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| THE NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA VICTORIAN REGION |
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TITUSVILLE Arriving in Titusville in 1869, Joseph Seep worked
for Jabez Bostwick of New York City as a buyer of crude oil. Seep
was a buyer in the original Venango field along Oil Creek, at Parker along
the lower Allegheny and in the Bradford field. Eventually, Seep succeeded
Jabez Bostwick as the Purchasing Agent for the Standard Oil Trust.
Unlike most other Standard executives, Joseph Seep did not move to New
York City, but chose to remain in Titusville where he remained active until
his death in 1928. Like a number of other prominent Titusville residents,
Joseph Seep worked in Oil City. He would ride the train south to
Oil City where the Joseph Seep Agency offices were located in the National
Transit Building on Seneca Street. From this site, Seep would announce
to the country what the daily purchase price of oil would be.
Seep had many children. His oldest daughter,
Lillian, married Dr. Edgar Quinby in 1889. At this time, Joseph
Seep and his wife had a fine Queen Anne residence built at 332 W. Main
Street. This house was given to Dr. Quinby and Lillian Seep as a
wedding gift. Joseph Seep’s very large Romanesque house at 304 W.
Main was taken down in 1937.
William Scheide attended the Pennsylvania Polytechnic in Philadelphia. In the late 1860's he came to the oil region to find work as an engineer. He was hired by the Tidioute Pipeline Company, a firm owned in the early 1870's by Adna Neyhart and Samuel Grandin of Tidioute. In time Scheide became an independent producer and dealer. In 1880 he became the general manager of the United Pipeline Company, a Standard Oil Division and predecessor to the National Transit Company. In 1884, Scheide built a fine Queen Anne in Titusville at 214 W. Main Street. He retired from the National Transit in 1889.
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