Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Los Angeles From the Mountains to the Sea, Vol. 2: With Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses to the Period of Growth and Achievement
Mr, Doheny is president of the Mexican Petroleum Company, Lim ited, and also president of the Pan - American Petroleum and Transport Company, owning the extensive pipe lines and a large ?eet of tank steamers through which during the World war a large part of the fuel oil used by the British and allied navies was supplied. Mr. Doheny is also president of the Huasteca Petroleum Company and the Petroleum Transport Company. In July, 1917, he became a member of the first committee on oil of the Council of National Defense.
Mr. Doheny is a member of the California and Jonathan Clubs of Los Angeles, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, and the Union League Club of Chicago. His home is at 8 Chester Place in Los Angeles. Mr. Doheny confesses that the greatest find in his entire life was his wife, Carrie Estelle Betzold, of Marshalltown, Iowa. They have a son, E. L. Doheny, Jr.
Edward L. Doheny jr., prominent in Los Angeles' business and social circles, is the able lieutenant of his father, Edward L. Doheny Sr. One of the most prominent petroleum producers in America. The career of his father, who has been active in the oil districts of the Pacific Coast for nearly a quarter of a century, is sketched on other pages.
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