Denison Wadsworth Grant

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Husband Denison Wadsworth Grant ^{1 2}

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           Born: 21 Aug 1890 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 5 Feb 1965 - Riverside Co, CA
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         Father: Joseph Wadsworth Grant (1845-1911) 3
         Mother: Myra Bryan Fay (1852-1925) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Denison Wadsworth Grant

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He was educated in the Franklin, Pennsylvania, grade and high schools; the Barnard School for Boys, New York City; the Harvard Military School, Los Angeles, California; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; and the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Later he was a student at the Curtis Flying School, at Buffalo, New York. During summer vacations, from 1909 to 1912, he was a roustabout on the J. W. Grant heavy Franklin crude producing leases. From 1913 to 1916, he was accountant and apprentice under Frank Steele in the Paragon Refining Company, Toledo, Ohio. Then followed something more than a year as treasurer of the Foco Oil Company, of Franklin. But the entrance of the United States into the First World War was an immediate prospect, and Mr. Grant enlisted in the regular United States Army, and was assigned, with the rank of sergeant, to the Aviation Oil Department in the Castor Oil Division. On January 15, 1918, he received a commission as first lieutenant in the Air Service, and was ordered to the Bureau of Aircraft Production, Castor Oil Section, Materials Department. It may be explained to the uninitiated that castor oil was at that time (1918) a vital element in the lubrication of airplane engines, especially those flying very high, because of its stable qualities under low temperatures.
Upon his honorable discharge from the United States military service, Denison Wadsworth Grant returned to his native city, and from 1919 to 1920 was vice-president of the Foco Oil Company, at Franklin. From 1920 to 1925 he was president of the Foco company, and from 1925 to 1927 was general manager of the Franklin Creek Refining Corporation. From 1927 to 1938 he was assistant to the president of The Pennzoil Company, Oil City, Venango County, and beginning in 1938 was vice-president of The Pennzoil Company. Some of these official activities were concurrent, and it should be added that Mr. Grant was also manager of the Grant & Grant, Franklin Heavy Crude Production; manager of the Grant Heirs, Franklin Heavy Crude Production; a director of The Franklin Pipe Company, and assistant treasurer of the Venango Development Corporation, all of Franklin, Pennsylvania. He was instrumental in the forming of the Venango Development Corporation, a company pioneering in horizontal drilling from the bottom of the shafts in the Pennsylvania oil sand. He was a member of the Twenty-five Year Club of the oil industry. How modern he was in the use of transportation is illustrated by his being a member of the United Air Line 100,000 Mile Club. He belonged to the Pennsylvania Society and the Mayflower Society, both of New York City, and was a member of the Franklin Club of Franklin, and the Wanango Country Club at Reno, Pennsylvania.

CA Death Record: GRANT DENISON W 08/21/1890 FAY M RIVERSIDE Cochella 02/05/1965 177-07-7042

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 950.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 449.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 948.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 952.