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The main offices are in the Frick Building Annex, Pitts- 
burgh, W. L. Mellon is president, George S. Davison, vice 
president; J. E. Nelson, treasurer; W. J. Guthrie, secretary. 
BARNSDALL CORPORATION 
The history of this Corporation dates back almost to the 
year 1859, when Col. Drake drilled his first oil well on Oil 
Creek, near Titusville, Penn. 
Theodore N. Barnsdall worked on his first oil well in the 
year 1867, and continuously since that time the Barnsdall 
interests have been active in the production of oil and gas in 
nearly all the fields in the United States and Canada. Mr. 
Barnsdall moved his General Offices from Bradford, Pa. to 
Pittsburgh, Pa. about 1900, although he had conducted a 
large amount of his business in Pittsburgh previous to that 
date, and from that time until his death in 1917 he was one 
of the most important factors in the development and oper- 
ation of the oil and gas business. A large number of the most 
successful of the Natural Gas Companies in business to-day 
were organized by Mr. Barnsdall in Pittsburgh. 
Barnsdall Corporation was incorporated in 1916 under 
the name of Pittsburgh Investment Company, the title being 
changed to Barnsdall Corporation in 1919, at which time a 
number of other Barnsdall Companies were consolidated and 
merged. This resulted in the consolidation under the name 
of Barnsdall Corporation of all the properties theretofore 
owned and operated by Theodore N. Barnsdall during his 
lifetime through the various subsidiary companies organized 
3y him. 
The Corporation, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in 
producing, refining and distributing petroleum and its pro- 
ducts; the production and distribution of natural gas; also is 
engaged in the mining of silver, lead, zinc and tripoli, and 
>wns valuable gold and copper mines not being operated at 
dresent. 
The Corporation has about twelve hundred employees. 
The most important of the subsidiaries are the following 
Companies: 
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