God’s Gold
Index
Abbott, Dr. Lyman, 392, 422
Acme Oil Co., 190, 219, 250, 320
Africa, 247
Albany, N. Y., 218
Alcohol. See Prohibition
Aldrich, Nelson W., 359, 377, 380, 449
Alexander, J. H., 238
Alexander, Hewitt & Co., 159
Alexander, Scofield & Co., 136, 147
Amalgamated Copper Co., 344
American Petroleum Co., 210, 211
American Sugar Refining Company, 318
“Anaconda,” origin of term, 165
Andrews, E. Benjamin, 308
Andrews, Samuel, 105, 139
Anthony’s Hotel, 103
Anti-Trust Law. See Trusts
Applegarth, Dr. H. C., 338
Appleton, Samuel, 29
Archbold, John D., 62, 187, 217, 237, 285, 292, 317, 361; attempted assassination, 464; Bailey, checks to, 367; bribery letters, 353; bribing Foraker, 353; character, 334; corruptionist extraordinary, 353; early life, 163; forms Acme Company, 190; finances magazines, 272, 441; Gunton, pays, 441; Hanna, aids, 382; Hearst, exposed by, 434; indictment in Buffalo, 273; Industrial Commission, before, 370; influencing, 372; letters stolen, 433; Lloyd, attacks, 329; political contributions, 353; religion, 334; Rockefeller, sides with, 176; Sibley, Joseph, his agent, 353; South Improvement Co., fights, 166; Standard Oil Co., elected President of, 448; acting head of, 334; trial of, 222; witness stand, on, 219
Armstrong, B. D., 208
Armour, Philip, 62
Arter, Frank A., 161
Asia, 247
Astor, John Jacob, 29
Astor, William, 29
Atlantic & Great Western R. R., 154
Atlantic Monthly, 253
Atlantic Refining Co., 188
Atlantic Refinery, 188
Atwell, James, 215
Auburn, N. Y., 33, 36
Austria, 246
Babcock, Paul, 237
Backus, Mrs. F. M., accuses Rockefeller, 202
Bailey, Joseph, 367
Baird, Thomas R., 373
Baku, 246
Ballyhoo. See Publicity—Jay Cooke
Baltimore and Ohio R. R., 192
Baltimore United Oil Co., 198
Baptist Examiner, 296
Baptist Union Theological Seminary, 270
Barnsdall, Mead & Rouse, 86, 88
Barnsdall, William, 86
Barrels, 84, 94
Barstow, F. Q., 237
Baslington, George O., 145
Baxter, Judge John, 260
Bayonne, N. J., laying pipes through, 226
Beard, Prof. Charles, 102
Belmont, August, 29
Bemis, Prof. Edward W., 308
Benninghoff, Old, 179
Benson, B. D., 192, 208, 210, 225
Benzine, 128
Bibliotheca Sacra, 309
Big Island, 40
Biggar, Dr. M. F., 269, 325, 417
Bishop, C. E., 165
Bissell, George H., 75, 85
Bogus Independents, 409, 410, 415
Bohlen, John, 29
Booth, Prof. J. C., 78
Booth, John Wilkes, 120
Boston, 127
Bostwick, Jabez A., 153, 162, 169, 187, 192, 213, 217, 219, 237, 238
Bowers, L. M., 454
Boyle, Patrick, 271, 292
Bradford Field, 212
Brady, Anthony N., 409
Brevoort, Henry, 29
Brewer, Dr. F. B., 76, 88
Brewer & Watson, 76, 94
Brewster, Benjamin, 158, 162, 237, 317
Bronson, Isaac, 29
Brooks, Peter C., 29
Brower, Scott, 35
Brown, Thomas, 117
Bryan, William J., 3
Bryant, John, 29
Buffalo, 127, 144
Buffalo Lubricating Oil Co., Ltd., 274
Burkett, Judge Jacob, 356
Bushnell, John, 237
Bushnell, Thomas, 237
Butterick, Dr. Wallace, 384
Camden, J. N., 198, 206
Cameron, Simon, 98
Campbell, B. B., 208, 217, 222, 285
Carlisle, John G., 326
Carnegie, Andrew, 62, 102, 107, 129, 143, 263, 347, 417
Carter, Col. John J., 323
Cary, first oil man, 22
Cassatt, Benjamin, 193, 198, 207, 217, 266, 354
Catlin, Gen. Isaac C., 45
Cayuga Joint Stock Co., 37
Central High School, 51, 52
Chain College, 57, 59
Charles Pratt and Co., 219, 248
Chase, Salmon P., 98
Chess, Carley & Co., 241, 243, 250, 257, 258
Chicago, University of, 443; Bemis incident, 307; founded—gift from Rockefeller, 305; founding Journal of Political Economy, 307; origin of, 304; Rockefellers gift to, 311
Choate, Joseph H., 283, 300
Christy, A. B., 270
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, 256
Cincinnati & Marietta R. R., 260
Civil War, 99, 100, 109, 111, 114, 115; and oil, 98, 103; beginnings in Cleveland, 71; rich men in, 102; Rockefeller in, 101
Clark & Rockefeller, 68
Clark & Andrews, 107
Clark, H. F., 154
Clarke, Payne & Co., 157, 161
Cleveland, 66, 85, 93, 100, 105, 106, 107, 126, 127, 128, 133, 135, 144, 151, 155, 160, 162, 185, 269, 331; in 1854, 50
Cleveland, Grover, 222, 257, 281
