Wallace Hardison

Wallace Libby Hardison (August 26, 1850 – April 10, 1909) was a co-founder of the Union Oil Company of California, later known as Unocal.

Hardison was born in Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine,[1] the youngest of eleven children.

After John D. Rockefeller had effectively taken control of the Western Pennsylvania oil fields, Hardison and Lyman Stewart went to Santa Paula in Ventura County, Southern California in 1883 to develop newly discovered oil fields there.

[2] A few years later, Stewart and Hardison joined forces with Thomas Bard and Paul Calonico to form the Union Oil Company of California.

Wallace Hardison was killed when his car was struck by a train in Roscoe near Sun Valley, Los Angeles.