George Marland

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George Marland (1897 - 1957)

George is pictured here to the far left.

George Marland was E.W.’s adopted son and Lydie’s brother. He grew up in Ponca City, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and Yale. After military service in World War I, he returned to Ponca City to join his father’s oil company. He was an excellent polo player and a member of the Ponca City polo team.

	George resigned from Marland Oil in 1928 when E.W. did, but kept an office at the administration building gatehouse of the Marland Estate. He also purchased the Buick agency in 1928, and ran it for four years till he re-entered the oil business with his father. He and his wife, Laverne, were married in 1930 and moved to the gatehouse on the Marland Estate. They had three children, a son, Larry, and two daughters, Ann and Margo.
In 1941, after E.W.’s death, George and his family moved to Tulsa where he became an independent oil lease broker. He died of a heart attack in 1957.

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