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House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: February 23, 2015 11:35 AM
From: Representative Kathy L. Rapp
To: All House members
Subject: Resolution Honoring Petroleum Industry Pioneer Edwin Laurentine Drake Upon the 195th Anniversary of His Birth
 
In the very near future, I plan to introduce a resolution honoring petroleum industry pioneer Edwin Laurentine Drake upon the 195th anniversary of his birth. Edwin Laurentine Drake, also known as Colonel Drake, was born March 29, 1819, in Greenville, New York. In the late 1850s, Colonel Drake was hired as an agent for Seneca Oil Company to extract oil in Titusville. Colonel Drake's success in extracting oil prompted the first great wave of investment and additional drilling that established petroleum as a major industry. Colonel Drake relocated his family to Bethlehem in 1870 after becoming disabled with neuralgia. He died on November 8, 1880, and is buried in Titusville.

Please join me in cosponsoring this important resolution.


Introduced as HR139