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 164
Coal oil, 79
Coal Oil Johnny, 112, 113, 114, 179
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., 453
Combination, 107, 109, 139, 150
Commons, John R., 308
Communipaw, N. J., 226
Competition, 27, 125, 150, 173, 213, 221, 484
Constable Hook, N. J., 226
Corporations, 26, 27; holding company, 138; merger movement, 345; New Jersey laws, 343; rise of, 137; rise of promoters, 345
Corrigan, James and John, 363
Cortelyou, George L., 381, 429
Coryville, Pa., 225
Court Actions against Rockefeller, 216
Cowdray, Lord, 362
Coxey’s Army, 326
Crawford County, 22
Crosby, Prof., 75, 88
Crosby, William, 29
Crowell, J., 237
Culp, J. M., Company, 258
Culver, C. V., 208
Curtis, Mary, 42, 101
Cushing, John P., 29
Czolgosz, 376
Daillon, Joseph Delarock, 55
Dalton, Norton, 269
David Dow & Co., 220
Davison, John, 7, 14, 38
Day, Chancellor, 334
Debs, Eugene V., 319, 326
Dennen, Mrs. Sarah S., purchase of Rockefeller birthplace, 15
Depew, Chauncey, 218, 220, 358
Depression, of 1855, 61; of 1857, 66; of 1873, 183; of 1892–96, 310, 325; of 1907, 381, 428
Deterding, Henry, 362
Doane, W. H., 136
Dodd, Samuel C. T., 137, 167, 216, 248, 251, 253, 283, 285, 300, 301, 341, 365, 421
Drake, Edwin L., 75, 81, 85, 88, 89, 93, 140
Drake Monument, 141
Drawbacks, 156; from Erie R. R., 198; in Macksburg, 260; instances of, 260, 267; suggested origin of, 267
Drew, Daniel, 129, 395
Duck, H. R. S., 258
Eaton, Dr. C. A., 31, 419
Edison, Thomas, 62
Education, business college, 57, 59
Elkins Fortune, 4
Ely, Richard T., 308
Emery, Lewis J., Jr., 209, 262, 285, 322
Empire Transportation Co., 185, 191; fight with, 190
England, 246
Equitable Petroleum Company, 209
Erie, Pa., 95, 106, 127, 144
Erie Railroad, 129, 154, 185, 191, 218
Erie Street Baptist Church, 51, 90, 101, 110
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, 51, 184, 233, 270, 338, 419
Europe, 247
Evans, James, 86, 87
Evarts, Choate and Beaman, 290
Everest, Hiram B., 273, 274
Everest, Charles M., 273, 274
Factories, attacks on, 26
Ferris, Col. A. C., 78, 86
Field, Marshall, 304
Fillmore, Millard, 38
Finger Lakes, 32, 35
Fires, 40, 123, 214
Fitch, John, 461
Flagler, Henry M., 102, 124, 125, 134, 144, 145, 147, 151, 152, 160, 165, 171, 175, 187, 217, 236, 238, 278, 285, 317, 336, 453
Fletcher, R. D., 83, 88
Flexner, Dr. Simon, 378
Folk, Joseph, 412
Folsom’s, B. S., Commercial College, 59
Foraker, Joseph B., 286, 355, 435
Forest Hill, 269, 366
Forman, George V., 178
Franklin Lubricating Oil, 87
Franklin, Pa., 86, 87, 93, 120, 121, 127, 153, 167
French Creek, 86
Frenzied Finance, 344
Frick, Henry C., 432
Garfield, James A., 254
Garfield, James R., 381, 415
Gardiner, John J., 371
Gas, 21
Gasoline, 128
Gates, Frederick Taylor, 303, 309, 310, 311, 313, 315, 326, 337, 379, 383, 443, 454
Gates, John W., 345
George, Henry, “Progress and Poverty,” 279, 327
Germany, 246
Gessner, Dr. Abraham, 37
Girard, Stephen, 29
Girty, George W., 217, 316
Gladden, Rev. Washington, 391, 392
God’s Gold, 306, 394
Gold, discovery of, 37
Gould, Jay, 62, 102, 129, 154, 191, 206
Government and Business. See Regulation
Graft in business, 407
Grand Jury of Erie County, 274
Green, Hetty, 33
Greene, Jerome D., 454
Grosscup, Judge, 432
Grosvenor, General, 358
Gunton, Prof. George, 329
Hadley, Herbert, 412
Hale, Edward Everett, 327
Handy, Truman P., 69, 158
Hanna, Baslington & Co., 145, 159
Hanna, Mark, 51, 62, 145, 173, 254, 269, 300, 301, 352, 358, 359, 375, 380, 382
Harkness, Stephen V., 134, 139, 173, 336
Harlan, Justice, 445
Harley, Henry, 122, 191
Harper, Dr. William R., 303, 309, 310
Harriman, E. H., 5, 63
Harrison, Benjamin, 297, 318
Hartranft, Gov., 215
Hasson, Capt. William, 181, 182
Hathaway, E. T., 317
Haupt, General, 208, 209
Havemeyers, 62, 278
Hayes, Rutherford B., 279
Haymarket Riot, 280
Hearst, William Randolph, 286
Henry’s Bend, 95
Hepburn, Alonzo Barton, 218, 220
Hepburn Committee, 218, 220, 265
Hereford, Frank, 206
Hewett family, 32
Hewett, Frederick, 45
Hewitt, Isaac L., 63, 159, 161
Hewitt & Tuttle, 360
