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Paul Henry Giddens (1903–1984) was an American professor author and historian of the beginnings of the oil industry in Pennsylvania and the American Mid West.He was a professor of history and political science at Allegheny College in Meadville Pennsylvania. In 1945–1946 he was a Guggenheim Fellow partly in recognition of the value of his 1938 book The Birth of the Oil Industry.