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Better known as H. L. Hunt, he was born in Illinois, the youngest of eight children. His father, also named Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, was a prosperous farmer-entrepreneur; his mother was Ella Rose (Myers) Hunt.
He was educated at home, and as a teenager travelled to various places before settling in Arkansas, where he was running a cotton plantation by 1912. He ended up making a fortune in the oil business and was reportedly the world's first billionaire.
Hunt married three times, and had fourteen children. His first wife was Lyda Buker (died 1955), whom he married in Arkansas on November 26, 1914. They had six children, the best-known of whom are Bunker and Herbert. In 1925, he married (bigamously) Frania Tye, and they had four children, before splitting up in 1942. Hunt then had four more children with his mistress, a Hunt Oil Company secretary named Ruth Ray, whom he married in 1957.
Here are the names of his fourteen children, not necessarily in order:-
Birth and early life
His family
Following his death in 1974, H. L. Hunt was buried in the Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas.External links