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John Drake, who here in 1882 appears to be 35 to 40 years old and well groomed and dressed, was a "lease hound" or "oil scout", as they were known then. The picture was taken in the then "Oil Capitol of the World" - Titusville, Pennsylvania. It was a couple miles north of this tiny, sleepy, Venango County, PA town that Col. Edwin Drake drilled the first commercially feasible oil well in 1859. John D. Rockefeller commenced his vast fortune in this small and then new and novel oil field. From what Drake line this John Drake came, I have no idea. Any ideas?

Thanks. Paul Drake