| 词条 | John T. Oxley (polo) |
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| name = John T. Oxley | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|07|26}} | birth_place = Coal County, Oklahoma, USA | death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|09|19|1909|07|26}} | death_place = | resting_place = Memorial Park Cemetery Tulsa, Oklahoma | occupation = Oxley Resources, LLC, Royal Palm Polo Club, Greenhill Farm | parents = Moses Edward Oxley (1874-1950) Sallie Eva Cochran (1880-1962) | spouse = Mary Katheryn Yetter (1912-1987) | children = Thomas Edward (1944-2009), John C., Mary Jane | awards = | honors = United States Polo Hall of Fame (1994) Tulsa Historical Society Hall of Fame (2003) }}John Thurman Oxley (July 26, 1909 - September 19, 1996) was an American businessman and polo player.[1][2][3][4] BiographyEarly lifeJohn Thurman Oxley was born on a cattle farm near Bromide, Oklahoma in 1909.[1] He moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of seventeen.[1] CareerIn 1935, he started his career at Warren Petroleum, and by 1948 he was secretary to the corporation.[3] He started his own company, Texas Natural Gasoline Corporation and sold it in 1961 to start an exploration company, Oxley Petroleum, with his older son, John C. Oxley.[1] They specialized in natural gas.[3] He sold it to the Allied Corporation (itself later acquired by Honeywell).[3] PoloHe took up polo at the age of 46.[3] He won two U.S. Open Polo Championships, the USPA Rolex Gold Cup and Silver Cup, the Monty Waterbury Cup, the Sunshine League many times, and twenty-seven medium-goal championships.[1][2] He won the International Gold Cup at 83, the oldest player to do so.[3] He owned the Royal Palm Polo Club in Boca Raton, Florida.[2][3] He also owned Greenhill Farm, one of the largest commercial producers of polo ponies in the United States, near Owasso, Oklahoma.[1] LegacyHe is a 2003 honoree of the Hall of Fame of the Tulsa Historical Society.[1] He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame on March 17, 1994.[2] The Mary K. Oxley Nature Center, a wildlife preserve in Mohawk Park, Tulsa, is named for his late wife.[1] Personal lifeHe was married to his wife, Mary, from 1935 until her death in 1987.[3] They went horseriding and played polo together.[3] They spent the winter season living in Delray Beach, Florida and the rest of the year their home in Tulsa.[3] One of their sons, Thomas, also played polo, and nearly died from a brain stem injury in 1968, when he lay unconscious for 31 days.[3] They had another son, John C. Oxley, also a polo player, and a daughter, Mary Jane Tritsch.[3] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tulsa Historical Society biography {{DEFAULTSORT:Oxley, John T.}}2. ^1 2 3 Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame, John T. Oxley's biography 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Steve Liewer, Boca Polo Club's John Oxley Dies, Sun Sentinel, September 21, 1996 4. ^[https://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/philanthropist-john-oxley-dies/article_f57d6373-fb97-5708-a588-3403ea92b995.html Tulsa World September 21, 1996 obituary "Philanthropist John Oxley Dies"] Retrieved October 7, 2018 9 : 1909 births|1996 deaths|American philanthropists|American businesspeople in the oil industry|Sportspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma|Sportspeople from Daytona Beach, Florida|American polo players|20th-century American businesspeople|20th-century philanthropists |
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