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John Davidson Rockefeller
Title: John Davidson Rockefeller
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1275 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
John Davidson Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller, son of William and Eliza Rockefeller, was born July 8 1839, in Richford, New York about midway between Binghamton and Ithaca. His father, William, was a "Doctor" who claimed he could cure cancers and charged up to a treatment. He was gone for months at a time traveling around the West from town to town and would return to wherever the family was living with substantial sums of cash. His mother, Eliza, was very …showed first 75 words of 1275 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1275 total…practical effect on the Combination. The same men were still in charge only now they were simply the majority shareholders of all the component companies.
This was the first company to dominate a whole part of an industry. The State’s Attorney General had to intervene and start the first “Trust-Buster.” John D. Rockefeller faced illnesses in the latter years of his life and died on May 23, 1937. He had a significant impact on the economy.
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