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Wildcatter born in Lithuania
On this day in 1874, Haymon Krupp, merchant and oil wildcatter, was born
in Kozno, Lithuania. In 1890 he immigrated to El Paso, Texas, where he
worked in a dry-goods store and soon opened his own men's clothing
store. In 1910 he established a large dry-goods house that became widely
known throughout the Southwest. He pioneered what is now El Paso's
outdoor clothing industry with one of the first clothing factories in
the Southwest. He became renowned for giving thousands of dollars' worth
of coal to the poor in El Paso and West Texas. In the 1920s he donated
funds to build B'nai Zion Temple in El Paso. Krupp entered the oil
business when he joined Frank Pickrell, also of El Paso, to buy a lease
option to drill for oil on University of Texas lands in the Permian
Basin. In 1919 Krupp and Pickrell organized the Texon Oil and Land
Company, with Krupp as president and Pickrell as vice president. They
capitalized Texon by purchasing three producing wells in Burkburnett and
selling 685 certificates of interest in New York. On May 28, 1923, their
first well, the Santa Rita No. 1, came in on their leased
university-owned lands in West Texas. Krupp died on February 21, 1949.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
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- SANTA RITA OIL WELL
- EL PASO, TX
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- OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
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