Background
Thomas Lloyd Burnett was born in 1871 in Denton County, Texas. His father, Samuel Burk Burnett, was the owner of the 6666 Ranch. His mother was Ruth (Lloyd) Burnett.
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Thomas Burnett
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He was educated at a private academy in Saint Louis, Missouri and the Virginia Military Institute.
Career
He owned 449, 415 acres of land. He worked as a cowhand and later wagon boss at the Big Pasture in southwestern Oklahoma. Meanwhile, he learned to speak the Comanche language and became friends in Chief Quanah Parker.
He then served as a Captain during the Spanish–American War of 1898.
In 1912, he inherited ranching interests in Wichita County, Texas from his later maternal grandfather, Martin B. Lloyd. He established the Triangle Ranch, where he raised cattle and drilled newfound oil.
A decade later, from 1923 to 1925, he acquired the Pope Ranch and the McAdams Rach in Foard County, Texas as well as the Moon Ranch formerly owned by West. Q. Richards, in Cottle County, Texas. A few years later, in 1929, he purchased the YL Ranch (formerly part of the OX Ranch) in the Paducah area.
A decade later, in 1938, he purchased the 7L Ranch.
Overall, he owned 449, 415 acres of land and 4,000 to 6,000 head of Hereford stock. He was a major shareholder of the Iowa Park State Bank. Philanthropy
He patronized rodeos in Wichita Falls, Texas.
During the Great Depression in the 1930s, he donated school lunches to schoolchildren in Wichita Falls and assisted empoverished cowboys.
Personal life
They had a daughter, Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy. The couple divorced in 1918.
Death
He died of a heart attack on December 26, 1938. He was buried at Highland Cemetery in Iowa Park, Texas.
In 1981, she donated his private residence to the City of Iowa Park, where it became a public library.
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United States