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The Standard Oil Company of Kentucky was incorporated on October 8, 1886, under Kentucky laws. [2] It was founded as a division of the Standard Oil Trust to handle the assets of the Chess, Carley & Company, which Standard had acquired to handle product marketing and distribution for the southeastern U.S. [citation needed] It maintained corporate offices in all of the states it serviced, and ...
The Kentucky Standard was started December 15, 1900 by Jack Wilson, a former employee of the Nelson County Record. The newspaper was sold to Nelson County Circuit Clerk Wallace Brown in 1901. The former owner still contributed as an editor for the paper. In 1919, Alfred S. Wathen bought enough stocks of the company to become the newspaper's ...
The Standard Oil Company Filling Station at 638 College St. in Bowling Green, Kentucky was built in 1921 by Standard Oil of Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [1] It was operated as a filling station until 1956. The station was renovated and reopened as public restrooms for the adjacent Circus Square ...
Standard Oil of Indiana, also called Stanolind, then Amoco, which merged with BP; Standard Oil of Iowa; Standard Oil of Kansas, spun off from Kentucky Standard; Standard Oil of Kentucky, or Kyso, today part of Chevron; Standard Oil of Louisiana, formed by New Jersey Standard; Standard Oil of Minnesota; Standard Oil of Missouri, spun off from ...
Kentucky New Era; The Kentucky Standard; L. Lexington Herald-Leader; M. McLean County News; Messenger-Inquirer; The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky) Middlesboro ...
The Standard Gravure shooting occurred on September 14, 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, when Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured twelve at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. The shooting is the deadliest workplace shooting in Kentucky's history. [1]
William Stamps Farish II was appointed chairman of Standard Oil by John D. Rockefeller and went on to become president of Standard Oil from 1937 to 1942. [2] His other grandfather was Robert E. Wood , who was the chief executive officer of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Wood was the leader in the Old Right movement from the 1920s through the 1960s ...
Created by merger of The Kentucky Advocate and The Danville Daily–Messenger: The Anderson News: Lawrenceburg: 1877 Weekly Paxton Media Group: The Banner–Republic: Morgantown: 1885 Weekly Jobe Publishing, Inc. Barren County Progress: Glasgow: 1882 Weekly Jobe Publishing, Inc. Bath County News Outlook: Owingsville: 1884 [6] Weekly Kentucky ...