His father, Haroldson Hunt, Sr., was a farmer, and all the entire family worked full-time to support the farm. His mother, Ella, taught the children at home, and Hunt had very little formal schooling.

HAROLDSON LAFAYETTE “H.L.” HUNT JR. FEBRUARY 17, 1889—NOVEMBER 29, 1974. Oil tycoon Haroldson Lafa-Y ette Hunt Jr. was born in Illinois in 1889, the youngest of eight children, and had no ...

The Hunt family fortune goes back to Lamar Hunt's father, Haroldson Lafayette, or H.L. Hunt, who was an oil tycoon. H.L. Hunt held the title over much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the ...

XTO Energy is on a high-priced shopping spree, adding to its energy holdings at a time of unprecented petroleum prices. On Tuesday, it added Hunt Petroleum, founded by late oil tycoon Haroldson ...

In 1964, The New York Times reported that almost 30 years after H.L. Hunt founded the Hunt Oil Company, his family had an estimated fortune of $700 million (around $7 billion in today's money).

The reign of this family was led by oil magnate Haroldson Lafayette (H.L.) Hunt, whose wealth provided the groundwork for Clark Hunt and other succeeding generations.

ES Xplore CEO Dan Meyer. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt built an oil and gas giant partly by digging where other people had already discovered raw fuels underground. Much like in 1930, when H.L. Hunt ...

Two of Dallas' most prominent law firms squared off in federal court Thursday in the high-profile case that has pitted heirs to oilman H.L. Hunt's fortune against each other in a nasty family fight.

The Hunt family fortune goes back to Lamar Hunt's father, Haroldson Lafayette, or H.L. Hunt, who was an oil tycoon. H.L. Hunt held the title over much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the ...