Standard Oil Co. - Dated 1920\'s Kentucky Oil Stock Certificate - Has Become Extr For Sale

Stock printed by International Banknote Co., NY. The Standard Oil Company of Kentucky or Kyso was an oil company and gasoline distributor that operated in the southeastern United States from 1886 until it was acquired by Chevron Oil Company in 1961. After the breakup of the Standard Oil company in 1911, the company was awarded rights to run the oil operation of Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. The Standard Oil Company of Kentucky was incorporated on October 8, 1886 under Kentucky laws. It was founded as a division of the Standard Oil Trust to handle the assets of the Chess, Carley & Company, which Standard had acquired to handle product marketing and distribution for the southeastern U.S. It maintained corporate offices in all of the states it serviced, and also owned an oil refinery in Louisville, Kentucky, with a 500,000 barrel/year capacity. In 1892, it acquired the properties of Consolidated Tank Line Company. When the monopoly was broken up as an illegal trust in the US Supreme Court case Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States in 1911, Kyso was spun off to market to the states of Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. As was common at the time, though no longer controlled by a single entity, the various \"Baby Standards\" still continued to cooperate. For example, Kyso was supplied by fellow \"Baby Standard\" Standard Oil of New Jersey, better known as Esso. The company avoided the consolidation prevalent in the industry throug Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.