- Columbus Marion Joiner
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Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner (March 12, 1860 – March 27, 1947) was an American oilman. With A.D. ("Doc") Lloyd, a self-educated, self-proclaimed geologist,[1] he discovered the largest oil field in the world up to that time, the East Texas oil field, in 1930 in Rusk County.
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Categories:- 1860 births
- 1947 deaths
- People from Lauderdale County, Alabama
- Texas people stubs
- American business biography, 19th century birth stubs
- Geologist stubs
- Petroleum stubs
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