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Gus Sessions Wortham (February 18, 1891 – September 1, 1976), was a businessman and civic leader in Houston, Texas. He was born on February 18, 1891, in...

estate of the late Gus Wortham (1891–1976), a local philanthropist and founder of American General Insurance Company. The Wortham Foundation contributed...

player Gus Sessions Wortham (1891–1976), American businessman John Lee Wortham (1862–1924), American businessman and politician Rich Wortham (born 1953)...

of Texas in 1913. Wortham was born in Woodland, Freestone County, Texas. With his son Gus Wortham, he started the John L. Wortham and Son insurance agency...

expanded into its former space. Diana Wortham is the daughter of Gus Sessions Wortham and Lyndall Finley Wortham and was "one of the largest private benefactors...

Houston purchased the Houston Executive Club in 1972 and renamed it the Gus Wortham Golf Course. Claudia Feldman of the Houston Chronicle said that in the...

Yet other members of his family stayed there as well. In addition, Gus Wortham, another member of the group, lived in the room next door, 7F. Jesse...

Fine Arts in 1948, but in 1951 it was sold by the museum to Gus Wortham. Lyndall Wortham bequeathed the house to the University of Houston on her death...

Pure Oil, and United Gas. Gus Wortham, a Vinson and Elkins client, gained financing from Guaranty Trust Bank, and later Wortham's company grew into the giant...

Texas United States Ridglea CC R 1936 Fort Worth Texas United States Gus Wortham GC R 1936 Houston Texas United States formerly Houston CC River Oaks...

corner of Texas State Highway 6 and Farm to Market Road 529 from the Gus Wortham estate in 1977. Two years later the first houses in Copperfield had been...

Malden, MA: Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-4421-9. Dressman, Fran (2004). Gus Wortham: portrait of a leader. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press...

James Elkins, Oveta Culp Hobby, William P. Hobby, Robert E. Smith, and Gus Wortham. Historian Joseph Pratt characterized Jones as "the godfather" of the...

parks and canoe launches. This included funding to restore the historic Gus Wortham Park Golf Course, and construct the first botanic Gardiner in Houston...

General Insurance Company was formed on May 8, 1926 by Gus Sessions Wortham in Houston, Texas. Wortham worked for the Texas Fire Rating Board in Austin, Texas...

was simultaneously planned and constructed. Initially, the city-owned Gus Wortham Golf Course in Houston's East End was proposed to be re-purposed for...

south-western Poland. A similar fountain can be found in Houston, Texas. The Gus S. Wortham Memorial Fountain was inspired by the El Alamein Fountain. Minneapolis...

Clayton; Oveta Culp Hobby papers, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana papers, Gus Wortham family and business papers; Jesse H. Jones personal papers and corporate...

Evans business ventures- Retrieved 2014-11-28 Dressman, Fran (1994). Gus Wortham: Portrait of a Leader. Texas A&M University Press. p. 252. ISBN 9780890965801...

Patrick L. Brockett is an endowed Chaired Professor (Gus Wortham Chair in Risk Management and Insurance) within the Information, Risk and Operations Management...