George Bissell (industrialist) - Wikipedia
WEBGeorge Henry Bissell (November 8, 1821 – November 19, 1884) was an entrepreneur and industrialist who is often considered the father of the American oil industry. His company, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil, was the first Petroleum company in America. [1] His businesses included oil companies, banks, railroads, and substantial real estate in New York.
George Bissell’s Oil Seeps - American Oil & Gas Historical Society
WEBMar 11, 2024 · George Bissell’s Oil Seeps. Petroleum Pioneers. New resource for making kerosene creates petroleum industry. The modern U.S. petroleum exploration and production industry began in the mid-19th century when a lumber company sold 105 acres along a creek known for natural oil seeps.
George Bissell – Hanover Historical Society
WEBGeorge Bissell is often called the “Father of the Petroleum Industry” because of his success in turning petroleum into a commercial product. George Bissell, who had left Dartmouth as a poor boy, was soon one of the wealthiest of her alumni.
George Bissell - Wikipedia
WEBGeorge Bissell is the name of: George Bissell (industrialist) (1821–1884), American oil businessman. George Edwin Bissell (1839–1920), American sculptor.
George Edwin Bissell - Smithsonian American Art Museum
WEBGeorge Edwin Bissell was the son of a marble quarryman, and a descendant of Huguenots. He was educated in Connecticut with the hope of attending college, but his plans were interrupted by the onset of the Civil War, when he enlisted in a regiment of the Connecticut volunteers.
George Bissell (industrialist) - AceArchive
WEBFeb 25, 2023 · George Henry Bissell, an American entrepreneur and industrialist, is considered the father of the American oil industry. His company, Pennsylvania Rock Oil, was the first petroleum company in America. He also owned banks, railroads, and substantial real estate in New York.
How the History of the Petroleum Industry Began in New England
WEBNov 11, 2021 · George Bissell gets credit as the father of the American oil industry, but other New Englanders deserve it as well. The cast of characters includes a former high school principal from New Hampshire, a Vermont country doctor, a Maine lawyer, a Yale chemist and a railroad conductor on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
How did Edwin Drake create the World's first oil well
WEBSep 20, 2021 · George Henry Bissell. George Henry Bissell was not one of those obsessed with kerosene. Rather, in 1853 he was a 32-year old struggling lawyer when he saw samples of "rock oil" from western Pennsylvania on the campus of Dartmouth College in his hometown of Hanover, New Hampshire.
The 10 Most Influential Figures In The History Of Oil
WEBDec 30, 2022 · Commonly referred to as the “father of the American oil industry”, George Bissell was the spark that ignited the inevitable march of oil from a relatively unimportant liquid that oozed from ...
The First Successful Oil Well is Drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania ...
WEBHowever, George Bissell, a lawyer from New York, and his partner Jonathan Greenleaf Eveleth had a revolutionary idea. They thought there was a possibility of the crude “rock oil” (now petroleum) that had been cropping up in western Pennsylvania being used as an illuminatory substance.