Oil City, PA High School Class of 1930 Photo

Oil City, PA High School Class of 1930

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In the class (and probably in the photograph): Alda Andrews, Stella Armstrong, Edna Baker, Cleva Bashor, Betty Britton, Mary Browne, Ruth Bullock, Marion Bunnell, Marie Campbell, Mildred Carlson, Sarah Carrig, Eleanor Case, Ethel Cauvel, Jessie Clouse, Margaret Cole, Mary Joyce Coughlin, Dorothy Crocker, Florence Cubbon, Bessie Dodelson, Verla Doherty, Vera Eagan, Josephine First, Jane Fischer, Margaret Fitzgerald, Virginia Fleming, Mary Katherine Foust, Elizabeth Gehann, Marjorie Glass, Mabel Gleason, Martha Goodwin, Mary Guyton, Ruth Hadley, Louise Hall, Jean Hamilton, Janet Henderson, Clea Hickman, Virginia Hollabaugh, Phyllis Huth, Mary Inglis, Sara Kahle, Irene Kelly, Marie Kinney, Hazel Kluck, Beatrice Krug, Mary Leroux, Grace Lewis, Helen Olebelenz, Eileen Luce, Loretta McDonald, Louise McElhatten, Helen McElroy, Minnie Magdovitz, Dorothy Marcy, Ruth Martin, Della Matthews, Betty Miller, Margaret Mock, Edith Mohnkern, Dorothy Monks, Florence Montana, Mary Moran, Viola Motters, Eleanor Moyar, Geneva Moyar, Mabel Moyar, Josephine Noxon, Florence Nusbaum, Gertrude Olson, Mamie Ossoff, Isabel Painter, Jeanne Payne, Ruth Pfeilsticker, Marion Phillips, Mabel Pierce, Helen Pokoj, Alda Rairigh, Dorothy Reniger, Ethel Richards, Beulah Rodgers, Betty Rose, Eleanor Ruppersberg, Dorothy Shattenberg, Catherine Silvis, Lucille Silvis, Mary Ada Smith, Virginia Smith, Anna Snyder, Pauline Snyder, Sara Swab, Elizabeth Talley, Elizabeth Thompson, Lois Thompson, Mary Thompson, Janet Vickers, Alice Weaver, Eunice Williams, Margaret Winger, Florence Yorke, Kenneth Anderson, Charles Ausel, Kenneth Barnes, William Barrett, Edward Baughman, William Bechtel, Ferdinand Baumbach, Robert Biltz, Philip Blum, Herbert Bouquin, Daniel Brown, Robert Campbell, Charles Carey, Russell Carrll, Richard Cavanaugh, Robert Clever, Dean Conrad, Harold Conrad, Howard Cook, Kendal Cook, Wilbur Crocker, John Crowley, Vincent Cunningham, Theodore Czajka, Francis Deegan, Daniel Dunlany, Charles Durnell, Louis Enos, Dallas Elwinger, Julius Fekete, Louis Ferringer, Theodore Finnecy, Paul Fox, Edwin Frazier, George Fye, Donald George, David Goldberg, Truman Gordon, William Hershelman, John Harriger, Jacob Ehyison, Donald Hill, Floyd Joslin, Raymond Kean, George Keely, Merle Keyse, Clarence Kiter, Charles Klock, Robert Krug, Frederick Kugler, Leo Levine, Morris Liddle, Wayne Louden, Charles Loveless, Robert Lowers, Alfred Ludwig, Lester Ludwig, Francis Lynam, Robert McAtee, James McCollum, Samuel McMullen, Eugene MacFarlane, Herman Magdovitz, Archie Merritt, Charles Middleton, Forest Moorhead, Elmo Murray, William Nelson, Philip Olmes, Charles Phillips, Edwin Pierce, Emerson Pressey, William Quinn, Joseph Ryczko, Wayne Sandrock, Edwin Schlicht, Kenneth Sebring, Theodore Shaw, Donald Shotts, James Scheats, Oscar Slesnick, Roy Sorensen, Charles Steck, Raymond Steer, Clayton Stevens, William Streeter, Franklin Strub, Eldon Talley, Stephen Verres, Ford Volger, Stephen Wardwell, Richard Welch, Harry Wensel, Tyler Wilkins, Theodore Yashinskie, Edward Yorke, Raymond Young, Brazil Zaccaria.

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Franklin, PA Policemen's Baseball Club Group, early 1900s

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The names of the policemen are unknown.

Perhaps you'll recognize some of them.

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The Derrick, 1954-1977

Past issues of the The Derrick, the newspaper for Oil City, Franklin, and Clarion newspaper are now on line at Ancestry.com. Created from microfilm copies, the newspaper is searchable or you can browse each issue page-by-page.

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Oil City High School, Oil City, PA 1928 Football Team

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Lettermen: James "Red" Dorwart - captain, Philip "Nooky" Olmes - Captain-Elect, Jack Reynolds, Edward York, Dude Moran ___ Vogler, Maynard Hipwell, Bernard Haumesser, John "Jack" Hadley, Jack Hershelman, ___ Muldoon, William Bechtel, ___ Stroughton, ___ Waitkus, Floyd Malcolmson.

R. E. Brown - Coach, W. L. Palmer & E. E. Bellen - assistant coaches, Ed. Richards - manager

The photo includes several unknown players.

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1905 Time Capsule to Opened in Oil City

Christ Episcopal Church in Oil City holds special service Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the dedication and first use of its parish hall.

