Talk:John Warne Gates

A few touch-ups
I moved information about Gates' wife and son to the lead paragraph and added the facts that Gates Memorial Library started out as Port Arthur's public library and is now the campus library for Lamar State College-Port Arthur. Applejuicefool (talk) 19:54, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Cause of death?
The cause of death reported in the article does not correlate with the source. The New York Times reported it as kidney disease and pneumonia like symptoms. Where is a source stating throat cancer?Hoops gza (talk) 21:07, 6 February 2002 (UTC)

Steel industry and dashed hopes
The description of the two Southern integrated steel operations describes them as being able to make high quality steel at low cost. In fact while their cost was low their production was steel which had sufficient quality for some uses but not others. The main product of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company was railroad track. United States Steel had Mills which could make higher value products. I have read about the company because my great grandfather was Chief Operating Officer from 1888 to 1891.RichardBond (talk) 14:01, 31 March 2016 (UTC) RichardBond (talk) 14:01, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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Minor But Necessary Edit
John W. gates did not found Texaco. Joseph S. Cullinan and a group of investors founded The Texas Fuel Company which would become Texaco. Prior to this event, The Texas Fuel Company needed investment and John W. Gates provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in return for stock ownership. The circumstances of the company restructuring to become Texaco are not well established but major confusion exists as to who founded Texaco because the story of John W. Gates and Joseph S. Cullinan has a missing link so that some list Cullinan as the company founder and some list Gates.

It is far more true to say that Cullinan founded the company because Gates only became involved after the founding of The Texas Fuel Company with an affiliate company called Producers Oil Company. Through investment, Gates eventually becomes possibly the biggest stockholder in the company prior to restructuring and becoming Texaco, but the direct line of the companys founding begins with The Texas Fuel Company which was not founded by Gates as he was only an investor subsequent to the companys founding.

If anyone would like to challenge my findings, please do. But you will need to better answer the discrepency about who founded Texaco be it Cullinan or Gates. If not for Cullinan, the direct course of events may have found Gates investing in another company but the likelihood it would have become known as Texaco doesn't exist without The Texas Fuel Company. Armorbeast (talk) 10:47, 4 September 2018 (UTC)