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Submitted: 10/1/14 • Approved: 10/1/14 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R24862-G0-S3
1854 - 1925
*Obituary
The Bartlett Tribune
Owner Of The Bartlett Oil Mill Dead
J D Sugg, aged 74, owner of the Accidental Oil Mill here and also at Granger, died in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Tuesday after an extended Illness. Deceased formerly resided in San Angelo, moving to Chickasha in 1912, forming buriness connections there. Hew was buried at Gainsville, Texas, Thursday. He was not married. Six heirs among more than two acorn nieces and nephews, will inherit the fortune, estimated at $10,000,000. Mr Sugg was a native of Mississippi. He waled from Missouri to Texas
sixty-two years ago. Arriving here he sought small jobs to earn a living. Soon he accumulated a herd of a few cattle and this grew with the years until he became one of the big cattle men of Texas and Oklahoma. He owned approximately 600,000 acres of ranch land in Irion, Reagan, Sterling and Tom Green counties, much business property and a gin in San Angelo, Texas where he was vice president in the Central National Back and a stockholder in the First Nation Back and the Wool Growers Central Storage Company. At one time Sugg owner the San Angelo street railway, now defunct.At Chickasha he was president of the First Nation Bank and owner of several business buildings, He also had extensive ranch and live stock holdings in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Contributed on 10/1/14 by don_leuty
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