The Hagley Vault

So long, 2025! The clock doesn't strike midnight every day, so we're celebrating this special occasion with a January 1939 issue of The Sohioan, a magazine published by the Standard Oil Company (Ohio) for its subsidiaries' and divisions' current and former employees, as well as dealers, distributors, and stockholders. 

Standard Oil Company (Ohio), or Sohio, was created out of the 1911 antitrust dissolution of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. Prior to the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company, the company's Ohio operations controlled up to twenty-one of Cleveland's twenty-six refineries, while the company as a whole controlled up to 90% of the nation's refining capacity and output.

In the aftermath of the disbanding of the company, the newly formed Standard Oil Company (Ohio) became an independent corporation that managed marketing operations and service stations in Ohio, as well as a single refinery in Cleveland, but held no oil reserves or pipelines…Read more...