This is forwarded with permission from a non-COOK List member. She'd like to know her ancestors, & I thought maybe one of you could help. (Also, her info on the history of oil in California sounds interesting.) Carol De Priest Tucson, AZ >Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 07:18:39 -0800 (PST) >Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 07:26:26 -0800 >From: Ken &Toni Cannon <k-t.cannon@worldnet.att.net> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) >Old-To: SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: oil drilling >To: SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/3177 >X-Loop: SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: SOCAL-L-request@rootsweb.com > >Nancy Howard, >My line is the Cook's of Robert Madison Cook. There was a story written >on his life as an oil man by F.J. McCollum of the Record Paper of >Coalinga in Dec 1964. It is quite a lengthy article and includes a >photo of Robert Cook at 90 years old. It tells some of the history of >oil in California starting in 1896 to 1950. Robert Cook Sr. and Robert >Cook Jr. developed the Kern oil fields in 1906. I would be willing to >share this with those interested. >Toni Smith-Cannon >k-t.cannon@worldnet.att.net > > > Carol De Priest <http://members.xoom.com/SandSurfer/home.htm> *** check it out - work in progress ***