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Words Unlimited Ink, Published 2004. Paperback, xviii, 201 pp.; 21 cm; First Edition ("First printing 2004" stated); illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and portraits.
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In Very Good condition. Glossy red pictorial covers, front showing the 1861 Fairbank Oil barn mural, light bumping to edges and corners, mild overall shelf wear with some color loss along edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages clean. Otherwise unmarked.The history of the Fairbank family of Oil Springs, Lambton County, Ontario, who have pumped oil continuously on the same property since 1861, the longest continuously producing oil family in the world. Written by Patricia McGee, wife of fourth-generation Charlie Fairbank, drawing on family documents, photographs, maps, and interviews. Traces four generations from John Henry Fairbank to the present operation, now a National Historic Site still worked with 19th-century jerker-line technology. Includes a Fairbank family tree and timeline.Contents: Introduction to the Four Generations of Fairbanks; The Beginnings; Setting Hopes on Petrolia; The Second Generation, The Era of Dr. Charles Fairbank; The Third Generation, The Era of Charles Oliver II; The Fourth Generation, The Era of Charles Oliver III; Historic Sites on Fairbank Oil Properties; The Buildings and Sites on Fairbank Oil Properties; Epilogue; Timeline; The House That Oil Built, The Fairbank Mansion; VanTuyl and Fairbank Hardware Store; How Oil Found Its Way to Oil Springs and Petrolia; The Diviners; The Fairbank Property in the Elk Hills Oil Lands of California; Resources and Index.