The parish hall's cornerstone was set in place Sept. 24, 1905, during a special service. The rector prayed: "Almighty and everlasting God, be mercifully pleased to bless this stone which we are about to place in the name and strength of Him who is the tried and precious cornerstone."

He struck the stone three times at the name of the Blessed Trinity. The congregation sang "The Church's One Foundation," and following further prayers, the ceremony ended with the hymn "Work for the Night is Coming."

A handmade copper box was inserted into a void in the cornerstone and cemented in place with asphalt. The box was then covered with a metal plate and several inches of Portland cement, sealing it for the next century and completing parish hall construction.

Items from the cornerstone will be on display at the celebration.

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Oil City High School, Oil City, PA Varsity Basketball Team 1929

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Team roster: Russell Carll, Harold Conrad, ___ Fitzgerald, John Hadley, ___ Haumesser, Jacob Heyison, Maynard Hipwell - captain, ___ Kane, ___ Lilly, Eugene MacFarlane, Howard Rose, Edward York (Yorke), Coach R. E. Brown

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Lucinda, Sunville, and Plumer are featured in Venango County village series from thederrick.com

James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, used to own the land around Lucinda, known at the time as "Vogelbacher's Settlement" after the Black Forest immigrant who tamed the territory in 1820.

Sunville ... holds a unique spot in history for its decision to incorporate as a borough - and then to unincorporate 24 years later. The town maintained a steady population of about 100 during its brief stint of self-government, and the move to rejoin Plum Township in 1903 came with little fanfare or explanation. Borough council folded, and life went on.

Plumer's chief characteristic today, however, is the extent to which it has remained intact. While the population now stands around 200 (down from an 1860s high of 8,000), the village boasts churches and a general store as most similar-sized
communities lack both.

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Villages now Just a Dot on the Map

Forgotten Villages of Mayburg, Helen's Furnace, Petroleum Center, and Pine City

Locally, many villages are one-time oil boomtowns that were named, settled and depopulated in a decade or less. Petroleum Center claimed 15,000 residents at its peak in 1870 and saw no need for governance beyond the dictates of Cornplanter Township, according to an 1890 history of Venango County.

"(Village names) were just a way to find your way around and have somebody know what you're talking about," said Sylvia Coast, a researcher at the Venango County Historical Society and Franklin Public Library. "The villages just fade away over time."

Before 1902, rural residents had to collect their mail from a local post office - often no more than a desk inside a general store or home. That meant every crossroads or hitching post with mail facilities needed a name; letters would arrive with simple addresses like "John Smith, Fern City, Pa."

With the advent of rural free delivery - that is, a postman dropping letters in curbside mailboxes - the urge to christen towns abated. Nearly every village with a PennDOT marker today can trace its appellation to the 19th century.

Despite changes to the postal code, village arrangements remained a mainstay of the Pennsylvania social fabric for another half-century, with small-scale stores, churches and clubs forming the nucleus of farm communities and other secluded settlements.

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Venango County Gas Station Series Continues

Part 3: As population shrunk, so did number of gas stations

By the mid-1960s, small towns like Oil City and Franklin were feeling the effects of a shrinking local economy and a declining population.
As the two cities began to contract, so did many of the businesses that had thrived in small neighborhood settings. Hit the hardest were two of the more visible enterprises - neighborhood grocery stores and small gasoline stations.
From 1955 to 1965, Oil City lost about 10 of its filling stations, leaving the number at 21 in the city limits. Franklin, too, had fewer stations, dropping to 24 from 30 just a decade earlier.

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Part 4: The Redfield Family

The Redfield family has been in the gasoline filling station business for more than 50 years and shows no signs of easing back.
"My dad, Ansel, but everybody called him 'Red', started in the business in 1952 at Hank Malene's Quaker State station on Main Street in Oil City. And our family still owns and operates gas stations here," said his daughter, Rita Rodgers.
Redfield ran the Main Street station until a major city redevelopment effort resulted in razing most of the neighborhood in 1964.
Eyeing an up-and-coming part of the county, he moved to Cranberry Township and bought a gas station at the intersection of routes 257 and 322, site of the Kwik Fill station now. At the same time, he opened a filling station at the top of Seneca Hill, now quarters for McMahon's Insurance.

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Gas Stations in Venango County's Past

TheDerrick.com Chronicling Gas Stations and Automobiles in Franklin & Oil City

Parts one and two online of a five-part series tracing the history of gasoline stations in Oil City and Franklin.

• Gas stations once were everywhere in town Part one, the early days, 1910s.

  In the first decade of 1900, the very few automobile owners in Oil City and Franklin went to a general or hardware store - maybe Seep Brothers at 35 Seneca St. or Chambers Hardware on the South Side - for gasoline. Lugging a container, usually a bucket, the driver would stop and buy a few gallons from the shop owner who kept a small tank under a lean-to in the back. While there, the purchase of a Saltzmann brew or a confectionery or perhaps a cigar might also be made. Read full article

• Oil patch natural setting for autos Part two, gas stations and auto dealerships in the 1910s-1920s

  Oil City had 20 new car and truck dealerships in 1927 in the city limits, including Chrysler at M&C Motors, Dodge at McMahon & McLane, Chevrolet at Oil City Motor, Hupmobile at Boyle Motor Co., Olds and Stutz at F.D. Walters, Studebaker at Warren Motor, Buick at Weaver's, Pontiac at Moore Motor, Willys-Knight Overland at Penn Overland, Chandler at G.L. Pressley, Hudson and Essex at Liberty Sales, Nash at Oil City Nash, Ford trucks at W.W. Jeffrey. Read full article