ABBREVIATIONS
AN—Allan Nevins Papers, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New York
CUOH–ABF—Columbia University Oral History Collection, Abraham B. Flexner interview
CUOH–PM—Columbia University Oral History Collection, Paul Manship interview
FSL—Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
HDL—Henry Demarest Lloyd Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
IMT—Ida Minerva Tarbell Papers, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Drake Well Museum Collection, Titusville, Pennsylvania
RAC—Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York. Papers of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and other family members
RAC–CAS—Rockefeller Archive Center, Charles A. Strong Papers
RAC–FTG—Rockefeller Archive Center, Frederick T. Gates Papers
SOCMB—Standard Oil Company Minute Books, BP America, Cleveland, Ohio
UC–JDR—University of Chicago, John D. Rockefeller Papers
UC–UPP—University of Chicago, University Presidents’ Papers
B = Box
F = File
FOREWORD
1. Wells, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, p. 454.
PRELUDE: POISON TONGUE
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1062. 2. Ibid., p. 916.
Ibid., p. 375.
Ibid., p. 962.
Ibid., p. 601.
Ibid., p. 493.
Ibid., p. 891.
Ibid., p. 1309.
RAC, III 2.H B30 F17.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37.
McClure’s Magazine, July 1905.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1648.
Ibid., p. 1650.
CHAPTER 1: THE FLIMFLAM MAN
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 141.
Rugoff, America’s Gilded Age, p. 97.
The World, November 1, 1903.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 151.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Richford.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1665.
The World, November 3, 1903.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Interview with Mrs. John Wilcox.”
Ibid.
Ibid., “Interview with S. H. Steele.”
IMT, B 4/14 T-293, “Report on Rockefeller Family.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Richford.”
Ibid.
Ibid., “S. H. Steele.”
The World, November 1, 1903.
Cosmopolitan, November 1908.
The World, November 1, 1903.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 233.
The World, November 1, 1903.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F15, letter from William O. Inglis to Ivy Lee, June 24, 1922.
The World, November 1, 1903.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 30.
CHAPTER 2: FIRES OF REVIVAL
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Moravia.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 48.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “Tours to Owego and Moravia.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, pp. 34–35.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Interview with Peter Brown.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 39.
The World, February 2, 1908.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Early Training.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 42.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 40.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.13, “Interview Conversations—1929.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 46.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, “Miss Spelman’s Recollections.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “Mrs. William C. Rudd.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1665.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 47.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “Mrs. William C. Rudd.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 41.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “On Mother’s Discipline.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 42.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 139.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 503.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Mr. Rockefeller and the Indigestion Myth.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 92.
RAC, III 2.2 B21, “Antecedents and Childhood.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 31.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Early Training.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 20.
The World, March 1, 1908.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “David Dennis.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 37.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 40.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 124.
Ibid., p. 390.
Ibid., p. 1651.
Russell, Freedom Versus Organization, p. 316.
Brutcher, Joshua, p. 10.
Ibid., p. 95.
Ibid., p. 138.
IMT, B 4/14 T-293, “Report on Rockefeller Family.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 50.
IMT, B 4/14 T-293, “Report on Rockefeller Family.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1649.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, 3.1.1, “William Avery Rockefeller Court Records.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 19.
IMT, B 4/14 T-293, “Report on Rockefeller Family.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, 3.1.1, “William Avery Rockefeller Court Records.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 1648–49.
Lundberg, The Rockefeller Syndrome, p. 104.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 238.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 9.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Owego.”
Ibid.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 44.
AN, B110 F15, letter to Eliza Rockefeller, July 18, 1885.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “William A. Smyth.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 78.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “C. M. La Monte.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Mrs. S. J. Life.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 65.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Childish Customs.”
McClure’s Magazine, July 1905.
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 40.
Human Life, April 1905.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Owego.”
AN, B126, letter to J. O. Lacey, January 9, 1899.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 73.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 71.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Mrs. S. J. Life.”
Ibid.
CHAPTER 3: BOUND TO BE RICH
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, November 3, 1903.
Ibid.
AN, B126, letter to Mr. Spalding, August 16, 1923.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 104.
Ibid., p. 102.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 52.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, “Miss Spelman’s Recollections.”
The Atlanta Georgia, February 12, 1922.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 131.
IMT, B II, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, December 10, 1903.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 51.
Ibid., p. 61.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, “Miss Spelman’s Recollections.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 51.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 74.
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 10.
Ibid.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 83.
Winkler, John D., p. 45.
The World, March 1, 1908.
Ibid.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 82.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Cleveland—First Employment.”
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 10.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F14.
Hawke, John D., p. 18.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 96.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 43.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F16, letter from William O. Inglis to Ivy Lee, September 25 1926.
Hawke, John D., p. 18.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 11.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 104.
Winkler, John D., p. 25.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 34.
Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, p. 22.
Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, p. 123.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 18.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 44.
Winkler, John D., p. 39.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 103.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 11.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 46.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 107.
IMT, B 2/14, memo from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, n.d.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 105.
Ibid., p. 111.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 14.
Hawke, John D., p. 22.
New York Herald, n.d. [1897].
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 65.
The New Yorker, January 22, 1927.
AN, B126.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 16.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 124.
Hawke, John D., p. 43.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 249.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 232.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, pp. 119–20.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, October 26, 1903.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Cleveland.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 71.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, October 26, 1903
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Cleveland.”
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 249.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 52.
Ibid., p. 55.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 121.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 395.
Innes, Creating the Commonwealth, p. 114.
Swanberg, Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress, p. 71.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Early Giving.”
The New York Times, October 20, 1907.
Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 14.
Weber, Protestant Ethic, p. 53.
Ibid., p. 17.
Innes, Creating the Commonwealth, p. 26.
Stampp, America in 1857, p. 231.
Ibid., p. 232.
Ibid., p. 235.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 390.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Self-Reliance.”
Hawke, John D., p. 25.
Winkler, John D., p. 16.
Dreiser, The Financier, p. 29.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Getting His First Job.”
Los Angeles Tribune, March 25, 1917.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 46.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 4: BAPTISM IN BUSINESS
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 44.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 113.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 125.
Hawke, John D., p. 28.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 10.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 40.
Ibid., p. 50.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Early Training.”
AN, B126.
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I p. 131.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “First Years in Cleveland.”
The World, June 7, 1925.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 54.
The World, June 14, 1925.
Ibid.
Ibid.
New York Herald, November 29, 1908.
The World, June 7, 1925.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 18.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “On Arrogance.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 50.
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 135.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 463.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 49.
Yakima (Wash.) Herald, January 14, 1920.
Winkler, John D., p. 51.
Ibid., p. 52.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 101.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 271.
Woman’s Home Companion, January 1907.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 20.
AN, B133, “Interview with Frank Rockefeller’s Daughters.”
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 14.
CHAPTER 5: THE AUCTION
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1264.
New York Herald, November 29, 1908.
Ibid.
The World Mirror, January 1909.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Comments on T. J. Gallagher.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 389.
Ibid., p. 1300.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 42.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “On Early Economies.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “Interview with Mrs. William C. Rudd.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 33.
Ibid.
New York Herald, November 29, 1908.
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 43.
AN, B130, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Allan Nevins, April 9 1937.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 900.
Ibid., p. 96.
Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, p. 69.
Dolson, The Great Oildorado, p. 43.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 5, 1902.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1472.
Winkelman, John D. Rockefeller, p. 42.
Dolson, The Great Oildorado, p. 31.
Ibid., p. 132.
Ibid.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 62.
Dolson, The Great Oildorado, p. 60.
Hawke, John D., p. 27.
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
RAC, Inglis notes, III 2.H B4 F20, p. 5.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 133.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 251.
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 183.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 261.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, October 8, 1903; and B 14/15, “Interview with James Clark.”
RAC, Inglis notes, III 2.H B4 F20, p. 4.
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
Dolson, The Great Oildorado, p. 177.
Ibid., pp. 180–81.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, pp. 34–35.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 187.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 188.
Ibid., p. 189.
Ibid.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 59.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 190.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 36.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 260.
Ibid., p. 367.
The New York Times, March 13, 1915.
Ibid.
RAC, III 1S B1 F56, letter from Harvey B. Spelman to “Esteemed Cousin,” April 6, 1879.
In Memoriam: Mrs. Lucy Henry Spelman, p. 71.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 46.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 79.
Ibid., p. 17.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, “Miss Spelman’s Recollections.”
The New York Times, March 13, 1915.
RAC, III 1. SL B2 F11, “1855 Valedictory Address.”
Ibid.
RAC, III 1.SL B1 F8, letter from Laura Spelman to Mrs. Hawley, May 16, 1858.
RAC, III 1.SL B2 F11, unidentified article, March 18, 1859.
RAC, III 2.Z B20.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11.
RAC, III 1.SL B1 F8, letter from Laura Spelman to Mrs. Hawley, April 30, 1860.
Winkler, John D., p. 68.
The World, March 1, 1908.
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 67.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 115.
IMT, uncataloged material. Letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, August 6 1903.
CHAPTER 6: THE POETRY OF THE AGE
Mellon, Thomas Mellon and His Times, p. 238.
Twain and Warner, The Gilded Age, p. 87.
Rugoff, America’s Gilded Age, p. 42.
Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, p. 589.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 131.
Dolson, The Great Oildorado, p. 138.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Bad Temper.”
AN, B120, “Interview with John T. Sencabaugh.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “On Training Executives.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, pp. 156–57.
Dolson, The Great Oildorado, p. 99.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1086.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “H. C. Folger vs. Tarbell.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Early Standard Oil History.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1477.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 208.
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F270.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 11.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 272.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 59.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1.
AN, B130.
Inglis, “Impressions of John D. Rockefeller,” p. 22.
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 528.
Ibid., p. 406.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 52.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 10.
Boston Herald, July 3, 1927.
Flynn, Men of Wealth, p. 73.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “Interview with P. S. Trainor.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 32.
Ibid., p. 52.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Charles M. Higgins Interview.”
David Leon Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 18.
Ibid.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 22.
David Leon Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 43.
Ibid., p. 44.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 77.
The Cleveland Leader, March 4 and 5, 1867.
The New York Daily Tribune, December 23, 1906.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 22.
Ibid., pp. 23–25.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Charles M. Higgins Interview.”
David Leon Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 260.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 211.
David Leon Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 82.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 176–77.
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
Hawke, John D., p. 189.
Philadelphia Press, February 2, 1896.
AN, vol. 4, no. 26, B118, letter from Henry M. Flagler to Mr. Rutter, April 30, 1878.
RAC, vol. 220, no. 227, letter to Mr. Barstow, April 3, 1907.
McClure’s Magazine, July 1905.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 256.
AN, B113 F 28, letter to W. H. Thompson, May 2, 1885.
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F270, letter to Laura S. Rockefeller, August 19, 1868.
McClure’s Magazine, July 1905.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 3.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, pp. 93–94.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1446.
McClure’s Magazine, July 1905.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1657.
Ibid., p. 973.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 264.
CHAPTER 7: MILLIONAIRES’ ROW
Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, p. 71.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Mr. Rockefeller’s Humor.”
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 87.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Cleveland.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Joe Davidson.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Rockefeller on Aloofness.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 32.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 838.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.13, “Golf with Rockefeller.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 32.
AN, B131, “Interview with Aunt Lute.”
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 9.
Chicago Sunday Tribune, October 6, 1907.
AN, B131, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Allan Nevins, January 9 1937.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 80.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1922.
IMT, unmarked box, “Conversation with Mr. Southard.”
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 232.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1922.
Ibid.
Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 10.
Ibid., p. 11.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 101.
Jones, The Correspondence of Mother Jones, p. 138.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 32.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 70.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 80.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 14.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 195.
CHAPTER 8: CONSPIRATORS
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 97–98.
Ibid., p. 1063.
Ibid., p. 96.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 230.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 2.
Ibid., p. 1647.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 82.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1399.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” “Interview with John Prindle.”
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, November 3, 1918.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1557.
Ibid., p. 460.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 51.
Hawke, John D., p. 68.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 27.
SOCMB, 1870–1885.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 100.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1306.
AN, B128.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 15.
Flynn, Men of Wealth, p. 444.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 19.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 321.
Ibid., p. 115.
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F270, letter to Laura S. Rockefeller, November 30, 1871
Ibid., December 1, 1871.
Ibid., January 25, 1872.
Ibid., December 1, 1871.
Ibid., January 20, 1872.
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F270.
Hawke, John D., p. 86.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 164.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 47.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 71.
The Courier, February 28, 1872.
Pittsburgh Commercial, March 1, 1872.
Dolson, The Great Oildorado, p. 265.
Hawke, John D., p. 85.
AN, B120, “Interview with Joseph Seep.”
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 30.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, pp. 23–24.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1369.
Ibid., p. 115.
American Magazine, November 1910.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 339.
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F270, letter to Laura S. Rockefeller, March 15, 1872.
Ibid., March 21, 1872.
Ibid., March 22, 1872.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 98.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 94.
Ibid., p. 96.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 203.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 130.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 65.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 384.
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, pp. 112, 114.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 157.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 364.
IMT, uncataloged material, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, October 20, 1902.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 63.
IMT, B AB-1, “Interview with J. W. Fawcett.”
Ibid.
IMT, B 1/14 T-082, “J. W. Fawcett interview.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 21.
IMT, B AB-1, “Interview with J. W. Fawcett.”
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 330.
Ibid., p. 1037.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 135.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F17.
Russell, Freedom Versus Organization, p. 317.
RAC, III 2.H B2 F11.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 30.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 141.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 319.
The New Yorker, January 29, 1927.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 159.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1215.
Flynn, God’s Gold, pp. 159–60.
IMT, uncataloged material, “Affidavit of John D. Rockefeller,” in Standard Oil v. William S. Scofield et al.
Wilson, Famous Old Euclid Avenue, p. 149.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Genesis of Standard Oil.”
The New York Sun, March 6, 1872.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 559.
Ibid., p. 1383.
Ibid., p. 50.
The New York Herald, November 29, 1908.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1582.
Ibid., p. 1210.
Ibid., p. 200.
Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, pp. 95, 91.
Ibid., p. 88.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 401.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 555.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 373.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 601.
Ibid., p. 299.
Ibid., p. 1589.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 34.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 195.
Ibid., p. 274.
Ibid., p. 257.
Ibid., p. 1217.
Ibid., p. 244.
CHAPTER 9: THE NEW MONARCH
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, pp. 104–5.
Ibid., pp. 105–6.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 575.
Ibid., p. 134.
Ibid., pp. 526, 757.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. 125.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 175.
Ibid., p. 99.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 174.
Winkler, John D., p. 117.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 16.
RAC, 1.2 B71 F528, letter from William G. Warden, November 22, 1884.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 271.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 388.
RAC, 1.2 B63 F468, letter from Charles Pratt, October 4, 1881.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1611.
AN, B130, “Interview with Mr. Ellis.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1589.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 118.
The World, March 31, 1890.
Moore, John D. Archbold, p. 98.
The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 348.
RAC, 1.2 B51 F377, letter from John D. Archbold, January 23, 1878.
Ibid., January 31, 1878.
Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth, p. 74.
Summers, Johnson Newlon Camden, p. 174.
Ibid., p. 175.
RAC, 1.2 B54 F401, letter from J. N. Camden, March 20, 1878.
Forbes, September 29, 1917.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 33.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1031.
Ibid., p. 802.
The Atlantic Monthly, March 1881.
RAC, III 2.4 B3 F14.
Manning, The Standard Oil Company, p. 21.
CHAPTER 10: SPHINX
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 153.
Middletown (Connecticut) Press, April 23, 1922.
The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.
Ibid., May 23, 1925.
Hawke, John D., p. 158.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 190.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 201, and Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 70.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 91.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Mr. Rockefeller on Concentration.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 328.
The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 154.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis impressions.”
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” “Interview with John Prindle.”
AN, B120, “Interview with John T. Sencabaugh.”
Hawke, John D., p. 44.
Lundberg, The Rockefeller Syndrome, p. 115.
The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.
Flynn, Men of Wealth, p. 448.
AN, B11 F19, letter from John D. Archbold, September 25, 1881.
Ibid.
AN, B113 F32, letter from F. T. Barstow, September 13, 1886.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 328.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “How to Develop Executives.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 327.
AN, B126, letter from Frederick T. Gates to William O. Inglis, April 7, 1920.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 67.
Beer, Hanna, p. 249.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 290.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 74.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Owego.”
Winkler, John D., p. 67.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “The Red Notebook.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 281.
AN, B129.
Moore, John D. Archbold, p. 118.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 237.
The New York Sun, November 30, 1878.
Nation’s Business, April 1931.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1300.
Packard, “Informal History of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio),” p. 65.
The New York Herald, November 29, 1908.
CHAPTER 11: THE HOLY FAMILY
McClure’s Magazine, August 1905.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 164.
AN, B108 F6, letter to H. M. Sinclair, November 5, 1877.
RAC, III 2.Z B20 F3, letter from Laura Spelman Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 10, 1909.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura Spelman Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 29, 1896.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 30.
Ibid., p. 8.
RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from Kate Strong Sewall to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., December 21, 1925.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., pp. 8–9.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 13.
Middletown (Connecticut) Press, April 23, 1922.
AN, B131, “Interview with Dr. Biggar.”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1922.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 10.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 81.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 39.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1922.
RAC, III 2.Z B44.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 343.
AN, B110 F15, letter to the Reverend J. E. Clough, June 13, 1885.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12.
Russell, Freedom Versus Organization, p. 314.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 642.
The Dunbar News, April 23, 1930.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1922.
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, pp. 104–5.
RAC, III 1.S B1 F6, letter from Harvey B. Spelman to Mr. F. Spelman, May 26, 1878.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, “Recollections of Father.”
AN, B110 F15, letter to Eliza Rockefeller, June 8, 1885.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 26.
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 21.
AN, B128, “Interview with Mr. Murray.”
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F273, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Bessie Otis, October 18, 1890.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 337.
AN, B128, “Interview with James C. Jones.”
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 160.
HDL, reel 27, “Frank Rockefeller testimony, 1876, before a House of Commerce Committee.”
Hawke, John D., p. 201.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Washington Gladden.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 377.
IMT, B 1/14 T-082, “Fawcett Interview.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 71.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. 166.