Hiawatha Island, 40
Heye, Gust., 265
Hill, James J., 63
Hoar, William, 256, 286
Holbrook, Z. Swift, 309
Holding companies, 27, 138
Holmden, Thomas, 117, 118
Hopkins, James H., 205
Hopkins, Mark, 4
Hopkins, Robert E., 192, 208, 210
Hoster, William, 201
Hostetter, Dr. David, 192, 197
House of Rothschild, 33
Hoyt, Governor, 222
Humistan family, 54
Humphreys, M. H., 287
Hunter’s Point, L. I., 37, 184
Huntington, Collis P., 4, 62
Huntington, John, 161
Hussy, John G., 75, 85, 88, 89
Independent, 306
“Immediate Shipment” order, 213
Individualism, 23
Industrial Commission, 262, 369
Industry, Competition in, 126; early organization, 24; factory beginnings, 24; growing unrest in, 279; in 1843, 21; in the ’80’s, 278; integration in, 126; in 1862, 108; textile mills, 26; welfare in, 28
Interstate Commerce Bill, 222
Interstate Commerce Commission, 280; Cullom bill, 281; defeated by Standard Oil, 207; Elkins bill, 416; first commission, 281; fought by Standard Oil, 206, 282; Grange demands, 281; hampered by courts, 282; history, 205; Hopkins bill, 205; Law passed, 281; origin, 205; Rockefeller’s attack on, 222
Investigations, first congressional, 175; Hepburn, 218; New York legislature, 1880, 218; New York Senate Investigating, 1888, 282
Jay Cooke & Co. fails, 183
Jenks, Jeremiah K., 370
Jennings, O. B., 139, 158
Jesse Hoyt & Co., 220
Johnson, Horace Maxwell, 409
“Joshua, A Man of the Finger Lakes,” 39
Journal of Political Economy, 307
Karns, S. D., 265
Kean, John, 360
Kellogg, Frank B., 433, 437
Kendrick, Burton J., 389
Kerosene. See Petroleum
Kerr Hill, Pa., 85
Kier, Samuel, 55, 57, 77, 85, 112, 187
Kijkuit. See Pocantico Hills
Kirkpatrick, William, 84
Kline, Virgil, 300, 301
Knott, J. Proctor, 201
Knox, Philander C., 360, 432
Kyle, Senator, 371
Ladenburgh, Thalman & Co., 317, 339
La Follette, Robert, 3, 360, 406
Laissez-faire, 23, 108
Lake Erie Railroad, 265
Lake Owasco, 32, 33, 35
Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad, 128, 145, 153, 154
La Monte family, 40, 43
La Monte, Susan, 43
Lamps. See Lighting
Landis, Judge Kenesaw Mountain, 425
Laughlin, Dr. J. Laurence, 307, 309
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation, 474
Lawrence, Amos and Abbott, 29
Lawson, Thomas W., 345; “Frenzied Finance,” 348, 389
Leases, oil. See Petroleum
Lee, Ivy, 460, 467, 483
Lennox, James B., 29
Lewis, Aaron R., 11
Lighting, whale oil, candle, 21
Little, Jacob, 29
Little & Merrick’s Well, 103
Lincoln, Abraham, 98, 100, 102; assassination, 120
Liquor. See Prohibition
Livingston, John, 205
Lockhart, Charles, 153, 162, 187, 189, 217
Logan & Frew, 153, 162
Louisville, Ky., 241
Lowry, Fawcett & Co., 106
Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 253, 329; “Wealth Against Commonwealth,” 327, 386
Lubricating oil, 87
MacArthur, Dr. R. S., 303
Macksburg, Ohio, 257
Mahoning & French Creek R. R., 112
Manhattan Oil Company, 409
Martin, Col. Zebulun, 140
Mason, John, 29
Matthews, Charles B., 274
McAllister, Ward, 280
McCandless, William, attack on, 215
McClellan, George B., 154
McClintock, Hamilton, 87
McClintock, Widow, 86, 88, 112
McGregor, Ambrose, 273
McKelvey, David, 192, 208
McKinley, William, 62, 352; assassination, 375
McLaurin, John W., 360
Meade, G. L., 37
Meadville, Pa., 85, 93
Mergers, 27
Merritts (Alfred & Leonidas), attack on Rockefeller, 313, 314
Michigan Hill, 6, 8, 13
Miller, Albert, 274
Miller’s Farm, 119, 122
Miller, William Henry Harrison, 297
Millionaires, 29, 30
Mills, Rev. B. Fay, 328
Money Trust, 346
Monnett, Francis S., 293, 337, 341, 342, 435
Monopoly, 153; early agitation, 23, 26; historic hatred of, 143; in oil—advanced by marketing, 243; kinds of, 182; oil mergers, 188; of producers, 150; of salt, 152; political issue, 281
Montaigne, Buffington, 40
Moravia, N. Y., 31, 35, 38
Morgan, J. P., 5, 63, 102, 326, 350, 380, 383, 394, 429, 449
Morgan, Senator, 286, 298
Morris, Gouverneur, 29
Muckrakers, 385
Murphy, Michael, 324
Murphy, Starr J., 251
Naphtha, 128
Nash, George K., 261
National City Bank, 290, 345
National Refiners’ Assn., 178
