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John D. Rockefeller, Sr., felt no guilt about his vast wealth. He did not believe that he was responsible for the Ludlow Massacre, the single blackest mark against him in public eyes, when in September 1913, National Guardsmen burned a miners' camp at Ludlow, Colorado, causing the death of two women and eleven children who had tried to hide in a cellar above which a flaming tent suffocated them.
Rockefeller finances a campaign to fight hookworm in the South. By 1927 the disease will be eradicated. July 8, 1908 Abby gives birth to Nelson, on his grandfather John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'s ...
18 de mar. de 1990 · William Rockefeller, ... He was a great-grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and had been a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Shearman & Sterling since the mid-1950's.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick (August 31, 1872 – August 25, 1932) was an American socialite, daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller . She and her husband Harold Fowler McCormick were prominent in Chicago society, supporting many causes, including the city's first opera company. After being treated for depression by Jung, she ...
8 de jul. de 2014 · The itinerant William Rockefeller also lived a double life posing as an eye-and-ear specialist named Dr. William Levingston, and in 1855 he secretly married another woman. 2.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) John D. Rockefeller was born in upstate New York on a farm not far from Binghamton in the southern tier, a landscape of hills that he dearly loved. He was a descendant of Johann Peter Rockefeller, who arrived in North America from the German Palatinate in 1723. JDR’s father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a ...
5 de may. de 1998 · John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's mos ... But John’s father, William “Devil Bill” Avery Rockefeller, was a traveling snake oil salesman who posed as a deaf-mute peddler and sold miracle drugs and herbal remedies.
