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An etching portrait of Henry R. Rouse.
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An etching portrait of Henry R. Rouse.

Credit: From Sketches in Crude Oil, 1896 courtesy the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

A portrait of Henry R. Rouse, an early oil developer who was killed in an oil well explosion in 1861. The town of Rouseville, Pennsylvania, is named after him.

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