DEATH COMES TO
ALBERT P. CROCKETT
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Complications Following Oper-
ation Prove Fatal--Loyal
Vanderbilt Alumnus.
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The announcement of the death of Albert P. Crockett will bring sorrow to many friends and college mates in Nashville and throughout the state. On July 31 he was operated on at St. Thomas Hospital, but complications growing out of the operation proved fatal. For several weeks he had leased the residence of Prof. Charles E. Little on the Peabody Campus, where he died Wednesday afternoon. He has lived for many years at Oklahoma City, where he has been connected with one of the most prominent law firms in the West, and more recently with Fortuna Oil Company, of which he was organizer and president.
He was born in William county, Tenn, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Rufus A. Crockett. His family in its various branches is one of the most prominent in Middle Tennessee. He was prepared for college at Webb school and took his B. A. at Vanderbilt in 1893 and his L.L.B. in 1894. He was prominent in many phases of college life, being treasurer of West Side Row for four years, assistant editor of the Vanderbilt Observer, and a popular member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. His classmates and college mates in Nashville are among the most prominent men of the city and all pay tribute to his sterling qualities. He manifested in college the same energy and initiative that made him one of the most successful business men of his adopted state. His loyalty to the university has been evidenced in many ways, notably by substantial contribution to the endowment fund.
After graduating at Vanderbilt, he taught for one year in the Vanderbilt training school at Elkton and later practiced law at Hopkinsville until he went to Oklahoma City in 1904. He was a member of the firm of Burwall, Crockett & Johnson until four years ago, when he organized and became president of the Fortuna Oil Company, on of the largest oil companies in the country. The company, half of whose stock was owned by prominent financiers of New York City and the other half by men in Oklahoma City, holds large leases of oil lands in Oklahoma and Louisiana. His success was due solely to the remarkable sagacity and untiring energy of Mr. Crockett, who undoubtedly worked beyond the limit of human endurance.
As a lawyer and a business man, he was widely known throughout the West. He was a prominent member of St. Luke's Methodist church, a Mason with the 32d degree, a Shriner, a member of the Elks Club, the Pickwick Club, and the men's Dinner Club and a director of the Security National Bank.
He married in 1907, Miss Elizabeth Russell of Hopkinsville, who has been a devoted attendant at his bedside during the past weeks of critical illness. He leaves three brothers, Dr. S. S. Crockett of Nashville, R. F. Crockett of Detroit, and Eugene Crockett of Monroe, Va.
Short services, conducted by Rev. Geo. L. Beale, will be held at his temporary residence on the Peabody campus Thursday afternoon at 4:30. He will be buried at Hopkinsville, the home of his wife, Friday at 2 p.m. The pall-bearers will be. W. A. Paschall, Douglas Seward. R. H. Crockett, Lewis Williams. J. V. Crockett, J. A. Johnson, Dr. O. Crockett, Dr. Edwin Minor and John W. DeWitt.
His family and friends are grieved at the passing of one who was in the very prime of his life and on the threshold of business success even greater than he had already met.
--Nashville Banner (Nashville, Tennessee), Thursday, October 30, 1919, Page 16
ALBERT P. CROCKETT
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Complications Following Oper-
ation Prove Fatal--Loyal
Vanderbilt Alumnus.
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The announcement of the death of Albert P. Crockett will bring sorrow to many friends and college mates in Nashville and throughout the state. On July 31 he was operated on at St. Thomas Hospital, but complications growing out of the operation proved fatal. For several weeks he had leased the residence of Prof. Charles E. Little on the Peabody Campus, where he died Wednesday afternoon. He has lived for many years at Oklahoma City, where he has been connected with one of the most prominent law firms in the West, and more recently with Fortuna Oil Company, of which he was organizer and president.
He was born in William county, Tenn, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Rufus A. Crockett. His family in its various branches is one of the most prominent in Middle Tennessee. He was prepared for college at Webb school and took his B. A. at Vanderbilt in 1893 and his L.L.B. in 1894. He was prominent in many phases of college life, being treasurer of West Side Row for four years, assistant editor of the Vanderbilt Observer, and a popular member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. His classmates and college mates in Nashville are among the most prominent men of the city and all pay tribute to his sterling qualities. He manifested in college the same energy and initiative that made him one of the most successful business men of his adopted state. His loyalty to the university has been evidenced in many ways, notably by substantial contribution to the endowment fund.
