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(36) The Story of John Davison Rockefeller

(36) The Story of John Davison Rockefeller

Broadcast: 1937
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Added: May 27 2017

This is the story of John Davison Rockefeller, the father of big business. The man who made more money than any man has ever made in a lifetime. The master of the oil industry. The world's first billionaire. Rockefeller was born in New York in 1839, the son of a county physician. The family moved to Cleveland, where John, at the age of 16, obtained employment with the firm Hewitt and Tuttle, a wholesale produce and commission house, where he was paid the salary of $35 per month...