A Record from Mary's Database
Dallas Morning News, 3-24-91, p. 50A; Who's Who in America 1969
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DOB: Apr 24, 1900; POB: Detroit, TX; son of Edward and Mollie (Easley) Byrd; attended Trinity Univ. 1917-18, Univ. of Texas 1919-21; hon. D.Sc. Coll Osteo Medicine & Surgery, Des Moines 1962; married Martha (Mattie) Caruth, June 8, 1935; children: David Harold, Caruth Clark; Geologist; oil and gas producer and refiner who owned the Texas School Book Depository in 1963; organizer of Temey Aircraft Corp.; now dir. Ling-Temco-Chance-Vought; chrmn bd Space Corp.; Alpha Omega Corp; pres Sabine Supply Co; Dallas Trust Co., Byrd Farms, Inc., Byrd Santa Gertrudis Farms & Ranches; dir. Delhi Australian Petroleum, Ltd., Home Theatres, Inc., Dorchester Gas Producing Co., Winrock Enterprises, Inc., Midwest Video Corp., Antarctic Asso., Inc.; Hon. Chrmn Bd Civil Air Patrol; hon life mbr Air Cadet Can. Adv. Council; Graduate Research Center of Southwest; mbr Cotton Bowl Athletic Assn; (dir) American Asso Petroleum Geologists, Ind., Petroleum Assn. Tex, pres.; Democrat, Presbyterian, Mason, 32nd degree Shriner, Elk. Clubs: Dallas Athletic, Petroleum, Brook Hollow Golf, Calyx, Terpsichorean (Dallas); City (Dallas); Petroleum (Houston); Wings (N.Y.C.); Koon Kreek (Athens, TX). Col. Byrd died in 1986.
