Growing up in the Bradford oil fields

Description:

A family biography centering on the history of the Messer Oil Company and of the petroleum industry in general in McKean County, Pennsylvania and Cattaraugus County, New York, and especially in the cities of Bradford, Pennsylvania and Olean, New York.

subjects: History,  Messer Oil Company,  Petroleum industry and trade

People: Jim Messer,  Messer family

Places: Bradford,  Bradford (Pa.),  Cattaraugus County,  Cattaraugus County (N.Y.),  McKean County,  McKean County (Pa.),  New York (State),  Olean,  Olean (N.Y.),  Pennsylvania