CHAPTER 12: INSURRECTION IN THE OIL FIELDS
RAC, 1.2 B62 F458, letter from Daniel O’Day, October 24, 1879.
AN, B127.
AN, B133, memo by S.C.T. Dodd.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “Theodore M. Towl.”
The New York Sun, November 30, 1878.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 297.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 741; Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 235.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 116.
Ibid., pp. 119–20.
The New York Sun, November 4, 1878.
Hawke, John D., p. 111.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1303.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 82.
AN, B132, “Interview with William M. Potts.”
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. 194.
AN, B108 F3, letter from J. N. Camden to A. C. McGregor, February 17, 1876.
AN, B108 F6, letter to J. N. Camden, February 4, 1878.
AN, B108 F3, letter from J. N. Camden, July 18, 1876.
Ibid., letter from J. N. Camden to A. McDonald, November 28, 1876; Summers, Johnson Newlon Camden, p. 181.
AN, B128, letter to J. N. Camden, March 11, 1878.
RAC, 1.2 B54 F401, letter from J. N. Camden, December 21, 1877.
AN, B113 F52, letter from Daniel O’Day to John D. Archbold, August 7, 1886.
RAC, 1.2 B62 F459, letter from Daniel O’Day, May 29, 1880.
Hawke, John D., p. 128.
RAC, 1.2 B54 F461, letter from J. N. Camden to H. M. Flagler, July 17, 1878.
RAC, 1.2 B51 F377, letter from John D. Archbold, December 28, 1877.
Hawke, John D., p. 129.
RAC, 1.2 B62 F458, letter from Daniel O’Day, January 14, 1878.
Ibid., letter from Daniel O’Day, March 23, 1878.
Beer, Hanna, p. 70.
AN, B108 F6, letter from H. M. Flagler to J. H. Devereux, December 31, 1877.
Akin, Flagler, p. 81.
AN, B109 F8, letter from H. M. Flagler to H. J. Hewett, April 25, 1878.
Ibid., letters from A. N. Cole, March 4 and May 14, 1878.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 205.
Martin, Florida’s Flagler, p. 74.
Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, p. 1025.
RAC, 1.2 B62 F458, letter from Daniel O’Day, October 25, 1879.
RAC, 1.2 B56 F414, letter from H. M. Flagler, May 10, 1879.
Winkler, John D., p. 124.
AN, B110 F13, letter to Captain J. J. Vandergrift, December 2, 1879.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 319.
Ibid., vol. I, p. 331.
AN, B131, letter from O. H. Payne, March 1, 1879.
Ibid., letter to O. H. Payne, March 5, 1879.
Wall and Gibb, Teagle of Jersey Standard, p. 20.
AN, B110 F11, letter to Captain J. J. Vandergrift, May 19, 1879.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 141; Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 141.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 219.
American Heritage, December 1964.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 218.
Winkler, John D., p. 125.
Hawke, John D., p. 150.
RAC, 1.2 B62 F459, letter from Daniel O’Day, March 11, 1880.
CHAPTER 13: SEAT OF EMPIRE
Beer, Hanna, p. 124.
Hawke, John D., p. 99.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 323.
The New York Sun, November 30, 1878.
Ibid.
The Boston Herald, July 3, 1927.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 34.
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F273, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 20, 1888
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 83.
Truth, July 1891.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 37.
The New York Daily Tribune, December 23, 1906.
Lawson, Frenzied Finance, p. 5.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 229.
Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 135.
The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 413; Hawke, John D., p. 171.
Nation’s Business, April 1931.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “Joseph Seep.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, pp. 30–31.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1581.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 13.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 191.
Ibid., p. 388.
Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 48.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 66–67.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 392.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1290.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 505.
Amory, The Last Resorts, p. 335.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.13, “Interview Questions 1929.”
Flynn, Men of Wealth, p. 451.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 36.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1107.
RAC, III 2.H B1 F8, “Taylor History.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, pp. 502–3.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 4, 1906.
Leslie’s Weekly, February 2, 1905.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 84.
Reader’s Digest, April 1927.
The New York Tribune, n.d. [1906].
Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 14.
Innes, Creating the Commonwealth, p. 26.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 91.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 19.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 37.
IMT, B 1/14 T-020, letter from Vinnie C. Hicks to Ida Tarbell, June 29, 1905.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 87.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 39.
RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Kate Strong, January 18, 1888.
AN, B131, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Allan Nevins, January 8, 1937.
The Metropolitan Magazine, December 1904.
AN, B113 F32, letter to Benjamin Brewster, August 3, 1886.
AN, B114 F34, letter to George Rogers, June 8, 1887.
Ibid.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 194.
Ibid., p. 95.
AN, B112 F24, letter to Mr. Dowling, December 1, 1883.
AN, B110 F15, letter to Rev. Edward W. Oakes, April 27, 1885.
Brumberg, Mission for Life, p. 187.
Rose, “Why Chicago and Not Cleveland?”
AN, B112 F26, letter to Mr. Reynolds, March 8, 1884.
Read, The Story of Spelman College, p. 64.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., pp. 373–74.
AN, B115 F37, letter to Dr. Morehouse, August 25, 1888.
RAC, III 1.CO B30 F233, letter from Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles, December 29, 1883.
Read, The Story of Spelman College, p. 82.
Ibid.
AN, B110 F15, letter to Dr. Morehouse, April 25, 1885.
Rose, “Why Chicago and Not Cleveland?”
RAC, III 2.Z B30 F233, letter from S. B. Packard and H. E. Giles, November 7, 1888.
CHAPTER 14: THE PUPPETEER
AN, B112 F26, letter to Mr. Barstow, July 12, 1884.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), pp. 122–23.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 10.
Business Week, July 17, 1995.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 135.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 10.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 184.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 147.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 115.
RAC, 1.2 B51, letter from John D. Archbold, July 13, 1892.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 66.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 627.
Ibid., p. 582.
AN, B117 F68, letter to President Charles Eliot, December 31, 1914.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 992.
Ibid., p. 727.
AN, B110 F15, letter to A. J. Cassatt, March 29, 1881.
RAC, 1.2 B69 F513, letter from W. P. Thompson, February 15, 1886.
RAC, 1.2 B69 F570, letter from W. P. Thompson, January 31, 1885.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 6.
AN, B112 F23, letter to Oliver H. Payne, May 3, 1883.
The New York Herald, December 31, 1906.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 50.
AN, B110 F16, letter to Oliver H. Payne, March 18, 1881.
Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 69.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 259.
RAC, 1.2 B69 F508, letter from W. P. Thompson, May 23, 1881.
AN, B128, “Charles M. Higgins interview.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1409.
RAC, 1.2 B69 F508.
Ibid., letters from W. P. Thompson, May 23, 1881, and May 15, 1882.
RAC, 1.2 B69 F508.
AN, B112 F23, letter to O. H. Payne, January 30, 1883.
RAC, 1.2 B51 F379, letter from John D. Archbold, December 9, 1891.
The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1402.
The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.
Ibid.
AN, B120, “Interview with Joseph Seep.”
AN, B131, letter to H. C. Folger, September 21, 1885.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 224.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 194.
AN, B133, letter from Henry Demarest Lloyd to George Rice, November 20, 1891.
The Saturday Evening Post, December 7, 1907.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1407.
RAC, 1.2 B69 F513, letter from W. P. Thompson, February 3, 1886.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1555.
Ibid., p. 531.
AN, B110 F15, letter to Colgate Hoyt, July 17, 1882.
The Tribune, February 28, 1888.
Baldwin, Edison, p. 137.
AN, B115 F37, letter from G. A. Shelby, October 17, 1888.
RAC, 1.2 B62 F461, letter from Daniel O’Day, October 16, 1886.
AN, B113 F32, letter from Daniel O’Day to Henry M. Flagler, July 7, 1886.
AN, B114 F35, letter from Charles Foster, January 4, 1888.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 213.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 63.
RAC, 1.2 B66 F487, letter from anonymous Bradford producer, May 12, 1887.
AN, B114 F33, letter from anonymous oil producer, May 12, 1887.
AN, B115 F38, letter from P. O. Laughner, June 10, 1888.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 1210–11.
Ibid., p. 181.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 194.
AN, B130.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 527.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Lewis Emery, Jr.”
Ibid.
RAC, 1.2 B51 F379, letter from John D. Archbold, July 13, 1892.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, pp. 70–71.
RAC, 1.2 B68 F507, letter from W. P. Thompson, November 21, 1879.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1059.
RAC, 1.2 B54 F404, letter from W. H. Tilford, October 15, 1885.
Ibid., letter from L. T. Rosengarten to W. H. Tilford, October 10, 1885.
The Atlantic Monthly, March 1881.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 333.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1302.
AN, B114 F35, letter to Rev. H. S. Lloyd, March 9, 1888.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “William W. Clark.”
The World, March 29, 1890.
Truth, July 1891.
Packard, “Informal History of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio),” pp. 107, 144.
AN, B114 F34, letter from William G. Warden, May 24, 1887.
Ibid.
RAC, vol. 13, p. 356, letter to William G. Warden, May 31, 1887.
CHAPTER 15: WIDOW’S FUNERAL
The World, March 1, 1908.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 30, 1937.
The World, February 2, 1908.
