TRANSPORTATION PIONEER,INDUSTRIALIST, MANUFACTURER, CAPITALIST, OIL MAGNATE,RIVERBOAT CAPTAIN/OWNER
FOUNDER; United Pipe Line Company, Imperial Refinery,Forrest Oil Company(largest oil production company of its time in Appalachian Field)Prairie Oil (layed down largest pipeline in the country)Union Tank Car Company( now National Transit Co.),Founder of United Oil & Gas Trust,Washington Oil Company,Oil City Trust CO.(Bank)Keystone Bank of Pittsburgh.
CO-FOUNDER CHIEF INVESTOR: Apollo Iron & Steel, Oil City Boiler Works, Penna.Tube Works. "VANDERGRIFT" Pa.15690 named after him, he also built over 30 homes and businesses himself within the town.
Acknowledged by Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for his contributions to the history of Pennsylvania.
VP of Standard Oil Company,appointed by Rockefeller in 1875( by 1877 he and his board owned or controlled over 80% of oil industry's transportation, storage,refining and marketing)
BOARD OF DIRECTOR: Standard Oil Company(also largest individual stockholder in the company),Allegheny National Bank, Seaboard Bank of N.Y., Argyle Savings Bank, promoted Anchor Oil Company
Son of William and Sophia Sarver Vandegrift.
Married Hennrietta Morrow 12/29/1853,Hennrietta died in 1881.
They had 4 daughters and 5 sons.
Second marriage to Frances G.Andeshutz Hartley on
12/4/1883.
Cabin boy on Allegheny River boats: Bridgewater and the Pinta.
Captain of boat:Hail Columbia on Wabash River.
1850's owned shares in the boats: Red Fox and Conestoga
1858 Speculated in oil before the Civil War. Shipped/dealt and profited in oil, Oil City, Pa DURING the Civil War-Founded Vandegrift,Forman & Co. with George W.Forman.
1868 expanded into laying Pipelines(these interest consolidated as United Pipe Lines-1877 then merged into National Transit Co.)
1872 Instrumental with laying of 1st Important Natural Gas Line.
1884 Established Imperial Refinery.
1886 Principal investor in purchase of Apollo Iron and Steel Company
1895 Forest Oil Co. (founded by Jacob Vandergrift-then part of Standard Oil) leased 700,000 acres of promising oil lands in Kansas and Indian territories which became neucleus of Great Mid Continent Field of the 20th Century.
Invested in banks, gas co's, iron/steel/real estate.
Endowed an orphanage, aided churches and hospitals.
On 12/26/1899 he went to work in his office as usual,finished at 12 noon, returned home, and was found dead later that evening.
FOUNDER; United Pipe Line Company, Imperial Refinery,Forrest Oil Company(largest oil production company of its time in Appalachian Field)Prairie Oil (layed down largest pipeline in the country)Union Tank Car Company( now National Transit Co.),Founder of United Oil & Gas Trust,Washington Oil Company,Oil City Trust CO.(Bank)Keystone Bank of Pittsburgh.
CO-FOUNDER CHIEF INVESTOR: Apollo Iron & Steel, Oil City Boiler Works, Penna.Tube Works. "VANDERGRIFT" Pa.15690 named after him, he also built over 30 homes and businesses himself within the town.
Acknowledged by Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for his contributions to the history of Pennsylvania.
VP of Standard Oil Company,appointed by Rockefeller in 1875( by 1877 he and his board owned or controlled over 80% of oil industry's transportation, storage,refining and marketing)
BOARD OF DIRECTOR: Standard Oil Company(also largest individual stockholder in the company),Allegheny National Bank, Seaboard Bank of N.Y., Argyle Savings Bank, promoted Anchor Oil Company
Son of William and Sophia Sarver Vandegrift.
Married Hennrietta Morrow 12/29/1853,Hennrietta died in 1881.
They had 4 daughters and 5 sons.
Second marriage to Frances G.Andeshutz Hartley on
12/4/1883.
Cabin boy on Allegheny River boats: Bridgewater and the Pinta.
Captain of boat:Hail Columbia on Wabash River.
1850's owned shares in the boats: Red Fox and Conestoga
1858 Speculated in oil before the Civil War. Shipped/dealt and profited in oil, Oil City, Pa DURING the Civil War-Founded Vandegrift,Forman & Co. with George W.Forman.
1868 expanded into laying Pipelines(these interest consolidated as United Pipe Lines-1877 then merged into National Transit Co.)
1872 Instrumental with laying of 1st Important Natural Gas Line.
1884 Established Imperial Refinery.
1886 Principal investor in purchase of Apollo Iron and Steel Company
1895 Forest Oil Co. (founded by Jacob Vandergrift-then part of Standard Oil) leased 700,000 acres of promising oil lands in Kansas and Indian territories which became neucleus of Great Mid Continent Field of the 20th Century.
Invested in banks, gas co's, iron/steel/real estate.
Endowed an orphanage, aided churches and hospitals.
On 12/26/1899 he went to work in his office as usual,finished at 12 noon, returned home, and was found dead later that evening.