National Transit Company, 230
Nebraska, attack on Standard Oil in, 365
Nesbit, G. H., 210
New Connecticut, 49
New Jersey Central Railroad, 227
New York, 106, 127, 135, 144, 155, 218
New York Central Railroad, 128, 129, 184, 218
New York Herald, 182, 223
New York Sun, 223
New York Tribune, 189, 209, 210, 214, 223
New York World, 200, 300
Nobel Brothers, 246, 362
North American Gas Light Co., 37
Northern Pacific Railroad, 327; scandal, 183
Northern Securities Company, 380, 382
Northwestern Ohio Gas Co., 292
“Octopus,” origin of term, 165
O’Day, Daniel, 168, 192, 198, 217, 238, 260, 261
Ogden, Robert C., 385
Ohlen, H. C., 266, 267
Oil. See Petroleum
Oil cities, contest of, 127
Oil City, 86, 87, 93, 94, 98, 120, 121, 127, 165, 272
Oil City Derrick, 111, 164, 165, 169, 172, 177, 208, 211, 272
Oil City Register, 122
Oil City Trust Co., 178
Oil Creek, 22, 76, 85, 86
Oil Men’s League, 167
Oil Regions, Competition in, 128; Description of, 149, 179; division in, 210; feared by Rockefeller, 176; natural advantages, 128; over-production, 147; producers in, 149, 179; refiners’ battles, 128; revival war, 320; war on Cleveland, 151; war weary, 224
Olney, Richard, 299, 318
Orient, markets of, 246, 247
Orr, Alexander E., 301
Over-production, 181, 212, 214; rise of, 144; speculation in whiskey, 277
Owego Academy, 44, 48
Owego, N. Y., 17, 40
Page, Walter H., 384
Parker, Alton B., 383
Parker’s Landing, 186
Parsons, R. C., 175
Patterson, E. G., 207, 228, 285
Payne, Henry B., 157, 206, 222, 255, 281
Payne, Oliver H., 157, 161, 173, 187, 206, 207, 255, 281, 429
Pease, Phineas, 260
Pennsylvania Company, 138
Pennsylvania Oil Regions. See Oil Regions
Pennsylvania Railroad, 128, 129, 154, 191, 195, 196, 263
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, 77, 80
Pennsylvania Transportation Co., 122, 191
Penrose, Boise, 360, 372
Perkins, Thomas H., 29
Petroleum, at Tarentum, 57; barrels, 84; by-products of, 240; Bissell’s plan, 75, 80; boom oil towns, 118; carbon oil, 78; competition, 127, 128; Cuba, N. Y.—discovery of Daillon, 55; Cuba spring, 77; Disorder in industry, 125; Drake’s drill, 81; Drake hits oil, 75; early markets, 95; exports, 126; first oil man, 22; first prices, 85; first royalty lease, 84; foreign trade, 253; gasoline, 253; Gessner lamp, 37; in Kansas, 407; in Mexico, 362; in Ohio, 260; in Russia, 245; in Virginia, 55; kerosene, 245; Kier’s American Oil, 55, 56, 79; Kier’s lamp, 78; leases, 86; lubricating oil, 87; Macksburg field, 260; oil found, Aug. 21, 1859, 83; over-production, 144, 173; Parliament of, 208; prices, 106; Prof. Silliman distills oil, 77; refining centers, 127; schemes to raise prices, 181; Seneca oil, 77; stopping drill, 181; used as medicine, 55; world-wide development, 361
Petroleum Center, Pa., 119, 176
Philadelphia, Pa., 106, 127, 135, 144, 155
Philanthropy, 230, 234; Baptist Union Theological Seminary, 270; criticizes, 338; Education Board started, 384; estimate, 476; Foundation approval and criticism, 451; Foundation bill to incorporate, 443; Foundation gets $100,000,000, 452; Foundation incorporated in New York, 452; Foundation and General Education Board, further gifts, 473; Gates joins Rockefeller, 303; General Education Board gets $32,000,000, 424; influence of, 337; Medical Institute founded, 378; merging boards, 474; personal charities, 270; Rockefeller’s first gift, 64; stream of gifts, 385, 443; to Alta Rockefeller Day Nursery, 270; to colleges, 337; to Dr. Duncan, 270; total gifts, 475; University of Chicago. See Chicago, University of; value of, 479; war gifts, 466
Phillips, David Graham, 389
Phillips, Thomas W., 320, 369
Pierce, Henry Clay, 240, 242, 317, 424
Pillsbury, George A., 303
Pioneer Oil Company, 235
