Haymon Krupp, a
Jewish Texan
Jewish Texans have been a part of the history of Texas since the first European explorers arrived in the region in the 16th century. In 1990, there were around 108,000 adherents to Judaism in Texas. More recent estimates place the number at around ...
merchant and member of the
Texas wildcatters
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, was born in
Lithuania
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on March 14, 1874. In 1890 he immigrated to
El Paso, Texas
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the county seat, seat of El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau w ...
, where he worked in a dry-goods store and soon opened his own men's clothing store. He pioneered what is now El Paso's outdoor clothing industry with one of the first clothing factories in the Southwest. Krupp joined
Frank Pickrell, also of El Paso, to buy a lease option to drill for oil on
University of Texas
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lands in the
Permian Basin. In 1919 Krupp and Pickrell organized the Texon Oil and Land Company (
Texon, Texas
Texon is a small unincorporated desert hamlet in Reagan County, Texas, United States, in the western part of the state about half a mile south of the nearest highway. The town was originally an oil boomtown but is now near abandonment. There may ...
), with Krupp as president and Pickrell as vice president
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References
Further reading
Haymon Krupp, the fortunate businessman- Midland Reporter-Telegram
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Jews and Judaism in Texas
American Jews