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Texas Company Building at 1111 Rusk St. in Houston. The company moved to larger facilities in 1989. "The Texas Company" Galveston station, c. 1910-20. Texaco was founded in Beaumont, Texas as the "Texas Fuel Company" in 1902, [6] by Jim Hogg, Joseph S. Cullinan, John Warne Gates, and Arnold Schlaet. On 1 May 1902, the Texas Company was formed ...
Craig F. Cullinan Jr. (grandson) Joseph Stephen Cullinan (December 31, 1860 – March 11, 1937) was a U.S. oil industrialist. Although he was a native of Pennsylvania, his lifetime business endeavors would help shape the early phase of the oil industry in Texas. He founded The Texas Company, which would eventually be known as Texaco Incorporated .
American Geophysical Union v. Texaco, Inc., 60 F.3d 913, [1] was a 1995 U.S. copyright case holding that a private, for-profit corporate library could not rely on fair use in systematically making copies of articles in academic journals for its employees. [2] A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a ruling ...
Torkild Rieber (March 13, 1882 – August 10, 1968) was a Norwegian immigrant to the United States who became chairman of the Texas Company . Born in a small town in Norway, Rieber became a seaman at the age of 15. By 1904, he was the master of an oil tanker, which was bought the next year by the newly founded Texas Company, or Texaco. He rose ...
The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas. The find was unprecedented in its size (worldwide) and ushered in an age of rapid regional development ...
History of Texas. In 1845, the Republic of Texas was annexed to the United States of America, becoming the 28th U.S. state. Border disputes between the new state and Mexico, which had never recognized Texas independence and still considered the area a renegade Mexican state, led to the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
1865–1899. Years in Texas. Texas portal. v. t. e. Following the defeat of the Confederate States in the American Civil War, Texas was mandated to rejoin the United States of America. Union Army soldiers officially occupied the state starting on June 19, 1865. For the next nine years, Texas was governed by a series of provisional governors as ...
Biography. In 1901, Schlaet, with Jim Hogg, John Warne Gates, and Joseph S. Cullinan, founded the Texas Fuel Company, predecessor to Texaco Incorporated. Schlaet was an agent from New York City who worked for the United States Leather Company, owned by John J. and Lewis Henry Lapham. Naturally conservative, he was nevertheless impressed with ...