Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 - September 8, 1935) was an American oil tycoon. Doheny was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His family history reaches back to Ireland when his family fled in the wake of the Great Famine. He came to Los Angeles looking for opportunity as his previous attempts at striking it rich had failed. While in Los Angeles, Doheny found out that there was pitch hidden beneath the soil. Wikipedia
The Crime: February 16, 1929 : Hugh Plunkett shoots and kills Edward L. Doheny Jr., only son and heir of the fabulously wealthy oilman Edward L. Doheny Sr. Plunkett then turns the gun on himself, committing suicide. www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/scandals/greystone.html
The family of oil baron Edward L. Doheny used the canyon as a summer retreat and a place to graze and water their cattle. www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=14
Appropriately, one could say that Greystone emerged from a pool of oil, a pool discovered by one Edward Doheny in 1892. www.financialhistory.org/fh/1996/54-1.html
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Edward L. Doheny. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_L%2e_Doheny
