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George Franklin Getty (October 17, 1855 – May 31, 1930) was an American lawyer, pioneer oilman, father of industrialist J. Paul Getty, and patriarch of the Getty family. [ 1 ] Life and career
George Washington Getty (October 2, 1819 – October 1, 1901) was a career military officer in the United States Army, most noted for his role as a division ...
George Getty (1855–1930) was a lawyer who became an independent oilman in 1904. He was married with one son, a daughter having died in infancy in a typhoid epidemic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He lent his son Jean Paul money to invest in oil wells and in 1916, George and Jean Paul incorporated the Getty Oil Company.
Getty family; George Getty (1855–1930), American lawyer and father of J. Paul Getty; J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), wealthy American industrialist and founder of Getty Oil; Talitha Getty (born Talitha Dina Pol, 1940–1971), Paul Getty, II's second wife; Gordon Getty (born 1933), son of J. Paul Getty; Ann Getty (1941–2020), wife of Gordon Getty
Jean Paul Getty Sr. (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i /; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-born British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. [1] A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was the son of pioneer oilman George Getty.
A Getty roadside gasoline station in Cheshire, Connecticut (2011) J. Paul Getty incorporated Getty Oil in 1942. [1] He had previously worked in the oil fields of Oklahoma along with his father George Getty. When George died, he left J. Paul with $500,000 and a projection that he would destroy the family business. [1]
The house is named after George Getty II, the son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. It was designed and built in the Tudor Revival style in 1921 [1] for $83,000 ($1.42 million in 2023). The Getty Oil company purchased the house in 1959, and offered the property to the City of Los Angeles on November 12, 1975.
Gordon Peter Getty (born December 20, 1933) is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork , was his father's fourth wife. [ 1 ]