Bios.Tulsa,OK KEMP, E. Rogers
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Posted by Charmaine Keith on Sun, 18 Oct 1998
Surname: KEMP, HOUGH, JENNINGS, PAINTER
Vol. 3, p. 1231-1232 
E. ROGERS KEMP 
The marvelously productive oil wells of Oklahoma have attracted to this state men of ability and experience who have received their training largely in the oil regions of the East, and whose activities in their new locality have done much to add to Oklahoma's growing prestige. In this class may be named E. Rogers Kemp, who since 1904 has carried on extensive operations in Tulsa, where he is now president of the Toxaway Oil Company. 
Mr. Kemp was born at Oil City, Venango County Pennsylvania, February 14, 1872, a son of Gipson R. and Elizabeth W. (HOUGH) Kemp, and a member of a family that traces its ancestry back to the Revolutionary war, in which several of its members participated as soldiers of the American army. Gipson R. Kemp was born in Pennsylvania, in 1835, and became on of the pioneer men of the oil industry in Pennsylvania, being connected with this business up to the time of his death, in 1884, when he was but forty-nine years of age. He has a successful career, and was widely known as an oil developer and broker, and as a member of the Oil City Oil Exchange. Politically he was a democrat, but his extensive business interests left him but little time to participate in public matters. Mrs. Kemp, who survives her husband, has been the mother of three children: Ada, Anna and E. Rogers. 
E. Rogers Kemp was educated in the public schools of Oil City, which he attended until sixteen years of age, and at that time began to receive his primary business experience in the office of Pittsburg [sic] fire insurance agency. After one year thus engaged he became identified with the oil producing business, securing a position in the office of E. H. JENNINGS & Brothers, of Pittsburg, [sic] and rose steadily in their employ until he has attained the position of head bookkeeper. In 1900 he became secretary and treasurer of the Atlantic Tube Company, of Pittsburg, [sic] but after two years he again became interested with the firm of E. H. Jennings & Brothers in the production of oil and came to Oklahoma for them, taking up his residence at Tulsa in 1904, and since that time has continued his activities here, his present office being located at No. 211 South Boston Avenue. He has varied and extensive interests, and in addition to being president of the Toxaway Oil Company, is a director in the Central National Bank of Tulsa. Mr. Kemp is a member of Delta Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Tulsa Chapter, R. A. M.; Tulsa Commandery, K. T., and Akdar Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He also belongs to the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and to the local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Also takes great interest in educational work, being chairman of the Executive Committee of Henry Kendall College located at Tulsa. He donated Laura Jennings Kemp Lodge, dormitory for girls to this institution, which is the leading Presbyterian college of the Southwest. Politically he is a republican, but has had no aspirations of public nature, and his only connection with civic affairs is as a supporter of movements calculated to be of benefit to his adopted community. 
Mr. Kemp was married April 9, 1908, to Miss Laura JENNINGS, who was born in Pennsylvania, and she died in 1913, the mother of one son, Evan Jennings. On February 6, 1915, Mr. Kemp was united in marriage with Miss Maude PAINTER, of Tulsa. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kemp are popular in social circles of the city, and have numerous friends. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. 
Transcribed by Charmaine Keith, October 17, 1998