Volume 5 , Issue 8

Waters, Pierce Oil Company

The Waters, Pierce Oil Company -- According to the Alva Pioneer Souvenir Edition dated 1904, this photo showed three gentlemen associated with this Oil Company located in Alva, Oklahoma Territory. They were Ed. L. Rumsey, agent, Amarillo, Tex.; J. H. Boughan, Jr., manager, Alva; and O. R. Cowgill, office clerk, Alva.

Waters, Pierce Oil Company's Oil House, Reservoirs, etc., Alva... J. H. Boughan, Jr. was the manager of this institution, in Alva and it was ready for business on September 18, 1893, two days after the opening. In 1904 they had tank stations at Amarillo, and Canadian, Texas. Woodward, Okla., and Augusta, Okla. Supply towns west to Miami, Tex., and south to Fairview, Okla. Mr. Boughan was shipping clerk for the company in St. Louis (Missouri) five year before coming to Alva, and had charge of their business in Alva for 10 years. Mr. Boughan was known by his friends as "Coil Oil Johnnie." He knew as many people and had as many friends as any man in the southwest.
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