Stock issued to and signed as secretary and 2 more time at stub and on back by Edward L. Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 – September 8, 1935) was an American oil tycoon, who in 1892, along with business partner Charles A. Canfield, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field, setting off the petroleum boom in Southern California. At first he was an unsuccessful prospector in the state of New Mexico and Southwestern United States. Later Doheny became very wealthy through his California oil interests, and was also successful in the oil fields of Tampico, Mexico. During the administration of President Warren G. He was twice acquitted of offering the bribe that Fall was convicted of accepting. Doheny and his second wife and widow, Carrie Estelle, were noted philanthropists in Los Angeles. Arnold Ross in Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil! (the inspiration for the 2007 film There Will Be Blood) is loosely based on Doheny. Doheny graduated from high school at the age of 15 and he was named the valedictorian of his class. Following his fathers death several months after his graduation, he was employed by the U. Geological Survey, and in 1873 was sent to Kansas with a party surveying and subdividing the Kiowa-Comanche lands. The following year he left the Geological Survey to pursue his fortune prospecting, first in the Black Hills of South Dakota and then in Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory. He is listed in the 1880 United States Census as a “painter” living in Prescott, Arizona. During his time in Kingston he met two men who would play important roles in his later life; Albert Fall, the future Secretary of the Interior, and his business partner Charles A. Doheny and Canfield together worked the formers Mount Chief Mine with little success, and thus in 1886 Canfield prospected further in the Kingston area, leasing and developing with great success the Comstock Mine (not to be confused with the Comstock Lode of Virginia City, Nevada). Doheny declined to join him in this venture, and whereas Canfield made a small fortune from it, Doheny was reduced eventually to doing odd jobs (including painting) to support his family. In the Spring of 1891, Doheny left New Mexico and moved to Los Angeles, California, attracted by Canfields success in Los Angeles real estate. Canfield had previously left Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.