Harrell Edmonds "Eddie" Chiles (May 11, 1910 – August 22, 1993) was the founder of the Western Company of North America and an owner of the Texas Rangers.

After graduating from Wentworth Military Academy’s Junior College in Lexington, Missouri in 1929, he worked as an oil patch roustabout and as a merchant marine[1] before hitchhiking to Norman, Oklahoma in 1930.

Western served the petroleum industry with technical services required in the discovery and production of oil and gas.

The company grew to become a major oil services firm, primarily in acidizing, fracturing and cementing.

[citation needed] Chiles bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in 1980[2] and served as chairman of the club until 1989 when he sold the team to a group of investors that included the future President of the United States George W. Bush;[1][3] New York stockbroker Richard Gilder (who later married Chiles' niece, Lois); Frank L. Morsani; and the Mack family.