Paul Henry Giddens

Paul Henry Giddens (1903–1984) was an American professor, writer, and historian of the beginnings of the oil industry in Pennsylvania and the American Midwest.

He was a professor of history and political science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. In 1945–1946 he was a Guggenheim Fellow partly in recognition of the value of his 1938 book ''The Birth of the Oil Industry''. Provided by Wikipedia