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  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 401.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 555.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 373.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 601.

  Ibid., p. 299.

  Ibid., p. 1589.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 34.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 195.

  Ibid., p. 274.

  Ibid., p. 257.

  Ibid., p. 1217.

  Ibid., p. 244.

  CHAPTER 9: THE NEW MONARCH

  Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, pp. 104–5.

  Ibid., pp. 105–6.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 575.

  Ibid., p. 134.

  Ibid., pp. 526, 757.

  Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. 125.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 175.

  Ibid., p. 99.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 174.

  Winkler, John D., p. 117.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 16.

  RAC, 1.2 B71 F528, letter from William G. Warden, November 22, 1884.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 271.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 388.

  RAC, 1.2 B63 F468, letter from Charles Pratt, October 4, 1881.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1611.

  AN, B130, “Interview with Mr. Ellis.”

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1589.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 118.

  The World, March 31, 1890.

  Moore, John D. Archbold, p. 98.

  The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 348.

  RAC, 1.2 B51 F377, letter from John D. Archbold, January 23, 1878.

  Ibid., January 31, 1878.

  Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth, p. 74.

  Summers, Johnson Newlon Camden, p. 174.

  Ibid., p. 175.

  RAC, 1.2 B54 F401, letter from J. N. Camden, March 20, 1878.

  Forbes, September 29, 1917.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 33.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1031.

  Ibid., p. 802.

  The Atlantic Monthly, March 1881.

  RAC, III 2.4 B3 F14.

  Manning, The Standard Oil Company, p. 21.

  CHAPTER 10: SPHINX

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 153.

  Middletown (Connecticut) Press, April 23, 1922.

  The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.

  Ibid., May 23, 1925.

  Hawke, John D., p. 158.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 190.

  William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 201, and Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 70.

  Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 91.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Mr. Rockefeller on Concentration.”

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 328.

  The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 154.

  RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis impressions.”

  IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” “Interview with John Prindle.”

  AN, B120, “Interview with John T. Sencabaugh.”

  Hawke, John D., p. 44.

  Lundberg, The Rockefeller Syndrome, p. 115.

  The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.

  Flynn, Men of Wealth, p. 448.

  AN, B11 F19, letter from John D. Archbold, September 25, 1881.

  Ibid.

  AN, B113 F32, letter from F. T. Barstow, September 13, 1886.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 328.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “How to Develop Executives.”

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 327.

  AN, B126, letter from Frederick T. Gates to William O. Inglis, April 7, 1920.

  Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 67.

  Beer, Hanna, p. 249.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 290.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 74.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Owego.”

  Winkler, John D., p. 67.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “The Red Notebook.”

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 281.

  AN, B129.

  Moore, John D. Archbold, p. 118.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 237.

  The New York Sun, November 30, 1878.

  Nation’s Business, April 1931.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1300.

  Packard, “Informal History of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio),” p. 65.

  The New York Herald, November 29, 1908.

  CHAPTER 11: THE HOLY FAMILY

  McClure’s Magazine, August 1905.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 164.

  AN, B108 F6, letter to H. M. Sinclair, November 5, 1877.

  RAC, III 2.Z B20 F3, letter from Laura Spelman Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 10, 1909.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura Spelman Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 29, 1896.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 30.

  Ibid., p. 8.

  RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from Kate Strong Sewall to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., December 21, 1925.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., pp. 8–9.

  Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 13.

  Middletown (Connecticut) Press, April 23, 1922.

  AN, B131, “Interview with Dr. Biggar.”

  The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1922.

  Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 10.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 81.

  Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 39.

  The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1922.

  RAC, III 2.Z B44.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 343.

  AN, B110 F15, letter to the Reverend J. E. Clough, June 13, 1885.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12.

  Russell, Freedom Versus Organization, p. 314.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 642.

  The Dunbar News, April 23, 1930.

  The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1922.

  Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, pp. 104–5.

  RAC, III 1.S B1 F6, letter from Harvey B. Spelman to Mr. F. Spelman, May 26, 1878.

  RAC, III 2.Z B21, “Recollections of Father.”

  AN, B110 F15, letter to Eliza Rockefeller, June 8, 1885.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 26.

  Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 21.

  AN, B128, “Interview with Mr. Murray.”

  RAC, III 1.2 B36 F273, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Bessie Otis, October 18, 1890.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 337.

  AN, B128, “Interview with James C. Jones.”

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 160.

  HDL, reel 27, “Frank Rockefeller testimony, 1876, before a House of Commerce Committee.”

  Hawke, John D., p. 201.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Washington Gladden.”

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, p. 377.

  IMT, B 1/14 T-082, “Fawcett Interview.”

