by Paul R. Spitzzeri Just after the royalty checks started arriving from the first oil well on the Temple lease at the Montebello field in summer 1917, Walter and Laura Temple began sending their four surviving children (a daughter died in infancy) to local private schools. Within a couple of years, eldest child, Thomas W.... Continue Reading →
On This Day: A Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, 8 November 1926
