![]() ![]() President (from 1858) of the Seneca Oil Company, he was the first to obtain oil from beneath the surface of the earth by drilling (1859, Titusville, PA). His father, Joseph, was the first person to be buried there. DRAKE family Outline Descent Tree(s) ODT Contents: Chronology Bookmarks (off-site links) Page services American oil industry pioneer. Drake donated land for the Northfield Cemetery. The company took the name from the Seneca Nation, one of the original Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy, who had long made use of the resource Drake sought by skimming naturally-occurring. Drake who in 1859 struck oil outside of Titusville for the Seneca Oil Company. Charles donated land for the first school house and A. The site is named after the well’s driller, Edwin L. took claims in Bridgewater Township put up a log house, home of Charles Bon and Mary Hunt Drake, parents of Elbert, Clara and Mary. Three other Drake brothers came in 1854: Joseph, Charles Bon, and Albert W. Joseph married Lina Spriggs, children Forest, Frank, Ralph, Joseph, Belle, Cora and Lyle. ![]() They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He married Philena Adams on 25 November 1845, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. When Ida was three years old, Franklin Tarbell moved his family to. Summer E., married Florence Taylor, daughter Ida (Herkenratt). When Col Edwin Laurentine Drake was born on 29 March 1819, in Greenville, Greene, New York, United States, his father, Lyman Drake, was 30 and his mother, Laura Lee, was 32. Against all odds, Colonel Edwin Drake invented a procedure to pump oil from the. Children: Arthur, Joseph, Sumner, William, Bell, Elsie, Amerett and Agnes. Genealogy for Edwin Drake (1897 - 1992) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Through coping family structures and community networks slaves developed a way of accommodating their conditions. A descendant, Edwin Sumner Drake, located a claim in 1854 on the Cannon City Road and built a log cabin which became a tavern and mail stop for the stage coaches. He and his wife, Jane, raised twelve children. Joseph Drake, a stowaway from England, came to New York in 1729. ![]()
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