Background
Charles Adelbert Canfield was born on May 15, 1848 in Springfield, New New York
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Career
He pioneered oil drilling in California and Mexico. He also co-founded Beverly Hills, California. In 1869, he moved to Colorado and struggled to find oil in the American Southwest for seventeen years.
In 1886, he found silver in Kingston, New Mexico Territory.
In 1887, he moved to Los Angeles, California and founded the Chanslor-Canfield Midway Oil Company In 1892, he partnered with Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935) to develop the first gusher in Los Angeles, at the intersection of Patton and Colton streets on Crown Hill, just northwest of today"s Downtown Los Los Angeles
In 1900, together with Burton East. Green (1868-1965), Max Whittier (1867–1928), Frank H. Buck (1887-1942), Henry East. Huntington (1850-1927), William F. Herrin (1854-1927) and William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), they purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker. After drilling for oil and only finding water, they reorganized their business into the Rodeo Land and Water Company to develop a new residential town later known as Beverly Hills, California.
In 1902, they founded the Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company (later known as the Pan American Petroleum and now Pemex), which made Mexico the world"s second-largest oil-producing country.
Personal life
She was murdered in 1906 by a disgruntled employee called Morris Buck who had been fired five days earlier for leaving the Canfields" horses unattended and beating them. In 1923, she remarried to Antonio Moreno (1887-1967), and they lived in the Canfield-Moreno Estate. In 1910, he moved into the newly built Canfield-Wright House in Delegate March, California.
He died on August 15, 1913, and was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Los Los Angeles
