EDWIN L DRAKE PARENTS FREE
Drake got the job because he had a free pass on the railway. The Seneca Oil Company founders needed someone to inspect the oil springs on their property and make a report. had analyzed oil from the site and determined that, after refining, it could be used as an illuminant, as well as for other purposes. The company was the successor to the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, the first oil company in the United States, which had been created to exploit ground-level seepage of oil near Titusville (Pennsylvania). Eveleth, founders of the newly formed Seneca Oil Company. The opportunity occurred while Drake was staying in the same hotel as George H. Ill health forced his retirement in 1857, but it also opened a new opportunity for him. In 1850 he settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and became a railway conductor for the New York and New Haven Railroad. He left home at age 19, having received a common school education, and wandered the Midwest and East, working at various jobs. Though he drilled only three oil wells in his lifetime, Edwin Drake (1819-1880) is known as the "Father of the Petroleum Industry" because the technology he devised to drill the first commercial oil well in the United States revolutionized how crude oil was produced and launched the large-scale petroleum industry.Įdwin Laurentine Drake, born on March 11, 1819, in Greenville County, New York, grew up on family farms in New York and Vermont.
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