#Edwin l drake parents full#
To learn more please follow the links provided on this page or perhaps visit the well it's self. Edwin Drake, in full Edwin Laurentine Drake, (born March 29, 1819, Greenville, New York, U.S. Shortly after retiring for health reasons Drake gained the job of researcher for the Seneca Oil Company and traveled to Titusville to begin his research.Īfter many tries including simply trying to dig a well size hole that simply collapsed because of the ground water in the area Drake and Uncle Billy Smith On Augfinally struck the the precious oil and started the Oil Boom that was the start of the oil industry. He eventually settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and became a railway conductor. Preceded in death by parents, wives, Phyllis LaVone Tautfest and Anne Marie Tuomala, sons, Leslie E. Nearby Pithole City, now a ghost town, had 50 hotels during the oil peak of the area around 1866. However, by 1865 the population increased to 10,000. The year Drake drilled his first oil well, Titusville only had 250 residents. Drake was given the title of Colonel by the Seneca Oil Company to help give him more of an ere of respectability with the locals while he tried to figure out the most efficient way to remove oil from the ground.ĭrake was born in Greenville County, New York and lived both there and Vermont with his family before leaving home at the age of 19. With Edwin Drake’s success, and layers of oil-bearing rock relatively close to the surface, Titusville boomed.
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