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McClure's Magazine.
July, 1905.
John D. Rockefeller
A character study
by
Ida
M. Tarbell
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Author of: The History of the Standard
Oil Co., Life of Lincoln, A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte,
Madame Roland: A Biographical Study etc., etc.
John D. Rockefeller. (Sketch from life by John Varian).
"According as you put something in the greater will be
your dividends of salvation."
From an address made to the Euclid Avenue Baptist Sunday school, Cleveland,
Ohio, Oct. 11, 1903.
Our American heroine,
Ida Tarbell, made many requests to interview Rockefeller but all were refused.
Finally some friends in Cleveland arranged for her to attend his Sunday school
incognito. That was her first and only glimpse of the tycoon face
to face. Her impressions of the real Rockefeller is found in part
two.
After the publication of
this exposé, McClure's Magazine began to experience financial
and other difficulties. Rockefeller moved heaven and earth to keep this information
from the American people as he plundered and robbed the nation and the world....
In no other case in history was the Jesuit
Oath more completely fulfilled as in the Rockefeller dynasty:
"You have been taught
your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your
power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into
the confidence of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of
every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the
lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures,
and the judiciaries and councils of state, and to be all things to all men,
for the Pope's sake, whose servants we are unto death."
And the Standard Oil Company did exactly that
in EVERY country of the world!!
“Under
his silk skull-cap he seems like an old monk of the Inquisition such as one
sees in the Spanish picture galleries” (John D. Rockefeller,
part 2).
Eliza Davidson Rockefeller, mother of John D. Rockefeller.
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William A. Rockefeller, father of John. D. Rockefeller.
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Mrs. John. D. Rockefeller.
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William Rockefeller, brother of John D.
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Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D.
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The house in which John D. Rockefeller was born near Richford, NY.
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Mr. Rockefeller's 400 acre estate called Forest Hill, six miles east
of Cleveland.
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Mr. Rockefeller's former New York City home, 4 West,
54st.
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Mr. Rockefeller's town house in Cleveland.
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Mr. Rockefeller's home at Pocantico Hills on the Hudson River in New York
State.
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