William Rockefeller Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William 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


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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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