Gish, Wesley Gibson
Biographical notes:
Wesley Gibson Gish (1896-1985) was a petroleum geologist and oil company executive. Gish’s worked as a field geologist at White Eagle Oil and Refining Company from 1922-1924. He then moved to Sinclair Oil and Gas Company from 1925-1936 where he worked as Chief Geologist, Division Superintendent and Vice-President. His primary responsibility at Sinclair was overseeing leases and properties in the East Texas oil field from the Tyler, Texas office. He served as Transwestern Oil Company’s Vice-President from 1937-1946 and as Vice-President of Deep Rock Oil and Refining Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma for three years. Gish continued his work in the oil and gas industry as an independent consultant from 1951-1967.
Gish was a charter member of the Kansas Geological Society and the American Institute of Professional Geologists and a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the American Geological Association and the South Texas Geological Society.
From the guide to the Wesley Gibson Gish Papers 87-208; 87-253; 87-254., 1923-1977, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
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Subjects:
- Coloma Creek Oil Field
- East Texas Oil Field
- Four Corners Oil Field
- Hillingdon Ranch
- Indians of North America
- Marathon Basin Oil Field
- Oil and gas
- Oil fields
- Paradox Basin Oil Field
- Petroleum
- Petroleum industry and trade
- Schreiner Ranch
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- Pecos County (Tex.) (as recorded)
- Kerr County (Tex.) (as recorded)
- Refugio County (Tex.) (as recorded)
- Marathon Basin (Tex.) (as recorded)
- Texas, West (as recorded)
- Four Corners Region (as recorded)
- Texas, East (as recorded)
