JWB and his pipe!

[STS Lincolnite]

Though his store was in Rochester, NY, Peter "Rattlesnake Pete" Gruber was born in Oil City, PA. This is in Venango County, PA and about 8-9 miles from where Booth, Ellsler and the Dramatic Oil Company had their well in Franklin, PA. With Ellsler's account of Booth's "4 colorful meerschaum pipes" present there in PA at the time, who knows, maybe Pete did get his hands on one of those pipes.