Barr, Mary Ellen (b. 1915, d. ?)

Census: Date: 1920
Place: French Creek, Mercer, PA

Note: Social Security Death Index Record

Name: Vera Hazen
SSN: 419-86-6398
Last Residence: 35064 Fairfield, Jefferson, Alabama, United States of America
Born: 15 May 1887
Died: Jul 1983
State (Year) SSN issued: Alabama (1973 )

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Fairfield, Jefferson, AL

Note: World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record

Name: Carbon P Dubbs
City: Not Stated
County: Cook
State: Illinois
Birth Date: 24 Jun 1881
Race: White
Roll: 1504112
DraftBoard: 3

New York Passenger Lists Record

Name: Carbon P Dubbs
Arrival Date: 13 Feb 1936
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1882
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Ship Name: Monarch of Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 21
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: 5763
Page Number: 90
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Birth Location Other: Franklin

Name: Carbon P Dubbs
Arrival Date: 04 Apr 1936
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 11
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: 5784
Page Number: 147
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Birth Location Other: Franklin
Name: Carbon Dubbs
Arrival Date: 10 Dec 1937
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 12
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: 6086
Page Number: 184
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Birth Location Other: Franklin
living in Hamilton, Mass

Name: Carbon Dubbs
Arrival Date: 23 Mar 1938
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 7
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: 6129
Page Number: 161
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Birth Location Other: Franklin

Name: Carbon P Dubbs
Arrival Date: 28 Oct 1938
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Ship Name: Monarch of Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 15
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: 6243
Page Number: 96
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Birth Location Other: Franklin

Name: Carbon P Dubbs
Arrival Date: 16 Dec 1938
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 17
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: 6261
Page Number: 71
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Birth Location Other: Franklin
California Death Index, 1940-1997 Record

Name: DUBBS, CARBON P
Social Security #:
Sex: MALE
Birth Date: 24 Jun 1881
Birthplace: PENNSYLVANIA
Death Date: 21 Aug 1962
Death Place: SANTA BARBARA
Mother's Maiden Name: CHAPIN
Father's Surname:


From Ancestry Blog - American oil magnate, he invented a thermal treatment process of oil as it flowed through pipes, and that he built an estate in Bermuda that was given to the State Dept. and has been used as a consul general residence.

It is interesting that you should ask this, because my Mother-in-Law is related to Carbon Petroleum. Her grandfather was John Alleman Dubbs of Franklin, PA. John's brother Jesse's son was CP. The name was given to the son at birth because the two brothers Jesse and John discovered a process for cracking crude oil and breaking it down into its component parts. From this cracking process they were able to develop several products, including petroleum jelly (vaseline). In honor of this, they bestowed on their son the dubious name of Carbon Petroleum. They later sold the process to the Armour family (the meat people), who in a fit of bankruptcy sold it to U.S. Oil I believe. CP inherited the money (none for my mother-in-law alas) and built or bought-- I'm not sure-- the mansion in Bermuda known as Chelston. (Look under www.dupontregistry.com'celeb_chelston.html for a real estate ad selling the mansion) My mother in law has a letter from CP to her mother I think that I saw today. She also has a number of clippings about John and Jesse as well as CP. If you would like copies of the clippings contact me by e-mail and we will make arrangements to get you copies. What fun this all is and what fun to make a connection.

Universal Oil Products Company — Company History

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a California inventor by the name of Jesse A. Dubbs and his son, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (also known as C.P. Dubbs), were engaged in making asphalt from petroleum using an air-blowing process that had been patented by Jesse Dubbs in April 1900. This process was ideally suited to the manufacture of asphalt from heavy base California oils.

In 1913 C.P. Dubbs entered the employ of Standard Asphalt and Rubber Company, then under the direction of J. Ogden Armour, a prominent Chicago meat packer. Through this association, National Hydrocarbon Company was formed on June 17, 1914, to acquire the patents and applications relating to the work done by Jesse Dubbs. R.J. Dunham was made president and the company carried on the research and development work that led to the commercialization of the Dubbs method of processing petroleum.

The company name was changed to Universal Oil Products in 1915. Four years later the company introduced the Dubbs thermal cracking process, a continuous process to convert crude oil into more useable products. The Dubbs process proved highly successful and it was soon employed in more than 250 units operating in the United States as well as in eighteen other countries. The company headquarters were moved to Chicago and research laboratories were built in Riverside, a Chicago suburb. Royalty checks for the use of the Dubbs process reached a staggering $9 million during 1933.

In decades to come, Universal Oil continued to develop innovative technologies. In 1933 it commercialized the first viable catalytic process for the polymerization of olefin gases to gasoline. This process contributed greatly to the production of high-octane gasoline and aviation fuels.

During World War II, with a greatly increased demand for aviation gasoline, Universal Oil responded with important advances in the areas of fluid catalytic cracking and liquid acid alkylation.

After the War, Universal Oil created the first FCC unit. The unit’s compactness and lower cost offered smaller refiners an opportunity to compete. In 1947 it developed a process to make alkybenzene, one of the building blocks of commercial laundry detergents. In 1949 the company developed the platforming process, the first process that utilized a catalyst promoted with a precious metal. The process was then commercialized for reforming of naphtha to produce high-octane gasoline.

