Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (died 1864)

Abraham Pineo Gesner

Inventor of kerosene (1797–1864)

Abraham Pineo Gesner was a Nova Scotian and New Brunswickan physician and geologist who invented kerosene. Gesner was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia and lived much of his life in Saint John, New Brunswick. He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was an influential figure in the…