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Show AN OIL KINC DEAD. John McKeown. tha Hlggeat of th Individual Indi-vidual Producers of Pennsylvania. Washington, Pa., Feb. 9. John McKeown, Mc-Keown, the millionaire oil producer, died at his home yesterday morning, aged 53. He had been troubled for months with a difficulty in breathing, attributable to asthma. His wealth is estimated at $5,000,000. John McKeown was the biggest of the individual producers and operated in every oil field in Western Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and West Virginia. It is estimated esti-mated that for the past three years he has had an income of $50,000. He started with nothing, but good luck seemed to follow him and wherever his drill tapped the sand he was rewarded by a flow of wealth. |