Joseph Doty and Eleanor Borland

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Husband Joseph Doty ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1 May 1811 - Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ 2
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         Father: Elijah Doty (1774-1849) 1 2
         Mother: Catharine [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 29 Oct 1840 2

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Wife Eleanor Borland ²

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         Father: Robert Borland (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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1 M George W. Doty ³

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2 F Mary C. Doty ⁴

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           Born: 1844
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           Died: 1920
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 5

         Spouse: George T. Nichols (1845-1902) 3
           Marr: 1870 4

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3 F Margaretta J. Doty ⁶

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           Born: 1848 6
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         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

         Spouse: John Bly (1840-1915) 3

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4 M Frank Doty ³

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5 M Samuel Doty ³

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6 M James H. Doty ³

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7 M Charles E. Doty ³

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8 F Josephine Doty ³

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9 F Emma Doty ³

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Doty

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Born near Hartford, CT, in 1810. [HVC 1879, 541]
He received a good common school education. He assisted his father in drilling salt wells, etc., until 1834, when he enlisted in the United States army at Zanesville, Ohio, for three years. He reached the grade of first sergeant of Company B, Sixth United States Infantry, served in the Seminole war, and was honorably discharged at Fort Brooks, Tampa Bay, Florida, at the expiration of his term of service in 1837.
He contracted and drilled continuously for salt from 1840 to 1860 in various localities along the Allegheny, Youghiogheny, and Monongahela rivers. He commenced drilling with wooden pole-tools, and was the first to use wire cable in that section of country when in employ of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. He soon discarded its use on account of the salt water rusting the wire. Mr. Doty and Israel Overhall were the first to introduce the use of rope cable in the drilling of salt wells. In the spring of 1859 Colonel E. L. Drake visited Tarentum for the express purpose of securing the services of Mr. Doty to drill his projected oil well at Titusville, and to learn his mode of drilling salt wells. Owing to previous engagements he was unable to comply with Colonel Drake's request, and thus missed the honor of drilling the first oil well. At his recommendation Drake secured the services of William Smith, a blacksmith of Tarentum. Having made arrangements to drill some salt wells for George Plummer in Westmoreland County, in 1859 he moved with his family to Sewickley creek, that county. His first drilling for oil was in 1861, on Dry run, Ohio, near Smith's Ferry, Pennsylvania, for John Risher, a coal merchant of McKeesport. He also drilled wells on Little Beaver and on the Brinker and Zimmerman farms near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, being one of the first "wildcatters" in that section. Mr. Doty, with his sons, came to Oil City in the spring of 1868, and engaged in contracting and drilling oil wells on Oil creek and in other localities in Venango County, being actively engaged in this business until his death. [HVC 1890, 868]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 541.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 868.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 869.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 870.

5 Various, Grove Hill Cemetery Transcription (Oil City, PA: Privately published, ~1985).

6 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 5, Rockland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1997), Pg 101.