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One of the first members of the Rockefeller family in New York was businessman William A. Rockefeller Sr., who was born to a Protestant family in Granger, New York. He had six children with his first wife Eliza Davison, a daughter of a Scots-Irish farmer, [4] the most prominent of which were oil tycoons John D. Rockefeller and William A ...
May 16, 2020 · Eliza Davison and the con artist William Avery Rockefeller gave birth to a son, John D. Rockefeller, who would become a scion of American industry and one of the wealthiest men to ever wheel and ...
William Avery " Devil Bill " Rockefeller Sr. (November 13, 1810 – May 11, 1906) was an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con artist who went by the alias of Dr. William Levingston. He worked as a lumberman and then a traveling salesman who identified himself as a "botanic physician" and sold elixirs.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'s, father, Bill Rockefeller, dies at age 96. President Roosevelt's attacks on Rockefeller and Standard Oil escalate. Rockefeller is singled out as one of the...
Father-Son Correspondence. John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Jr. Rockefeller Archives. Until the 1970s, when they became the focus of a controversial book, the family dynamics of the Rockefeller dynasty ...
During the 70 years between oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'s emergence as the richest man in the world (c. 1901) and grandson Nelson A. Rockefeller's service as the first U.S. vice president who was appointed, not elected, to that office (1974-77), the Rockefeller family stood as the very epitome of extraordinary wealth and influence, not ...
John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York, about midway between Binghamton and Ithaca. His father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a "pitch man" — a "doctor" who claimed...
