27, 1859, the method proved successful when his driller struck oil 69.5 feet below ground. Drake and the Early Oil Industry" will be published this year.ĭrake's genius was to drive pipe into the ground so debris wouldn't clog the drill hole. Genealogy for Edwin Drake (deceased) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
After leaving the family farm at the age of 19, Drake held a variety. "As they say, sometimes the good we do benefits others and not ourselves, because he certainly benefited others from his work," said William Brice, a University of Pittsburgh emeritus professor, author of a book on Drake and the early oil industry. Edwin Laurentine Drake was born in Greenville, Greene County, New York on March 29, 1819. Unemployed, he and his family moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania. In his later years, he relied on the good will of friends and a state pension given late in life to recognize the millions of dollars in tax revenue Pennsylvania made thanks to his drilling method. This date, in 1859, is also when Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in. TITUSVILLE - The oil boom that began 150 years ago in this small northwestern Pennsylvania town changed the world and made countless people rich, but not the man who found the way to successfully extract black gold from the earth.Įdwin Laurentine Drake died an invalid, confined to a wheelchair and virtually penniless.
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