Walter Benona Sharp Papers 1865-1957

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 ...

Sharp, Estelle B. (Estelle Boughton), 1873-1965

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Estelle Boughton Sharp was born in Flint Michigan (1873-1965). She attended Oberlin College before marrying prominent Texas oilman and inventor Walter Benona Sharp in 1897. The couple had 3 children and lived in Dallas before moving to Houston in 1904. Mrs. Sharp was a progressive and an active member of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, the Advisory Board of the Volunteer Prison League, the Federal Food Administration Executive Committee, the War Work Council, the National League for Women...

Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company

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Prather, E. C. (Edward C.), 1855-

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Cullinan, J. S. (Joseph Stephen), 1860-1937

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Few of the major figures in the history of Houston have had as widespread an influence as Joseph Stephen Cullinan. At times, the word paradoxical comes to mind when the scope of his diverse interests is examined. A leading early exponent for the Texas oil industry, Cullinan was yet an ardent conservationist, who argued for governmental controls over the petroleum business out of concern for preserving natural resources. Although he maintained a fairly consistent record of lifetime support for th...

Sharp-Hughes Tool Company

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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 ...

Hughes, Howard, 1869-1924

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