Louis Blaustein

Louis Blaustein (January 16, 1869 in Pikeliai, Lithuania – July 27, 1937 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American businessman and philanthropist who founded the American Oil Company (AMOCO).

Biography Blaustein was born in Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Lithuanian Jewish family, and immigrated to the United States in 1883 at the age of fourteen. He worked as a peddler in Pennsylvania before moving to Baltimore, where he and his son Jacob delivered kerosene on a horse-drawn wagon. He then took a job with the Standard Oil Company In 1924, the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company purchased a 50% interest in the company for $5 million

Personal life He was married to Henrietta Gittelsohn (1871–1965) with whom he had five children, of which three survived to adulthood: Jacob Blaustein (1892–1970), Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer (1895–1957) and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg (1899–1992). The Blaustein family continues on in three businesses: American Trading and Production Corporation (ATAPCO), Lord Baltimore Capital Corporation, and Rosemore, Inc.