Pipe Lines, battle with railroads, 325; combination in, 191; crushing Tidewater, 224, 228, 229; David Hostetter, 192; Equitable Pipe Line, 220; free pipe line bill, 169, 208; Henry Harley, 122, 190; history of, 191; immediate shipment order, 213; in Bradford, 212; Independents’ plan, 208; Kansas laws, 408; lines to sea, 225; new pipe line war, 322; origin of, 122; Pennsylvania Transportation Co., 122; railroad control of, 191; rate agreements, 223; Samuel Van Syckel, 122, 190; Standard Oil enters, 192; teamsters attack, 191; Tidewater Pipe Line, 220, 222; formation of, 210; United Pipe Line Co., 178, 248; United States Pipe Line Co., 322; Vandergrift’s Star Pipe Line, 177
Pithole, Pa., 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 177, 211
Pittsburgh, Pa., 85, 106, 127, 135, 144, 155, 189
Platt, Tom, 45
Pocantico Hills, 366
Politics, corruption in, 407; Garfield approaches Rockefeller, 254; Rockefeller’s first action in, 175; Standard Oil contributions, 355, 383
Potter, Dr. Daniel, 339
Potts, Col. Joseph D., 185, 191, 193, 285
Pouch, E. J., 237
Pratt’s Astral Oil, 247
Pratt, Charles, 177, 178, 187, 214, 335, 336
Pratt Manufacturing Co., 302
Prentice, E. Parmalee, 332
Prices, 482; first, 85, 106; fixing, 182; price-cutting, 244; schemes to raise, 181; slump in, 184; slump of 1879, 211;
Producers. See Oil Regions
Producers Oil Company, 322
Producers’ Protective Association, 168, 181, 208, 210, 215, 217, 223, 320, 321, 324
Producers and Refiners Co., 322, 323
Producers’ Union, 207, 210, 224
Profits, 331
Prohibition, 133, 184; liquor in Richford, 17; Rockefeller’s contributions, 312; Rockefeller family and, 30; Washington Society, 38
Publicity and advertising, 484; Boyle’s role in, 292; bribing reporters, 200; buying Ohio papers, 293; buying papers, 200; changing standards, 483; dependency of press, 297; early uses, 200; favorable, 306, 466; final achievements of, 483; financing Boyle, 271; friendly articles appear, 442; George Harvey, 441; Gunton’s defenses, 329, 441; ignored by Rockefeller, 200, 220; in Ohio, 292; Ivy Lee employed, 460, 467; Ivy Lee’s work, 473; Jennings Publishing Co., 293, 297; Moses and Aaron, 200; publicity man employed by Standard Oil, 442; purchase of Derrick, 271; United States Bank, 201; used by Jay Cooke, 200
Pulitzer, Joseph, 378
Pullman, George, 63
Pure Oil Company, 323, 369
Quay, Matthew S., 355, 382
Railroads, abuses, 205; Allegheny Valley R. R., 128; Andrew Carnegie on rates, 263; blocks inquiry, 218; early rates, 25; enter oil regions, 111; Erie Railroad, 128; Elkins Rate bill, 381; expansion of, 278; favors cities, 129, 130, 135; fought by canals, 263; Hepburn Rate bill, 405; in oil regions, 128; in South Improvement Co., 154; Lake Shore and Michigan R. R., 129; New York Central R. R., 128; Oil Creek R. R., 128; origin of rates, 263; Pennsylvania R. R., 128; rate discriminations, 211, 220; rate wars, 195; rebates. See Rebates; regulation of, 281; spread of, by 1860, 109; Standard Oil control of, 347; traffic agreement, 155, 230; uses of passes, 205; war on independent pipe lines, 325
Rapallo, Edward S., 260
Rebates, amount paid, 262; become known, 145; defense of, 265; derivation, 263; denounced by Judge Baxter, 260; discriminations, 185; enjoyed by others, 265; explained by Rockefeller, 261; George Rice’s charges, 258; in Macksburg, 260; not only reason for Rockefeller’s success, 262; origin of, 263; Rockefeller agrees to abandon, 223; reasons for, 146; Rockefeller defends, 136; Rockefeller first, 135, 137; Rockefeller gets another, 198; wide use of, 220
Refiners, 128
Regions. See Oil Regions
Regulation, 205; public interest in business, 221; Hanna organizes business, 254
Religion, 42; church criticism of Rockefeller, 296; church praises Rockefeller, 305; church support of Rockefeller, 296, 305, 338; Erie Street church, 110; God’s gold, 312, 394; in Richford, 20; ministers seeking gifts, 339; Rockefeller as Sunday School Superintendent, 332; Rockefeller becomes trustee in church, 73; Rockefeller joins Baptist Church, 51
Republic Oil Co., 411
Reynolds, Devoe and Pratt, 177
Rice, George, 257, 285, 316, 341
Rich, Chauncey, 7, 19, 30
Richford, N. Y., 7, 13, 16, 17, 108
Rich men in war, 129
Rickerts, Widow, 123
Rochester, N. Y., 218
Rockefeller, Alta, 147, 332, 417
Rockefeller and Andrews, 125, 133
Rockefeller, Edith, 232
