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Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 - September 8, 1935) was an Irish American oil tycoon, upon whom the character Daniel Plainview, portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis, in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood was loosely based. is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Early Life
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, California, looking for opportunity, as his previous attempts at striking it rich had failed. By 1892 he was so poor he could not afford to pay for his boarding room.[1] Lakeside Park entrance Agnesian HealthCare Fond du Lac (locally pronounced Fonda-lack) is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. ...
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Commercial success While in Los Angeles, Doheny found out that there was pitch beneath the soil. Doheny obtained a lease near downtown with $400 in financing from friend Charles Canfield, who had made some money from the mining industry. A poor man, Doheny dug a well with picks and shovels, looking for pitch, which could be mixed with soil to extract petroleum. When the well reached a depth of 150 feet (46 m) Doheny devised a drilling system involving a eucalyptus tree trunk.[1] The well, when completed in 1903, produced 40 barrels per day (6.4 m³/d). The pitch drop experiment. ...
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Doheny and Canfield soon made a fortune by drilling in the area and selling the oil to nearby factories. Later, they helped spur the California oil boom of the early 1900s by convincing railroads to switch from coal to oil as power for their locomotives.[1] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
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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.
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 twenty-eighth President of the United States. ...
Doheny took his yacht, the Casiana (named after his first major producing oil well in Mexico, the Casiana No. 7)[1], 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. This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ...
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Philanthropy Doheny contributed money to foundations. 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.[2] His wife, Carrie Estelle Doheny also donated her rare book collection St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, CA. The Trojan Shrine, better known as Tommy Trojan located in the center of University of Southern California campus. ...
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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., had 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 architectural style. This 3-story, 22-room Doheny Mansion was damaged in the 1933 earthquake but was repaired, and is now part of Mount St. Mary's College's campus, where it houses college departments, docent tours, and chamber music concerts by The Da Camera Society. Greystone Mansion was the home built by Edward L. Doheny for his son. ...
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 Doheny poses with his lawyer Frank J. Hogan in this 1924 photo
Politics Doheny's reputation was somewhat tainted by a bribe paid to the Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall. The "gift" of $100,000 was made in connection with obtaining a lease of 32,000 acres (130 km²) of government owned land used for the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve near Taft, California. The resulting scandal broke soon after that over similar bribes Fall accepted for leasing Teapot Dome in Wyoming. Doheny faced criminal charges over the incident but was cleared of all charges, including murder. The scandal is also the inspiration for Upton Sinclair's novel, Oil!, based in part on Doheny's life.[1] Bribery is the practice of offering a professional money or other favours in order to circumvent ethics in a variety of professions. ...
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Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944) was a Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, notorious for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal. ...
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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 are named after him. is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Trivia
 The Doheny Mansion, just south of Downtown Los Angeles, is currently the centerpiece of the Mount St. Mary's College Doheny Campus. - Doheny is the maternal great-grandfather of science fiction author Larry Niven.
- The Doheny family also owned a great deal of coastal land in Dana Point, CA, which was donated for Doheny State Beach and donated the funds for the construction of the original site of St. Edward the Confessor Roman Catholic Church. The Church has since moved to a bluff-top location overlooking Doheny State Beach. The original building is now home to San Felipe de Jesus Roman Catholic Church.
- The Doheny Estate has donated money for the construction of buildings and residence halls to Loyola Marymount University and the land for one of the campuses of Mount Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles.
- Doheny was one of the main influences for the character Daniel Plainview, portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis, in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood.
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Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California, USA. The University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of five Marymount institutions of higher education. ...
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Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an Academy-Award winning and Golden Globe-award nominated actor. ...
There Will Be Blood is a film adaptation of Upton Sinclairs novel Oil! It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is screenwritten, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. ...
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- Edward L. Doheny, Jr., Memorial Library at USC and [3]
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Notes - ^ a b c d "John Yewell: Black gold gave state its glitter", Monterey Herald, December 13, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-01-06.
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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 0-520-22909-6
- Martin R. Ansell. Oil Baron of the Southwest. Ohio State University Press, 1998.
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