Joseph Newton Pew, Sr.

American businessman

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In J. Howard Pew
Beginning in 1886, Pew’s father, Joseph Newton Pew, Sr. (1848–1912), piped and refined oil in Pennsylvania and Ohio. When oil was discovered near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, he bought some wells and built a pipeline to the nearby Neches River, whence the oil could be shipped to his huge new…
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In Joseph N. Pew, Jr.
Pew’s father, Joseph Newton Pew, Sr. (1848–1912), began refining oil in Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1886. In 1901 oil was found near Beaumont, Texas, where he purchased wells and built a pipeline that ran to the nearby Neches River, from which oil could be transported to his…
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