Old Times in Oildom George W. Brown, Penn State University Libraries, Penn State University Libraries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, George W., Author.

, Penn State University Libraries, Author.

Contributor:

funder.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA Penn State University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Brown George W. : George W. Brown (1828-1916) was an enterprising landowner and businessman who lived in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, where he worked in various industries, including oil, lumber, transportation, and construction.George W. Brown (1828-1916) was an enterprising landowner and businessman who lived in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, where he worked in various industries, including oil, lumber, transportation, and construction.

Summary:

Old Times in Oildom, published in 1911 by the Derrick Publishing Company of Oil City, Pennsylvania, contains the memoirs and stories of George W. Brown, who was deeply involved in the oil business in Pennsylvania in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Brown was a witness to times of profound change in the industrial and economic landscapes of Pennsylvania's oil regions, when technology rapidly developed and oil wells sprang up across the northern part of the state, irrevocably altering both the land itself and the communities living on it. He provides a detailed account of what life was like in the "oildom" of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, from the striking of the first oil well, the famous Drake Well in Titusville, to the solidification of the industry in the early twentieth century. In addition to stories from his own life, Brown tells those of his prominent contemporaries, and includes a series of biographical sketches of men who played important roles in the Pennsylvania oil industry.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

CHAPTER I. HAULING OIL ON SLEDS

CHAPTER II. STAGING BEFORE RAILROADS WERE A BLESSING TO OIL CITY

CHAPTER III. OIL CREEK POND "FRESH."

CHAPTER IV. PITHOLE HOTEL AND LIVERY CHARGES

CHAPTER V. GEN. BURNSIDE'S RAILROAD.

CHAPTER VI. JAMES S. McCRAY

CHAPTER VII. THE GRANDINS AND J. B. WHITE.

CHAPTER VIII. NARROW ESCAPE FROM BEING A BLOATED BONDHOLDER.

CHAPTER IX. THE LUMBER BUSINESS IN PARKER CITY

CHAPTER X. JOHN GALEY AND THE ROBINSONS

CHAPTER XI. PARKER CITY.

CHAPTER XII. OIL CITY SIXTY YEARS AGO

CHAPTER XIII. JACK McCRAY

CHAPTER XIV. A GREEDY LANDLORD

CHAPTER XV. WHEN OIL CITY WAS A SHANTY TOWN

CHAPTER XVI. HIGH STANDARD OFFICIALS WHO ARE NATIVES OF BROKENSTRAW VALLEY.

CHAPTER XVII. BIG THINGS WHICH STARTED IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

CHAPTER XVIII. COULD NOT GIVE HIS ROCKY HILLSIDE AWAY

CHAPTER XIX. A PUBLIC SPIRITED AND SUCCESSFUL EDITOR

CHAPTER XX. SOMETHING ABOUT GAS.

CHAPTER XXI. YOUNGSVILLE'S PROSPECTS OF OIL AND GAS

CHAPTER XXII. BAD OIL SPECULATION

CHAPTER XXIII. H. P. KINNEAR AND THE I. O. O. F.

CHAPTER XXIV. OIL REGION INHABIT ANTS

CHAPTER XXV. PICKPOCKETS

CHAPTER XXVI. OLD TIME LUMBERMEN.

CHAPTER XXVII. NEW TIMES IN OILDOM

CHAPTER XXVIII. OLD TIME OIL TANKS

CHAPTER XXIX. STARVING ANIMALS

CHAPTER XXX. OLD TIME QUADRILLE BAND

CHAPTER XXXI. CHURCHES IN THE OLD TIMES.

CHAPTER XXXII. GOD BLESS THE SWEDES

CHAPTER XXXIII. YOUNGSVILLE FOUNDERS AND BUSINESS MEN

CHAPTER XXXIV. NEW TIMES IN OILDOM.

CHAPTER XXXV. "DUNC" KARNS AND "TOM" KING.

CHAPTER XXXVI. WARREN'S BIG MEN

CHAPTER XXXVII. WEST VIRGINIA EXPERIENCES

CHAPTER XXXVIII. RAMBLING RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAST FIFTY YEARS IN THE OIL AND LUMBER COUNTRY.

CHAPTER XXXIX. INTERESTING LETTERS TO THE AUTHOR

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

CONTENTS

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-271-10089-3