John A. Mather’s Lens: The Unerring Eye of History

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on John A. Mather’s Lens: The Unerring Eye of History When the dapper Englishman John Aked Mather (1829-1915) stepped from the stage coach in Titusville, Crawford County, that October day in 1860, he had no idea that he was about to become the pre-eminent chronicler of a Pennsylvania phenomenon, petroleum. But for five and a half decades Mather recorded the birth and development of the new industry, one which would forever change the way the nation...
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