After graduating at Vanderbilt, he taught for one year in the Vanderbilt training school at Elkton and later practiced law at Hopkinsville until he went to Oklahoma City in 1904. He was a member of the firm of Burwall, Crockett & Johnson until four years ago, when he organized and became president of the Fortuna Oil Company, on of the largest oil companies in the country. The company, half of whose stock was owned by prominent financiers of New York City and the other half by men in Oklahoma City, holds large leases of oil lands in Oklahoma and Louisiana. His success was due solely to the remarkable sagacity and untiring energy of Mr. Crockett, who undoubtedly worked beyond the limit of human endurance.
As a lawyer and a business man, he was widely known throughout the West. He was a prominent member of St. Luke's Methodist church, a Mason with the 32d degree, a Shriner, a member of the Elks Club, the Pickwick Club, and the men's Dinner Club and a director of the Security National Bank.
He married in 1907, Miss Elizabeth Russell of Hopkinsville, who has been a devoted attendant at his bedside during the past weeks of critical illness. He leaves three brothers, Dr. S. S. Crockett of Nashville, R. F. Crockett of Detroit, and Eugene Crockett of Monroe, Va.
Short services, conducted by Rev. Geo. L. Beale, will be held at his temporary residence on the Peabody campus Thursday afternoon at 4:30. He will be buried at Hopkinsville, the home of his wife, Friday at 2 p.m. The pall-bearers will be. W. A. Paschall, Douglas Seward. R. H. Crockett, Lewis Williams. J. V. Crockett, J. A. Johnson, Dr. O. Crockett, Dr. Edwin Minor and John W. DeWitt.
His family and friends are grieved at the passing of one who was in the very prime of his life and on the threshold of business success even greater than he had already met.
--Nashville Banner (Nashville, Tennessee), Thursday, October 30, 1919, Page 16
DEATH COMES TO
ALBERT P. CROCKETT
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Complications Following Oper-
ation Prove Fatal--Loyal
Vanderbilt Alumnus.
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The announcement of the death of Albert P. Crockett will bring sorrow to many friends and college mates in Nashville and throughout the state. On July 31 he was operated on at St. Thomas Hospital, but complications growing out of the operation proved fatal. For several weeks he had leased the residence of Prof. Charles E. Little on the Peabody Campus, where he died Wednesday afternoon. He has lived for many years at Oklahoma City, where he has been connected with one of the most prominent law firms in the West, and more recently with Fortuna Oil Company, of which he was organizer and president.
He was born in William county, Tenn, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Rufus A. Crockett. His family in its various branches is one of the most prominent in Middle Tennessee. He was prepared for college at Webb school and took his B. A. at Vanderbilt in 1893 and his L.L.B. in 1894. He was prominent in many phases of college life, being treasurer of West Side Row for four years, assistant editor of the Vanderbilt Observer, and a popular member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. His classmates and college mates in Nashville are among the most prominent men of the city and all pay tribute to his sterling qualities. He manifested in college the same energy and initiative that made him one of the most successful business men of his adopted state. His loyalty to the university has been evidenced in many ways, notably by substantial contribution to the endowment fund.
After graduating at Vanderbilt, he taught for one year in the Vanderbilt training school at Elkton and later practiced law at Hopkinsville until he went to Oklahoma City in 1904. He was a member of the firm of Burwall, Crockett & Johnson until four years ago, when he organized and became president of the Fortuna Oil Company, on of the largest oil companies in the country. The company, half of whose stock was owned by prominent financiers of New York City and the other half by men in Oklahoma City, holds large leases of oil lands in Oklahoma and Louisiana. His success was due solely to the remarkable sagacity and untiring energy of Mr. Crockett, who undoubtedly worked beyond the limit of human endurance.
As a lawyer and a business man, he was widely known throughout the West. He was a prominent member of St. Luke's Methodist church, a Mason with the 32d degree, a Shriner, a member of the Elks Club, the Pickwick Club, and the men's Dinner Club and a director of the Security National Bank.
