By the end of 1943 the field was crowded with drilling rigs, and eleven large wells were producing. Almost immediately pipeline service was established, with the bulk of the production going to the Champlin Oil Refinery at Enid.
The West Edmond Field produced 7,752,000 barrels of oil in 1944 to temporarily bring the state's sagging oil production to 1.5 million barrels more than the previous year. The field contributed to yet another statewide increase of 15 million barrels in 1945.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WE013
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Champlin_(DD-601)
"USS Champlin (DD-104) was a Wickes-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War I.
The ships displaced 1,202–1,208 long tons (1,221–1,227 t) at standard load and 1,295–1,322 long tons (1,316–1,343 t) at deep load.
They had an overall length of 314 feet 4 inches (95.8 m), a beam of 30 feet 11 inches (9.4 m) and a draught of 9 feet 10 inches (3.0 m).
They had a crew of 6 officers and 108 enlisted men.
Arriving 24 December 1919, she went into reserve with the Pacific Fleet the same day, and cruised on training assignments with a reduced complement until decommissioned 7 June 1922."
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"USS Champlin (DD-601) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II.
She was the second ship named for Stephen Champlin.
After escorting a convoy to NS Argentia, Newfoundland, and another to the Panama Canal Zone, Champlin sailed from New York 11 December 1942 on her first convoy crossing to Casablanca, returning to New York 7 February 1943.
She sailed again on 4 March guarding a convoy which was constantly shadowed by German submarines for 6 days after it passed the Azores on 12 March.
On that day, a radar contact was made ahead of the convoy, and Champlin charged ahead to investigate, finding a submarine on the surface. She opened fire, and attempted to ram the enemy, which made a crash dive. Champlin hurled a pattern of depth charges into the swirl, and sank U-130 at position 37°10′N 20°21′W.
As the convoy plodded east, Champlin and the other escorts fought a constant battle to protect it, but the convoy lost three merchantmen before reaching Casablanca.
Champlin rescued every member of Wyoming's 127-man crew, as well as taking aboard two survivors from Molly Pitcher. The return convoy which arrived at Boston, Massachusetts 15 April was without incident.
Champlin sailed from New York 1 May 1943 with a slow convoy of small craft and support ships which called at Bermuda before arriving at Oran 26 May. She put to sea again to bring a convoy in from Gibraltar, then took part in training as well as conducting patrols in the western Mediterranean Sea. On 5 July, she cleared Oran for the invasion of Sicily, escorting a convoy to the transport area south of Scoglitti arriving 9 July. Leaving her charges, she sped ahead to join in the pre-assault bombardment the next day, during which she aided in driving off an air attack.
While covering the landing and initial advances the same day, she answered the request from shore for a bombardment of the village of Camerina, so successfully that the enemy there surrendered.
Champlin left Sicily guarding a convoy for Oran and New York, arriving 4 August 1943. She made four more Atlantic crossings on convoy escort duty from New York to North Africa and the British Isles between 21 August 1943 and 11 March 1944.
While undergoing refresher training in Casco Bay, Maine in March 1944, Champlin was ordered out on a submarine hunt, joining an all-day operation 7 April. At 1632, she made contact and dropped deep-set depth charges, driving the submarine to the surface. Immediately, her guns opened fire and started a fire. Champlin rammed the stern of the submarine, and U-856 sank at position 40°18′N 62°18′W. Champlin's commanding officer, Commander John J. Shaffer III, was wounded by shrapnel during the attack and died the next morning despite emergency surgery.
After repairs to her bow, damaged in the ramming, Champlin left New York 21 April 1944 with a convoy for Oran. On 15 May, she reported at Naples for duty supporting the operations striving to break loose from the Anzio beachhead. She conducted patrols, escorted convoys, and provided fire support for minesweepers, and the Army ashore. Returning to Palermo, she sailed from that port 13 August for the invasion of southern France, in which she was assigned to patrol southwest of the transport area as a reserve fire support unit. On 18 August, she rescued a downed Army pilot from his raft, and on 19 August, she was fired upon by shore batteries as she steamed off Cannes. Next day she returned to the area to locate those batteries and destroy them, and the 21st, blocked the Gulf of Napoule while German E-boats thus trapped were destroyed. Continuing her fire support, she knocked out a bridge across the Var River near Nice upon Army request on 24 August, and a week later left the area to guard merchantmen bound for Oran. She continued to New York, escorting a division of battleships, and began a program of training and plane guard operations which lasted through the remainder of 1944.
Atlantic convoy escort
On 6 January 1945, Champlin returned to Atlantic convoy escort, sailing for Oran. On 30 January, she cleared Oran to rendezvous with the group bringing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Malta, where he was to enplane for the Yalta Conference.
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"Stephen Champlin (17 November 1789 – 20 February 1870) was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.
Born in Kingston, Rhode Island, Champlin entered the Navy as a sailing master 22 May 1812. He commanded the schooner Scorpion in her capture of the British Little Belt during the Battle of Lake Erie, and later in the War of 1812 was wounded when his ship was taken on Lake Huron.
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"The refinery was purchased in 1917 by H.H. Champlin, an banker-turned-oilman who got his start drilling wells in northwestern Oklahoma. His business blossomed with the purchase of smaller oil companies and service stations, until eventually he was marketing petroleum products across six states.
Champlin didn’t stay with the Champlin family, though. It changed hands several times until Union Pacific bought the refinery in 1970. Company officials said at the time that without a costly renovation, the refinery could not remain profitable.
As the plant was shut down, the many retail outlets were sold off. The former refinery, now just a patch of land with oil tanks and some industrial structures, now is owned by Anadarko Petroleum Corp."
https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/complete-total-surprise-champlin-closed-enid-refinery-years-ago/article_150daef2-e23d-5f0b-9e1e-0bc25f44692e.html
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"The Champlin Refining Company, which for many years held the distinction of being the nation's largest fully integrated oil company under private ownership, was based at Enid, Oklahoma.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH001
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Champlin participated in the land run of 1893, investing in the Enid State Guaranty Bank. Champlin became ill and returned to Kansas. Upon recovery returned to operate a lumber yard with operations in Enid, Hobart, Kingfisher and Lawton. Charley and Sherman Goltry had taken control of the Bank during Champlin’s absence, and Champlin repurchased the bank from them.
During the wave of bank closings in March 1933, Governor William H. Murray ordered all banks in the State of Oklahoma to close. Champlin refused and continued to operate the bank which was financially sound. In response, the governor called out the National Guard.
Captain Stephen J. England led eighteen militia men into town to close the bank, earning the First National Bank of Enid the distinction of the only bank ever to be closed by the military in American history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Champlin_House
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Eyes on Director, Enid Ok
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https://newsok.com/article/2413401/downtown-landmark-sold-in-enid
ENID - A businessman's successful bid to buy a tall downtown office building and city landmark could mark the crumbling of holdings owned by a financially troubled Enid insurance company.
David J. Nicholas, whose insolvent American Standard Life and Accident Insurance Co. was placed in state receivership last year, failed to convince an Oklahoma County judge that a California firm's bid of $1 million was serious.
Instead, District Judge Thomas Smith Jr. approved an offer of $585,000 from Enid businessman Harold Hamm to buy the 14-story American Standard Life North building.
The building, one of three downtown buildings with more than a dozen stories, was built in the 1930s, and for years was known as the Youngblood Hotel.
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