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…Semi-Military, Social and Trade groups. In 1925, there were 102 organizations that fell under one of those categories. The trade organizations reflected the wide diversity of occupations thriving within the…
…Semi-Military, Social and Trade groups. In 1925, there were 102 organizations that fell under one of those categories. The trade organizations reflected the wide diversity of occupations thriving within the…
…brand of residents who made headlines on a variety of topics, ranging from an internationally known mathematician to one of the most talented football players to ever come out of…
…set up a small refinery at McClintockville near Rouseville. They prospered, making $30,000 in the first year. The operation went well until the price of crude oil skyrocketed and supplies…
…project would result in its demolition a few years later. The price of fuel was 28 cents a gallon. The world’s oldest Buick dealership once was at home in the…
…he wrote several plays, including “What Price Glory”, “Key Largo”, and the 1933 Pulitzer Prize winning “Both Your Houses.” He also wrote the screenplays for “The Robe,” “Death Takes a…
…was an Englishman who immigrated to Pittsburgh in 1862 where he became a barrel-maker with his brother. The Continental Refining Co. used the names Coreco and Pennsylect for their products….
…of names over the years due to consolidations. There were three roundhouses in Oil City. They were located in the East End, along Spruce Street on the North Side, and…
…and ethnicity of the local Jewish community by the immense listing of family names. They include: Lowentritt, Silberberg, Manheim, Levi, Braunschweiger, Jacobs, Schwart, Samuels, Goldberg, Klivan, Baker, Mintz, Michaels, Bayer,…
…Mather. The Columbia Cornet Band was photographed by John Mather, the early oil industry’s most industrious photographer. Mather’s obituary noted that he was a member of a Cornet Band. Oil…
…Grant said fueled the Union cause and gave it “a cash crop” for international trade. “I can not help remember what this section of our common country did during the…