The World, March 1, 1908.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
RAC, vol. 19, no. 191, letter to an unnamed cousin, March 28, 1889.
RAC, vol. 3, no. 244, letter to Frank Rockefeller, March 30, 1882.
RAC, vol. 19, no. 168, letter to Frank Rockefeller, February 10, 1889.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “J. W. Slaght Interview.”
AN, B115 F38, letter to Uncle Egbert Rockefeller, April 18, 1889.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 30, 1937.
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F273, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Bessie Otis, October 18, 1890.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.C B59 F466, letter to Frank Rockefeller, September 28, 1898.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “J. W. Slaght Interview.”
IMT, T-057, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, August 6, 1903.
IMT, T-054, B1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, May 2, 1903.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “J. W. Slaght Interview.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 23.
AN, B111 F21, letter from Oliver H. Payne, March 15, 1882.
AN, B110 F15, letter from Frank Rockefeller, April 3, 1884.
AN, B112 F23, letter from Frank Rockefeller, April 8, 1883.
AN, B110 F15, letter to Frank Rockefeller, November 18, 1884.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 23.
AN, B115 F38, letter from Frank Rockefeller, May 17, 1887.
RAC, 1.2 B64 F471, letter from Frank Rockefeller, September 3, 1886.
RAC, 1.2 B64 F472, letter from Frank Rockefeller, December 10, 1886.
Ibid., letter from Frank Rockefeller, February 19, 1887.
Packard, “Informal History of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio),” p. 126.
CHAPTER 16: A MATTER OF TRUST
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 97.
RAC, 1.2 B51 F378, letter from John D. Archbold, September 24, 1885.
The New York Herald, October 15, 1922.
RAC, 1.2 B51 F377, letter from John D. Archbold, September 25, 1884.
RAC, vol. 191, no. 134, letter to Charles Pratt, September 17, 1888.
Packard, “Informal History of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio),” p. 131.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 557.
RAC, III 2.H B1 F8, “Taylor History.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 557.
The New York Herald, May 5, 1891.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 29.
Collier’s, July 2, 1927.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 21.
AN, B113 F32, letter from Daniel O’Day, July 17, 1886.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 163.
Baldwin, Edison, p. 48.
The World, June 6, 1890.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 100.
Ibid., p. 101.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 165.
RAC, 1.2 B51 F379, letter from John D. Archbold, December 9, 1881.
Swanberg, Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress, p. 79.
Ibid., p. 53.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 103.
Swanberg, Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress, p. 39.
Swanberg, Pulitzer, p. 89.
AN, B110 F15.
Swanberg, Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress, p. 79.
RAC, vol. 232, no. 166, letter to H. C. Folger, October 24, 1910.
RAC, 1.2 B54 F403, letter from J. N. Camden to H. M. Flagler, January 17 1881.
Ibid., January 29, 1881.
Ibid., March 16, 1882.
The World, May 19, 1887.
Moore, John D. Archbold, p. 109.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 7, 1907.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 61.
RAC, 1.2 B69 F513, letter from W. P. Thompson, April 27, 1886.
RAC, 1.2 B69 F570, letter from W. P. Thompson, January 26, 1888.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 861.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 144.
Flynn, God’s Gold, pp. 283–84.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 214.
Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth, p. 28.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 69–70.
The New York Herald Tribune, March 17, 1940.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 861.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller, p. 224.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 123.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 131.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 223.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), pp. 206–7.
RAC, 1.2 B51 F378, letter from John D. Archbold, August 15, 1888.
AN, B113 F28, letter from M. A. Hanna, August 31, 1885.
The New York Weekly World, April 2, 1890.
CHAPTER 17: CAPTAINS OF ERUDITION
AN, B115 F38, letter to Mr. Potter, n.d.
The Philadelphia Press, December 22, 1906.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 161.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 156.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 7, 1906.
RAC, vol. 13, no. 347.
Sandage, “I Do So Long to Save My Husband,” p. 2.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 109.
AN, B111 F21, letter to Mr. Edward Judson, November 29, 1892.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 312.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 342.
UC–JDR, B1 F2, letter from Dr. Augustus H. Strong, November 26, 1887.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from V. C. Hicks to Ida Tarbell, June 29, 1905.
McCormick, George Santayana, p. 283.
Ibid.
Wacker, Augustus H. Strong, p. 84.
Ibid., p. 101.
AN, B130, letter from Dr. Augustus Strong, January 4, 1887.
Ibid., editorial note from T. W. Goodspeed.
McCormick, George Santayana, p. 282.
Santayana, The Letters of George Santayana, p. 22.
UC–JDR, B1 F2, letter from Dr. Augustus H. Strong, November 26, 1887.
Ibid., letter from W. R. Harper, January 11, 1887.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, pp. 112, 116.
The New York Tribune, September 21, 1890.
AN, B130, letter from William Rainey Harper to T.W. Goodspeed, November 7, 1887.
AN, B115, letter to Rev. D. W. Hulburt, July 30, 1888.
AN, B113 F31, letter to W. H. Doan, March 12, 1886.
RAC–FTG, B4 F80, letter from Frederick T. Gates to H. L. Morehouse, October 9, 1888.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 170.
RAC, Inglis notes, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 54.
Ibid.
AN, B130, letter from W. R. Harper to T. W. Goodspeed, November 5, 1888.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 28.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 107.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 106.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57.
Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth, p. 123.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 228.
RAC–FTG, B4 F80, letter from F. T. Gates to Dr. Augustus Strong, November 18, 1890.
AN, B125, Frederick T. Gates, autobiography manuscript, p. 211.
Jonas, The Circuit Riders, p. 17.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, pp. 92–93.
AN, B117 F59, letter from F. T. Gates, April 24, 1905.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.13, “Interview Questions 1929.”
Forbes, September 29, 1917.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 119.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 181.
AN, B130, letter from F. T. Gates to T. W. Goodspeed, January 9, 1915.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 220.
AN, B130, letter from T. W. Goodspeed to W. R. Harper, January 22, 1889.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 24.
AN, B115 F37, letter to W. R. Harper, January 15, 1889.
AN, B130, letter to W. R. Harper, January 11, 1889.
UC–JDR, B1 F11, letter of August 6, 1890.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 47.
UC–JDR, B1 F10, letter from W. R. Harper, June 13, 1890.
Ibid., letter from F. T. Gates, July 29, 1891.
RAC–FTG, B4 F80, letter from F. T. Gates to W. R. Harper, April 27, 1891.
Ibid., letter from F. T. Gates to Dr. Stephens, January 10, 1891.
RAC–FTG, B4 F80, letter from F. T. Gates to W. R. Harper, April 27, 1891.
The World, June 14, 1925.
AN, B115 F38, letter to Mr. Severance, June 14, 1889.
The New York Times, May 24, 1937.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 31.
Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 35.
RAC–FTG, B4 F80, letter from F. T. Gates, June 30, 1892.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 7, 1906.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 11, 1891.
AN, B132, letter to J. D. Archbold, June 17, 1891.
AN, B130, letter from F. T. Gates to T. W. Goodspeed, February 23, 1892.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 88.
UC–JDR, B11 F6, letter from W. R. Harper, May 7, 1892.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 193.
The Chicago Times Herald, November 3, 1895.
Ibid.
Destler, Henry Demarest Lloyd, p. 370.
AN, B130, letter from F. T. Gates to W. R. Harper, May 29, 1893.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, and The Dial, July 16, 1896.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 50.
RAC, vol. 217, no. 423, letter to Frederick T. Gates, April 14, 1905.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1664.
Ibid., p. 1259.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 308.
AN, B128, “Interview with Mr. Murray.”
RAC–FTG, B2 F30, letter from F. T. Gates to Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, April 6, 1908.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 268.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 265.
CHAPTER 18: NEMESIS
AN, B115 F41, letter from Frank Rockefeller, May 8, 1890.
Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 82.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 230.
AN, B116 F43, letter from M. A. Hanna, April 7, 1891.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 301.
Burr, The Portrait of a Banker, p. 119.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 648.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 121.
Moody, The Masters of Capital, p. 58.
Hawke, John D., p. 200.
AN, B126, letter to Laura S. Rockefeller, September 2, 1893.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Help to End Panics.”
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 326.
Ibid., and Burr, The Portrait of a Banker, p. 117.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 586.
Destler, Henry Demarest Lloyd, p. 292.
Ibid., p. 295.
HDL, reel 8, letter from Robert Louis Stevenson to Mr. Iles, December 14, 1887.
Wiebe, The Search for Order, p. 64.
AN, B133, letter from H. D. Lloyd to H. M. Hyndman, January 14, 1895.
Destler, Henry Demarest Lloyd, p. 238.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “Interview with Dr. H. A. Cuppy.”
Destler, Henry Demarest Lloyd, p. 248.
HDL, reel 27.
AN, B131, letter from H. D. Lloyd to Samuel Jones, August 7, 1899.
Destler, Henry Demarest Lloyd, p. 454.
Ibid., p. 9.
Ibid., p. 170.
HDL, reel 8, letter from H. D. Lloyd to Mrs. Ford, September 8, 1896.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 103.
AN, B130, letter from W. D. Howells to H. D. Lloyd, November 2, 1894.
The American Historical Review, April 1945.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1237.
