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James Playfair was the vice president and general manager of the Midland Shipbuilding Co. [42] President of Midland Golf And Country Club [43] The site of Presbyterian church camp Glen Mohr near Beaverton was donated by the Playfairs in 1930. [44] The Playfairs donated their residence, Edgehill, overlooking Midland Harbour on Georgian Bay.
Clarence Scharbauer Jr. was born on July 6, 1925, in Midland, Texas. [1] [2] His father, Clarence Scharbauer Sr., was a rancher. [2] His paternal great-uncle was a large rancher from New York. [3] His paternal great-great-grandfather was an immigrant from Germany. [3]
In July 2007, a Kinder Morgan pipeline got ripped open by an excavator, spilling more than 250,000 liters of oil into a Burnaby neighborhood and 70,000 liters into nearby Burrard Inlet. [47] The crude oil utterly carpeted cars, houses, roads, and lawns. About 250 people had to be evacuated and the spill cost $15 million to clean.
Frank Kell Cahoon, Midland oilman; the only Republican in the Texas legislature, 1965–1966; former Midland City Council member; Mike Conaway, United States Congressman; Tom Craddick, District 82 State Representative and former Speaker of the Texas House; Donald Evans, former US Secretary of Commerce
Andrew Bell (1726–1809), Scottish printer, founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica [9] Charles J. Bell (1858–1929), Scotch-Irish American businessman. He was a cousin of Alexander Graham Bell and as such was an early executive of Bell Telephone. Co-founder of the National Geographic Society, and was its first treasurer. [10]
Sandstorm, 1894 Main Street, 1894. Midland was established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway.Its name came from its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso, but because there were already other towns in Texas named Midway, the city changed its name to Midland in January 1884 when it was granted its first post office.
Former Midland County courthouse marked for razing Midland County Public Library in Midland. Midland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, the population was 169,983. [1] The county seat is Midland. [2] The county is so named for being halfway (midway) between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railway.
The Society of Midland Authors is an association of published authors from twelve American states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, ...