Edward T. Theobald and Edith Mackey

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Husband Edward T. Theobald ¹

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            AKA: Edward P. Theobald 2
           Born: 10 Nov 1874 - Titusville, Crawford Co, PA 2
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         Father: Peter Theobald (1838-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Minnie Schwartzcop (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 5 Oct 1898 - Evansville, Vanderburgh Co, IN 2

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Wife Edith Mackey ²

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General Notes: Husband - Edward T. Theobald

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He was born at Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, receiving a public school education. His first responsible position in the oil business was as clerk, in 1895, with the Evansville Oil Company, of Evansville, Indiana, a subsidiary of the Independent. The Pure Oil Company of Holland was an organization of independent refiners and producers created for the purpose of marketing their products, the stockholders including nearly all the independent operators. Mr. Theobald was sent in 1900 as manager of the Pure Oil Company of Holland to the headquarters at Rotterdam, taking charge of the distribution in the territory including Holland, Belgium and Germany. The company owned two ocean tank oil carriers, Rotterdam being the seaport, whence shipments were made by canal boats, Rhine river boats and tank cars to the interior points of distribution. Mr. Theobald was in charge for thirteen years, during which time the busi­ness attained immense proportions. To keep in touch with it at all points and to give it adequate personal attention he visited practically every part of those interesting sections, becoming as familiar with the Rhine as with the Allegheny. Though his responsibilities were heavy, and he added to his business cares service as vice consul general in Holland for the United States, these were most agreeable years, but his father's failing health made his return essential, his attention being demanded in the details of management of the Independent Refining Company, to whose interests he has since given unstinted devotion.
The Independent Refining Company, Limited, had its beginning in the Independent Oil Company, organized May 11, 1882, by Peter Theobald, president, Louis Walz, treasurer, and A. A. Rockwood, secretary. The site of the original works on Oil creek, two miles north of Oil City, is now that of the Indepen­dent Refining Company. It was equipped with one still, having a capacity of one hundred barrels daily, but this was increased until within a few years it had quadrupled in volume, and high test steam stills were installed. The memorable fire and flood of 1892 did such extensive damage to the works, with losses in tanks, plant and products, that it was necessary to rebuild almost entirely, when a complete set of modern machinery was secured. The plant covered several acres, having seven stills, each of one thousand barrels capacity. Waste was practically eliminated by the production of all possible by-products, the output including gasoline, lubricating oils, kerosene and wax. The company owned one hun­dred tank cars and maintains two distributing stations, at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and at Evansville, Indiana. Seventy-five employes were regularly on the payroll, which amounted to seventeen hundred dollars weekly. After a few years of operation under the original name the com­pany became known as the Independent Refining Company, Limited, being thus incorporated in July, 1917, with a capital of six hun­dred thousand dollars and the following officers: Edward P. Theobald, president; T. B. Gregory, of Emlenton, vice president; S. Mes­ser, of Emlenton, treasurer; R. P. Byles, secretary; the other directors being S. Messer and H. J. Crawford, of Emlenton, and J. D. Berry, of Oil City. [HVC 1919, 444]

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General Notes: Wife - Edith Mackey

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from Mount Vernon, IN

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1306.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 444.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1305.