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Oct 30, 2023 · Like many young men of their time, Michael Haymaker and his brother Obediah sought to make their fortunes in Pennsylvania’s booming petroleum industry. They left their Westmoreland County farm to seek work in the oilfields. A marker on Route 22 at Murrysville, Pennsylvania, commemorates the Haymaker brother’s historic natural gas well of 1878.
Apr 5, 2022 · In 1878, Michael and Obediah Haymaker drilled a hole in Murrysville, hunting for oil. Instead, they found gas, inadvertently turning the Westmoreland County town into the cradle of the natural...
- Patrick Varine
Dec 19, 2011 · The drama surrounding the well's inception and existence is documented in a narrative written by Hall that will be submitted to the National Register. In 1878, brothers Michael and Obediah...
Apr 19, 2013 · When Josh Cooper of Murrysville, Westmoreland County was seen boiling a pot of maple syrup in his backyard over an invisible fuel source from the ground, fellow residents Michael and Obadiah Haymaker suspected oil (not an unreasonable assumption, since both substances were often found together).
- Sue Morris
Unfortunately Obediah Haymaker was murdered at the gas well site by parties disputing the sale and trying to take over the well. Eventually, 18 miles of steel pipe was constructed, and natural gas was commercially supplied to the homes and industries of Pittsburgh, PA.
It took a massive discovery on November 3, 1878 in Murrysville, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to bring natural gas to widespread industrial and home use. The well was drilled by the Haymaker brothers. Obediah ("Obe") Haymaker was murdered for the discovery. His brother, Michael, lived to tell the tale.
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May 2, 2012 · Their grandsons, Michael and Obediah Haymaker, drilled Murrysville's famous gas well (the first in the country) in 1878. Shortly after Phoebe Rugh's death, Michael Rugh married Catherine...
