33 Facts About Edward Doheny

Edward Laurence Doheny was an American oil tycoon who, in 1892, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field.

Edward Doheny's success set off a petroleum boom in Southern California, and made him a fortune when, in 1902, he sold his properties.

Edward Doheny then began highly profitable oil operations in Tampico, Mexico's "golden belt", drilling the first well in the nation in 1901.

Edward Doheny expanded operations during the Mexican Revolution, and opened large new oil fields in Lake Maracaibo.

Edward Doheny was twice acquitted of offering the bribe, but Fall was convicted of accepting it.

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Edward L Doheny was born in 1856 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to Patrick "Pat" and Eleanor Elizabeth "Ellen" Doheny.

Edward Doheny's father was born in Ireland, and fled Tipperary in the wake of the Great Famine.

Edward Doheny's mother was born in St Johns, Newfoundland, and was a school teacher.

Edward Doheny graduated from high school in his fifteenth year, and was named the valedictorian of his class.

Edward Doheny is listed in the 1880 United States Census as a painter living in Prescott, Arizona.

Edward Doheny worked in the famed Iron King mine, just north of Kingston, which drew men to the area.

Edward Doheny declined to join him in this venture, but Canfield made a small fortune from it.

Edward Doheny was eventually reduced to doing odd jobs to support his family.

In 1883, in the Black Mountains town of Kingston in the New Mexico Territory, Edward Doheny met and married his first wife, Carrie Louella Wilkins, on August 7.

Edward Doheny's daughter Eileen was a frail child and died at age seven on December 14,1892.

Edward Doheny's death was caused by heart disease stemming from rheumatic fever, as well as a lung infection.

Edward Doheny and Carrie's marriage was fragile, owing mostly to the harsh reality of mining life and their many financial problems.

Edward Doheny obtained a lease near downtown with $400 in financing from Canfield, who had made some money from the mining industry.

Edward Doheny married his second wife, Carrie "Estelle" Betzold, inside the private Pullman car of Santa Fe Railway executive Almon Porter Maginnis.

Edward Doheny expanded operations during the Mexican Revolution, and opened large new oil fields in Mexico's "golden belt" inland from Tampico.

Edward Doheny owned 600,000 acres of land worth about $50,000,000 and secured an additional 800,000 acres in Mexico in October 1919.

Edward Doheny was interested in plans to develop the oil industry in Venezuela, and in building a pipeline from Colombia to Venezuela to make it more economical to export the Barco oil from the west coast of Lake Maracaibo.

Edward Doheny made the "gift" of $100,000 in connection with obtaining a lease of 32,000 acres of government-owned land used for the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve near Taft, California.

Edward Doheny was charged with bribing Fall but, in 1930, was acquitted.

Edward Doheny had started work for the Dabney Oil Syndicate in 1922 as a bookkeeper and auditor, but was fired a decade later.

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Edward L Doheny died at his Beverly Hills townhouse on September 8,1935, of natural causes, a month after his seventy-ninth birthday.

Edward Doheny helped fund the construction of St Vincent de Paul Church.

The Edward Doheny Estate has donated money to Loyola Marymount University for the construction of buildings and residence halls, and the land for one of the campuses of Mount St Mary's College south of downtown Los Angeles.

Edward Doheny took his yacht, the Casiana, to Martinique to pick up a friend's brother who worked as a farmer on the island and who was seriously ill.

Edward Doheny brought him back to New York City; the steam yacht made the trip in only five days.

In 1944, his widow Carrie Estelle Edward Doheny suffered a hemorrhage that left her partially blind.

Edward Doheny became a major cultural philanthropist in Los Angeles, California as well.

In 1954, Estelle Edward Doheny provided funds and "a quantity of her precious collections in the library building" at St Mary's of the Barrens seminary in Perryville, Missouri.