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American Oil Company

LC control no.n 80069031
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingAmerican Oil Company
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Variant(s)Amoco (Firm : U.S.)
American (Firm : U.S.)
Standard Oil Company (Indiana). American Oil Company
See alsoSuccessor: Amoco Oil Company
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Beginning date1910
Ending date1973
Associated countryUnited States
Field of activityPetroleum--Refining Petroleum--Marketing
Found inRand, McNally and Company. Amoco streamlined strip map from Maine to Florida ... 194-
Diversified Map Corp. Metropolitan Washington, 1962?: map recto (American Oil Company, American)
Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation. Cumulative report, 1952/1968: p. 2 (American Oil Company, Standard Oil Company (Indiana)'s refining and marketing subsidiary)
The Desert sun [newspaper], 4 October 1972: page A13 (American Oil Company now 'Amoco Oil'; American Oil Company next January 1 will change its name to Amoco Oil Company; the Amoco brand has been associated with the company for more than half a century; follows corporate trend of American's parent, Standard Oil Company (Indiana), to incorporate "Amoco" into the names of all its major subsidiaries)
Wikipedia, viewed 27 September 2018: under Amoco (the American Oil Company was founded in Baltimore in 1910 and incorporated in 1922 by Louis Blaustein and his son Jacob; later absorbed by the Amoco Corporation, originally Standard Oil Company (Indiana), a global chemical and oil company)
Associated languageeng