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Jan 5, 2019 · After incoming railways carved up the 8,000-acre Rockefeller Ranch, Frank tried to sell the depreciated land to no avail, and the Robbins purchased it after he returned to Cleveland.
The 8,000-acre ranch stood on a large tract of cheap land in Belvidere, Kansas, west of Wichita (originally spotted by his father on his travels). The property was remote from railroads, and his cattle could graze on vast, unfenced plains.
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There were fifteen immense barns on the property and many types of cattle. He’d convinced himself, and the world, that he was a rancher. Rockefeller resented being called John D.’s brother, and he equally hated when his ranch was called a plaything. That may have been why he spent $5,050 on a bull.
Jul 31, 2020 · I am happy to announce that today we completed the sale of Margie Thomason’s historic Soldier Creek Ranch near Belvidere, Kansas. With the history of this ranch going back to the 1800’s and it being a part of the original Rockefeller Ranch owned by Frank Rockefeller, this has been an amazing project to have been involved with.
“I am Frank Rockefeller, stock farmer- not Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D.,” he has been quoted as declaring. Franklin became gravely ill in February 1917. He was operated on for intestinal trouble in a Cleveland hospital and a fatal paralysis developed.
The Rockefeller family (/ ˈ r ɒ k ə f ɛ l ər / ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ...
One rancher to work for better stock was Frank Rockefeller, the brother of John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil. He owned a Kiowa County cattle ranch of over 12,000 acres and his operation specialized in purebred Herefords.
