 Portrait of William Grove Skelly. Image by Bobbykelleyfl, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Bobby SkelWilliam Skelly William Skelly American oil industrialist and businessman (1878–1957) William Grove Skelly (June 10, 1878 – April 11, 1957) was an American entrepreneur who made a fortune in the oil business. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he moved to Kansas in 1916, then to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1919, where he founded the Skelly Oil Company. By 1923, his company was one of the strongest independent producers of oil and gasoline in the United States.[1] He helped organize the first International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa in 1923 and became president of that organization, a position he held for the rest of his life.[2] He was a founder of the Kansas-Oklahoma branch of the United States Oil and Gas Association, then known… (Source: Wikipedia)
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