Eugene Frank Blaise

BARTHOS, HAINER, BLAISE

Posted By: Tom Blaise Shepherd <existential-society-press@msn.com>
Date: 9/15/2002 at 03:15:19

Eugene Frank Blaise was born November 21, 1878 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the son of Ada Hainer Blaise and the grandson of Etelka Barthos Hainer and Ignace Hainer, natives of Hungary and original settlers of New Buda, Decatur County, Iowa. (See biography of Ignace Hainer, Hungarian statesman and Decatur County farmer and civic leader)

Following the death of his father, John Theodore Blaise, Eugene and his mother, Ada, settled in New Buda, where Blaise attended school until the age of 16, when he and his mother resettled in St. Louis near his aunt, Vesta Hainer Chase, and her family.

Blaise went to work for the Koken Iron Works as a young man, becoming superintendent. When his uncle, Bayard T. Hainer, was appointed a Supreme Court Justice of Oklahoma Territory by President McKinley in 1900, Blaise relocated to Oklahoma Territory, residing with his uncle in Perry and Guthrie.

Blaise's first job in Oklahoma Territory was as a court reporter for the 4th District Court. He began wildcatting with jurist Charles J. Wrightsman and the two men became quite successful in the oil business.

By the time he was thirty, Blaise was president and a primary owner of the Farmer's National Bank of Tulsa, forefunner of the Bank of Oklahoma.

He co-founded the Inland Refining Co. at Fort Worth, Texas and Drumright, Oklahoma, and served as vice president of the company, which later was incorporated into the Cushing Gasoline Company, of which Blaise eventually headed as president.

Blaise was also president of the Admiralty Zinc Co. He was a 32nd Degree Mason, a member of Trinity Episcopal Church of Tulsa, and one of the first residents of The Sophian Plaza. He was married twice: to Greek Miller, daughter of George W. Miller, by which he sired one son, Dudley E. Blaise, and to Marie Howard.

Mr. Blaise died in October, 1958, at his home in Tulsa. His first wife, Greek Blaise Canterbury, died in Los Angeles in 1960. His second wife, Marie Blaise, died in Houston, Texas in September 1976.

He was survived by three grandsons.

Posted by Tom Blaise Shepherd, grandson

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