Rockefeller, Eliza Davison, 19, 20, 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 40, 42, 47, 48, 72, 133, 236, 295; courtship of, 14; death, 296; liquor and, 17; marriage, 15
Rockefeller Family Association, 10
Rockefeller, Flagler and Andrews, 135, 137, 139
Rockefeller Foundation. See Philanthropy
Rockefeller, Francis, 34, 36
Rockefeller, Frank, 34, 35, 92, 101, 133, 136, 140, 160, 207, 235, 362, 377, 378
Rockefeller, Godfrey, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 379, 479; hookworm disease, 452
Rockefeller, Jacob, 30
Rockefeller, John D., ancestry, 9; accused of lying, 248, 250; attacked by Lloyd, 328; attacks by Rice, 257; as witness, 283, 285, 342, 414; attacked by Frank Rockefeller, 207; appearance, 283, 294; attacks on, 294; attacks Rice, 341; attention to details, 239; Backus attack, 202; battle with neighbors, 469; battle with Empire Transportation Co., 193; becomes wholesaler, 68; birth, 6; birth of son, 186; bookkeeper, 63, 174; borrower, 69, 70, 92, 133, 174; boycotted, 321; boyhood ambition, 46; boyhood in Moravia, 35; boyhood in Owego, 40, 46; boyhood in Richford, 20, 30; builds home, 72; buys out partner, 115, 116; buys Pocantico estate, 331; captures all pipe lines, 197; career, estimate of, 481; change in public opinion of, 466; character, 392; church appearances, 419; children, 234; conciliating opinion, 439; contempt proceedings in Ohio, 341; controls terminals, 185; combination of brains, 139, 177; condemns Ida Tarbell, 389; Corrigan case, 363; courtship, 110; court attacks on, 216; criticism of, 218; criticizes Rickford, 31; crushes Empire Transportation Co., 194; daughter married, 332; decides not to go into oil, 98; defends rebates 136; defends Standard Oil, 393; denies having billion dollars, 424; denies coercion, 161; demanded exclusive rates, 266; description of, 131; developing estate, 467; dodging summons, 282, 412; early poverty, 45; earnings, 331; education, 44; enters oil business, 105; Euclid Ave. Baptist Church, 130; expanding pipe lines, 212; explains rebates, 261; examines Drake discovery, 93; father’s favorite, 33; freight advantages, 185; first action in politics, 175; first job, 60, 61; first salary, 67; first sees oil, 89; first trip abroad, 417; fights Tidewater, 228, 229; Flagler, 147; becomes partner, 134; followed by crowds, 419; forms Standard Oil Co., 138; fortune, size of, 330, 427, 476; freight discriminations, 230; Garfield approaches, 254; gasoline, 253; Gates heads staff, 309; Girty, Mrs., charges by, 316; goes into oil production, 321; golf, 377, 437, 450, 451, 486; habits, 90, 288, 485; hated by producers, 181; health impaired, 273; his version of Standard Oil Co., 162; homes burned, 40; homes, Forest Hill, 4 West 54th St., 232; illness, 294, 310, 325, 332, 385, 413, 421; in Central High School, 51, 52; in Civil War, 98, 101, 102; indicted in Pennsylvania, 217; indictments withdrawn, 223; investigated, 282; investments, 290, 291, 292, 327, 347, 449; indicted in Texas, 317; invades England, 361; indicted in Ohio, 417; job, day, 60; joins Baptist church, 51; Landis fine, 426, reversed, 432; launches General Education Board, 384; laying out roads, 269; Ledger A, 64; Lloyd’s denunciation of, 328; loans from father, 68; loses hair, 385; luck, 195; marriage, 114, 115; meets Gates, 303; meets John D. Archbold, 162; meets Artemas Ward, 67; memory, 173; Merritt charges, 313; moderate mode of living, 232, 235, 280; money trust, 346; monopoly complete, 198; moves to Cleveland, 50; moves to Moravia, 31; Nebraska suit, 365; on Black List, 165; organizer, 239; organizing foreign markets, 246; organizes marketing, 242; organizes oil business, 126; over-production. See Over-production; Owego Academy, 44; perfects combination, 188; personal loans, 326; philanthropy. See Philanthropy; philosophy of business, 221; philosophy of giving, 306; planning, 130, 148; plans monopoly in Cleveland, 143; praises wife, 463; pressure on rivals, 204; proposes refiners’ association, 176, 178; raises turkeys, 34; reading, 332; Refiners’ Association collapses, 178; religion, 20, 42, 65, 90, 132, 173, 199, 389, 443; reporters, fear of, 420; relinquishes wealth to son, 474; requisition for, refused, 217; retirement, 332, 337; Rice attacks, 316; Roosevelt attacks, 381, 407; schooling, 43; sentimental, 232; sets up pension system, 393; skating, 234, 269; social life, 234; son’s marriage, 377; South Improvement Co. See South Improvement Co.; Strongville home, 50; success not due wholly to rebate, 262; supreme in oil business, 230; supremacy challenged by Dutch, 362; Sunday school, 52; Sunday school superintendent, 233; swiftness in action, 156; Taft announces for, 436, 449; tax fights, 227, in Cleveland, 453; tainted money, 390; trustee in church, saves church, 73; views on combination, 374; views on criticism, 272, 417; views on giving, 271; views on money, 201; views on great war, 465; views on newspapers, 418; views on Roosevelt, 423; views on wealth, 414; visits Titusville, 175; war on competition, 221; war contributions, 466; war on pipe lines, 225; war on rivals, 244, 258, 259; wife dies, 462; wins Archbold, 176; writes book, 442
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 186, 218, 234, 235, 332, 337, 351, 359, 377, 413, 417, 449, 454, 459, 462, 464
Rockefeller, Laura Celestia Spelman, 52, 110, 111, 132; death, 462
Rockefeller, Lucy Avery, 12, 13
Rockefeller, Lucy, 92, 101
Rockefeller, Mary Ann, 92
Rockefeller, William Avery, arrival in Richford, 8; as a farmer, 33; birth, 10; builds school, 32; book about, 38; “botanic physician,” 67; courtship, 14; disappears, 235; leaving Cleveland, 92; lends money to son, 68; leaves Owego, 47; leaves Moravia, 38; horse-stealing incident, 35; indicted, 38; marriage, 15, 17, 19; moves to Moravia, 31; medicine selling, 32; moves to Owego, 47; moves to Cleveland, 50, 66; moves to Parma, Ohio, 59; prosperous, 72; reappears, 295; reward for finding, 378; story of death, 438; teetotaler, 37
Rockefeller, William, 19, 35, 101, 126, 133, 135, 140, 187, 217, 228, 235, 237, 238, 344, 345, 371, 383, 389
Rogers, George D., 295
Rogers, Henry H., 102, 141, 167, 169, 178, 187, 193, 219, 222, 230, 238, 248, 273, 334, 344, 361, 387, 412, 437
Roosevelt, Theodore, 3, 253, 376, 380, 381, 382, 385, 407, 421, 433
Root, Elihu, 299
Rosekrans family, 32
Rosekrans, Joshua, 39
Rothschilds, 29
Rouse, Mr., 103
Rouseville, Pa., 103
Royalty owners, 86
Rudd, G. M., 269
Russell, Charles Edward, 253
Russia, oil in, 246; Royal Dutch Shell, 362
Sabin, John, 35
Sage, Russell, 4, 34
Saginaw Salt Co., 152
Salt Monopoly, 152
Saratoga, N. Y., 218
Sargent, John Singer, 3
Schermerhorn, Peter, 29
Scheide, W. T., 265
Scofield, Alexander, 107
Scofield, Schurmer and Teagle, 160
Scott, Nathan B., 360
Scott, Tom, 62, 129, 152, 154, 169, 192, 193, 194, 200, 206, 263
Sears, David, 29
Second Baptist Church, 233
Selden, George B., invents automobiles, 252
Seneca Oil Co., 82, 85
Shaw, Dr. Albert, 375
Shaw, Robert G., 29
Shell, W. P., 227
Sherman anti-trust law. See Trusts
Sherman, John, 62, 286
Sherman, Roger, 222
Shipping subsidies, 359, 380
Sibley, Joseph, 353, 354, 358, 367
Silliman, Prof. Benjamin, 77, 80, 117
Sked, Deason Alexander, 51, 90
Smith, Adam, 23, 107
Smith, Rev. J. Hyatt, 51
Smith, Sam, 83
Smith, Uncle Billy, 83, 89, 141
Smythe, Atty.-Gen., 365
Smythe, Dr. William, 44
Southern Improvement Co., 250
South Improvement Co., 251, 267; and Rockefeller, 148; black list, 165; defeated, 170; investigated, 175; fight against, 165; oath, 154; organized, 155; origin of, 148, 151; plan for, 153; revival of, feared, 189; scheme disclosed, 163
Spies, 156
Spooner, John W., 360
