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  Farm and Fireside, January 6, 1917.

  Forbes, September 29, 1917.

  Storr, Harper’s University, p. 143.

  AN, B116 F58, letter from F. T. Gates to Dr. Osler, April 13, 1904.

  Storr, Harper’s University, p. 144.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 421.

  John D. Rockefeller, Jr., et al., “Addresses to Honor the Memory of Frederick Taylor Gates,” privately printed, RAC, p. 15.

  Mencken, My Life as Author and Editor, p. 276.

  Flexner, An American Saga, p. 403.

  Fosdick, Chronicle of a Generation, p. 218.

  RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from Charles W. Eliot to F. T. Gates, December 23, 1910.

  AN, B128, “Simon Flexner Interview.”

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 479.

  CUOH–ABF, p. 36.

  RAC, vol. 233, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 14, 1911.

  Forbes, September 29, 1917.

  RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from F. T. Gates to Charles W. Eliot, December 30, 1910.

  Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 85.

  RAC, vol. 223, no. 47, letter to Lucy Fuller, January 17, 1908.

  RAC, vol. 226, no. 41, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 19, 1909.

  Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, p. 105.

  The Outlook, December 17, 1910.

  Wall, Andrew Carnegie, p. 832.

  RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from F. T. Gates to Charles W. Eliot, December 30, 1910.

  AN, B119, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 11, 1919.

  Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 122.

  Jung, Modern Psychology, p. 71. Lectures given by Jung at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich.

  Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 7, 1919.

  Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 180.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 116.

  RAC–FTG, B2 F33, letter from F. T. Gates, January 26, 1911.

  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 8, 1936.

  CHAPTER 24: THE MILLIONAIRES’ SPECIAL

  Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, p. 129.

  The World, April 28, 1901.

  Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois, p. 271.

  Read, The Story of Spelman College, p. 139.

  AN, B132, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Robert C. Ogden, April 25, 1901.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 117.

  Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, p. 27.

  Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 134.

  RAC–FTG, B4 F80, letter from F. T. Gates to Dr. Augustus Strong, May 14, 1891.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 118.

  RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from Abraham Flexner to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 23, 1940.

  AN, B126, letter from A. Flexner to Allan Nevins, August 25, 1950.

  Abraham Flexner, Autobiography, p. 141.

  Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 75.

  Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 55.

  Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 75.

  Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, p. 241.

  Du Bois, Autobiography, p. 223.

  The General Education Board, The General Education Board: An Account of Its Activities, p. 220.

  Abraham Flexner, Autobiography, p. 131.

  Morris, Those Rockefeller Brothers, p. 140.

  Ettling, The Germ of Laziness, p. 102.

  Sullivan, Our Times, vol. III, p. 324.

  RAC, vol. 228, no. 230, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 22, 1909.

  Ettling, The Germ of Laziness, p. 107.

  RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from F. T. Gates to Charles W. Eliot, December 30, 1910.

  Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, p. 153.

  Ibid., pp. 151–52.

  RAC–FTG, B2 F34, letter from F. T. Gates, August 10, 1914.

  AN, B117 F65, letter from F. T. Gates, October 23, 1911.

  Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, pp. 144–45.

  Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 93.

  CUOH–ABF, p. 19.

  Abraham Flexner, Autobiography, pp. 109–10.

  “Addresses to Honor the Memory of Frederick Taylor Gates,” RAC, p. 8.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “On Stewardship.”

  RAC–FTG, B3 F72, “The Ten Million Gift.”

  IMT, B 1/14, T-056, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, June 24, 1903.

  Storr, Harper’s University, p. 359.

  AN, B131, letter from F. T. Gates to W. R. Harper, February 11, 1905.

  AN, B117 F59, letter to W. R. Harper, February 16, 1905.

  UC–UPP, 1889–1925, B56 F1, letter from W. R. Harper, February 22, 1905.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 625.

  Storr, Harper’s University, p. 366.

  RAC, vol. 217, no. 76, letter to Harry Pratt Judson, January 26, 1906.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 181.

  RAC–FTG, B3 F72, “The Ten Million Gift.”

  RAC, vol. 225, no. 459, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 3, 1909.

  AN, B117 F63, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., November 5, 1909.

  RAC–FTG, B3 F72, letter from F. T. Gates, November 24, 1909.

  RAC, vol. 232, no. 374, letter to University of Chicago, December 13, 1910.

  Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 7.

  The World, August 20, 1905.

  Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, p. 528.

  RAC, vol. 218, no. 460, letter to George Rogers, October 6, 1906.

  Wells, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, p. 461.

