Titan
Page 104
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 53.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “On Profit-Sharing and Unionism.”
RAC–FTG, B1 F9, “Capital and Labor.”
AN, B117 F66, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to L. M. Bowers, May 21, 1913.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 419.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 98.
Ibid., p. 111.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 110.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 135.
Ibid., p. 136.
AN, B117 F67, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to W. B. Wilson, November 19, 1913.
Ibid.
Ibid., letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to L. M. Bowers, December 26, 1913.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, pp. 198–99.
Ibid., p. 201.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 115.
AN, B117 F68, letter to E. B. Thomas, April 11, 1914.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 232.
Ibid.
Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre, p. 23.
Hiebert, Courtier to the Crowd, p. 99.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 239.
Lash, Helen and Teacher, p. 428.
Pickersgill and Forster, The Mackenzie King Record, vol. III, p. 144.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 278.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 7, 1914.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 152.
Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre, p. 20.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 257.
AN, B117 F68, letter to Harold McCormick, May 11, 1914.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 144.
Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, p. 229.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, p. 229, and Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 132.
Ibid.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 133.
Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre, p. 64.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 133.
Ibid.
Hearst’s International, July 1923.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 116.
Hiebert, Courtier to the Crowd, p. 97.
Ibid., p. 100.
RAC, III 2.H B1 F3, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Walter C. Teagle, June 25, 1918.
Hiebert, Courtier to the Crowd, pp. 4–5.
Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre, p. 59.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 130.
Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, p. 237.
Hiebert, Courtier to the Crowd, p. 104.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
McGovern and Guttridge, The Great Coalfield War, p. 318.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 332–33.
The New Republic, January 30, 1915.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 158.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, pp. 138–39.
Jones, Autobiography of Mother Jones, p. 201.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 201.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 151.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 162.
AN, B128, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Allan Nevins, April 3, 1939.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 165.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 151.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Mrs. S. J. Life.”
Pickersgill and Forster, The Mackenzie King Record, vol. III, p. 360.
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Jones, The Correspondence of Mother Jones, p. 134.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 676.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, December 1909.
Ibid., September 25, 1913.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 463.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F25.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 49.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 426.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F257, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, September 12, 1922.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 233, and Inglis notes, 4.9, “Rockefeller and Cleveland.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Rockefeller and Cleveland.”
The New York Tribune, March 15, 1915.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F13, letter from M. S. Richardson to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. August 12, 1915.
Ibid.
The Detroit Free Press, January 3, 1916.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 190.
The New York Evening Journal, August 30, 1932.
Ibid.
Dedmon, Fabulous Chicago, p. 315.
Burnham, Jelliffe, p. 247.
Ibid., p. 245.
Jung, Modern Psychology, p. 71.
Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, p. 583.
Ibid.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 207.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F249, letter from Harold McCormick, December 28, 1913.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter to Harold McCormick, December 30, 1915.
Spring 52, 1992.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Harold McCormick, September 1, 1915.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 215.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 192.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Harold McCormick, June 18, 1915.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 216.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F252, letter from Harold McCormick, August 25, 1917.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, October 22, 1915.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F252, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, June 22, 1917.
Ibid., letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, July 27, 1917.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F251, letter from Harold McCormick, February 16, 1916.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F259, letter to Harold and Edith McCormick, January 26, 1916.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, pp. 230–31.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, September 4, 1915.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 201.
Ibid.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, pp. 225–26.
Ibid., p. 232.
Ellmann, James Joyce, p. 422.
Ibid., p. 469.
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 231.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F233, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, March 24, 1919.
Spring 52, 1992.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Walska, Always Room at the Top, p. 24.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F254, letter to Harold McCormick, January 27, 1920.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, April 9, 1921.
RAC, RG2 B34 F262, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, April 17, 1931.
The Chicago Daily News, March 12, 1931.
RAC, RG2 B34 F259, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, December 27, 1923.
Birmingham, The Grandes Dames, p. 140.
RAC, RG2 B34 F259, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, January 14 1924.
CHAPTER 31: CONFESSIONAL
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., October 11, 1926.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 196.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis Impressions.”
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 250.
AN, B128, letter from George N. Rigby to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 27, 1940.
The Salt Lake City Tribune, April 27, 1919.
Strickland, Ormond’s Historic Homes, p. 57.
The New York American, Fe
bruary 5, 1927.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 98.
Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 301.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 15, 1916.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “John S. Sargent Interview, November 27, 1922.”
CUOH–PM, p. 23.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis Impressions.”
David Rockefeller, interview with author.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 148.
The Brooklyn Citizen, March 4, 1923.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 363–64.
Ibid., p. 1061.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.7, 3.1.1, letter from Ivy Lee, February 11, 1915.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F17, letter from Ivy Lee, October 14, 1915.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F18, “Meeting Mr. Rockefeller.”
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 237.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F14, letter from W. O. Inglis to Ivy Lee, March 25, 1918.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 343.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., September 28, 1917.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 231.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 23.
Ibid., p. 1313.
RAC, III 2.H B1 F8, “Taylor History.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1280.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 183.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1252.
Ibid., p. 105.
Ibid., p. 1647.
Ibid., p. 149.
Ibid., p. 1396.
Ibid., p. 1264.
Ibid., p. 1291.
RAC, Inglis notes, “John D. Rockefeller Biography,” letter from William Allen White to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 21, 1925.
RAC, III 2.Z B46, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”
RAC, III 2.Z B44, “Memo of William G. Rose, March 10, 1953.”
