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(WDHN) — Founder and longtime president of Home Oil Company, Tom Shirley, died early Sunday morning at 89 of natural causes. According to the Hobo Pantry website, Shirley and his wife Jo ...
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Between 1952 and 1972, Home was controlled by Robert A. Brown Jr., who pursued an aggressive and high-risk strategy. From 1979 and 1991 Home Oil operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary, first of the Consumers' Gas Company, then of Hiram Walker, and lastly of the Interprovincial Pipe Line Company. On 1 May 1991, Home Oil regained its independent ...
Frank Phillips was born on November 28, 1873, [1] in Scotia, Nebraska where his parents Lucinda and Lewis Franklin Phillips, the county's first magistrate, had a farm. [2] The family moved in 1874 to a small farm in rural southwest Iowa after a swarm of grasshoppers wrecked havoc on the farming region of Scotia. [3]
O'Day was born on March 11, 1870, in Titusville, Pennsylvania.His father, Daniel O'Day, was a director of the Standard Oil Company and a prominent factor in the petroleum business for forty years. [1]
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John Whitfield Mecom Sr. (January 13, 1911 – October 12, 1981), was an American independent oilman. Mecom acquired abandoned oil wells and made them profitable. He developed new fields from Louisiana to Saudi Arabia.
They settled in Ponca City, where he resumed his oil career. He first founded the 101 Ranch Oil Company. Marland was successful in reestablishing his fortune. By 12 years later in 1920, it was estimated to be worth at $85,000,000 ($85 million dollars - roughly $910,000,000 - $910 million dollars in modern 2024 U.S. dollars).