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606 is a large four square red brick house with hipped roof. The entrace is under a simple brick pier porch. The east wing is a sunroom over an open porch.

James Taylor 1926-30
John Jarman 1930-70

Mr. Taylor was in the Taylor-Dorrance Real Estate Company.

Judge and Mrs. J.H. Jarman, parents of Oklahoma Fifth District Congressman John Jarman, moved to Oklahoma City when Judge Jarman was appointed to the Supreme Court Commission by Governor Jack Walton.

Congressman Jarman, born in Sallisaw on July 17, 1915, attended elementary and high schools in Oklahoma City, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, and Yale University, from which he was graduated with a B.A. degree in 1937. He then attended Harvard Law School, receiving his L.L.B. degree in 1941, after which he was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar and practiced law with his father in the firm of Jarman and Jarman in Oklahoma City.

On February 25, 1942, the younger Jarman married Ruth Virginia Bewley of Oklahoma City. They had three children: Jay, Susan, and Steve. Ruth Jarman died of a heart attack in September, 1964. Jarman, in February 1968, married Marilyn Jones Grant, the only daughter of Fred Jones, who had the largest Ford automobile operation in the Southwest.

Jarman served in the Army 47 months during World War II. He was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1946, to the State Senate in 1948, and to the U.S. Congress from Oklahoma's Fifth Congressional District in 1950. He was re-elected to each Congress from 1950 through 1974.