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He was the son of horticulturist William Prince and Mary Stratton. [1] He was educated at Jamaica Academy, Long Island, and at Boucherville, Canada.He imported the first merino sheep into the United States in 1816, continued the “Linnaean nurseries” of his father, and was the first to introduce silk culture and the Morus multicaulis for silk worms in 1837, but lost a large fortune by this ...
Gardens Alive! spent $10.75 million to acquire Breck's, Gurney Seeds, Henry Field's, Michigan Bulb, Spring Hill Nursery and Stark Bros. Stark Bros. was immediately sold off. The Foster & Gallagher businesses were integrated, in part, in Lawrenceburg, while the Spring Hill facility in Tipp City, Ohio, [ 3 ] has continued to grow through acquisition.
In 1923, a Tulsa-native businessman and philanthropist, Earl Palmer Harwell and his wife Mary built the Collegiate Gothic and English Tudor styled mansion, named Harwelden. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It was designed and constructed by architects Wight and Wight and Long Construction from Kansas City , Missouri .
Upon Charles W. Gurney's death in 1913, his sons and nephew continued the seed and nursery business. In 1919, Deloss Butler Gurney, one of the Colonel's sons, became CEO. The company diversified and grew quickly. By 1924, the Gurney seed house was one of the largest in the world, receiving orders from 46 of the 50 states and many foreign countries.
Robert Galbreath Jr. (1863–1955), oilman who moved to Tulsa after he drilled the first oil well in Glenn Pool Field; J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), oilman founder of Getty Oil Company, who made his first million in Tulsa between 1914 and 1916 [4] Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962), [5] oilman, founder of Gilcrease Museum
The young bride gave birth to her first, and only, child at 19 years old when she welcomed son, Richie Meeker. Moore's marriage to Meeker ended in 1961, and she married Grant Tinker, a CBS ...
Philbrook Museum of Art is an art museum with expansive formal gardens located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The museum, which opened in 1939, is located in a former 1920s villa, "Villa Philbrook", the home of Oklahoma oil pioneer Waite Phillips and his wife Genevieve.
CityPlex Towers, originally known as City of Faith Medical and Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma There are three triangular towers with over 2,200,000 square feet (200,000 m 2 ) of office space. [2] The tallest is the 60-story CityPlex Tower which at 648 feet (198 m) is the third tallest building in Oklahoma (after Devon Tower and BOK Tower ).