Attracted early in life to the newly discovered oil fields of Pennsylvania, he became a dealer in the raw product and later a refiner, acquiring with capital, laboriously saved, first one refinery, then another.
"The Lion and the Mouse A Story of an American Life"
Charles Klein
The schools may, and often do, make men scholastic and ungenial, and art remains an instructor and refiner, but creates no more.
"Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry"
Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston
I rejoined; "if the refiner has no bullock's blood, why not use that of pigs?"
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson