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Joseph Walter, Jr. , a wildcatter who founded Houston Oil & Minerals by drilling along the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana, ended up selling the company to Tenneco in 1981. It was then that he started over with Walter Oil & Gas, where he ran the... It is one of the largest privately held oil companies in America. It's also worth noting that the family donated $10 million to Houston Methodist Hospital's transplant center, where Joe, Jr. received a heart transplant in the 1980s. George Mitchell (pictured, d. 2013) helped develop the hydraulic fracturing... Academy's story began with Max Gochman, when he opened a tire shop in San Antonio in 1938. A year later, he scrapped that idea and began selling military surplus, changing the name Academy Tire Shop to Academy Super Surplus. Max and his son Arthur (pictured) continued to sell military surplus until the mid-1980s, when they changed tracks again and began selling outdoor gear, such as fishing and camping equipment. Max's grandson, David, began running the company in 1996 then sold it to a private company for around $2. 3 billion. Source: www.chron.com