Standard Oil Company, 248; absorbs rivals, 188; at 26 Broadway, 270; adopts holding company, 343; abandons Cleveland, 331; buys into Waters-Pierce Co., 242; buying into rivals, 324; becomes a trust, 251; bribery charges, 343; Cleveland office, 164; Chess, Carley & Co., 241; crushing retailers, 411; distribution system, 241; dissolution suit, 422, 437; dissolution suit appealed, 442; dissolved, 1911, 438; earnings, 331; employee stock ownership, 244; export trade, 245, 361; fight Interstate Commerce Commission, 206; fined $29,000,000, 425; fate of, 484; form of organization, 249; gas interests, 292; gets pipe lines, 192; group of interests, 347; indicted, 421; in politics, 175; investigated by N. Y. Senate, 284; investigated by Congress, 285; increases stock, 158; integration, 239; kerosene markets, 245; Kansas attack, 408; luncheon conferences, origin of, 237; liquidating holding company, 447; methods and organization, 238; meaning of term, 250, 337; organized, 138; origin of name, 139; political contributions, 383; reorganized, 1874, 188; reorganizing, 302; Standard Oil gang, 291; size in 1870, 236; size in 1880, 237; takes Pittsburgh refiners, 189; takes Region refiners, 190; takes New York refiners, 190; trust dissolved in Ohio, 299; Supreme Court confirms dissolution, 444; Waters-Pierce fined $1,623,000, 425; indictment, 317
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 252
Standard Oil Company of New York, 252
Standard Oil Gang, 344
Standard White, 247
Stanford, Leland, 4
Stanley Committee, 313
Steele, John. See Coal Oil Johnny
Steffens, Lincoln, 389
Sterne, Simon, 219
Stewart, Robert W., 425
Stillman, James, 290, 326, 344, 347, 389
Stone, Amasa, 135, 158
Stone & Fleming, 302
Strongville, Ohio, 50, 53
Stuyvesant, Peter G., 29
Summit City, 211
Sutter, Gen. Johann August, 37
Tabernacle Baptist Church, 339
Tainted money, 390
Tank cars, 136
Tarbell, F. S., 169
Tarbell, Ida M., 40, 132, 212, 213, 277, 336, 387
Tarrytown, N. Y., 331, 462
Taxes, 227
Taylor, H. L., 321
Taylor-Satterfield, 229
Teamsters, 95, 112, 119, 150, 190
Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., 429, 430
Thomas, Gen. Thomas, 278
Thompson, J. Edgar, 129, 137
Tidewater Pipe Line Co., 210, 219, 220, 222, 224, 228, 229
Tidioute, 86, 93, 95, 169
Titusville, Pa., 76, 81, 85, 88, 93, 98, 103, 113, 120, 121, 127, 141, 162, 165, 175, 176, 190, 387
Toledo, Ohio, gas war, 292
Trans-Missouri Freight Association, 298
Tracy, Ben, 45
Trusts, butcher, 278; cotton seed, 278; court decisions on, 298, 318, 405; Dodd invents idea, 251; Distillers and Cattle Feeders’ case, 298; forerunner of, 250; first trust and trustees, 251; glass, 278; growth of, 380; Harrison ignores, 298; investigation by Congress, 285; in politics, 383; New York Senate investigation of 1888, 284; National Cash Register case, 298; origin of, 248; pools, 277; rise of, 278; Roosevelt attacks, 428; rule of reason, 445; Standard Oil Trust, suit to dissolve, 422, dissolution decree appealed, 442, Supreme Court dissolves, 444, bared, 284, held illegal, 299, 301, contempt case, 341; Sherman law, 297, 318, 445, authorship of, 286, 287, passed, 286; tobacco, 278;
Trans-Missouri Freight Association case, 298
Twain, Mark, 335
Tyrell, Rev. F. C., 338
United Oil Company, 321
United Pipe Lines, 213, 219, 248, 250
United States Bank, 201
United States Bureau of Corporations, 381, 415
United States Department of Commerce, 381; United States Pipe Line Co., 322, 323, 324
United States Senate, 359, 363
United States Steel Corporation, 349, 352
Utica, New York, 218
Vacuum Oil Company, 272; indictments, 274
Vail, Theodore N., 62
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 129, 168, 194, 220
Vandergrift, J. J., 167, 175, 177, 187, 191, 217, 222, 238
Van Rennselaer, Stephen, 29
Van Syckel, Samuel, 122
Vilas, Chester & Keith Trust, 250, 251
Vincent, Dr. George, 473
Walworth Run, 105
Wanamaker, John, 102
Warden, W. G., 151, 153, 162, 165, 187, 217
Washington Society, 38
Water power, 25
Waters-Pierce Oil Co., 242, 257, 367, 412
Watson, David K., 299, 300
Watson, Jonathan, 84, 86, 88, 89
Watson, Louis F., 207
Watson, Peter H., 151, 153, 154, 159, 165, 167, 169
Wayne, H., 176
Webster, Joe, 53
Weehawken (N. J.) terminal, 185
Welborn, J. F., 454
Welch, Dr. William H., 378
Western Reserve, 49
Whale oil, 37
White, Chief Justice, 444
Wilkerson & Company, 259
Williamstown, 225
Wilson, J. Scott, 274
Wilson, Peter, 82
Witt, Stillman, 158, 174
Worthington, George, 45
