Los Angeles County
Biographies
RUFUS H. HERRON
HERRON, RUFUS H., oil, Los
Angeles, California, was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., April 20, 1849.
He received his primary education in the schools of
Pittsburgh and was graduated from Western University of Pennsylvania. The
Pennsylvania oil fields were just then being opened up and the whole East was
in a state of excitement. Fortunes were being won and lost. He naturally joined
the rush to the fields. At one time or another he engaged in every form of
enterprise known to the oil business. He became acquainted with it from every
angle. For a number of years he was engaged in the oil well supply business at
Pittsburgh. In 1893 he sold out this business and went to California, locating
at Los Angeles. There he engaged in the oil business and has been in it since.
Organized the first Oil Exchange in California at Los Angeles and was president
of it; vice president San Francisco Oil Exchange. One of the heaviest oil
operators in the State and has done much to
legitimately develop the industry.
Member Army and Navy Club of California, Loyal Legion,
U. S. A., California Club of Los Angeles, Knights Templar, Mystic Shriners and is a thirty-second degree Mason.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
16 October 2011.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 705, International News Service,
New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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