Elgood Chauncy Lufkin
Director of the Chase Securities Company and the Seaboard National Bank.[2]
Vice President of the Midland Securities Company.[2]
President and Chairman of Board of the Texas Company.[2]
WW1 - Served as Vice Chairman of Petroleum Board. As head of a great oil producing unit [Texaco], Mr Lufkin played an active role in production of oil supply for the conflict.[2]
1909 to 1926 (Retired) - Appointed Manager of the natural gas department for the Texas Company. From 1920, President.[2]
From 1895 - Appointed Vice President and General Manager of the Snow Steam Pump Works at Buffalo, which later became part of the newly formed International Steam Pump Company.[2] [founded by Benjamin Guggenheim (died on Titanic … Search mind map). Products were diverse including the elevators for the Eiffel Tower.]
1890 - Married Lula Moulton.[2]
1886 - Graduated Masachusetts Institute of Technology as a Mechanical Engineer.[2]
1881 - Graduated Titusville High School.[2]
Died 10 Oct 1935, from Heart Disease. Age 71.
Note:
Three children Florence Lufkin Hunsiker, Chauncey Forbush Lufkin, Elgood Moulton Lufkin (S&B 1925)
Chauncey Forbush Lufkin has three sons, Peter Wende Lufkin Sr. (S&B 1949), Chauncey Forbush Lufkin Jr (S&B 1951), and S&B 1953.
Parents … Mr and Mrs Chauncey F. Lufkin. Father was Pioneer in the Oil industry.
Father, Chauncey S. Lufkin, “manager for half a century of all of the producing branches of the Standard Oil Company, and discoverer and developer of the Rumanian oil fields … Mr. Lufkin, from 1889 until the dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust, was the world expert of the Rockefeller corporation.”
[[4] - United States Oil Policy, 1890-1964: Business and Government in Twentieth …By Gerald D. Nash - references Lukkin/Texas Company [Texaco]. Page 46 - The solution to the threatened oil shortage was overseas exploitation. references G.O.Smith, director of the United States Geographical Survey (and a protege of Former President Herbert Hoover)](https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RSWZY4Mdq-QC&lpg=PA283&ots=tX772keAPE&dq=National%20Petroleum%20Council%20Lufkin&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=Lufkin&f=false]
[5] - CHAUNCEY LUFKIN Jr. (S&B 1951) Obituary
[6] - Pennsylvania oil and World War I By Judith Etzel
[7] - History of the Seven Sisters
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