![]() ![]() $400 million and $700 million ($4.5 billion in 2011, adjusted for inflation), and was one of the eight richest people in the United States. In 1957 Fortune estimated that Hunt had a fortune of between U.S. Joiner from liability for his many fraudulent transactions surrounding the property. In negotiations over cheese and crackers, at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, with the wild-catter who discovered the field- "Dad" Joiner-Hunt secured title to what was then the largest known oil deposit in the world, having agreed to pay only $1,000,000, and protect Mr. He was generous to his employees, who in turn were loyal to him, informing him of rumors of a massive oil field to the south, in East Texas - the East Texas Oil Field. With his winnings, he purchased oil properties in the neighborhood of El Dorado, Arkansas. It was said that after his cotton plantation was flooded, he turned his last $100 into more than $100,000, gambling in New Orleans. He had a reputation as a math prodigy and was a gambler. As a teenager, Hunt traveled to various places before settling in Arkansas, where he was running a cotton plantation by 1912. He was named after his father, Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, who was a prosperous farmer-entrepreneur his mother was Ella Rose (Myers) Hunt. Hunt was born near Ramsey, in Carson Township, Fayette County, Illinois, the youngest of eight children. ![]()
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