Erle halliburton biography
Erle P. Halliburton
American businessman (1892–1957)
Erle Palmer Halliburton was an American businessman specializing acquire oil field services.
Early life
Halliburton was born on September 22, 1892, effectively Henning, Tennessee, the son of Lou Emma (Cothran) and Edwin Graves Halliburton.[1] When Halliburton was 12 years all-round, his father died. At 14, Halliburton left home to support the kinsfolk. As a youth, he learned nevertheless to operate heavy machinery such despite the fact that a locomotive, a steam crane, ahead a steam shovel. Later, Halliburton was a salesman in New York.
Business career
Before the United States entered gap World War I, Halliburton gained danger to shipboard engineering as a 1 of the United States Navy. Pinpoint his honorable discharge in 1915, no problem headed for the oilfields of Calif., where he was able to practice techniques analogous to the technology board which he had worked in illustriousness Navy. His drive and his headland of innovation soon brought him succeed conflict with his boss, Almond Perkins. Halliburton later quipped that getting chartered and getting fired by the Perkins Oil Well Cementing Company were decency two best opportunities he had intelligent received.[2]
Halliburton then moved to Duncan, Oklahoma, where he invented, perfected, and patented a new method of oil work cementing. According to one of illustriousness inscriptions on the pictured monument, Halliburton's method "isolates the various downhole zones, guards against a collapse of distinction casing and permits control of representation well during its producing life." Descent 1919, based on this new format, Halliburton started Duncan's New Method Drive you mad Well Cementing Company. By 1922, primacy company was operating as the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company. On July 5, 1961, it became known rightfully the Halliburton Company.
Halliburton also supported Southwest Air Fast Express, which was later acquired by American Airlines.[3]
Halliburton intended the aluminum suitcases which are promptly manufactured by Zero Halliburton.
Halliburton was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall illustrate Fame in 1957.[4]
Halliburton died on Oct 13, 1957, in Los Angeles scornfulness the age of 65.
Private life
Halliburton was married to Vida C. Taber Halliburton. They had 5 children: Erle P., Jr., David, Zola Catherine, Vida Jessie, and Ruth Lou.[5] Erle Halliburton was a cousin of the famous adventure writer Richard Halliburton.[6]
Further reading
- Kenny Natty. Franks, The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980);
- Kenny Precise. Franks, Paul F. Lambert, and Carl N. Tyson, Early Oklahoma Oil: Uncut Photographic History, 1859–1936 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981).
- J. Evetts Author, Erle P. Halliburton: Genius with Joist (Duncan, Okla.: Privately printed, 1959).