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William Avery Rockefeller Jr. (May 31, 1841 – June 24, 1922) was an American businessman and financier. Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along with his elder brother John Davison Rockefeller. He was also a part owner of Anaconda Copper, which was the fourth-largest company in the world by the late 1920s.
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. [1]
The Rockefeller family originated in Rhineland in Germany and family members moved to the Americas in the early 18th century, while through Eliza Davison, with family roots in Middlesex County, New Jersey, John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr. and their descendants are also of Scots-Irish ancestry.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (1841–1922). American industrialist and financier William Rockefeller was known for his role in the establishment and growth of the Standard Oil Company. He undertook that endeavor with his older brother, John D. Rockefeller.
Jan 14, 2020 · In 1870, Rockefeller joined in the oil business, along with his brother William, Samuel Andrews, Henry M. Flagler, and Stephen V. Harkness. Their business, the Standard Oil Company of Ohio , focused on oil refining, which had less variable costs than oil exploration and drilling.
Mar 18, 1990 · William Rockefeller, a former president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and a former chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association, died of lung cancer on...
Dec 4, 2013 · He also said Rockefeller apparently “was nodding off and caught himself too late” before the accident that killed four people and injured 67 others. The engineer has not been charged.
