The family eventually moved to the Cleveland area. He left them for months at a time, leaving Eliza to take care of the family and take care of the farm. His mother, Eliza, was religious and quite smitten with Big Bill. The father he rarely talked about, William Avery Rockefeller, was a flim-flam man traveling around the country peddling medicines and other wares. The wealthy scion came from humble beginnings in upstate New York. The well researched book is fascinating reading and very informative showing how the trust came into being and how fortunes were made during the era of the robber barons. The man who became the first American billionaire, and built the Standard Oil trust.
Titan by Ron Chernow is the life story of John D.
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