Clyde R. Minor, Canyon City, Co., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller Date: 1999-2000 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Clyde R. Minor. The twenty years since his early manhood Clyde R. Minor has devoted to the oil industry in Texas and Louisiana, and during the greater part of that time has had executive responsibilities in one of the largest oil production and refining enterprises in the Southwest. For several years his headquarters have been at Shreveport, where he is the executive vice-president of time Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana, Mr. Minor was born at Canyon City, Colorado, in 1881. Both his father and grandfather were pioneers in Colorado, moving to that western state from Missouri in 1869. The Minor family went to Missouri from Kentucky and were originally Virginians. Clyde R. Minor spent his childhood in Colorado, and then went east and pursued the study of architecture in the University of Pennsylvania. He never practiced architecture as a profession, going instead to Texas in 1904 and becoming identified with the oil industry of that state in pioneer development. His first activities were at Houston, where he became identified with the Rio Bravo Oil Company, at that time the fuel department of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1905, at Beaumont, he joined the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Company. The present Gulf Refining Company is the outgrowth of the Guffey Company, so that Mr. Minor's connections have been practically continuous with the same interests since 1905, in the early part of 1918 he removed to Shreveport to become vice-president of the Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana, a subsidiary of the Gulf Oil Corporation. His office has the executive charge of the company's interests in the State of Louisiana. The home offices of the Gulf Oil Corporation are at Pittsburgh, and its principal refinery is located at Port Arthur, Texas. The Gulf Oil Corporation ranks among the largest in the production, refining and marketing of oil and oil products. A liberal and public spirited business man, Mr. Minor has assumed an important share in the promotion of the welfare of the City of Shreveport. He especially interested himself in financing the new Y. M. C. A.. and is serving as chairman of the Building Committee having charge of the construction project, begun in 1924, and the total cost of which is estimated at over half a million dollars. Mr. Minor is a director and vice-president of the Shreveport Country Club, and a director of the City Club. He married Miss Audrey Wiggins, of Jennings, Louisiana, and has two children, Clyde R., Junior, and Edwin Carroll. NOTE: The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the subject with his/her autograph. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 37-38, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.