  RAC–FTG, B3 F58, letter from F. T. Gates to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 19, 1911.

  Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 205.

  RAC–FTG, B3 F67.

  AN, B116 F57, letter from F. T. Gates to T. W. Todd, n.d. [October–November, 1903].

  RAC–FTG, B2 F48, letter from F. T. Gates, n.d.

  Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 201.

  The New York Herald, March 29, 1905.

  RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1048.

  Harper’s Weekly, April 8, 1905.

  New York Daily News, n.d., IMT.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 546.

  CHAPTER 25: THE CODGER

  The American, November 1910.

  Pyle, Pocantico, p. 103.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 198.

  Inglis, “Impressions of John D. Rockefeller,” typescript in AN, p. 24.

  Chicago Record-Herald, December 12, 1906.

  Cosmopolitan, May 1902.

  RAC, 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 12, 1913.

  RAC, III 2.Z B20.

  Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 30.

  John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 37.

  RAC, vol. 230, no. 238, letter to Mr. Ailes, May 9, 1910.

  RAC, vol. 227, no. 65, letter to Dr. Paul Allen, June 5, 1909.

  RAC, vol. 228, no. 266, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 30, 1909.

  The New York Evening World, April 27, 1901.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 192.

  Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 60.

  Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 22.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 193.

  Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 6.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  Ibid.

  Ibid.

  AN, B133, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Senator Aldrich, August 14, 1903.

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

  New York Daily News, August 27, 1901.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  UC–UPP, 1889–1925, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to W. R. Harper, October 7, 1902. />
  Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 83.

  RAC, vol. 214, no. 296, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 27, 1905.

  Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 197.

  RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from Dr. W.H.P. Faunce to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., September 12, 1905.

  Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 115.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 4, 1907.

  Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son.” pp. 35–36.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 111.

  Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 4.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 407.

  The New York Times, May 21, 1905.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 289.

  RAC, III 2.Z B20 F4.

  AN, B132, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 1940.”

  RAC, III 1.SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, October 1908.

  Ibid., p. 37.

  Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 121.

  RAC, vol. 226, no. 308, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 17, 1909.

  RAC, vol. 229, no. 194, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 11, 1910

  William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 45.

  CHAPTER 26: THE WORLD’S RICHEST FUGITIVE

  Yergin, The Prize, p. 107.

  RAC, vol. 212, p. 400, letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, November 9 1904.

  Ibid.

  Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 134.

  IMT, 14/15, “Interview with Mr. Wickersham, May 7, 1924.”

  Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. 66.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 335.

  Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 421.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 359.

  Yergin, The Prize, p. 108.

  Ibid.

  AN, B117 F60, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 13, 1906.

  The New York Herald, June 23, 1906.

  AN, B117 F60, letter from John D. Archbold, July 5, 1906.

  Ibid., quoted in a letter from George Rogers, June 25, 1906.

  AN, B117 F59, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., December 5, 1905.

  The New York Herald, February 13, 1906.

  Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 92.

  Ibid., p. 244.

  RAC, vol. 217, no. 44, letter to William Rudd, January 18, 1906.

  AN, B117 F60, letter to John D. Archbold, April 24, 1906.

  RAC, vol. 217, no. 262, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 15, 1906.

  RAC, vol. 217, no. 285, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 19, 1906.

  Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 322.

  Yergin, The Prize, p. 100.

  AN, B128, letter from F. T. Gates to W. O. Inglis, January 12, 1922.

  RAC, vol. 214, no. 79, letter to F. T. Gates, May 12, 1905.

  AN, B117 F59, letter from S. Murphy, August 16, 1905.

  RAC, vol. 217, no. 480, letter to Mrs. Watson Van Duyne, May 1, 1906.

  AN, B117 F59, letter to Bessie Strong, December 20, 1905.

  RAC–CAS, III, “Letters 1906–1907.”

  Santayana, The Letters of George Santayana, p. 86.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 4.

  Ibid., p. 5.

  Ibid., p. 19.

  Ibid., p. 8.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 424.

  Ibid., p. 423.

  McCormick, George Santayana, p. 284.

  Ibid.

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

  AN, B131.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 27.

  AN, B117 F60, letter from George Rogers, July 9, 1906.

  RAC–CAS, III, “Letters 1906–1907,” letter from Charles A. Strong to William James, July 23, 1906.

  Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 567.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 72.

  The New York Herald, July 30, 1906.

  RAC, III 2.H B112 F846, telegram from Charles A. Strong, November 14, 1906.

  Ibid., telegram to Charles A. Strong, November 14, 1906.

