Noble was born in 1896 and raised in a family of hardware merchants, whose store was built in Ardmore, Oklahoma, then a part of the Chickasaw Indian Territory.
His pursuit of higher education was cut short when he left in order to help his ailing father with the family business.
Noble risked his rigs and crew in the top secret endeavor to quickly drill multiple wells in a small oil field in Sherwood Forest.
As a manager, Noble was known to reward hard working employees throughout his company by including them in a share of profits for successful wells.
Noble, flying over acres of The Dust Bowl-devastated farmland, conceived of the foundation’s mission to advance agricultural science and practice in a sustainable way, thereby safeguarding the land and soils for future generations.