HDL, reel 8, letter from H. D. Lloyd to Mrs. Ford, September 8, 1896.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57, “The Secret of Mr. Rockefeller’s Character and Success.
AN, B116 F50, letter to J. D. Archbold, June 4, 1896.
AN, B126, letter to Cyrus McCormick, September 20, 1897.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 44.
Akin, Flagler, p. 255.
The New York Daily Tribune, December 23, 1906.
Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 99.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 241.
RAC, 1.2 B56 F416, letter from H. M. Flagler, March 8, 1889.
AN, B130, letter to W. R. Harper, February 28, 1898.
RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 28, 1900.
CHAPTER 19: THE DAUPHIN
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 45.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 47, and RAC, III 2.Z B46.
AN, B133.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F24, “Profit Sharing as a Remedy for Industrial Ills,” by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
HDL, reel 10, letter from Henry Demarest Lloyd to Morley Roberts, August 23, 1899.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 11.
RAC, III 1.2 B36 F273, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., September 27, 1893.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 51.
Ibid., p. 41.
RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from William B. Peck to Charles Towne, April 9, 1953.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F25.
RAC, III 2.Z B44, “The College Career of Johnny Rock,” by Charles Towne.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 75.
Ibid., p. 64.
Ibid., p. 61.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 85.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
McClure’s Magazine, February 24, 1905.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 4.
Time, September 24, 1956.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” pp. 14–15.
Ibid., p. 16.
Ibid., p. 81.
RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 28, 1897.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 214.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 83.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F25, “Interview with Charles O. Heydt.”
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 107.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 90.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 215.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 89.
RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 3, 1897.
Ibid., letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., July 23, 1899.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 100.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 77.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 100.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 79.
Ibid., p. 3.
RAC, 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Abby Aldrich Rockefeller to Lucy Green, March 24, 1915.
The Oakland Enquirer, August 27, 1901.
Town Topics, August 24, 1901.
Aldrich, Old Money, p. 24.
AN, B130.
CHAPTER 20: THE STANDARD OIL CROWD
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 164.
Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 1.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 15.
Ibid., p. 16.
Ibid., p. 74.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Jonas, The Circuit Riders, pp. 24–25.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57, letter from F. T. Gates, January 18, 1892.
RAC–FTG, B3 F62, speech given at the tenth anniversary of the RIMR.
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 174.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57, F. T. Gates memo of December 31, 1926.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 240.
Ibid., p. 241.
AN, B130, quoted in a letter from F. T. Gates to W. R. Harper, November 30 1889.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 109.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 210.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 293.
AN, B122, “Everett Colby interview.”
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 160.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 135.
RAC–FTG, B4 F80, letter from F. T. Gates to Brother Sunderland, April 20, 1891.
RAC–FTG, B1 F14, letter from F. T. Gates, January 2, 1924.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 163.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 131.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 168.
Ibid., p. 169.
Ibid., p. 173.
AN, B116 F46A, letter from George Rogers, July 25, 1893.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 240.
AN, B117 F66, letter from F. T. Gates to A. S. Ochs, January 18, 1912.
The New York Daily Tribune, February 17, 1907.
RAC, vol. 215, no. 266.
AN, B128, “Interview with Starr Murphy.”
AN, B116 F50, letter from F. T. Gates to W. W. Huntington, June 6, 1896.
Gates, The Truth About Mr. Rockefeller and the Merritts, p. 16.
AN, B130, “Interview with Henry Cooper.”
AN, B117 F67, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 23, 1913.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57, letter from F. T. Gates, May 6, 1907.
AN, B117 F65, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 31, 1911.
AN, B117 F67, letter to Bertram Cutler, December 31, 1913.
RAC–FTG, B3 F49, “Frederick T. Gates Speech in 1911 to the Missouri Pacific Board.”
Henry Clews, 50 Years on Wall Street, pp. 745–46.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 46.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 90.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 993.
AN, B126, “Interview with William T. Sheppard.”
RAC, B114 F33, letter to William Rockefeller, March 26, 1887.
AN, B130.
RAC, 1.2 B56 F416, letter from H. M. Flagler, February 7, 1897.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, pp. 285–86.
Elmer, Cinderella Rockefeller, p. 4.
Ibid.
AN, B116 F55, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 26, 1901.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 47.
AN, B128, “Interview with C. M. Higgins.”
The Evening Post, May 19, 1909.
Lawson, Frenzied Finance, dedication.
Ibid., pp. 294, vi.
Ibid., p. 35.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 347.
Ibid., p. 291.
AN, B116 F58, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., July 26, 1904.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Miss Tarbell, etc.”
AN, B126, “Interview with William T. Sheppard.”
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 335.
Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, p. 258.
Ibid., p. 257.
Twain, Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, p. 5.
Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, p. 323.
Twain, Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, p. 466.
Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 83.
Ibid., p. 99.
Lash, Helen and Teacher, p. 209.
Ibid., p. 210.
Ibid., p. 355.
Ibid., p. 588.
AN, B130, “Interview with Charles Schwab.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 80.
HDL, reel 27, “Opening Statement of Henry E. Harris in Alfred Merritt vs. John D. Rockefeller.”
AN, B126, letter to Laura S. Rockefeller, September 2, 1893.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 80.
AN, B116 F49.
Ibid.
AN, B116 F46a, letter from Frederick T. Gates to Frank Rockefeller, April 7, 1893.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 85.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 262.
Wall, Andrew Carnegie, p. 600.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 274.
Wall, Andrew Carnegie, p. 170.
Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 134.
AN, B132, letter to F. Barstow, July 21, 1896.
Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 146.
Lyon, Success Story, p. 175.
Ibid., p. 176.
Chernow, The House of Morgan, pp. 103–4.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, pp. 268–69.
Allen, The Great Pierpont Morgan, p. 143.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 350.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 269.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 105.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 270.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 5, 1901.
AN, B126, “Interview with William Sheppard.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 271.
Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 188.
AN, B116 F55, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 12, 1901.
Ibid., March 16, 1901.
Ibid., March 15, 1901.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 274.
AN, B117 F60.
AN, B120.
RAC, 2.C B60 F470, memo of George Rogers, October 20, 1894.
Ibid., letter to Stevenson Burke, November 19, 1894.
IMT, B 4/14 T-298, “Notes on Interview with Frank Rockefeller.”
AN, B116 F49, letter to James Corrigan, April 24, 1895.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 416.
RAC, III 2.C B59 F464, “Memo of February 29, 1896.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 24.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 66.
RAC, III 2.C B60 F468, letter to William Rockefeller, September 20, 1901.
Hawke, John D., p. 204.
CHAPTER 21: THE ENTHUSIAST
The New Era, June 11, 1897.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1615.
McClure’s Magazine, August 1905.
Middletown (Connecticut) Press, April 3, 1922.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57, “The Secret of Mr. Rockefeller’s Character and Success.
Middletown (Connecticut) Press, April 3, 1922.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F15, “Interview with Elias M. Johnson.”
Ibid.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 133.
RAC, III 2.H F18, “Golf with John D. Rockefeller.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.13, “Golf with Rockefeller.”
Memphis (Tennessee) Commercial Appeal, October 21, 1918.
RAC, vol. 214, no. 98.
AN, B126, letter to Laura S. Rockefeller, September 2, 1893.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57, “The Secret of Mr. Rockefeller’s Character and Success.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 34.
AN, B126, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Everett Colby, September 24, 1900.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 293.
RAC, vol. 212, no. 472, letter to Laura Rudd, November 29, 1904.
AN, B117 F60, expense account, January–February 1906.
Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, p. 37.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 37.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 291.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 228.
AN, B132, letter from George D. Rogers to Laura S. Rockefeller, March 11, 1892.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” pp. 86–87.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1414.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 116.
Biggar, Compiègne and Personal Reminiscences, p. 97.
RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from Charles Eliot to Frederick T. Gates, December 23, 1910.
The New York Herald, October 3, 1907.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.14, “Ira Warner Memo.”
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 139.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Miss Tarbell, etc.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Bad Temper.”
RAC, vol. 213, no. 307, letter to Watson Van Duyne, March 27, 1905.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 23.
RAC, vol. 217, no. 355, letter to George Rogers, March 31, 1906.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 23.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1267.
RAC, vol. 213, no. 307, letter to Watson Van Duyne, March 27, 1905.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., quoted in an Associated Press article, attached to a letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 15, 1935.
RAC, vol. 235, no. 464, letter to Dr. Henry Moeller, November 15, 1911.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, March 1901.
AN, B133.
McClure’s Magazine, August 1905.
RAC, vol. 216, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, November 1, 1905.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” pp. 31–32.
AN, B130, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to W. R. Harper, September 24, 1892.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, April 1904.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, March 14, 1915.
AN, B128, “Interview with H. V. Sims.”
Ibid.
Ibid., letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Allan Nevins, February 8, 1940.
RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 17, 1895.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 58.
RAC–CAS, II, letter from Charles A. Strong to William James, December 6, 1895.
Elizabeth de Cuevas, interview with author.
RAC, vol. 219, no. 6, letter to Reverend Charles Aked, February 18, 1907.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 450.
William James, Selected Unpublished Correspondence, p. 382, letter from William James to Macmillan Company, October 22, 1901.
RAC–CAS.
William James, The Letters of William James, vol. II, p. 229, letter from William James to his wife, May 13, 1905.
