Some W Va hillbillies might disagree.
''
As early as the 1820s, oil drilled from West Virginia wells
was used as a light source and an industrial lubricant
marking the first documented commercial use of oil in this
country, says the author of a new history book on West
Virginia's early oil and gas business.

David McKain, a Parkersburg, W.Va., businessman whose
great-grandfathers participated in the oil boom of the
1860s, has authored a book that challenges Col. Edwin L.
Drake and his neighboring Pennsylvanian long-time claim as
the birthplace of the oil business.''


http://little-mountain.com/oilandgas...es/moveover.ht
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Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_


"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
...
No Joe,

Drake was the first to drill the first well. Schukyull
Barrelling
Company was the first to barrel it and ship it. As I said
Joe, in wooden
barrels on Wooden sailing ships.

By the way, Standard Oil was still delivering oil to
Hawaii in drums by
Sailing Square Rigged ships right up to WW2. although I
have to admit
they were Steel Drums and the Sailing ship was a Five
Masted Clipper
steel hulled.

I'll try to get a copy of the picture of the boat. The
Daughter of the
Captain,who was Born on that ship is still alive an lives
in Bellingham.
She married a 3rd Mate who worked for Richfield, When we
Staffed this
Refinery we became good Friend. He is died but Charlet is
still living

http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ThomPage