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July 25, 1987. (1987-07-25) (aged 87) Spouse. Ernest Whitworth Marland. Lydie Marland (April 20, 1900 – July 25, 1987), an American socialite, was born Lyde Miller Roberts in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, the second child of Margaret Reynolds (Collins) and George Frederick Roberts. Her parents decided to give up her and her brother for adoption as ...
E. W. Marland. Ernest Whitworth Marland (May 8, 1874 – October 3, 1941) was an American lawyer, oil businessman in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, and politician who was a U.S. representative and Oklahoma governor. He served in the United States House of Representatives from northern Oklahoma, 1933 to 1935 and as the tenth governor of Oklahoma ...
The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch was a 110,000-acre (45,000 ha) cattle ranch in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma before statehood. Located near modern-day Ponca City, it was founded by Colonel George Washington Miller, a veteran of the Confederate Army, in 1893. [ 4] The 101 Ranch was the birthplace of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and one of the ...
101 Ranch Oil Company. Founded in 1908 by oil exploration pioneer E. W. Marland, The 101 Ranch Oil Company was located on the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch and headquartered in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The company's 1911 oil discovery in North Eastern Oklahoma opened up oil development in a great region from Eastern Oklahoma west to Mervine, Newkirk ...
Republican. Spouse. Helen. Children. 3. Residence. Ponca City, Oklahoma. Bill Coleman is an American businessman, radio broadcaster, and politician serving as a member of the Oklahoma Senate from the 10th district. Elected in November 2018, he assumed office on November 14, 2018.
Handgun. Date apprehended. March 6, 1986. Sean Richard Sellers (May 18, 1969 – February 4, 1999) was an American serial killer, one of 22 persons in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 to be executed for a crime committed while under the age of 18, and the only one to have been executed for a crime committed ...
Marland's Grand Home is a 1910s period mansion built in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The Grand Home is owned by the City of Ponca City and includes exhibit rooms for Miller Brothers 101 Ranch history, Native American archaeology, artifacts and art, and Daughters of the American Revolution exhibits. The Grand Home was formerly known as ...
Lewis Haines Wentz, (Lew Wentz) born in Tama, Iowa, on November 10, 1877, was an essential factor in opening up the oil fields of Oklahoma.Reared in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Wentz was too poor for college and started out in 1909 by organizing a semi-professional baseball team, the old Oneida Base Ball Club, that was organized in an effort to build a better team than Barney Dreyfuss ...