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RARE "Petroleum Executive" Thomas L. Hisgen Hand Signed 2X3 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Petroleum Executive" Thomas L. Hisgen Signed 2X3 Card. 

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Thomas Louis Hisgen (November

26, 1858 – August 27, 1925) was an American petroleum producer and politician. He refused to sell his

firm to the Standard Oil Trust and

was chosen by the Massachusetts Independence

League as its candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in

1907. Finishing second, ahead of the nominee of the Democratic Party,

Hisgen became the logical choice as nominee of the national Independence Party launched

in 1908 as an offshoot of Independence League activities. Although he toured

the country on the campaign trail, Hisgen's poorer-than-expected showing at the

polls in November 1908 spelled the end for the Independence Party, many of

whose members rejoined the Democrats. Hisgen subsequently remained in the

public eye as a periodic commentator on events in the petroleum industry. He

was born November 26, 1858, in Petersburg, Indiana to

William Hisgen and Margaret Catherine McNally. His father was a German

immigrant who had first lived in Albany, New York, before coming west to Indiana in 1857. His mother was from Canada. He was

educated in a small country school and was forced by economic circumstances to

go to work at an early age to help provide financial support for his parents

and siblings. Most of his education Hisgen obtained on his own through a

steady reading of books. In 1875, Hisgen was 16, Thomas and his family returned

from Indiana to New York, where he and two

brothers worked as clerks in a clothing store.[1] His father, who had some basic

knowledge of chemistry, had long worked at creating a new and improved axel

grease compound which could be pantented and marketed. This invention by his father

became the basis of a family industry when Thomas Hisgen — together with three

of his brothers — established the Four Brothers Axel Grease Company in Albany

in 1888. He died on August 27, 1925 in Miami, Florida.

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