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 71.

  Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. 166.

  CHAPTER 12: INSURRECTION IN THE OIL FIELDS

  RAC, 1.2 B62 F458, letter from Daniel O’Day, October 24, 1879.

  AN, B127.

  AN, B133, memo by S.C.T. Dodd.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “Theodore M. Towl.”

  The New York Sun, November 30, 1878.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 297.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 741; Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 235.

  Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 116.

 
; Ibid., pp. 119–20.

  The New York Sun, November 4, 1878.

  Hawke, John D., p. 111.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1303.

  Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 82.

  AN, B132, “Interview with William M. Potts.”

  Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. 194.

  AN, B108 F3, letter from J. N. Camden to A. C. McGregor, February 17, 1876.

  AN, B108 F6, letter to J. N. Camden, February 4, 1878.

  AN, B108 F3, letter from J. N. Camden, July 18, 1876.

  Ibid., letter from J. N. Camden to A. McDonald, November 28, 1876; Summers, Johnson Newlon Camden, p. 181.

  AN, B128, letter to J. N. Camden, March 11, 1878.

  RAC, 1.2 B54 F401, letter from J. N. Camden, December 21, 1877.

  AN, B113 F52, letter from Daniel O’Day to John D. Archbold, August 7, 1886.

  RAC, 1.2 B62 F459, letter from Daniel O’Day, May 29, 1880.

  Hawke, John D., p. 128.

  RAC, 1.2 B54 F461, letter from J. N. Camden to H. M. Flagler, July 17, 1878.

  RAC, 1.2 B51 F377, letter from John D. Archbold, December 28, 1877.

  Hawke, John D., p. 129.

  RAC, 1.2 B62 F458, letter from Daniel O’Day, January 14, 1878.

  Ibid., letter from Daniel O’Day, March 23, 1878.

  Beer, Hanna, p. 70.

  AN, B108 F6, letter from H. M. Flagler to J. H. Devereux, December 31, 1877.

  Akin, Flagler, p. 81.

  AN, B109 F8, letter from H. M. Flagler to H. J. Hewett, April 25, 1878.

  Ibid., letters from A. N. Cole, March 4 and May 14, 1878.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 205.

  Martin, Florida’s Flagler, p. 74.

  Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, p. 1025.

  RAC, 1.2 B62 F458, letter from Daniel O’Day, October 25, 1879.

  RAC, 1.2 B56 F414, letter from H. M. Flagler, May 10, 1879.

  Winkler, John D., p. 124.

  AN, B110 F13, letter to Captain J. J. Vandergrift, December 2, 1879.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 319.

  Ibid., vol. I, p. 331.

  AN, B131, letter from O. H. Payne, March 1, 1879.

  Ibid., letter to O. H. Payne, March 5, 1879.

  Wall and Gibb, Teagle of Jersey Standard, p. 20.

  AN, B110 F11, letter to Captain J. J. Vandergrift, May 19, 1879.

  William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 141; Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 141.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 219.

  American Heritage, December 1964.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 218.

  Winkler, John D., p. 125.

  Hawke, John D., p. 150.

  RAC, 1.2 B62 F459, letter from Daniel O’Day, March 11, 1880.

  CHAPTER 13: SEAT OF EMPIRE

  Beer, Hanna, p. 124.

  Hawke, John D., p. 99.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 323.

  The New York Sun, November 30, 1878.

  Ibid.

  The Boston Herald, July 3, 1927.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 34.

  RAC, III 1.2 B36 F273, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 20, 1888

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 83.

  Truth, July 1891.

  Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 37.

  The New York Daily Tribune, December 23, 1906.

  Lawson, Frenzied Finance, p. 5.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 229.

  Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 135.

  The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 413; Hawke, John D., p. 171.

  Nation’s Business, April 1931.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “Joseph Seep.”

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, pp. 30–31.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1581.

  John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 13.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 191.

  Ibid., p. 388.

  Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 48.

  RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 66–67.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. I, p. 392.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1290.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. I, p. 505.

  Amory, The Last Resorts, p. 335.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.13, “Interview Questions 1929.”

  Flynn, Men of Wealth, p. 451.

  Yergin, The Prize, p. 36.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1107.

  RAC, III 2.H B1 F8, “Taylor History.”

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. I, pp. 502–3.

  Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 4, 1906.

  Leslie’s Weekly, February 2, 1905.

  Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 84.

  Reader’s Digest, April 1927.

  The New York Tribune, n.d. [1906].

  Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 14.

  Innes, Creating the Commonwealth, p. 26.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 91.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 19.

  Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 37.

  IMT, B 1/14 T-020, letter from Vinnie C. Hicks to Ida Tarbell, June 29, 1905.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 87.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 39.

  RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Kate Strong, January 18, 1888.

  AN, B131, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Allan Nevins, January 8, 1937.

  The Metropolitan Magazine, December 1904.

  AN, B113 F32, letter to Benjamin Brewster, August 3, 1886.

  AN, B114 F34, letter to George Rogers, June 8, 1887.

  Ibid.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 194.

  Ibid., p. 95.

  AN, B112 F24, letter to Mr. Dowling, December 1, 1883.

  AN, B110 F15, letter to Rev. Edward W. Oakes, April 27, 1885.

  Brumberg, Mission for Life, p. 187.

  Rose, “Why Chicago and Not Cleveland?”

  AN, B112 F26, letter to Mr. Reynolds, March 8, 1884.

  Read, The Story of Spelman College, p. 64.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., pp. 373–74.

  AN, B115 F37, letter to Dr. Morehouse, August 25, 1888.

  RAC, III 1.CO B30 F233, letter from Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles, December 29, 1883.

  Read, The Story of Spelman College, p. 82.

  Ibid.

  AN, B110 F15, letter to Dr. Morehouse, April 25, 1885.

  Rose, “Why Chicago and Not Cleveland?”

  RAC, III 2.Z B30 F233, letter from S. B. Packard and H. E. Giles, November 7, 1888.

  CHAPTER 14: THE PUPPETEER

  AN, B112 F26, letter to Mr. Barstow, July 12, 1884.

  Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), pp. 122–23.

  John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 10.

  Business Week, July 17, 1995.

  Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 135.

  John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 10.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 184.

  Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 147.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 115.

  RAC, 1.2 B51, letter from John D. Archbold, July 13, 1892.

  Yergin, The Prize, p. 66.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 627.

  Ibid., p. 582.

  AN, B117 F68, letter to President Charles Eliot, December 31, 1914.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 992.

  Ibid., p. 727.

  AN, B110 F15, letter to A. J. Cassatt, March 29, 1881.

  RAC, 1.2 B69 F513, letter from W. P. Thompson, February 15, 1886.r />
  RAC, 1.2 B69 F570, letter from W. P. Thompson, January 31, 1885.

  John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 6.

  AN, B112 F23, letter to Oliver H. Payne, May 3, 1883.

  The New York Herald, December 31, 1906.

  Yergin, The Prize, p. 50.

  AN, B110 F16, letter to Oliver H. Payne, March 18, 1881.

  Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 69.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 259.

  RAC, 1.2 B69 F508, letter from W. P. Thompson, May 23, 1881.

  AN, B128, “Charles M. Higgins interview.”

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1409.

  RAC, 1.2 B69 F508.

  Ibid., letters from W. P. Thompson, May 23, 1881, and May 15, 1882.

  RAC, 1.2 B69 F508.

  AN, B112 F23, letter to O. H. Payne, January 30, 1883.

  RAC, 1.2 B51 F379, letter from John D. Archbold, December 9, 1891.

  The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1402.

  The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1911.

  Ibid.

  AN, B120, “Interview with Joseph Seep.”

  AN, B131, letter to H. C. Folger, September 21, 1885.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 224.

  Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 194.

  AN, B133, letter from Henry Demarest Lloyd to George Rice, November 20, 1891.

  The Saturday Evening Post, December 7, 1907.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1407.

  RAC, 1.2 B69 F513, letter from W. P. Thompson, February 3, 1886.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1555.

  Ibid., p. 531.

  AN, B110 F15, letter to Colgate Hoyt, July 17, 1882.

  The Tribune, February 28, 1888.

  Baldwin, Edison, p. 137.

  AN, B115 F37, letter from G. A. Shelby, October 17, 1888.

  RAC, 1.2 B62 F461, letter from Daniel O’Day, October 16, 1886.

  AN, B113 F32, letter from Daniel O’Day to Henry M. Flagler, July 7, 1886.

  AN, B114 F35, letter from Charles Foster, January 4, 1888.

  Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 213.

  Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 63.

  RAC, 1.2 B66 F487, letter from anonymous Bradford producer, May 12, 1887.

  AN, B114 F33, letter from anonymous oil producer, May 12, 1887.

  AN, B115 F38, letter from P. O. Laughner, June 10, 1888.

  RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 1210–11.

  Ibid., p. 181.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 194.

  AN, B130.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 527.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Lewis Emery, Jr.”

  Ibid.

  RAC, 1.2 B51 F379, letter from John D. Archbold, July 13, 1892.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, pp. 70–71.

  RAC, 1.2 B68 F507, letter from W. P. Thompson, November 21, 1879.

 

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