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ionok.com APRIL/MAY 2017 Legacy of an Oklahoma Oil Man: J. Steve Anderson, Co-founder of Anderson Prichard Oil Corporation Creative Oklahoma honors 2017 Ambassadors Star Spangled Air Show as Tinker celebrates 75th Anniversary 2017 Festival of the Arts OKC’s Rite of Spring Leadership Oklahoma Annual Awards Ceremony Lifestyle … Culture … Entertainment • Access to the best in-home WiFi experience—including hassle-free setup and support • Over 250,000 WiFi hotspots when you travel • Free Security Software protects your computer from viruses and spywar e (a $169 value) 600-7647 COX.COM/INTERNET COX SOLUTIONS STOR E® *Max download speeds are increasing to 50Mbps for Preferred and 100Mbps for Premier. See cox.com for speed availability in your local area. Speed comparison based on max download speed of Cox Preferred package (50Mbps download) vs . AT&T U-verse Pro 3 Mbps service. 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Sincerely, Don Swift Publisher ion Oklahoma Magazine 10 ionOklahoma APRIL/MAY 2017 COVER Legacy of an Oklahoma Oil Man Successful Wildcatter Discovered the Largest Pool of Oil in Oklahoma, Co-founded Anderson Prichard Oil Corporation BY DON SWIFT s many people know Oklahoma is where certain successful oil A producers and companies have flourished all through the years, men who have had the vision of oil riches deep below the state’s wheat fields and courage to invest millions of dollars to find it. This is the story about one of Oklahoma’s most successful oil producers and oil companies, Anderson Prichard Oil Corporation. James Stephen Anderson was born on September 9, 1885 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Alexander and Jane Barron Anderson, both of whom were natives of Scotland. His father was a general contractor in Chicago. J. Steve Anderson as he preferred to be called was a graduate of Oak Park High School and then attained a law degree while in Chicago. In 1906, J. Steve Anderson, 21, read one of many news stories being published across the nation about the Oklahoma territory becoming a state. With the discovery of oil, thousands of individuals were lured J Steve Anderson, co-founder Anderson Prichard Oil Corporation 12 ionOklahoma APRIL/MAY 2017 Col-tex Refining Company, Colorado City Texas, 1930. by promises of fame and fortune potential or excitement to the beyond their wildest dreams. regional oil business. In 1914, at the Anderson left Chicago and never age of 29, Anderson invested in a looked back, it was said that he was variety of wildcat and other oil and one of those instrumental in moving gas operations in Oklahoma and the state seal from Guthrie to west Texas. He met Lev H. Prichard, Oklahoma City. Bright, ambitious, resulting in the 1919 formation of and imaginative, he spent the next the Anderson-Prichard Oil fifty years building an oil company, Company, a partnership that became a fortune, a family, a community, and the Anderson-Prichard Oil a legacy. Corporation in 1922. The public Anderson first ventured into real came to know the brand as APCO. estate in 1906 at a boom time in APCO grew the firm to be one of Oklahoma. the top 500 oil companies in the In May, 1909, he married Maud nation, operating also in Canada Stone Nay of Chillicothe, Missouri, with two refineries and 787 miles of and two years later, the couple pipeline. welcomed their son, James Stephen Anderson directed very success- Lev H. Prichard, co-founder Anderson Prichard “Jack” Anderson , Jr. into the world. fully all land, lease, and production Oil Corporation Real estate didn’t compare in operations for the company, which APRIL/MAY ionOklahoma 13 The Anderson-Prichard Company’s first offices were located in the Colcord building in downtown Oklahoma City (above). In 1942 they purchased along with CR Anthony the Ramsey tower at 200 Park Avenue. and renamed it the APCO Tower. 14 ionOklahoma APRIL/MAY 2017 Above: Cyril Refining Company, Cyril Oklahoma. Right: New and old signage of the Anderson-Prichard Company held land leases forover 100,000 sold in 1977. acres in Louisiana, Texas, and Anderson was a Scottish Rite Oklahoma. Mason, a Shriner, and a member of From their headquarters in the the Kiwanis Club, the Oklahoma Colcord Building in downtown City Golf and Country Club, Oklahoma City, which was the first Oklahoma City Chamber of office tower in the city boasting Commerce, and the American central air conditioning, APCO Petroleum Institute.