James L. Collins

	James L. Collins James L. Collins (1883-1953) was a self-made oil man later turned banker and community philanthropist. Collins grew up in Weston, West Virginia. In the early 1920s, at the time of the discovery of Powell oil field in eastern Navarro County, Texas, and the nearby Mexia field in Limestone County, he formed a partnership with R.L. Wheelock in Corsicana, Texas. Collins soon became well known in the petroleum industry and active in community and church roles. He eventually won an election as an officer of the Mid-Continental Oil and Gas industry Association and of the Independent Petroleum Association of America The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) is a lobbying group for oil and gas producers in the United States. Overview It was founded on June 10, 1929, by President Herbert Hoover. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. In 2019, ''P ..., and served as director of Corsicana's First National Bank. At his death in Corsicana, Texas in 1953, Collins' estate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Weston, West Virginia Weston is a city in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,943 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Lewis County, and home to the Museum of American Glass in West Virginia and the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. History Weston was founded in 1818 as Preston; the name was changed to Fleshersville soon after, and then to Weston in 1819. The city was incorporated in 1846. Weston is the site of the former Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a psychiatric hospital and National Historic Landmark which has been mostly vacant since its closure in 1994 upon its replacement by the nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital. Jackson's Mill, a childhood home of Stonewall Jackson, is approximately four miles (6 km) north of Weston; it has been operated as a 4-H facility since the 1920s and is also the site of conference center operated by the West Virginia University Extension Service. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Jackson' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Powell Oil Field The Powell Oil Field was an oil field developed in eastern Navarro County, Texas in 1900. Encouraged by nearby discoveries in Mexia and Wortham, the Corsicana Deep Well Company announced plans to drill for oil in the Powell area in the June 9, 1897 issue of the ''Corsicana Daily Sun''. However the drilling effort yielded a dry hole and was abandoned six months later. A second attempt also failed. Finally, on January 7, 1900, now more than three years from the announcement, oil was found. By July 14, 17 wells were in operation. Seven more came in on a single day, August 1, 1923. Soon the Powell field was pumping more oil than the combined oil production of the day in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia. By 1924, the field contained 611 producing wells. Production peaked in November 1923 at 356,000 BOPD. The Powell oil field produced wealth and tragedy in great proportions. On May 10, 1923, a spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Corsicana, Texas Corsicana is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. It is located on Interstate 45, 56 miles northeast of Waco, Texas. The population was 23,770 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Navarro County, and an important Agri-business center. History Founded in 1848, Corsicana was named by José Antonio Navarro after the Mediterranean island of Corsica, the birthplace of his father. He had died when Navarro and his many siblings were young. The first school opened shortly afterwards in 1849. Women's groups have had a strong role throughout the history of the city. They established the Corsicana Female Literary Institute, a school that operated from 1857 through 1870. The first public library in Corsicana opened in 1901 by effort of the women's clubs of the city. A 1905 library matching gift by Andrew Carnegie gave the library a permanent home and its first full-time, professionally trained librarian. The library today is housed in a dedicated building downtown and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Independent Petroleum Association Of America The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) is a lobbying group for oil and gas producers in the United States. Overview It was founded on June 10, 1929, by President Herbert Hoover. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. In 2019, ''Politico'' reported that the group spends more than $1 million per year on lobbying activities. The group disdained the policies of the Obama administration, with IPAA vice president Jeff Eshelman saying in a leaked recording that Obama administration had a "target list of everything that they wanted done to shut down the oil and gas industry." The group approved of the Trump administration's policies, with IPAA CEO Barry Russell boasting in a leaked recording that the IPAA had "unprecedented access to people that are in these positions who are trying to help us, which is great." In 2012, it produced the documentary ''Truthland'', a response to ''Gasland''.Ben WolfgangFracking wars hit the silver screen with supporters’ film ‘Truthland� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	American Businesspeople In The Oil Industry American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1953 Deaths Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 Mau Mau Upr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]