William Rockefeller Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam Rockefeller Sr.
American con artist
Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1810
Place of Birth: Granger, New York, United States
Date of Death: 11-May-1906
Profession: entrepreneur
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About William Rockefeller Sr.
- William Avery "Devil Bill" Rockefeller Sr.
- (November 13, 1810 – May 11, 1906) was an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con-artist who went by the alias of Dr.
- William Levingston.
- He worked as a lumberman and then a traveling salesman who identified himself as a "botanic physician" and sold elixirs.
- He was known to buy and sell horses, and was also known at one point to have bought a barge-load of salt in Syracuse.
- Land speculation was another type of his business, and the selling of elixirs served to keep him with cash and aided in his scouting of land deals.
- He loaned money to farmers at twelve percent, but tried to lend to farmers who could not pay so as to foreclose and take the farms.
- Two of his sons were Standard Oil co-founders John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
- and William Avery Rockefeller Jr.
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