John Davidson Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller, son of William and Eliza Rockefeller, was born July 8 1839, in Richford, New York about midway between Binghamton and Ithaca. His father, William, was a "Doctor" who claimed he could cure cancers and charged up to $25 a treatment. He was gone for months at a time traveling around the West from town to town and would return to wherever the family was living with substantial sums of cash. His mother, Eliza, was very …

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