Borrowed picture by Andrew Hanson
Born in Vandalia, Illinois, on February 17, 1889, Haroldson Lafayette Hunt was truly an entrepreneur from the start. Having only a fifth grade education in the public schools, at age 16 he left home, traveled across the US working as a farmhand, cowboy, lumberjack, and mule skinner. When his father died in 1911, H.L received an inheritance of about $6,000, which Hunt used to buy himself a cotton plantation near Lake Valley, Arkansas. Not being content with farming, he hearing rumors of an oil strike in El Dorado, Arkansas, decided to began oil trading, which gave him enough money to least a half acre. There he placed a rotary drill rig, that struck oil. From then on this man became a tycoon who was known throughout the world. Texas can boast of this man's endeavor's with pride, because of his large influence here in our State.
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