Lewis, The Jameses, p. 545.
William James, The Correspondence of William James, vol. III, p. 225, letter from William to Henry James, January 29, 1904.
AN, B131, letter from William James, June 1, 1909.
RAC, III 2.2 B49 F23, letter from Bessie Strong to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 12, 1904.
RAC–CAS, II, letter from Charles A. Strong to William James, October 1903.
McCormick, George Santayana, p. 553.
Ibid.
Lewis, The Jameses, p. 546.
The Chicago Daily News, March 12, 1931.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Harold McCormick, September 28, 1895.
The New York Evening Journal, August 31, 1932.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 137.
RAC, vol. 223, no. 102, letter to Harold McCormick, April 20, 1908.
The New York Evening Journal, August 31, 1932.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, October 11 1905.
RAC, vol. 215, no. 462, letter to Cyrus McCormick, October 17, 1905.
AN, B116 F56, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., November 19, 1902.
AN, B116 F57, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 26, 1903.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F253, letter from Harold McCormick, January 10, 1919.
AN, B117 F64, letter from Frederick T. Gates, November 11, 1910.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Alta Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., November 2, 1889.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F25.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, July 1912.
AN, B122, “Talk with Everett Colby.”
RAC, III 2.Z B20, quoted in letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Laura S. Rockefeller, June 25, 1895.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Alta Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 31, 1900.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, pp. 76–77.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 156.
RAC, R62 B31 F237, letter from Alta Rockefeller, February 4, 1915.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Harold McCormick, April 25, 1915.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250.
CHAPTER 22: AVENGING ANGEL
The World, October 12, 1898.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 1463, 1624.
The World, October 13, 1898, and The New York Herald, October 13, 1898
The New York Herald, March 18, 1899.
Ibid.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 26.
AN, B132, letter from Frank Monnett to Henry Demarest Lloyd, January 19, 1899.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 27.
Manning, The Standard Oil Company, p. 20.
AN, B117 F61, letter to Harold McCormick, June 29, 1907.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 121.
Ibid., p. 89.
AN, B126, letter to Andrew White, November 28, 1900.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1115.
Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 147.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 121.
Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 236.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 123.
Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 227.
Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 236.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 381.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 129.
RAC, III 2.Z B46, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 415.
Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 350.
AN, B126, letter to Mr. Baer, May 14, 1900.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 203.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 24.
Ibid., p. 83.
Ibid., p. 99.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 91.
The World, n.d. [1905].
Lyon, Success Story, p. 146.
Ibid., p. 117.
Ibid., p. 199.
Ibid., p. 152.
Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, p. 361.
Ibid., pp. 392–93.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. ix.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” letter from W. W. Tarbell to Ida Tarbell, April 14, 1893.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 45.
Ibid., p. 207.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 123.
Ibid., p. 129.
Ibid., p. 130.
Destler, Henry Demarest Lloyd, p. 353.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 132.
Twain, Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, p. 478.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 211.
Ibid., p. 212.
Ibid., p. 10.
Ibid., p. 220.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.H B14 F87, letter from William T. Sheppard to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 16, 1937.
AN, B131, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 227.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” “Memo of a conversation with Mr. Flagler.”
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 219.
AN, B126, “Interview with William T. Sheppard.”
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 126.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 230.
Ibid., p. 26.
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 287.
Ibid., p. 101.
IMT, B 1/14, “Interview with Henry H. Rogers.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 68.
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 204.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 50.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 206.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, pp. 71–72.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 51.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 94.
AN, B114 F36, letter from J. D. Archbold, May 2, 1888.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1091.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 85.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 110.
Lyon, Success Story, p. 213.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 202.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 102.
IMT, B 1/14 T-057, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, August 6, 1903.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 145.
Ibid., p. 143.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, n.d.
The American Magazine, November 1910.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Reminiscences.”
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, June 15, 1903.
Ibid.
Ibid., letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, October 26, 1903.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 234.
Ibid., p. 235.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 236.
McClure’s Magazine, August 1905.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “Myths as to Rockefeller’s Boyhood.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 403.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, January 8, 1904.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” T-066, “Memo of Interview with Frank Rockefeller, January 22, 1904.”
IMT, B 4/14 T-298, “Notes on Interview with Frank Rockefeller.”
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” T-066, “Memo of Interview with Frank Rockefeller, January 22, 1904.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “J. W. Slaght.”
Ibid.
Ibid.
The Cleveland Press, n.d. [ca. 1905].
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 137.
IMT, B 4/14 T-288, “Memo on Corrigan case.”
RAC, vol. 214, no. 347.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 28.
RAC, vol. 213, no. 348, letter to F. T. Gates, April 3, 1905.
McClure’s Magazine, July 1905.
Hughes, Music Is My Life, p. 71.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 239.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 13.
Ibid., p. 1457.
Ibid., p. 1430.
RAC, vol. 215, no. 49, letter to J. D. Archbold, July 29, 1905.
The Detroit Tribune, July 24, 1905.
The Philadelphia Ledger, July 21, 1905.
RAC, III 2.Z B46, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 232.
IMT, B 1/14 T-053, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, April 28, 1903.
Ibid.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, April 30, 1903.
IMT, B 2/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, n.d.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, September 22, 1903.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” T-066, “Memo of Interview with Frank Rockefeller, January 22, 1904.”
Rugoff, America’s Gilded Age, p. 162.
Swanberg, Pulitzer, p. 187.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “Interview with J. W. Slaght.”
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
The World, August 11, 1907.
Ibid., February 2, 1908.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 30, 1937.
Ibid.
Ibid.
The New York Times, February 3, 1908.
The World, March 1, 1908.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 23: FAITH OF FOOLS
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 8, 1936.
AN, B122, letter from F. T. Gates to George B. Atwood, April 4, 1921.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 104.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “On Gratitude and Giving.”
AN, B114 F33, letter to Frank Rockefeller, December 24, 1886.
Farm and Fireside, January 6, 1917.
Forbes, September 29, 1917.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 143.
AN, B116 F58, letter from F. T. Gates to Dr. Osler, April 13, 1904.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 144.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 421.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., et al., “Addresses to Honor the Memory of Frederick Taylor Gates,” privately printed, RAC, p. 15.
Mencken, My Life as Author and Editor, p. 276.
Flexner, An American Saga, p. 403.
Fosdick, Chronicle of a Generation, p. 218.
RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from Charles W. Eliot to F. T. Gates, December 23, 1910.
AN, B128, “Simon Flexner Interview.”
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 479.
CUOH–ABF, p. 36.
RAC, vol. 233, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 14, 1911.
Forbes, September 29, 1917.
RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from F. T. Gates to Charles W. Eliot, December 30, 1910.
Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 85.
RAC, vol. 223, no. 47, letter to Lucy Fuller, January 17, 1908.
RAC, vol. 226, no. 41, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 19, 1909.
Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, p. 105.
The Outlook, December 17, 1910.
Wall, Andrew Carnegie, p. 832.
RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from F. T. Gates to Charles W. Eliot, December 30, 1910.
AN, B119, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 11, 1919.
Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 122.
Jung, Modern Psychology, p. 71. Lectures given by Jung at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 7, 1919.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 180.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 116.
RAC–FTG, B2 F33, letter from F. T. Gates, January 26, 1911.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 8, 1936.
CHAPTER 24: THE MILLIONAIRES’ SPECIAL
Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, p. 129.
The World, April 28, 1901.
Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois, p. 271.
Read, The Story of Spelman College, p. 139.
AN, B132, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Robert C. Ogden, April 25, 1901.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 117.
Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, p. 27.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 134.
RAC–FTG, B4 F80, letter from F. T. Gates to Dr. Augustus Strong, May 14, 1891.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 118.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from Abraham Flexner to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 23, 1940.
AN, B126, letter from A. Flexner to Allan Nevins, August 25, 1950.
Abraham Flexner, Autobiography, p. 141.
Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 75.
Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 55.
Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 75.
Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, p. 241.
Du Bois, Autobiography, p. 223.
The General Education Board, The General Education Board: An Account of Its Activities, p. 220.
Abraham Flexner, Autobiography, p. 131.
Morris, Those Rockefeller Brothers, p. 140.
Ettling, The Germ of Laziness, p. 102.
Sullivan, Our Times, vol. III, p. 324.
RAC, vol. 228, no. 230, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 22, 1909.
Ettling, The Germ of Laziness, p. 107.
RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from F. T. Gates to Charles W. Eliot, December 30, 1910.
Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, p. 153.
Ibid., pp. 151–52.
RAC–FTG, B2 F34, letter from F. T. Gates, August 10, 1914.
AN, B117 F65, letter from F. T. Gates, October 23, 1911.
Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, pp. 144–45.
Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 93.
CUOH–ABF, p. 19.
Abraham Flexner, Autobiography, pp. 109–10.
“Addresses to Honor the Memory of Frederick Taylor Gates,” RAC, p. 8.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “On Stewardship.”
RAC–FTG, B3 F72, “The Ten Million Gift.”
IMT, B 1/14, T-056, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, June 24, 1903.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 359.
AN, B131, letter from F. T. Gates to W. R. Harper, February 11, 1905.
AN, B117 F59, letter to W. R. Harper, February 16, 1905.
