But to ny that a s is a s and wallow is the first step toward damnatn.

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“That CJR article hurt The Oklahoman, really stung, ” a former Oklahoman reporter told me, speakg anonymoly due to Gaylord nnectns at his current job. ” The thor of the piece was bs wrer Ryan Chtum, who grew up Oklahoma and attend OU’s Gaylord School.

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Joe Foote, current chair of the Gaylord School of Journalism, disagre. Gaylord.

And they’ve had a pretty sgular pot of view durg the send generatn of the Gaylords, as well. If crics of The Oklahoman like CJR and Troy are to be believed, the Gaylord-Anschutz hand-off should be a seamls transn of valu. Like OPUBCO, Anschutz Corporatn is a privately held empire driven by one man’s visn, and like the Gaylords’, Anschutz’s nservative polics loom large over his wi-rangg assets.

CAB RENTALS GAYLORD

His philanthropic givg has gone to support nservative efforts to lim the rights of homosexuals, promote “telligent sign, ” and fight abortn. “I was surprised that the Gaylord fay would not be operatg the paper. Gaylord that rpect; ’s not about him, ’s about the bs and ’s about nng the bs.

Gaylord beme print and prcipal shareholr of OPUBCO. Gaylord stepped and purchased The Broadmoor, addg to the OPUBCO plex.

The Gaylords uld keep the fay legacy, knowg that unr the stewardship of Anschutz—a most man of Midwtern valu and nservative prcipl—OPUBCO would ntue to reprent the visn of s founr. Foote is disappoted to see the Gaylords ex, but he believ fort n be taken the fact that The Oklahoman will at least stay private hands. “We always talk when we see a strong owner e to the picture like the Anschutz operatn, or uld be the Gaylords or the Lortons or any of the privately held pani, there’s a natural spicn of that.

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“Hopefully, they’re gog to be good stewards of the Gaylord properti, and e their good judgment to gui a way that Oklahomans n be proud.

Edor's note: In 1922, Gaylord beme a cy and regnn of the 100th anniversary of that velopment, the Herald Tim will n a seri of articl about the culture, history, and people of Gaylord.

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GAYLORD — There were two dividuals — Orlando Barn and Augte Gaylord — who played important rol the foundg of Gaylord. Acrdg to Phil Alexanr of the Otsego County Historil Society, the town of Gaylord was created when the Jackson, Lansg and Sagaw Railroad phed north om Otsego Lake Village 1873. At the time the railroad me to Gaylord, what is now Ma Street served as the dividg le between two townships, Alexanr said.

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Alexanr said that is probably the se for Barn and Gaylord.

Augte GaylordBy all acunts, Augte Smh Gaylord, whose surname was chosen 1874 as the place name for Gaylord, lived a brief but exemplary was born Oh 1831 and moved to Sagaw 1851 and was hired as a school that year he beme a unty clerk Sagaw. Gaylord was admted to the bar 1856 and formed a partnership wh Moore which was dissolved by mutual nsent 1861.