The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964 Page: 43
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City Company cooperated by making an oil and gas lease to
Lucas. On January lo, 1901, the Lucas gusher blew in on the
property of McFaddin, Wiess, and Kyle offsetting the Gladys
City land, and the boom was on. Lucas in the meantime had
transferred the Gladys City lease to Guffey & Galey of Pittsburgh,
who in turn assigned it to the J. M. Guffey Production Com-
pany. This latter company, after several corporate transmuta-
tions, became the Gulf Oil Corporation. The Gladys City lease
was one of the principal properties which became the nucleus
of this world-wide oil company.
The pioneering spirit and foresight of O'Brien in working
with Higgins and Lucas in their successful search for oil made
him financially independent in the years preceding his death
and enabled him to provide comfortably for his descendants.
When most oil producers thought all of the oil at Spindletop had
been exhausted, the Gladys City Company in 192o obtained a
release from Gulf of that part of their land on the flank of the
dome. A few years later a portion of this acreage was leased to
the Yount-Lee Oil Company, which found deep production on
this land in 1926. The amount of oil produced from the deeper
horizons at Spindletop has greatly exceeded the production from
the shallower zones on the crest of the dome.
O'Brien was twice married, the first time in 1854 to Sarah
Elizabeth Rowley of Louisiana, sister of George Henry Rowley
mentioned in the diary. To this union were born seven children.
Sarah died in 1872, and O'Brien married Ellen P. Chenault in
1874. She was the daughter of Felix Chenault of Gonzales County
and a sister of Stephen Chenault of Orange County, a veteran
of Terry's Texas Rangers and after the war a member of the
legislature and long-time county judge of Orange County. Two
children were born of this second marriage.
A life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
O'Brien aided in establishing the first Methodist church organ-
ized in Beaumont. He was active in the Masonic Lodge, serving
first as secretary and then as master of Beaumont Lodge No.
286, A.F. & A.M.
On June 3o, 19o9, George W. O'Brien died in Beaumont at
the age of seventy-six after a full and useful life. He was buried
in the Magnolia Cemetery which he had assisted in founding.
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