University of Wyoming
Frank O. Prior (1895-1984) was an oil executive. He began his career in 1919 as a laborer for the Midwest Oil Company in the Salt Creek oil field in Wyoming. He was general superintendent, vice president, and president of Dixie Oil Company (1928-1930), and director and president of Stanolind Oil and Gas Company (1930). In 1945, he became vice president for production, pipe lines, and purchasing with Standard Oil Company of Indiana, in 1951 he became executive vice president, in 1955, president, and in 1958, chairman of the board and chief executive officer. He retired in 1960.
The collection includes notebooks (1915-1978) of memoirs and information on Standard Oil Company of Indiana; subject files (1919-1982); reports (1951-1981); research files (1951-1972); transcripts of interviews with Prior by Paul H. Giddens; correspondence (1950-1951, 1982-1983); and three albums of black and white photographs of Midwest Refining Company oil fields and refineries in Wyoming in the 1920s. There is genealogical information on the Prior and Wistar families.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Frank O. Prior at the date of processing.
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