1. Lloyd Tevis co-founded the Pacific Coast Oil Company, the progenitor to Chevron Corporation.
17 Facts About Lloyd Tevis
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Lloyd Tevis was born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, the son of Samuel and Sarah Tevis.
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Lloyd Tevis's father was a prominent attorney and circuit court clerk, and from 1842 to 1844 Lloyd studied law in his office and assisted him as court clerk.
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Lloyd Tevis was highly regarded, and when the company failed he was appointed assignee.
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Lloyd Tevis left the bank shortly to accept a position with an insurance company in St Louis, Missouri.
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Lloyd Tevis went to California to join the gold rush in the spring of 1849.
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Haggin and Lloyd Tevis acquired the Rancho Del Paso land grant near Sacramento.
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Haggin and Lloyd Tevis married sisters, daughters of Colonel Lewis Sanders, a Kentuckian who had emigrated to California.
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Lloyd Tevis was one of the principal owners of the California Steam Navigation Company and one of the projectors of telegraph lines throughout California.
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Lloyd Tevis was the leading promoter of the California Dry Dock and the California Market in San Francisco, the president and principal owner of the Pacific Ice Company; and one of the early manufacturers of illuminating gas in California.
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At one time Lloyd Tevis owned 1,300 miles of stagecoach lines in California, horse-drawn streetcar lines in San Francisco, and ranch lands with thousands of head of cattle and sheep.
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Lloyd Tevis was a pioneer in the reclamation of "tule" or swamp lands in central California.
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Lloyd Tevis was elected vice president and a director of Wells Fargo in 1870.
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Lloyd Tevis was owner or part-owner of gold and silver mines in California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and South Dakota.
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Lloyd Tevis said he could think five times as fast as any man in San Francisco.
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Two months after selling his interest in the Anaconda properties, Lloyd Tevis died in San Francisco on July 24,1899, survived by his wife and five children.
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When it became obvious the next day that the house would be destroyed by the advancing fires, Lloyd Tevis led them to the safety of North Beach.