The agricultural leader of Collingsworth County, including the High Plains and South Plains for decades, was Francis Oral Masten. He was born in June 1890, the oldest of 11 children of William Cornelius Masten Jr. and Mary Fields at Illinois Bend, Montague County,Texas.The small hamlet is located just a few miles northeast of Nocona.
His grandfather, William Cornelius Masten Sr., was ...
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