This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WZVBAIB/2605.2619.1 Message Board Post: By the way Ai Warren was one of the first men to successfully drill for oil in the state of Ohio. He and two other men hit oil before the Civil War and sold out their well and moved west. His father was a copper who began making barrels to catch the newly discovered black liquid.