Assisting Clients Since 1910

The firm was established in Muskogee and moved its offices to Tulsa in 1920, while maintaining significant client relationships in the Muskogee area for many years. The firm developed a substantial general practice in Tulsa which it maintained in the 320 South Boston Building for 60 years. In December 2002, the firm relocated to the Mid-Continent Tower at 401 South Boston Avenue.

Donald P. Moyers

Donald P. Moyers was born and educated in Kansas. Upon his graduation from Washburn, he began a career in academics. After quickly rising through the ranks to superintendant, Mr. Moyers returned to Washburn to receive his law degree. He started a general practice in western Kansas in 1934. From 1937 to 1944, Mr. Moyers was an attorney for the commissioner in the office of chief counsel for the bureau of Internal Revenue. In 1944, he became the house tax counsel for Koppers Co., Inc. in Pittsburgh. In 1949, Mr. Moyers returned to private practice joining the Firm and becoming one of Tulsa’s most respected lawyers. Mr. Moyers was a member of the Tulsa County, Oklahoma and American Bar Associations. He served as an attorney for Oral Roberts University and later joined the ORU Board of Regents where he was elected chairman in 1978.

Christianity, sports and law were the primary passions of this civic giant and silent hero. Mr. Moyers will be remembered for his long, quiet service to the Boy Scouts, the Salvation Army, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Firm and countless other individuals whose lives he touched.

Villard Martin

Villard Martin was born in 1889 in a one room, dirt floor house in Allendale, South Carolina. He graduated from Georgetown in 1908 and moved to Muskogee. He could not practice law, however, as he was not yet 21. Instead, Mr. Martin clerked in his brother’s (Benjamin Martin) law office. After being admitted to practice in Oklahoma, he moved back to D.C. for a job on the legal staff to the U.S. Department of Interior before returning to Muskogee to be a part of the Firm. Mr. Martin became the senior partner in 1942 and the name was changed to Martin, Logan, Williams, and Boesche. In 1952 he made a gift of a very valuable collection of English Law books to the University of Tulsa. He served as a director of several oil companies and as first vice president of the Kansas-Oklahoma Division of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.

Villard Martin, Jr.

Villard Martin, Jr. (1918-2002). Mr. Martin graduated from the University of Oklahoma where he served as President of Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He then entered the University of Oklahoma College of Law where he was awarded an LLD in 1942. He entered the practice of law with his father shortly before Pearl Harbor, but enlisted within days thereafter in the Army Air Corps, attending Officer’s Candidate School where he graduated as a Second Lieutenant. During WWII, he was stationed on Kwajalein Island in the South Pacific where he attained the rank of Captain.

Mr. Martin practiced law for over fifty years specializing in probate and estate planning. His stability and common sense served his clients well. He was a vestry of St. John’s Episcopal Church, a past president to the Tulsa Law Association, The Tulsa Club and the Tulsa School Board. He served on the Board of Trustees of The Haven House and the Tulsa Psychiatric Center. He was founding member and past president of The Tulsa Tennis Club and was a fellow of the American College of Probate Counsel.

Mr. Martin touched many lives with his integrity and unassuming attitude. He will be remembered for his love and loyal dedication to this firm, to his family, and to his wife of 61 years.

George Ramsey

George Ramsey was born in Tennessee in 1784. He “read the law” in the office of Captain George W. Cross of Manchester and was admitted to Tennessee Bar in 1897. Ramsey moved to Muskogee in 1905 with $85, a wife and a three year old child. He quickly gained a statewide reputation as an authority on Indian land titles and as an oil and gas litigator. He participated in the important state and federal court cases that resulted in significant precedent concerning oil and gas law in the state and in the Southwest. In 1920, Ramsey moved to Tulsa while maintaining significant client relationships in the Muskogee area. Ramsey was said to have the most complete law library in the state.

Although a Republican, Ramsey was fiercely independent in choosing who to support in any political campaign, preferring the person over the party. In 1920, Ramsey was appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court by Governor J.B.A. Robertson, a Democrat. Ramsey resigned from the Court after five months on the bench writing sixteen scholarly opinions that established the law of Oklahoma on various important procedural and substantive issues. Ramsey was an active leader of the Bar, serving as President of the Oklahoma Bar Association and on the General Council of the American Bar Association.

Garrett Logan

Garrett Logan was a native of Poteau, Oklahoma and practiced law in Tulsa from 1925 until his death in 1975. He was a graduate of the University of Oklahoma Law School. An academic, Logan wrote legal texts and law review articles, and in 1932, he advocated reducing the number of counties in Oklahoma as a means of lowering the cost of government administration, an idea still discussed today. He received the Legion of Merit medal during WWII for meritorious service as a lieutenant colonel working in the air inspector’s office in Washington, D.C. He was the president of the Tulsa County Bar Association in 1942 and president of the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1957.

Edgar A. de Meules

Edgar A. de Meules was born in 1880 in Minnesota and obtained his law degree from the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar of the Northern District of Indian Territory in 1903. He became Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of a district in Indian Territory in 1904. He was also elected to the Sequoyah Convention and was instrumental in drafting the Sequoyah Constitution. He was elected President of the Muskogee County Bar Association in 1913 and in 1916 joined the Firm. In 1927, he served as President of the Oklahoma Bar Association and was an active proponent of the State Bar Act creating the mandatory bar in Oklahoma. He served on the Board of Governors for many years. In the 1930’s, he was appointed Chairman of the Oklahoma Code Revision Committee of the Oklahoma State Bar, a committee which was charged with recodification of the Oklahoma Statutes by the Legislature.

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