Banker - Mining Engineer - Oil Baron
President - Farmers National Bank of Tulsa
President - Admiralty Zinc Co. - Oklahoma
President - Cushing Refining & Gasoline Co.
Director - El Cedro Mining Co. - Guanajuato
Blaise Family
Mexico City
1938
Guanajuato
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E. F. 'Gene' Blaise was born in Memphis, Tennessee November 21, 1878. He was a son of Ada Hainer Blaise and John (Johannes) Theodore Blaise, Memphis ice plant builder and furniture merchant.
Mr. Blaise was a grandson of Ignace Hainer, Hungarian lawyer and statesman, who was secretary to the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Hungarian War for Independence in 1848 and a professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri until the beginning of the Civil War.
Mr. Blaise was a nephew of Oklahoma Territory Supreme Court Justice Bayard Taylor Hainer, who later served as chief counsel for the Federal Trade Commission and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Mr. Blaise was also a nephew of Eugene J. Hainer, Republican U.S. Congressman from Nebraska.
Mr. Blaise was educated in St. Louis. He settled in Oklahoma in about 1900, where he became engaged in the oil, mining and banking business. He married Laura Greek Miller, daughter of Col. George W. Miller, in 1905.
An independent oil producer, E. F. Blaise and F. M. Aiken founded the United Producers Pipeline Co. and the Inland Refining Co. at Fort Worth, Texas.
Blaise, F. M. Aiken and Joshua Cosden founded the Peerless Refining Co. in Texas and Oklahoma.
Early in his career E. F. 'Gene' Blaise was associated with Charles J. Wrightsman (father of Charles B. Wrightsman) and Harry Sinclair in an enterprise known as the Chaser Oil Co.
E. F. Blaise was president of the Farmer's National Bank of Tulsa, then the largest bank in Oklahoma prior to the reorganization of the bank as the Exchange National Bank of Tulsa, which Harry Sinclair headed as president.
E. F. Blaise was also owner and president of the State Bank of Kiefer (Oklahoma).
E. F. Blaise later served as president of the Admiralty Zinc Company and of the Cushing Refining and Gasoline Company, America's first producer of unleaded gasoline.
During the 1930s, E. F. Blaise was associated with his son and daughter-in-law, the former Clara Olive Snyder of Joplin, Missouri, as an owner-operator of El Cedro Silver Mining Company at Guanajuato, Mexico.
Blaise was one of the first members of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, The Tulsa Club, a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Trinity Episcopal Church of Tulsa.
He died at his home, The Sophian Plaza, 1500 South Frisco, Tulsa, in 1958.
He was survived by his second wife, Marie, of the home; a son Dudley E. Blaise Sr., Mexico City; and two grandsons, John (Dudley Jr.) Snyder Blaise Shepherd and Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd of Missouri.
His first wife, Greek Miller Canterbury, a native of Sebree, Kentucky, died in Los Angeles in 1960. His second wife and widow Marie died at Houston, Texas in 1976.
grandsons
John & Tom Blaise
Joplin, Missouri
The Honorable
Bayard Taylor Hainer
Supreme Court of Oklahoma Territory
Chief Council Federal Trade Commission
General Council Department of Agriculture
biograhical sketch
Portraits:
E. F. 'Gene' Blaise & Grandson Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd
Tom has carried the torch
for his grandad
Tom Blaise Shepherd
critic ~ educator ~ author ~ leader
Tommy (Blaise) Separdi
Champ Tommy Separdi
survivor - leader - fighter
Dudley E. Blaise Sr.
Mining Engineer
biography
existential-society-press@msn.com
The Joplin-Carthage Times
Eugene Frank Blaise is a grandson of Anna Baden Blaise and
Johannes Blaise of Alsace-Lorraine (a region of NE France & SW Germany)
He reportedly is a distant cousin of Jean Chretien,
Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.
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Farmers National Bank of Tulsa ~ Exchange National Bank ~ National Bank of Tulsa
Bank of Oklahoma 2008
The Birth of Oklahoma:
A History of Oilmen and Bankers
by Tom Blaise Shepherd
read online
~ Tulsa, Oklahoma ~ Charles J. Wrightsman ~ Charlene Wrightsman Cassini ~ C. J. Wrightsman ~ Charles B. Wrightsman ~ Tulsa, Oklahoma ~
Joplin, Missouri ~ Tom Blaise Shepherd ~ Tom Blaise Shepherd ~ John Blaise Shepherd ~ Joplin, Missouri ~ Guanajuato, Mexico