In 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state. Manhattan was incorporated in the State of Oklahoma, earning the new State’s first corporate charter – NUMBER ONE.

In 1896, Laurence H. Rooney launched Manhattan Construction Company in what was then Oklahoma Territory through a New York Charter. It was only one year earlier that Rooney moved to Oklahoma from Iowa. He operated a general store in Chandler in Oklahoma Territory when his sideline construction business, now called Manhattan Construction Company, grew to …

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