Word: eason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benton has had ample opportunity to study the U. S. he loves to paint. He was born in Neosho, Mo. in 1889. Says he: "My father [Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton] was a lawyer and politician. He came from Tennessee shortly after the Civil War, riding a horse and knocking the snakes out of his path with a long stick. He was a great-nephew of Thomas Hart Benton, the Senator from Missouri and Andrew Jackson's lieutenant. My family table talk was entirely devoted to law and politics. Southwest Missouri was, and is yet in those parts in which...
...first acts of the New Deal was to put the problem in the hands of Oil Administrator Ickes. But last week, none too certain of his legal rights, the best Mr. Ickes could do was to start a test case against Eason Oil Co. of Enid. Okla. He charged the Oklahomans with having drilled three wells in Crescent Pool in direct contradiction to the plan approved by his Petroleum Administration...
...School as a building, whatever may be its success as an institution. The artist is Thomas Hart Benton. Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo., on the edge of the Ozarks, a great-nephew of Andrew Jackson's trusted Senator Thomas Hart Benton, son of Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton. At 17, Maecenas' son was carrying a chain as a surveyor's assistant in Joplin. Shortly thereafter he began a long, arduous, uninteresting art apprenticeship as a newspaper cartoonist, then as an art student in Chicago, Paris, New York, where he kept himself alive painting scenery...