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David Harold Byrd
David Harold "Dry Hole" Byrd (24 April 1900 - 14 September 1986) was a noted Texan producer of petroleum, and a co-founder of the Civil Air Patrol. Byrd's cousin, polar explorer Richard E. Byrd, named Antarctica's Harold Byrd Mountains for him.
==Background==
Byrd was born in Detroit, Texas in 1900, the youngest of eight children, and grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.〔Texas State Historical Association, (BYRD, DAVID HAROLD )〕 Byrd's cousin, polar explorer Richard E. Byrd, named Antarctica's Harold Byrd Mountains for him, after Byrd had contributed to the expedition that found them.〔 Another cousin (Richard's brother) was Harry F. Byrd, who became a Democratic Party Governor of Virginia and a leading conservative US Senator.
Byrd worked in the Burkburnett, Texas oilfield before attending Trinity University in 1917 and studying geology at the University of Texas in 1919–1921. During the summer vacations he worked at an oilfield in Santa Anna, Texas.〔
Byrd married twice, in 1935, and again in 1974 following the death of his first wife in 1972.〔 He had two sons from his first marriage.〔
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