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Fred Chase Koch: American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900–1967).
Born in Quanah (died at age 67).
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Fred Chase Koch was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which – under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David – would be listed by Forbes as the second-largest privately held company in the United States in 2015.
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