Thanks to a fellow Facebooker, originally from Oil City, I have a link to a great book about Oil City in it's heyday!
The book is on Google books and is called "Derrick and Drill, or An Insight into the Discovery, Development and Present Condition and Future Prospects of Petroleum, in NY, PA, OH, W.VA & etc"
Enjoy!
http://books.google.com/books?id=EN8aauhZXOsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=edmund+morris
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