UC–UPP, 1889–1925, B56 F1, letter from W. R. Harper, February 22, 1905.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 625.
Storr, Harper’s University, p. 366.
RAC, vol. 217, no. 76, letter to Harry Pratt Judson, January 26, 1906.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 181.
RAC–FTG, B3 F72, “The Ten Million Gift.”
RAC, vol. 225, no. 459, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 3, 1909.
AN, B117 F63, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., November 5, 1909.
RAC–FTG, B3 F72, letter from F. T. Gates, November 24, 1909.
RAC, vol. 232, no. 374, letter to University of Chicago, December 13, 1910.
Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 7.
The World, August 20, 1905.
Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, p. 528.
RAC, vol. 218, no. 460, letter to George Rogers, October 6, 1906.
Wells, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, p. 461.
RAC–FTG, B3 F58, letter from F. T. Gates to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 19, 1911.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 205.
RAC–FTG, B3 F67.
AN, B116 F57, letter from F. T. Gates to T. W. Todd, n.d. [October–November, 1903].
RAC–FTG, B2 F48, letter from F. T. Gates, n.d.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 201.
The New York Herald, March 29, 1905.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1048.
Harper’s Weekly, April 8, 1905.
New York Daily News, n.d., IMT.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 546.
CHAPTER 25: THE CODGER
The American, November 1910.
Pyle, Pocantico, p. 103.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 198.
Inglis, “Impressions of John D. Rockefeller,” typescript in AN, p. 24.
Chicago Record-Herald, December 12, 1906.
Cosmopolitan, May 1902.
RAC, 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 12, 1913.
RAC, III 2.Z B20.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 30.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 37.
RAC, vol. 230, no. 238, letter to Mr. Ailes, May 9, 1910.
RAC, vol. 227, no. 65, letter to Dr. Paul Allen, June 5, 1909.
RAC, vol. 228, no. 266, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 30, 1909.
The New York Evening World, April 27, 1901.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 192.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 60.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 22.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 193.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 6.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Ibid.
Ibid.
AN, B133, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Senator Aldrich, August 14, 1903.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 281.
New York Daily News, August 27, 1901.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
UC–UPP, 1889–1925, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to W. R. Harper, October 7, 1902.
Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 83.
RAC, vol. 214, no. 296, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 27, 1905.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 197.
RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from Dr. W.H.P. Faunce to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., September 12, 1905.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 115.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 4, 1907.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son.” pp. 35–36.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 111.
Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 4.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 407.
The New York Times, May 21, 1905.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 289.
RAC, III 2.Z B20 F4.
AN, B132, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 1940.”
RAC, III 1.SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, October 1908.
Ibid., p. 37.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 121.
RAC, vol. 226, no. 308, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 17, 1909.
RAC, vol. 229, no. 194, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 11, 1910
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 45.
CHAPTER 26: THE WORLD’S RICHEST FUGITIVE
Yergin, The Prize, p. 107.
RAC, vol. 212, p. 400, letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, November 9 1904.
Ibid.
Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 134.
IMT, 14/15, “Interview with Mr. Wickersham, May 7, 1924.”
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. 66.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 335.
Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 421.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 359.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 108.
Ibid.
AN, B117 F60, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 13, 1906.
The New York Herald, June 23, 1906.
AN, B117 F60, letter from John D. Archbold, July 5, 1906.
Ibid., quoted in a letter from George Rogers, June 25, 1906.
AN, B117 F59, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., December 5, 1905.
The New York Herald, February 13, 1906.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 92.
Ibid., p. 244.
RAC, vol. 217, no. 44, letter to William Rudd, January 18, 1906.
AN, B117 F60, letter to John D. Archbold, April 24, 1906.
RAC, vol. 217, no. 262, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 15, 1906.
RAC, vol. 217, no. 285, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 19, 1906.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 322.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 100.
AN, B128, letter from F. T. Gates to W. O. Inglis, January 12, 1922.
RAC, vol. 214, no. 79, letter to F. T. Gates, May 12, 1905.
AN, B117 F59, letter from S. Murphy, August 16, 1905.
RAC, vol. 217, no. 480, letter to Mrs. Watson Van Duyne, May 1, 1906.
AN, B117 F59, letter to Bessie Strong, December 20, 1905.
RAC–CAS, III, “Letters 1906–1907.”
Santayana, The Letters of George Santayana, p. 86.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 4.
Ibid., p. 5.
Ibid., p. 19.
Ibid., p. 8.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 424.
Ibid., p. 423.
McCormick, George Santayana, p. 284.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript.”
AN, B131.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 27.
AN, B117 F60, letter from George Rogers, July 9, 1906.
RAC–CAS, III, “Letters 1906–1907,” letter from Charles A. Strong to William James, July 23, 1906.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 567.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 72.
The New York Herald, July 30, 1906.
RAC, III 2.H B112 F846, telegram from Charles A. Strong, November 14, 1906.
Ibid., telegram to Charles A. Strong, November 14, 1906.
RAC–CAS, III, “Letters 1902–1905,” letter from Charles A. Strong to William James, October 19, 1902.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 232.
RAC, III 2.Z B20 F3, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, April 15, 1910
RAC, III 2.H B112 F846, letter from Charles A. Strong to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 16, 1908.
RAC, III 2.Z B20 F3, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Laura S. Rockefeller, March 11, 1909.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F252, letter to Harold McCormick, May 25, 1917.
RAC, vol. 218, no. 332, letter to Harold McCormick, September 1, 1906.
Leslie’s Weekly, May 16, 1907.
The Woman’s Home Companion, January 1907.
AN, B117 F62, letter to Edith McCormick, June 11, 1908.
RAC, III 2.H B1 F2.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 1.
Ibid., p. 19.
Ibid., p. 118.
Ibid., p. 94.
Chicago Record-Herald, April 25, 1909.
Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 101.
Twain, Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, p. 577.
Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 102.
CHAPTER 27: JUDGMENT DAY
AN, B117 F60, letter to John D. Archbold, November 13, 1906.
RAC, III 2.H B1 F8, “Taylor History.”
AN, B131, “Interview with Mr. Brown.”
AN, B130, “Interview with Charles T. White.”
Giddens, Standard Oil Company (Indiana), p. 110.
The Sun, July 7, 1907.
Ibid.
Ibid.
AN, B128.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 703.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 147.
Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, p. 323.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 4, 1907.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 426.
RAC–FTG, B2 F39, letter from F. T. Gates, August 9, 1907.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 58.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 432.
Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 481.
RAC, vol. 221, p. 374, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 31, 1907.
Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 367.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Help to End Panics.”
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 429.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 5.
Ibid., p. 88.
AN, B130.
AN, B117 F61, letter to George Rudd, October 26, 1907.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 428.
Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism, p. 124.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 135.
Ibid., p. 136.
Ibid., p. 140.
Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 147.
Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 635.
Ibid., p. 634.
RAC, vol. 230, p. 7, letter to H. C. Folger, March 14, 1910.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 414.
Ibid.
The Morning Telegraph, November 20, 1908.
Cincinnati Times-Star, November 20, 1908.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 277.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “John D. Archbold.”
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 56.
Ibid., p. 57.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 355.
Ibid.
Hearst’s Magazine, June 1912.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 353.
Swanberg, Citizen Hearst, p. 228.
Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 215.
Swanberg, Citizen Hearst, p. 260.
Ibid., p. 261.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 435.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Ibid.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 137.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 105.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 197.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 436.
RAC, vol. 226, p. 488, letter to H. C. Folger, May 20, 1909.
Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, p. 660.
RAC, vol. 228, p. 23, letter to Harold McCormick, August 27, 1909
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 378, and Yergin, The Prize, p. 109.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 46.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 109.
AN, B126.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 59.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 173.
Ibid.
Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, p. 665.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 445.
Bradstreet’s, September 2, 1911.
Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism, p. 194.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 113.
Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 135.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 157.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 383.
RAC, vol. 235, p. 107.
AN, B126, “Interview with Dr. W. M. Burton.”
CHAPTER 28: BENEVOLENT TRUST
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis Impressions.”
The New Yorker, January 29, 1921.
The New York Herald, January 6, 1905.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 65.
Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 48.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 82.
Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 20.
Ibid., p. 209.
AN, B117, letters from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 10 and 12, 1908.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 9.
Ibid., p. 121.
Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 169.
Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, pp. 661–62.
Ibid., p. 663.
Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, p. 615.
RAC, III 2.Z B20 F24, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Laura S. Rockefeller, April 25, 1911.
The Sun, January 11, 1914.
RAC–FTG, B4 F78, letter to F. T. Gates, August 19, 1912.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 17, 1917.
Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 59.
CHAPTER 29: MASSACRE
AN, B117 F59, letter from Frederick T. Gates, December 2, 1905.
AN, B116 F57, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to F. J. Hearne, October 27, 1903.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 53.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “On Profit-Sharing and Unionism.”
RAC–FTG, B1 F9, “Capital and Labor.”
AN, B117 F66, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to L. M. Bowers, May 21, 1913.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 419.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 98.
Ibid., p. 111.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 110.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 135.
Ibid., p. 136.
AN, B117 F67, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to W. B. Wilson, November 19, 1913.
Ibid.
Ibid., letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to L. M. Bowers, December 26, 1913.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, pp. 198–99.
Ibid., p. 201.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 115.