  RAC–CAS, III, “Letters 1902–1905,” letter from Charles A. Strong to William James, October 19, 1902.

  William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 232.

  RAC, III 2.Z B20 F3, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, April 15, 1910

  RAC, III 2.H B112 F846, letter from Charles A. Strong to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 16, 1908.

  RAC, III 2.Z B20 F3, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Laura S. Rockefeller, March 11, 1909.

  RAC, III 2.A B33 F252, letter to Harold McCormick, May 25, 1917.

  RAC, vol. 218, no. 332, letter to Harold McCormick, September 1, 1906.

  Leslie’s Weekly, May 16, 1907.

  The Woman’s Home Companion, January 1907.

  AN, B117 F62, letter to Edith McCormick, June 11, 1908.

  RAC, III 2.H B1 F2.

  John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 1.

  Ibid., p. 19.

  Ibid., p. 118.

  Ibid., p. 94.

  Chicago Record-Herald, April 25, 1909.

  Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 101.

  Twain, Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, p. 577.

  Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 102.

  CHAPTER 27: JUDGMENT DAY

  AN, B117 F60, letter to John D. Archbold, November 13, 1906.

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

  AN, B131, “Interview with Mr. Brown.”

  AN, B130, “Interview with Charles T. White.”

  Giddens, Standard Oil Company (Indiana), p. 110.

  The Sun, July 7, 1907.

  Ibid.

  Ibid.

  AN, B128.

  Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 703.

  Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 147.

  Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, p. 323.

  Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 4, 1907.

  Ibid.

  Ibid.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 426.

  RAC–FTG, B2 F39, letter from F. T. Gates, August 9, 1907.

  Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 58.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 432.

  Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 481.

  RAC, vol. 221, p. 374, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 31, 1907.

  Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 367.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Help to End Panics.”

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 429.

  John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 5.

  Ibid., p. 88.

  AN, B130.

  AN, B117 F61, letter to George Rudd, October 26, 1907.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 428.

  Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism, p. 124.

  Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 135.

  Ibid., p. 136.

  Ibid., p. 140.

  Carr, John D. Rockefeller’s Secret Weapon, p. 147.

  Hidy and Hidy, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), p. 635.

  Ibid., p. 634.

  RAC, vol. 230, p. 7, letter to H. C. Folger, March 14, 1910.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 414.

  Ibid.

  The Morning Telegraph, November 20, 1908.

  Cincinnati Times-Star, November 20, 1908.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 277.

  RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “John D. Archbold.”

  Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 56.

  Ibid., p. 57.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 355.

  Ibid.

  Hearst’s Magazine, June 1912.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 353.

  Swanberg, Citizen Hearst, p.
228.

  Goulder, John D. Rockefeller, p. 215.

  Swanberg, Citizen Hearst, p. 260.

  Ibid., p. 261.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 435.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  Ibid.

  Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 137.

  Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 105.

  McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 197.

  RAC, III 2.Z B46.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 436.

  RAC, vol. 226, p. 488, letter to H. C. Folger, May 20, 1909.

  Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, p. 660.

  RAC, vol. 228, p. 23, letter to Harold McCormick, August 27, 1909

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 378, and Yergin, The Prize, p. 109.

  Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 46.

  Yergin, The Prize, p. 109.

  AN, B126.

  Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 59.

  Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 173.

  Ibid.

  Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, p. 665.

  Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 445.

  Bradstreet’s, September 2, 1911.

  Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism, p. 194.

  Yergin, The Prize, p. 113.

  Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 135.

  Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 157.

  Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 383.

  RAC, vol. 235, p. 107.

  AN, B126, “Interview with Dr. W. M. Burton.”

  CHAPTER 28: BENEVOLENT TRUST

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

  The New Yorker, January 29, 1921.

  The New York Herald, January 6, 1905.

  Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 65.

  Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 48.

  Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 82.

  Gates, Chapters in My Life, p. 20.

  Ibid., p. 209.

  AN, B117, letters from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 10 and 12, 1908.

  Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 9.

  Ibid., p. 121.

  Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men, p. 169.

  Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, pp. 661–62.

  Ibid., p. 663.

  Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, p. 615.

  RAC, III 2.Z B20 F24, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Laura S. Rockefeller, April 25, 1911.

  The Sun, January 11, 1914.

  RAC–FTG, B4 F78, letter to F. T. Gates, August 19, 1912.

  RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 17, 1917.

  Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, p. 59.

  CHAPTER 29: MASSACRE

  AN, B117 F59, letter from Frederick T. Gates, December 2, 1905.

  AN, B116 F57, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to F. J. Hearne, October 27, 1903.

 

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