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The E.W. Marland Mansion is a 43,561 square feet (4,046.9 m 2) Mediterranean Revival-style mansion located in Ponca City, Oklahoma, United States.Built by oil baron and philanthropist Ernest Whitworth (E.W.) Marland, as a display of wealth at the peak of the 1920s oil boom, the house is one of the largest residences in the southwestern United States, and is known as the "Palace on the Prairie."
Edward Laurence Doheny (/ d oʊ ˈ h iː n i /; August 10, 1856 – September 8, 1935) was an American oil tycoon who, in 1892, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field. His success set off a petroleum boom in Southern California, and made him a fortune when, in 1902, he sold his properties.
Ernest Whitworth Marland (May 8, 1874 – October 3, 1941) was an American lawyer, oil businessman in Pennsylvania and later Oklahoma, and politician who was a United States Representative (congressman) and 10th Governor of Oklahoma.
When Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) took over the Senate Commerce Committee in 2009, he wisely decided to focus on using his leadership position to make life better for consumers. In ...
There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. [5] It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier.
Waite returned home to Iowa and, after six months of college studies, launched into an active business career. Under the guidance and help of his elder brothers, Frank and L. E. Phillips, he moved from a short period of coal mining in Iowa to petroleum operations in 1906, centered on Bartlesville, Oklahoma. [5]
Pat Colbert, the Compton-raised actor who manned the Oil Baron's Club as host Dora Mae in the hit TV series "Dallas," has died. She was 77. Colbert died peacefully on June 23 in her home in ...
Mark Wahlberg is baring it all in Fiji!. On Monday, Oct. 7, the actor’s wife Rhea Durham shared a snap of her husband going clothes-free during their vacation.. Placing a red love heart sticker ...