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BRANCHOFFICES NEW YORK, N.Y. TULSA, OKLA JOHN CARRUTHERS, PREST. PITTSBURGH, PA. PARKERSBURG, W. VA. EDWIN J. FITHIAN. TREAS. ARTHUR J. HILL, V. PREST. CHICAGO, ILL. BREMEN, OHIO JOHN MCCUNE, JR, SECY. ALL AGREEMENTS CONTINGENT UPON GOVERNMENTAL REQUIREMENTS, STRIKES, ACCIDENTS OR OTHER CAUSES BEYOND OUR CONTROL STENOGRAPHICAL ERRORS SUBJECT TO CORRECTION. Bessemer Gas Engine Conversion West Michigan Old Engine Club, Inc. Scottsville, Michigan August 1, 1997 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Historical Significance Of Landmark The Bessemer Engine Company: The Formative Years This Engine conversion is one of very few remaining examples of a population of 10,000 engines used in the Dr. Edwin J. Fithian who with John Carruthers founded extraction of petroleum by the South Penn Oil Company the Bessemer Company, was born on the first day of the from wells in New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 1863, in Portersville, These engines made possible the early development of the Pennsylvania. petroleum products which fueled the industrial develop- ment beginning at the turn of the century until oth