On February 12, 1959, Universal Oil went public. In 1960 the company acquired a controlling interest in the Trubek Laboratories in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Trubek, a developer and manufacturer of organic chemical specialties, opened new fields for Universal Oil, including soap, perfume, pharmaceutical, electroplating, plasticizing, and metal-finishing industries.

During the 1960s UOP introduced paraffin isomerization processes to upgrade butane for alkylation feedstock and C 5/C 6 for gasoline blending. This era also witnessed UOP advances in the area of higher-pressure hydroprocessing, both hydrotreating and hydrocracking.

Petroleum Refining - Invented in Chicago

Jesse A. Dubbs and his son Carbon Petroleum (yes, his real name was Carbon Petroleum - CP for short) invented a process for using chemistry to increase the amount of gasoline yield from crude oil. In his spare time, CP was also President of the Village of Wilmette. With investment from fellow Chicagoan J. Ogden Armour, UOP built in 1921 a new research and development center near the suburb of Riverside. In an interesting parallel, Armour's father is famous for his quote on "using everything but the squeal," which characterizes his effort to make meat-packing plants more efficient. Jesse Dubbs' son Carbon leveraged his father's inventive vision to start the refining industry on the path of efficiency by converting more of the barrel into useful product. Serving as a showcase for chemical innovation, The UOP Riverside R&D Center generated over 9,000 US patents during the period from 1921 to 1955. The Riverside Laboratory was designated as one of the first National Historic Chemical Landmarks in 1995 by the American Chemical Society. As the demand for gasoline and other hydrocarbon-based products increased, this Chicago-based company continues to be the leader in new refining technology.


Chelston Estate for sale - 1999

WHOEVER settles on the 14-acre estate, Chelston will still occupy not only a large plot of Bermudian soil, but a small piece of the soul of America.

For the sale of five bedroom/eight bath Chelston can't disguise the allegiance of U.S. citizens who have celebrated a touch of home there, or the fondness of countless locals who have been cosseted by the welcome of its American Consul General hosts.

The most recent, Robert A. Farmer, had roots in the great Buckeye State of Ohio. And for the time he remained here, Chelston reflected his mid-western warmth and graciousness as only a home can reflect the personality of its occupants. Many overnight guests basked in his welcome and that of previous American resident hosts.

Among the lodgers were President George Bush, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, General Colin Powell, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, newspaper columnist Ann Landers and actor Michael Douglas.

But Chelston -- the home -- is more than the individual of the moment, more even than C.P. Dubbs who held the patents on the crude oil cracking process in the United States and for whom the house was originally designed and finished in 1941.

Conveyed to the U.S. Government in 1964, Chelston became the official U.S. diplomatic residence in Bermuda; and the 10,700 square feet of the main house grew into a celebrated platform for entertaining, as did its grounds from the annual Fourth of July festivities.

As visiting dignitaries, resident patriots and local guests drove up, they came upon a long and graceful structure whose yellow facade is framed by the white balustrades of a modified welcoming arms staircase.

Occupation: Date: 1930
Place: Chemical Engineer

Occupation: Date: 1920
Place: Pharmasist

Census: Date: 1910
Place: 11-Wd Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA

Census: Date: 1920
Place: New Trier, Cook, Illinois

Census: Date: 1930
Place: New Trier, Cook, Illinois

Census: Date: 1910
Place: 11-Wd Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA

Census: Date: 1920
Place: New Trier, Cook, Illinois

Note: Name: Carbon C Dubbs
New York Passenger Lists Record

Arrival Date: 03 Jun 1935
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1912
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 14
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: 5652
Page Number: 11
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Birth Location Other: Pittsburgh

Name: Carbon C Dubbs
Arrival Date: 21 Sep 1938
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1912
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Ship Name: Queen of Bermuda
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 17
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: 6221
Page Number: 118
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Birth Location Other: Pittsburgh


Social Security Death Index Record

Name: Carbon Dubbs
SSN: 386-07-9633
Last Residence: 60201 Evanston, Cook, Illinois, United States of America
Born: 19 Sep 1911
Died: Apr 1982
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (Before 1951 )

Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 Record

Name: Carbon Chatley Dubbs
Death Date: 7 Apr 1982
County of Death: Palm Beach
State of Death: Florida
Age at Death: 70
Race: White
Birth Date: 19 Sep 1911

Census: Date: 1930
Place: New Trier, Cook, Illinois

Census: Date: 1920
Place: New Trier, Cook, Illinois

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Jackson, Venango, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Newark, Wirt, West Virginia

Note: World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record

Name: Peter Glenn Chatley
City: Not Stated
County: Venango
State: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: 22 Dec 1900
Race: White
Roll: 1926741
DraftBoard: 1

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Newark, Wirt, West Virginia

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Jackson, Venango, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Newark, Wirt, West Virginia

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Jackson, Venango, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Newark, Wirt, West Virginia

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Jackson, Venango, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Newark, Wirt, West Virginia

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Jackson, Venango, Pennsylvania