Armstrong-Washington County PA Archives News..... Searching for Oil - Samuel Henry PATTERSON et. al. 1861
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  Lynn Beatty klbeatty@redrivernet.com August 14, 2006, 11:05 am
  
  Unknown 1861
  "1861:  Someone in Carnegie decides that there is a pool of oil sitting below 
  the creek bed on Chartiers Creek, and seeks some financial backing.  Look who 
  bought stock in the business.  Col. M. B. Brown, J.V. Rolland, Samuel Davis, 
  R. H. Fife, Hugh Lee, J. L. Marshall, Leonard Kearns, S. H. Patterson, Robert 
  Bell, James Caldwell, and Samuel Bell.  
  
  Additional Comments:
   Note: The Bells are related to the Pattersons as is Leonard Kearns.  The 
  civil war breaks out, they keep replacing the driller teams because they leave 
  to join the war, eventually they run out of money and never find the oil.
  
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