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Wisconsin Businesspeople: Walter Annenberg, Edward L. Doheny, Jim Fitzgerald, William Cameron Coup, John Menard, JR., Donald Edgar Tewes

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Description:Chapters: Walter Annenberg, Edward L. Doheny, Jim Fitzgerald, William Cameron Coup, John Menard, Jr., Donald Edgar Tewes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 - September 8, 1935) was born in Wisconsin, United States. He was an Irish American oil tycoon, who in 1892, along with business partner Charles A. Canfield, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles Oil Field, setting off the petroleum boom in Southern California. At first he was an unsuccessful prospector in the state of New Mexico and Southwestern United States. Later Doheny became very wealthy through his California oil interests, and was also successful in the oil fields of Tampico, Mexico. During the administration of President Warren G. Harding, Doheny was implicated in the Teapot Dome Scandal and was accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall in order to secure drilling rights without competitive bidding to the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve in central California. He was twice acquitted of offering the bribe that Fall was convicted of accepting. Doheny and his second wife and widow, Carrie Estelle, were noted philanthropists in Los Angeles. The character Vern Roscoe in Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! (the inspiration for the 2007 film There Will Be Blood) is loosely based on Doheny Doheny was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His family history reaches back to Ireland, from which his family fled in the wake of the Great Famine. Doheny graduated from high school at the age of 15 and he was named the valedictorian of his class. Following his fathers death several months after his graduation, he was employed by the U.S. Geological Survey, and in 1873 was sent to Kansas with a party surveying and s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=213397We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wisconsin Businesspeople: Walter Annenberg, Edward L. Doheny, Jim Fitzgerald, William Cameron Coup, John Menard, JR., Donald Edgar Tewes. To get started finding Wisconsin Businesspeople: Walter Annenberg, Edward L. Doheny, Jim Fitzgerald, William Cameron Coup, John Menard, JR., Donald Edgar Tewes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
32
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156929121

Wisconsin Businesspeople: Walter Annenberg, Edward L. Doheny, Jim Fitzgerald, William Cameron Coup, John Menard, JR., Donald Edgar Tewes

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Description: Chapters: Walter Annenberg, Edward L. Doheny, Jim Fitzgerald, William Cameron Coup, John Menard, Jr., Donald Edgar Tewes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 - September 8, 1935) was born in Wisconsin, United States. He was an Irish American oil tycoon, who in 1892, along with business partner Charles A. Canfield, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles Oil Field, setting off the petroleum boom in Southern California. At first he was an unsuccessful prospector in the state of New Mexico and Southwestern United States. Later Doheny became very wealthy through his California oil interests, and was also successful in the oil fields of Tampico, Mexico. During the administration of President Warren G. Harding, Doheny was implicated in the Teapot Dome Scandal and was accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall in order to secure drilling rights without competitive bidding to the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve in central California. He was twice acquitted of offering the bribe that Fall was convicted of accepting. Doheny and his second wife and widow, Carrie Estelle, were noted philanthropists in Los Angeles. The character Vern Roscoe in Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! (the inspiration for the 2007 film There Will Be Blood) is loosely based on Doheny Doheny was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His family history reaches back to Ireland, from which his family fled in the wake of the Great Famine. Doheny graduated from high school at the age of 15 and he was named the valedictorian of his class. Following his fathers death several months after his graduation, he was employed by the U.S. Geological Survey, and in 1873 was sent to Kansas with a party surveying and s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=213397We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wisconsin Businesspeople: Walter Annenberg, Edward L. Doheny, Jim Fitzgerald, William Cameron Coup, John Menard, JR., Donald Edgar Tewes. To get started finding Wisconsin Businesspeople: Walter Annenberg, Edward L. Doheny, Jim Fitzgerald, William Cameron Coup, John Menard, JR., Donald Edgar Tewes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
32
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156929121

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