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Cities Service: a peculiar name for a company. But not when you consider the origins: Henry Doherty founded Cities Service “to supply gas and electricity to small public utilities. He began by acquiring gas producing properties in the mid-continent and southwest.” After the company had done well in natural gas and assembled its own pipeline system, it went into oil.

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