Lloyd Oil Corporation stock certificate 1929 (Texas)

Great Texas oil piece. Nice vignette of an eagle with wings spread. Issued and not cancelled. Vertical folds from mailing. Dated 1929. Founder A.D. Lloyd signs in blue ink as president. Approximately 11 x 7 inches. 

The Lloyd Oil Corporation was an oil company founded in Fort Worth, Texas, around 1914 by A.D. "Doc" Lloyd. Company was later re-incorporated in Delaware in 1929.

In his early career, Lloyd taught chemistry at the Eclectic College in Philadelphia and studied and practiced medicine throughout the mid and upper northwestern states. He served as a town doctor in a mining town in Idaho.

At this juncture in his life, he left medicine to pursue a self-taught career in geology and developed over the years a penchant for finding hydrocarbons by analyzing surface geology, mapping strata, and outcroppings, and looking for oil seeps in nearby creeks.

Lloyd became friends with "Dad" Joiner in the early 1900s and they drilled wells in the state of Oklahoma at Cement, Seminole, Healdton, and near Oklahoma City.

Lloyd formed the Lloyd Oil Corporation in Fort Worth, after having conducted a geological study for the Mexican government of President Carranza in about 1914-1915. Lloyd would later wildcat for oil in the provinces of Alaska, which is documented by photographs.

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