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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

25 May 1937

Page 10

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 25, 1937

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10

Life of John D. Rockefeller Highlighted in Brief

Born July 8 1839 at Richford Tioga County New York to a farmer doctor he built a vast oil empire. The notes record his savings of 1000 a life of golf into old age and his philanthropy giving away more than 500000000 while noting his death May 23 at Ormond Beach Florida as the world’s first billionaire.

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Richford Tioga County N. Y John D. Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller, Jr Ormond Beach Fla Lakewood N. J Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller, Sr Little Cabin Standard 611 Oil Trust John Cleveland Isou
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John D Rockefeller Career Highlights and Early Life

A weathered farmhouse draft recounts John Davison Rockefeller born July 8, 1839 to William Avery and Eliza Dawison Rockefeller. He built a business arc from a child turkey chick venture to oil, cofounding Standard Oil in 1870 and leading a near monopoly until dissolution in 1892, then retirement in 1895. He donated more than a half billion dollars to religion education sociology crime prevention and medical research.

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John Rockefeleer Rocky Acres Tachford William Avery Eliza Dawison Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller Young Rockefeller Ing Florida John D. Rockefeller
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