TRANSPORTATION PIONEER,INDUSTRIALIST, MANUFACTURER, CAPITALIST, OIL MAGNATE,RIVERBOAT CAPTAIN/OWNER
FOUNDER; United Pipe Line Company, Imperial Refinery,Forrest Oil Company(largest oil production company of its time in Appalachian Field)Prairie Oil (layed down largest pipeline in the country)Union Tank Car Company( now National Transit Co.),Founder of United Oil & Gas Trust,Washington Oil Company,Oil City Trust CO.(Bank)Keystone Bank of Pittsburgh.
CO-FOUNDER CHIEF INVESTOR: Apollo Iron & Steel, Oil City Boiler Works, Penna.Tube Works. "VANDERGRIFT" Pa.15690 named after him, he also built over 30 homes and businesses himself within the town.
Acknowledged by Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for his contributions to the history of Pennsylvania.
VP of Standard Oil Company,appointed by Rockefeller in 1875( by 1877 he and his board owned or controlled over 80% of oil industry's transportation, storage,refining and marketing)
BOARD OF DIRECTOR: Standard Oil Company(also largest individual stockholder in the company),Allegheny National Bank, Seaboard Bank of N.Y., Argyle Savings Bank, promoted Anchor Oil Company
Son of William and Sophia Sarver Vandegrift.
Married Hennrietta Morrow 12/29/1853,Hennrietta died in 1881.
They had 4 daughters and 5 sons.
Second marriage to Frances G.Andeshutz Hartley on
12/4/1883.
Cabin boy on Allegheny River boats: Bridgewater and the Pinta.
Captain of boat:Hail Columbia on Wabash River.
1850's owned shares in the boats: Red Fox and Conestoga
1858 Speculated in oil before the Civil War. Shipped/dealt and profited in oil, Oil City, Pa DURING the Civil War-Founded Vandegrift,Forman & Co. with George W.Forman.
1868 expanded into laying Pipelines(these interest consolidated as United Pipe Lines-1877 then merged into National Transit Co.)
1872 Instrumental with laying of 1st Important Natural Gas Line.
1884 Established Imperial Refinery.
1886 Principal investor in purchase of Apollo Iron and Steel Company
1895 Forest Oil Co. (founded by Jacob Vandergrift-then part of Standard Oil) leased 700,000 acres of promising oil lands in Kansas and Indian territories which became neucleus of Great Mid Continent Field of the 20th Century.
Invested in banks, gas co's, iron/steel/real estate.
Endowed an orphanage, aided churches and hospitals.
On 12/26/1899 he went to work in his office as usual,finished at 12 noon, returned home, and was found dead later that evening.
FOUNDER; United Pipe Line Company, Imperial Refinery,Forrest Oil Company(largest oil production company of its time in Appalachian Field)Prairie Oil (layed down largest pipeline in the country)Union Tank Car Company( now National Transit Co.),Founder of United Oil & Gas Trust,Washington Oil Company,Oil City Trust CO.(Bank)Keystone Bank of Pittsburgh.
CO-FOUNDER CHIEF INVESTOR: Apollo Iron & Steel, Oil City Boiler Works, Penna.Tube Works. "VANDERGRIFT" Pa.15690 named after him, he also built over 30 homes and businesses himself within the town.
Acknowledged by Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for his contributions to the history of Pennsylvania.
VP of Standard Oil Company,appointed by Rockefeller in 1875( by 1877 he and his board owned or controlled over 80% of oil industry's transportation, storage,refining and marketing)
BOARD OF DIRECTOR: Standard Oil Company(also largest individual stockholder in the company),Allegheny National Bank, Seaboard Bank of N.Y., Argyle Savings Bank, promoted Anchor Oil Company
Son of William and Sophia Sarver Vandegrift.
Married Hennrietta Morrow 12/29/1853,Hennrietta died in 1881.
They had 4 daughters and 5 sons.
Second marriage to Frances G.Andeshutz Hartley on
12/4/1883.
Cabin boy on Allegheny River boats: Bridgewater and the Pinta.
Captain of boat:Hail Columbia on Wabash River.
1850's owned shares in the boats: Red Fox and Conestoga
1858 Speculated in oil before the Civil War. Shipped/dealt and profited in oil, Oil City, Pa DURING the Civil War-Founded Vandegrift,Forman & Co. with George W.Forman.
1868 expanded into laying Pipelines(these interest consolidated as United Pipe Lines-1877 then merged into National Transit Co.)
1872 Instrumental with laying of 1st Important Natural Gas Line.
1884 Established Imperial Refinery.
1886 Principal investor in purchase of Apollo Iron and Steel Company
1895 Forest Oil Co. (founded by Jacob Vandergrift-then part of Standard Oil) leased 700,000 acres of promising oil lands in Kansas and Indian territories which became neucleus of Great Mid Continent Field of the 20th Century.
Invested in banks, gas co's, iron/steel/real estate.
Endowed an orphanage, aided churches and hospitals.
On 12/26/1899 he went to work in his office as usual,finished at 12 noon, returned home, and was found dead later that evening.
