Walter Benona Sharp and Estelle BoughtonSharp - Collection, 1868-1978

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Walter Benona Sharp and Estelle BoughtonSharp - Collection, 1868-1978

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Correspondence, scrapbooks, businesspapers, ledgers, tributes and memorials, audiotapes of oral history interviews,clippings, photos, and other papers of Sharp and his wife, Estelle (Boughton) Sharp,active in Houston, Tex., civic and philanthropic affairs. Topics include oilindustry, lives of the Sharp family, Howard Hughes family, growth of Houston,Spindletop Oil Field, founding of the Texas Company and Sharp-Hughes Tool Company,and establishment of United Charities.

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Sharp, Walter B. (Walter Benona), 1870-1912

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Walter Benona Sharp (1870-1912) was an oilman and inventor. He began his career contracting for the drilling of water wells in and around Dallas before working as a driller for Gladys City Oil and Gas Manufacturing Company in its first test for oil on Spindletop Hill. Because of quicksand Sharp was forced to abandon the well at 418 feet only thirty yards from the spot where, eight years later, the first gusher of the Spindletop oilfield came in. Sharp was also a pioneer driller at Sour Lake and ...