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14. Juni 2019 · William Avery Rockefeller’s son would go on to become one of the richest men of all time. Famously money-hungry, John D. spoke admiringly of his father’s piles of cash long after he had made a ...
3. Sept. 2021 · Im 19. Jahrhundert steigen die Rockefellers zu den reichsten Menschen der Welt auf. Trotz der Zerschlagung ihres Öl-Imperiums mischen sie nach wie vor ganz oben mit: als Banker, Politiker und ...
Der erste Tanker mit dem Namen William Rockefeller (7157 BRZ – 15.500 Tonnen Verdrängung) wurde 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, erbaut. Er war eines von sieben großen Tankschiffen, die von der amerikanischen Marine ab August 1917 eingesetzt wurden. Als USS William Rockefeller (ID # 1581) wurde er in den Naval Transportation Service ...
William Avery Rockefeller, Jr., was born on May 31, 1841, in Richford, New York. He began his career as a bookkeeper. At age 21 he started his own business, Hughes and Rockefeller, as a produce commission merchant. In the mid-1860s John D. Rockefeller, who had invested in Ohio’s newly discovered oil finds, asked William to head the export operations in New York, New York, for what would in ...
Nevertheless, in William Avery Rockefeller one clearly detects the blarney and easy conviviality of the mountebank. Sometimes he peddled bottles of home-brewed elixir or patent medicines bought from druggists, but he scored his greatest success with natural medicines culled from Lucy's physic bush. Though his mother had a sincere interest in herbal remedies, Bill would grossly distort or ...
William Goodsell Rockefeller died of "double pneumonia" at his home, 292 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, on November 30, 1922, five months after his father. He was interred at the Rockefeller Mausoleum at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York .
2. Nov. 2015 · William Rockefeller. William Rockefeller, the younger brother of John D. Rockefeller, was born on 31 May 1841 at Richford, in Tioga County, N.Y. He entered business at the age of 16, clerking for a miller in Cleveland, Ohio, before he joined his brother John's produce business a year later. When John D. Rockefeller subsequently entered the oil ...
