Jane Blaffer Owen, an arts patron, social activist, and preservationist, was the daughter of Robert Lee Blaffer, one of the founders of Humble Oil & Refining Company (now ExxonMobil), and the granddaughter of William T. Campbell, who established the The Texas Company, which became Texaco.
![Recalling Houston’s Early Days and its Oilmen: A Conversation with Jane Blaffer Owen JBO with Claudia Schmuckli](https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DSC_5295-e1310665049438-100x100.jpg)