CITGO Timeline - The 1910s

Cities Service Company Created

1910	Henry L. Dougherty creates Cities Service Company to supply gas and electricity to small public utilities
1911	Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung founds Analytic Psychology
1909	Robert Peary reaches the North Pole
1912	Cities Service first enters oil and natural gas business in the Mid-Continent Field with the purchase of the Quapaw Gas Company
1912	Dougherty and the Cities Service Company buy the extensive oil and gas holdings of the Barnsdall Properties
1912	British luxury liner Titanic, one of the largest ships in the world, strikes an iceberg and sinks with more than 1,500 lives lost.
1913	Henry Ford begins to use standardized interchangeable parts and assembly-line techniques in his automobile-manufacturing plant.
1913	Cities Service buys the Empire Gas Company.
1914	World War I begins in Europe.
1914	The Empire subsidiary of Cities Service discovers and develops the Augusta and Eldorado fields in Kansas.
1915	Headquartered at 60 Wall Street in New York, Cities Service had 98 subsidiaries.
1915	A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 people on board, including 128 American citizens.
1916	Cities Service purchases its first refineries in Okmulgee, OK, Cushing, OK and Gainesville, TX.
1916	Henry L. Dougherty, with fund-raising help from Josef Pulitzer, installs nighttime lighting for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
1916	German-American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity.
1916	Cities Service acquires the Crew Levick Company and its refinery on Petty's Island in the Delaware River. To this day CITGO still operates a terminal on Petty's Island.
1917	United States enters World War I.
1917	Cities Service subsidiary Empire Gas & Fuel increases its fuel production from 3,000,000 barrels in 1915 to 36,000,000 in 1917.
1918	Cities Service subsidiaries produce half the oil used by the Allies in the final year of the war.
1918	World War I ends.
1919	Cities Service has seven refineries as of November 28.
1919	British aviators Arthur W. Brown and John W. Alcock make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919	Henry L. Dougherty uses motion pictures to convince business people to invest in Cities Service-the first such use of movies.