AN, B117 F68, letter to E. B. Thomas, April 11, 1914.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 232.
Ibid.
Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre, p. 23.
Hiebert, Courtier to the Crowd, p. 99.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 239.
Lash, Helen and Teacher, p. 428.
Pickersgill and Forster, The Mackenzie King Record, vol. III, p. 144.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 278.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 7, 1914.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 152.
Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre, p. 20.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 257.
AN, B117 F68, letter to Harold McCormick, May 11, 1914.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 144.
Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, p. 229.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, p. 229, and Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 132.
Ibid.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 133.
Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre, p. 64.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 133.
Ibid.
Hearst’s International, July 1923.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 116.
Hiebert, Courtier to the Crowd, p. 97.
Ibid., p. 100.
RAC, III 2.H B1 F3, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Walter C. Teagle, June 25, 1918.
Hiebert, Courtier to the Crowd, pp. 4–5.
Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre, p. 59.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 130.
Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, p. 237.
Hiebert, Courtier to the Crowd, p. 104.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 318.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 332–33.
The New Republic, January 30, 1915.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 158.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, pp. 138–39.
Jones, Autobiography of Mother Jones, p. 201.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 201.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 151.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 162.
AN, B128, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Allan Nevins, April 3, 1939.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 165.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 151.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Mrs. S. J. Life.”
Pickersgill and Forster, The Mackenzie King Record, vol. III, p. 360.
CHAPTER 30: INTROVERT AND EXTROVERT
Jones, The Correspondence of Mother Jones, p. 134.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 676.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, December 1909.
Ibid., September 25, 1913.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 463.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F25.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 49.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 426.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F257, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, September 12, 1922.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 233, and Inglis notes, 4.9, “Rockefeller and Cleveland.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Rockefeller and Cleveland.”
The New York Tribune, March 15, 1915.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F13, letter from M. S. Richardson to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. August 12, 1915.
Ibid.
The Detroit Free Press, January 3, 1916.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 190.
The New York Evening Journal, August 30, 1932.
Ibid.
Dedmon, Fabulous Chicago, p. 315.
Burnham, Jelliffe, p. 247.
Ibid., p. 245.
Jung, Modern Psychology, p. 71.
Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, p. 583.
Ibid.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 207.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F249, letter from Harold McCormick, December 28, 1913.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter to Harold McCormick, December 30, 1915.
Spring 52, 1992.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Harold McCormick, September 1, 1915.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 215.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 192.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Harold McCormick, June 18, 1915.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 216.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F252, letter from Harold McCormick, August 25, 1917.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, October 22, 1915.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F252, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, June 22, 1917.
Ibid., letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, July 27, 1917.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F251, letter from Harold McCormick, February 16, 1916.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F259, letter to Harold and Edith McCormick, January 26, 1916.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, pp. 230–31.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, September 4, 1915.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 201.
Ibid.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, pp. 225–26.
Ibid., p. 232.
Ellmann, James Joyce, p. 422.
Ibid., p. 469.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 231.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F233, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, March 24, 1919.
Spring 52, 1992.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Walska, Always Room at the Top, p. 24.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F254, letter to Harold McCormick, January 27, 1920.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, April 9, 1921.
RAC, RG2 B34 F262, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, April 17, 1931.
The Chicago Daily News, March 12, 1931.
RAC, RG2 B34 F259, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, December 27, 1923.
Birmingham, The Grandes Dames, p. 140.
RAC, RG2 B34 F259, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, January 14 1924.
CHAPTER 31: CONFESSIONAL
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 11, 1926.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 196.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis Impressions.”
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 250.
AN, B128, letter from George N. Rigby to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 27, 1940.
The Salt Lake City Tribune, April 27, 1919.
Strickland, Ormond’s Historic Homes, p. 57.
The New York American, February 5, 1927.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 98.
Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 301.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 15, 1916.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “John S. Sargent Interview, November 27, 1922.”
CUOH–PM, p. 23.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis Impressions.”
David Rockefeller, interview with author.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 148.
The Brooklyn Citizen, March 4, 1923.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 363–64.
Ibid., p. 1061.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.7, 3.1.1, letter from Ivy Lee, February 11, 1915.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F17, letter from Ivy Lee, October 14, 1915.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F18, “Meeting Mr. Rockefeller.”
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 237.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F14, letter from W. O. Inglis to Ivy Lee, March 25, 1918.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 343.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., September 28, 1917.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 231.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 23.
Ibid., p. 1313.
RAC, III 2.H B1 F8, “Taylor History.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1280.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 183.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1252.
Ibid., p. 105.
Ibid., p. 1647.
Ibid., p. 149.
Ibid., p. 1396.
Ibid., p. 1264.
Ibid., p. 1291.
RAC, Inglis notes, “John D. Rockefeller Biography,” letter from William Allen White to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 21, 1925.
RAC, III 2.Z B46, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”
RAC, III 2.Z B44, “Memo of William G. Rose, March 10, 1953.”
CHAPTER 32: DYNASTIC SUCCESSION
Mencken, Prejudices: Fifth Series, p. 287.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 136.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 177.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F14, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to W. O. Inglis, February 19, 1918.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 334.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 25, 1915.
David Rockefeller, interview with author.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 158.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “What Mr. Rockefeller Gave to Win the War.”
RAC, III 2.Z B21.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 411.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 239.
David Rockefeller, interview with author.
Chase, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 47.
Ibid., p. 85.
Ibid., p. 120.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 208.
Chase, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 59.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 208.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 116.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 228.
Pyle, Pocantico, p. 180.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 419.
Chase, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 32.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, pp. 172–73.
Chase, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 46.
The New Yorker, November 4, 1972.
RAC, III 2.Z B64.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis Impressions.”
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
The Saturday Evening Post, July 16, 1938.
CHAPTER 33: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
AN, B128, “Interview with James C. Jones.”
AN, B131.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 419.
FSL, JDR, B23, letter to Henry Clay Folger, June 28, 1922.
Ibid., letter to Henry Clay Folger, January 1, 1923.
The Evening World, November 30, 1926.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 254.
Wells, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, p. 462.
AN, B126, “William T. Sheppard Interview.”
Winkler, John D., p. 47.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 42.
Pyle, Pocantico, p. 111.
AN, B119, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 28, 1928.
AN, B126.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 102.
AN, B128, letter from George N. Rigby to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 27, 1940.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 107.
The World, May 20, 1923, and Hearst’s International, July 1923.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Mr. Rockefeller and Alcohol.”
Winkler, John D., p. 189.
RAC, III B36 F273.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 355.
Fosdick, Chronicle of a Generation, p. 223.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 206.
Fosdick, The Living of These Days, p. 146.
Ibid., p. 178.
Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 222.
The Jacksonville Times-Union, November 15, 1935.
Roberts, Mr. Rockefeller’s Roads, p. 6.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 278.
Ibid., p. 292.
Ibid., p. 297.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 389.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 172.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 110.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 283.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 102.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 219.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 262.
Ibid., p. 304.
Ibid., p. 283.
Ibid., p. 284.
Ibid., pp. 418–19.
Ibid., p. 377.
CHAPTER 34: HEIRS
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 208.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F257, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, October 20, 1922.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 236.
The Chicago Journal, October 25, 1921.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F252, letter to Mathilde McCormick, January 28, 1922.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F256, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, January 28, 1922.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F258, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, April 19, 1923.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F256, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, October 23, 1922.
RAC, RG2 B34 F261, letter from Mathilde Oser, July 3, 1929.
Ibid., telegram from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, May 27, 1929.
McCormick, George Santayana, p. 288.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 16.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 244.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 102.
Ibid., p. 254.
Ibid., p. 90.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 227.
Ibid., p. 228.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, pp. 246, 248.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 207.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 261.
Ibid., pp. 258, 261.
Ibid., p. 274.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 366.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 246.
Morris, Those Rockefeller Brothers, p. 56.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 247.
Ibid., p. 59.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 60.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 199.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 1, 1932.
Newsweek, April 28, 1958.
RAC, III 2.Z B20 F4, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Laura S. Rockefeller, July 30, 1910.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 28, 1934.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 29.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 52.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 220.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 366.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from Winthrop Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
Winthrop Rockefeller, A Letter to My Son, pp. 83–84.
Ibid., p. 85.
The Saturday Evening Post, July 16, 1938.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 9.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 391.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 256.
AN, B119, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., December 28, 1927.
David Rockefeller, interview with author.
Morris, Those Rockefeller Brothers, p. 30.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 430.
CHAPTER 35: SEE YOU IN HEAVEN
AN, B126.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 71.
AN, B128.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 172.
Chernow, The House of Morgan, p. 319.
Ellmann, James Joyce, p. 469.
Winthrop Rockefeller, “A Letter to My Son,” p. 88.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 28, 1933.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 118.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 357.
Ibid., p. 360.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 111.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Time, September 24, 1956.
The New York Evening Post, February 9, 1932.
AN, B128, letter from George N. Rigby to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 27, 1940.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 71.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 204.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.14, “Ira Warner Memo.”
AN, B129.
RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Kate Sewall, March 20, 1937.
Winthrop Rockefeller, “A Letter to My Son,” p. 86.
The Argonaut, June 16, 1937.
Winkelman, John D. Rockefeller, p. 4.
Pyle, Pocantico, p. 189.