Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 - September 8, 1935) was an American oil tycoon. August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ... A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul or a tycoon, is a person who controls a large portion of a particular industry and whose wealth derives primarily from said control. ...

Doheny was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His family history reaches back to Ireland when his family fled in the wake of the Great Famine. He came to Los Angeles looking for opportunity as his previous attempts at striking it rich had failed. While in Los Angeles, Doheny found out that there was breer hidden beneath the soil. Along with his friend Charles Canfield, who made some money from the mining industry, he decided to dig for the pitch. The pitch, or brea in Spanish, could be mixed with soil to form oil. At first, they dug by hand to find the source of the brea, but later turned to drills to reach its depths. By the spring of 1903, they struck the brea and, in so doing, struck it big. They made a fortune by digging around the area and selling the oil to nearby factories. Fond du Lac is a city located in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. ... Bridget ODonnell and her two children during the famine The Great Famine or the Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol), known more commonly outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, is the name given to a famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... The pitch drop experiment. ... SOiL is a five-piece nu metal band from Chicago, formed in 1997. ... Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ... A drill is a tool with a rotating drill bit used for drilling holes in various materials. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods. ...

Commercial success

Doheny would later form the PanAmerican Petroleum and Transport Company. The company owned 600,000 acres (2400 km²) of land in Mexico worth about $50 million. It would later become the Mexican Petroleum Company with an additional 800,000 acres (3200 km²) in Mexico in October 1919. He would later step down from chairmanship and become head of Pan American Western Petroleum Company.

Scandal

Doheny's reputation, is however, marred by a "gift" he made to the Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall. This payment of $100,000 was made at the same time Doheny was given a lease to the oil feeds at Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve. The lease was for 32,000 acres of government owned land near Taft, CA. Coming on the heels of Fall's lease of Teapot Dome, this landed Doheny in court. But in March 1930, he was cleared of all charges, though Fall did not bear the same fate. The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior, concerned with such matters as national parks and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861–November 30, 1944) Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, notorious for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal. ... This article or section should include material from Tenancy agreement A lease is a contract conveying from one person (the lessor) to another person (the lessee) the right to use and control some article of property for a specified period of time (the term), without conveying ownership, in exchange for... Teapot Dome is the commonly used name applied to the scandal that rocked the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. ...

Doheny is also famous for another of his gifts -- the wedding gift of Greystone Mansion to his son, Edward (Ned) L. Doheny, Jr. He built the $4,000,000 house in 1928. Doheny, Sr, himself, had a huge house. It was a mansion in the Historical West Adams district of Los Angeles and in Chester Place, a gated community of Victorian mansions which Doheny developed. It was built in 1899 in the French Gothic architecture. The 3-story, 22-room house was damaged in the 1933 earthquake but was fixed up and is now part of Mount St. Mary's College's campus. Greystone Mansion was the home built by Edward L. Doheny for his son. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses: see Mount St Marys (disambiguation). ...

Doheny also made his mark in the 1916 Presidential election by wagering on Woodrow Wilson to be the victor. A common practice at the time, this bet made him $500,000 richer. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ...

However, Doheny did some good work as when he took his yacht, the Casiana (named after his first oil well to spring oil, Casiana No. 7), to Martinique to pick up a friend's brother who worked as a farmer on the island and who was seriously ill. Doheny brought him back to New York; the steam yacht was able to make the trip in only 5 days. A yacht A yacht was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used to convey important persons. ... Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... In physical chemistry and in engineering, steam refers to vaporized water. ...

Doheny had also contributed money to some foundatations. He helped fund the construction of St. Vincent de Paul Church. So too did he donate $1.1 million in 1932 to USC to build the Edward L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library.[1] His wife, Carrie Estelle Doheny also donated her rare book collection St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, CA. Camarillo is a city located in Ventura County, California. ...

He died on September 8, 1935 from old age. His funeral was in St. Vincent's Church in Los Angeles, a church that he built. Doheny Drive in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills is named after him. September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... West Hollywoods logo illustrates the citys borders. ... For other uses, see: Beverly Hills (disambiguation). ...

External links

• History of Doheny
• Edward L. Doheny, Jr. Memorial Library at USC and [2]
• Doheny, Jr.'s killing
• Family retreat

References

• Margaret Leslie Davis. Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 0520229096
• Martin R. Ansell. Oil Baron of the Southwest. Ohio State University Press, 1998.