CHAPTER 32: DYNASTIC SUCCESSION
Mencken, Prejudices: Fifth Series, p. 287.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 136.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 177.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F14, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to W. O. Inglis, February 19, 1918.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 334.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 25, 1915.
David Rockefeller, interview with author.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 158.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “What Mr. Rockefeller Gave to Win the War.”
RAC, III 2.Z B21.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 411.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 239.
David Rockefeller, interview with author.
Chase, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 47.
Ibid., p. 85.
Ibid., p. 120.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 208.
Chase, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 59.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 208.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 116.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 228.
Pyle, Pocantico, p. 180.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 419.
Chase, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 32.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, pp. 172–73.
Chase, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 46.
The New Yorker, November 4, 1972.
RAC, III 2.Z B64.
RAC, III 2.H B9 F37, “Inglis Impressions.”
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
The Saturday Evening Post, July 16, 1938.
CHAPTER 33: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
AN, B128, “Interview with James C. Jones.”
AN, B131.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 419.
FSL, JDR, B23, letter to Henry Clay Folger, June 28, 1922.
Ibid., letter to Henry Clay Folger, January 1, 1923.
The Evening World, November 30, 1926.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 254.
Wells, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, p. 462.
AN, B126, “William T. Sheppard Interview.”
Winkler, John D., p. 47.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 42.
Pyle, Pocantico, p. 111.
AN, B119, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 28, 1928.
AN, B126.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 102.
AN, B128, letter from George N. Rigby to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 27, 1940.
Engelbrecht, Neighbor John, p. 107.
The World, May 20, 1923, and Hearst’s International, July 1923.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Mr. Rockefeller and Alcohol.”
Winkler, John D., p. 189.
RAC, III B36 F273.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 355.
Fosdick, Chronicle of a Generation, p. 223.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 206.
Fosdick, The Living of These Days, p. 146.
Ibid., p. 178.
Schenkel, The Rich Man and the Kingdom, p. 222.
The Jacksonville Times-Union, November 15, 1935.
Roberts, Mr. Rockefeller’s Roads, p. 6.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 278.
Ibid., p. 292.
Ibid., p. 297.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 389.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 172.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 110.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 283.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 102.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 219.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 262.
Ibid., p. 304.
Ibid., p. 283.
Ibid., p. 284.
Ibid., pp. 418–19.
Ibid., p. 377.
CHAPTER 34: HEIRS
Noll, The Aryan Christ, p. 208.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F257, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, October 20, 1922.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 236.
The Chicago Journal, October 25, 1921.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F252, letter to Mathilde McCormick, January 28, 1922.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F256, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, January 28, 1922.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F258, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, April 19, 1923.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F256, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, October 23, 1922.
RAC, RG2 B34 F261, letter from Mathilde Oser, July 3, 1929.
Ibid., telegram from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, May 27, 1929.
McCormick, George Santayana, p. 288.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 16.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 244.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 102.
Ibid., p. 254.
Ibid., p. 90.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 227.
Ibid., p. 228.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, pp. 246, 248.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 207.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 261.
Ibid., pp. 258, 261.
Ibid., p. 274.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 366.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 246.
Morris, Those Rockefeller Brothers, p. 56.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 247.
Ibid., p. 59.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 60.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 199.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 1, 1932.
Newsweek, April 28, 1958.
RAC, III 2.Z B20 F4, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Laura S.
Rockefeller, July 30, 1910.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., February 28, 1934.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 29.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 52.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 220.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 366.
RAC, III 2.Z B21, letter from Winthrop Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
Winthrop Rockefeller, A Letter to My Son, pp. 83–84.
Ibid., p. 85.
The Saturday Evening Post, July 16, 1938.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 9.
Harr and Johnson, The Rockefeller Century, p. 391.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 256.
AN, B119, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., December 28, 1927.
David Rockefeller, interview with author.
Morris, Those Rockefeller Brothers, p. 30.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 430.
CHAPTER 35: SEE YOU IN HEAVEN
AN, B126.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 71.
AN, B128.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 172.
Chernow, The House of Morgan, p. 319.
Ellmann, James Joyce, p. 469.
Winthrop Rockefeller, “A Letter to My Son,” p. 88.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 28, 1933.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 118.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, p. 357.
Ibid., p. 360.
Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, p. 111.
RAC, III 2.Z B46.
Time, September 24, 1956.
The New York Evening Post, February 9, 1932.
AN, B128, letter from George N. Rigby to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., April 27, 1940.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 71.
Collier and Horowitz, The Rockefellers, p. 204.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.14, “Ira Warner Memo.”
AN, B129.
RAC, III 2.Z B44, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Kate Sewall, March 20, 1937.
Winthrop Rockefeller, “A Letter to My Son,” p. 86.
The Argonaut, June 16, 1937.
Winkelman, John D. Rockefeller, p. 4.
Pyle, Pocantico, p. 189.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It has taken the kindness of many strangers to explore the labyrinth of materials now available on John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Because Rockefeller died in 1937, there are few people today who can provide information from either firsthand experience or hearsay, which made me especially grateful to the family members who spoke with me. David Rockefeller not only sat for an interview but graciously offered a sneak preview of the chapter on his grandfather in his forthcoming memoir. Other descendants of figures discussed in this book—including Nelson Aldrich, Jr., Elizabeth de Cuevas, John de Cuevas, James T. Flexner, Abby O’Neill, Spelman Prentice, Ann Rockefeller Roberts, J. Stillman Rockefeller, and O. Stillman Rockefeller—added shading and nuance to many events. Peter Johnson, the resident historian at the Rockefeller family office, reacted to all of my requests for information in a fine, collegial spirit.