PENNSYLVANIA PEOPLE

Edwin Drake
Sources Used in the Creation of this Biography
 

“Bisswell, Drake, and the First Oil Well.” The American Scene: Lives.  Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, c2001. Volume 1

“Edwin L. Drake and the Birth of the Modern Petroleum Industry.” [Online] Available http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/edwin/page1.asp?secid=31 Accessed 15 January 2004.

Sherman, Jon Drake Well Museum and Park. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002. [Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide]

Wolfe, Louis Drake Drills for Oil. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, c1965