Banker - Oil Producer - Mining Operator
1878 - 1958 Tulsa Pioneer
President-Owner: Farmers National Bank of Tulsa
President-Owner: State Bank of Keifer at Keifer
President: Cushing Refiniing & Gasoline Co. - Tulsa
President: Admiralty Zinc Co. - Picher & Joplin
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1878 ~ Tulsa ~ 1958
Eugene Frank "Gene" Blaise was born in Memphis, Tennessee November 21, 1878. He was the son of Ada Hainer Blaise and of John Theodore Blaise, a Memphis furniture merchant.
He was a grandson of Hungarian-American statesman, lawyer and journalist Ignace Hainer, who served as secretary to the Minister of Foreigna Affairs and to the Premier of Hungary during the 1848 Hungarian War of Independence.
He was educated at the Burlington School
His first job was with the Koken Iron Works at St. Louis, where he held the position of assistant superintendent.
Blaise was a nephew of Eugene J. Hainer, who served in the 53rd and 54th Congresses of the United States (from 1893-1897) as a Representative from Nebraska.
Following the appointment of his uncle Bayard Taylor Hainer to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma Territory by President William McKinley, Blaise moved to Perry, Oklahoma, where he was appointed a reporter for the 4th District Court.
Blaise began wildcatting with Jurist Charles J. Wrightsman and the two men resultantly became successful in the oil business, joining in a partnership with Harry F. Sinclair and William Connelly known as the Chaser Oil Company, later to be known as the Prairie Oil and Gas Company.
The four men perchased the Farmer's National Bank in 1908 and Blaise was selected to be president until it was reorganized as the Exchange National Bank in 1910, when Sinclair became president.
Mr. Blaise was also associated in the oil business with F. Martin Aiken. The two men founded the Inland Refining Company at Fort Worth, Texas ain 1921 and built the first pipe line from the heart of the Ranger's oil field to the refinery. Blaise and Aiken also established the Inland Refining Company at Drumright, Oklahoma, and the Cushing Gasoline Company at Cushing.
Aiken served as president of the Admiralty Zinc Mining Company at Pitcher until his death in 1929, when Blaise succeeded him as president.
During the 1930s Blaise was engaged in the mining business in Guanajuato, Mexico, where he and his son, Dudley Blaise, owned and operated the El Cedro Silver Mining company.
At the time of his retirement, Blaise was chairman and president of the Cushing Refining and Gasoline Company.
Mr. Blaise was a 32nd Degree Mason and an Episcopalian. He died at his home, The Sophian Plaza, 1500 South Frisco, Tulsa, on October 12, 1958.
Mr. Blaise married Laura Greek Miller, daughter of Col George W. Miller, in 1905, by whom he sired a son, D. E. Blaise. He married Marie Howard in 1924.
Mr. Blaise's daughter-in-law was the former Clara Olive Snyder of Joplin, Missouri. He was survived by two grandsons, John Snyder Blaise Shepherd and Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd.
Blaise Family
Mexico City - 1938
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Blaise Family
Tulsa
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Blaise Family
Guanajuato
Blaise Estate Tops $1.8 Million
Joplin-Tulsa News
The Birth of Oklahoma:
The Chaser Oil Company
Farmers National Bank
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TWO AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF
Tom (Blaise) Shepherd
~ Grandson of E. F. Blaise ~
Day Dreams, Lost Dreams:
A Long Day's Journey
Into Schizophrenia
Joplin's Good Ole Days
Growing Up Wihout a Dad
Life Without a Father
Or a Grandfather
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Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd
Oklahoma Territory
Supreme Court
1898 - 1907
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Harry Sinclair - BOK - Farmers National Bank of Tulsa - Exchange National Bank of Tulsa - Bank of Oklahoma - BOK - Harry Sinclair
Cushing Refining & Gasoline Company - Inland Refining Co. - El Cedro Mining Co. - Admiralty Zinc Company
Tom Blaise Shepherd - Sophian Plaza - Sophian Park Plaza - Sophian Plaza - Sophian Park Plaza - Sophian Plaza - Tom Blaise Shepherd
The Greatest Gamblers by Ruth Sheldon Knowles
- The Oil Business As I Saw It: Half A Century With Sinclair by W. L. Connelly -
An Oklahoma Adventure of Banks and Bankers by James M. Smallwood
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