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Sid W. Richardson
American businessman and philanthropist (1891–1959)
Sid Williams Richardson (April 25, 1891 – September 30, 1959) was an American businessman and philanthropist known for his association with the city of Fort Worth.[1]
Life and career
A native of Athens in east Texas, Richardson attended Baylor University and Simmons College from 1910 to 1912.[2] With borrowed money, he and a business partner, Clint Murchison Sr., amassed $1 million in the oil business in 1919–1920, but then watched their fortunes wane with the oil market, until business again boomed in 1933.
Richardson was president of Sid Richardson Gasoline Co. in Kermit, Sid Richardson Carbon Company in Odessa, and Sid W. Richardson, Inc., in Fort Worth, and was a partner in Fort Worth-based Richardson and Bass Oil Producers.[1]
He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M.
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