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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.
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 ...
16. Mai 2020 · The seeds of “Devil Bill,” the nickname William Avery Rockefeller would rightfully earn, were planted in his earliest days. Born in 1810, young Bill was a wanderer from the start, known for ...
4. Dez. 2013 · In this photo taken on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, Metro North Railroad engineer William Rockefeller is wheeled on a stretcher away from the area where the commuter train he was operating derailed in the Bronx borough of New York. The National Transportation Safety Board reported Monday that the train Rockefeller was driving was going 82 mph around a 30-mph curve when it derailed killing four people ...
3. Sept. 2021 · Freitag, 03.09.2021, 15:36. 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 ...
Rockefeller. Die Familie Rockefeller wurde durch den Unternehmer John D. Rockefeller und seinen Bruder William Rockefeller bekannt. Sie waren Mitbegründer einer Erdölraffinerie, aus der 1870 die Standard Oil Company hervorging, die 1911 erzwungenermaßen aufgelöst wurde. Diese beiden Brüder waren die Söhne von William Avery Rockefeller ...
P eople & Events: John D. Rockefeller Senior, 1839-1937 Youth. John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York about midway between Binghamton and Ithaca. His father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a "pitch man" -- a "Doctor" who claimed he could cure cancers and charged up to $25 a treatm