He married in 1907, Miss Elizabeth Russell of Hopkinsville, who has been a devoted attendant at his bedside during the past weeks of critical illness. He leaves three brothers, Dr. S. S. Crockett of Nashville, R. F. Crockett of Detroit, and Eugene Crockett of Monroe, Va.
Short services, conducted by Rev. Geo. L. Beale, will be held at his temporary residence on the Peabody campus Thursday afternoon at 4:30. He will be buried at Hopkinsville, the home of his wife, Friday at 2 p.m. The pall-bearers will be. W. A. Paschall, Douglas Seward. R. H. Crockett, Lewis Williams. J. V. Crockett, J. A. Johnson, Dr. O. Crockett, Dr. Edwin Minor and John W. DeWitt.
His family and friends are grieved at the passing of one who was in the very prime of his life and on the threshold of business success even greater than he had already met.
--Nashville Banner (Nashville, Tennessee), Thursday, October 30, 1919, Page 16
ALBERT P. CROCKETT
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Complications Following Oper-
ation Prove Fatal--Loyal
Vanderbilt Alumnus.
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The announcement of the death of Albert P. Crockett will bring sorrow to many friends and college mates in Nashville and throughout the state. On July 31 he was operated on at St. Thomas Hospital, but complications growing out of the operation proved fatal. For several weeks he had leased the residence of Prof. Charles E. Little on the Peabody Campus, where he died Wednesday afternoon. He has lived for many years at Oklahoma City, where he has been connected with one of the most prominent law firms in the West, and more recently with Fortuna Oil Company, of which he was organizer and president.
He was born in William county, Tenn, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Rufus A. Crockett. His family in its various branches is one of the most prominent in Middle Tennessee. He was prepared for college at Webb school and took his B. A. at Vanderbilt in 1893 and his L.L.B. in 1894. He was prominent in many phases of college life, being treasurer of West Side Row for four years, assistant editor of the Vanderbilt Observer, and a popular member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. His classmates and college mates in Nashville are among the most prominent men of the city and all pay tribute to his sterling qualities. He manifested in college the same energy and initiative that made him one of the most successful business men of his adopted state. His loyalty to the university has been evidenced in many ways, notably by substantial contribution to the endowment fund.
After graduating at Vanderbilt, he taught for one year in the Vanderbilt training school at Elkton and later practiced law at Hopkinsville until he went to Oklahoma City in 1904. He was a member of the firm of Burwall, Crockett & Johnson until four years ago, when he organized and became president of the Fortuna Oil Company, on of the largest oil companies in the country. The company, half of whose stock was owned by prominent financiers of New York City and the other half by men in Oklahoma City, holds large leases of oil lands in Oklahoma and Louisiana. His success was due solely to the remarkable sagacity and untiring energy of Mr. Crockett, who undoubtedly worked beyond the limit of human endurance.
As a lawyer and a business man, he was widely known throughout the West. He was a prominent member of St. Luke's Methodist church, a Mason with the 32d degree, a Shriner, a member of the Elks Club, the Pickwick Club, and the men's Dinner Club and a director of the Security National Bank.
He married in 1907, Miss Elizabeth Russell of Hopkinsville, who has been a devoted attendant at his bedside during the past weeks of critical illness. He leaves three brothers, Dr. S. S. Crockett of Nashville, R. F. Crockett of Detroit, and Eugene Crockett of Monroe, Va.
Short services, conducted by Rev. Geo. L. Beale, will be held at his temporary residence on the Peabody campus Thursday afternoon at 4:30. He will be buried at Hopkinsville, the home of his wife, Friday at 2 p.m. The pall-bearers will be. W. A. Paschall, Douglas Seward. R. H. Crockett, Lewis Williams. J. V. Crockett, J. A. Johnson, Dr. O. Crockett, Dr. Edwin Minor and John W. DeWitt.
His family and friends are grieved at the passing of one who was in the very prime of his life and on the threshold of business success even greater than he had already met.
--Nashville Banner (Nashville, Tennessee), Thursday, October 30, 1919, Page 16
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