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Catalog Number |
2006.019.026 |
Object Name |
Contract |
Date |
09/02/1911 |
Scope & Content |
Three-page, typewritten contract and agreement dated September 2, 1911 between E. M. Arnold and Gypsy Oil Company. For the sum of four thousand dollars, the contract transfers an oil and gas mining lease in Section 8, Township 18 North, Range 13 East. The transaction became entangled in the Tulsa County District Court case of C. J. Wrightsman and Patrick J. Hurley, plaintiffs v. E. M. Arnold and Gypsy Oil Company, defendants. The case involved a dispute over a oill drilling lease on a land parcel once included in the Muscogee Creek allotment of Legus C. Perryman. Shipman states that the land in question has always been in the possession of Legus C. Perryman. The Gypsy Oil Company organized May 23, 1907. The company constructed a headquarters building at 307 N. Cincinnati Avenue in Tulsa, OK. It is not known when the building was constructed or how long the company utilized this building. Later the company located its offices on the sixth floor of the Fred S. Clinton Building (#418) located at 23 East Fourth Street, and later in the First National Bank Building located at 323-325 South Main Street. According to a U.S. Department of the Interior administrative report, the Gypsy Oil Company casing-head gasoline plant at Kiefer, OK produced 5,000 gallons of raw product in 1915. Following the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Gypsy Oil Company rebuilt homes for their black employees who lost their residences in the fires. Gypsy later merged with Gulf Pipe Line Company. In 2000, the three-story brick Gypsy building on North Cincinnati Street was renovated and became the location for Gypsy Coffee House, now assigned the new address of 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. |
Search Terms |
affidavits Gypsy Oil Company legal cases |
People |
Arnold, E. M. Conway, Loren Hurley, Patrick J. Perryman, Henry W. Perryman, Legus Chouteau Shipman, B. A. Wrightsman, Charles J. |