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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. [1]
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 ...
Godfrey Rockefeller was born September 24, 1783, in Albany, New York.His parents were William and Christina Rockefeller. William and Christina were third cousins; William's grandfather was Johann Peter Rockefeller II, a miller who migrated from Rockenfeld, Rhineland, Germany, to Philadelphia where he was a plantation owner and landholder in Somerville, New Jersey, and Amwell, New Jersey.
In Cleveland, Lute and Laura Spelman met John Davison Rockefeller while attending accounting classes together. He was the eldest son of William Avery "Bill" Rockefeller (1810–1906) and Eliza Davison (1813–1889). [7] Laura Spelman later attended Oread Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts and planned to become a schoolteacher. After moving ...
John D. Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, ... William, as a "bigamist, horse thief and child molester". He allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl, then deserted his ...
William Rockefeller Sr. (1810–1906): an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con-artist. [4] Two of his sons were Standard Oil co-founders John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and William Avery Rockefeller Jr. George Appo (1856–1930): American fraudster, operated in New York and was involved in green goods scams. Wrote an ...
Rockefeller; Godfrey A. Rockefeller; Rockefeller Capital Management; Rockefeller Foundation; Rockefeller Group; Rockefeller-Aldrich family political line; Abby Rockefeller (ecologist) Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; Allison Whipple Rockefeller; Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler; Ariana Rockefeller; Avery Rockefeller; Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller; Bobo ...
Strong was born Elizabeth Rockefeller on August 23, 1866, in Cleveland, Ohio, the eldest of five children, to John D. Rockefeller, co-founder of Standard Oil, and Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller. She attended Vassar College from 1886 to 1888 as special student.