Ladd drummond biography

American ranching family

The Drummond family is an American ranching family from Oklahoma.

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The family is one of the largest land-owning families in the state of Oklahoma and the United States. In , the family owned , acres according to The Land Report magazine. In , the family was the largest land-owning family in Osage County, owning about 9% of the county.

19th century: Settling among the Osage

The family's founding patriarch was Frederick Drummond (–) who moved to Osage County (then the Osage Nation in Indian Territory) in Frederick had emigrated to the United States from Scotland in He briefly lived in New York, Texas, and St.

Louis before being hired as clerk for the Osage Mercantile Company in the Osage Nation.^[1] Frederick would marry his wife, Addie Gentner of Coffeyville, Kansas, on July 6, ^[2] Fred and Addie had six children including three sons, Roy Cecil Drummond, Frederick Gentner Drummond, and Alfred Alexander