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Edwin L. Drake was a pioneer in the U.S. oil industry who drilled the first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 27, 1859. He was born in Greenville, New York, on Mar. 29, 1819, and died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 8, 1880.
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