by Ron Chernow
AN, B117 F65, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 31, 1911.
AN, B117 F67, letter to Bertram Cutler, December 31, 1913.
RAC–FTG, B3 F49, “Frederick T. Gates Speech in 1911 to the Missouri Pacific Board.”
Henry Clews, 50 Years on Wall Street, pp. 745–46.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 46.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 90.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 993.
AN, B126, “Interview with William T. Sheppard.”
RAC, B114 F33, letter to William Rockefeller, March 26, 1887.
AN, B130.
RAC, 1.2 B56 F416, letter from H. M. Flagler, February 7, 1897.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, pp. 285–86.
Elmer, Cinderella Rockefeller, p. 4.
Ibid.
AN, B116 F55, letter to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., August 26, 1901.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” p. 47.
AN, B128, “Interview with C. M. Higgins.”
The Evening Post, May 19, 1909.
Lawson, Frenzied Finance, dedication.
Ibid., pp. 294, vi.
Ibid., p. 35.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 347.
Ibid., p. 291.
AN, B116 F58, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., July 26, 1904.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Miss Tarbell, etc.”
AN, B126, “Interview with William T. Sheppard.”
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 335.
Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, p. 258.
Ibid., p. 257.
Twain, Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, p. 5.
Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, p. 323.
Twain, Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, p. 466.
Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 83.
Ibid., p. 99.
Lash, Helen and Teacher, p. 209.
Ibid., p. 210.
Ibid., p. 355.
Ibid., p. 588.
AN, B130, “Interview with Charles Schwab.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 80.
HDL, reel 27, “Opening Statement of Henry E. Harris in Alfred Merritt vs. John D. Rockefeller.”
AN, B126, letter to Laura S. Rockefeller, September 2, 1893.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 80.
AN, B116 F49.
Ibid.
AN, B116 F46a, letter from Frederick T. Gates to Frank Rockefeller, April 7, 1893.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 85.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 262.
Wall, Andrew Carnegie, p. 600.
William H. Allen, Rockefeller: Giant, Dwarf, Symbol, p. 274.
Wall, Andrew Carnegie, p. 170.
Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 134.
AN, B132, letter to F. Barstow, July 21, 1896.
Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 146.
Lyon, Success Story, p. 175.
Ibid., p. 176.
Chernow, The House of Morgan, pp. 103–4.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, pp. 268–69.
Allen, The Great Pierpont Morgan, p. 143.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 350.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 269.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 105.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 270.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 5, 1901.
AN, B126, “Interview with William Sheppard.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 271.
Schreiner, Henry Clay Frick, p. 188.
AN, B116 F55, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 12, 1901.
Ibid., March 16, 1901.
Ibid., March 15, 1901.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 274.
AN, B117 F60.
AN, B120.
RAC, 2.C B60 F470, memo of George Rogers, October 20, 1894.
Ibid., letter to Stevenson Burke, November 19, 1894.
IMT, B 4/14 T-298, “Notes on Interview with Frank Rockefeller.”
AN, B116 F49, letter to James Corrigan, April 24, 1895.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 416.
RAC, III 2.C B59 F464, “Memo of February 29, 1896.”
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 24.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 66.
RAC, III 2.C B60 F468, letter to William Rockefeller, September 20, 1901.
Hawke, John D., p. 204.
CHAPTER 21: THE ENTHUSIAST
The New Era, June 11, 1897.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1615.
McClure’s Magazine, August 1905.
Middletown (Connecticut) Press, April 3, 1922.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57, “The Secret of Mr. Rockefeller’s Character and Success.
Middletown (Connecticut) Press, April 3, 1922.
RAC, III 2.H B3 F15, “Interview with Elias M. Johnson.”
Ibid.
Manchester, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, p. 133.
RAC, III 2.H F18, “Golf with John D. Rockefeller.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.13, “Golf with Rockefeller.”
Memphis (Tennessee) Commercial Appeal, October 21, 1918.
RAC, vol. 214, no. 98.
AN, B126, letter to Laura S. Rockefeller, September 2, 1893.
RAC–FTG, B3 F57, “The Secret of Mr. Rockefeller’s Character and Success.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 34.
AN, B126, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Everett Colby, September 24, 1900.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 293.
RAC, vol. 212, no. 472, letter to Laura Rudd, November 29, 1904.
AN, B117 F60, expense account, January–February 1906.
Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, p. 37.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 37.
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 291.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 228.
AN, B132, letter from George D. Rogers to Laura S. Rockefeller, March 11, 1892.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” pp. 86–87.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1414.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 116.
Biggar, Compiègne and Personal Reminiscences, p. 97.
RAC–FTG, B1 F21, letter from Charles Eliot to Frederick T. Gates, December 23, 1910.
The New York Herald, October 3, 1907.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.14, “Ira Warner Memo.”
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 139.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “Miss Tarbell, etc.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.9, “Bad Temper.”
RAC, vol. 213, no. 307, letter to Watson Van Duyne, March 27, 1905.
Ernst, “Dear Father”/“Dear Son,” p. 23.
RAC, vol. 217, no. 355, letter to George Rogers, March 31, 1906.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 23.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1267.
RAC, vol. 213, no. 307, letter to Watson Van Duyne, March 27, 1905.
RAC, III 2.Z B22, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., quoted in an Associated Press article, attached to a letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., May 15, 1935.
RAC, vol. 235, no. 464, letter to Dr. Henry Moeller, November 15, 1911.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, March 1901.
AN, B133.
McClure’s Magazine, August 1905.
RAC, vol. 216, letter to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, November 1, 1905.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Hoster Manuscript,” pp. 31–32.
AN, B130, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to W. R. Harper, September 24, 1892.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, April 1904.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, March 14, 1915.
AN, B12
8, “Interview with H. V. Sims.”
Ibid.
Ibid., letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Allan Nevins, February 8, 1940.
RAC, III 2.Z B20, letter from Laura S. Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 17, 1895.
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 58.
RAC–CAS, II, letter from Charles A. Strong to William James, December 6, 1895.
Elizabeth de Cuevas, interview with author.
RAC, vol. 219, no. 6, letter to Reverend Charles Aked, February 18, 1907.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 450.
William James, Selected Unpublished Correspondence, p. 382, letter from William James to Macmillan Company, October 22, 1901.
RAC–CAS.
William James, The Letters of William James, vol. II, p. 229, letter from William James to his wife, May 13, 1905.
Lewis, The Jameses, p. 545.
William James, The Correspondence of William James, vol. III, p. 225, letter from William to Henry James, January 29, 1904.
AN, B131, letter from William James, June 1, 1909.
RAC, III 2.2 B49 F23, letter from Bessie Strong to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 12, 1904.
RAC–CAS, II, letter from Charles A. Strong to William James, October 1903.
McCormick, George Santayana, p. 553.
Ibid.
Lewis, The Jameses, p. 546.
The Chicago Daily News, March 12, 1931.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Harold McCormick, September 28, 1895.
The New York Evening Journal, August 31, 1932.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 137.
RAC, vol. 223, no. 102, letter to Harold McCormick, April 20, 1908.
The New York Evening Journal, August 31, 1932.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Edith Rockefeller McCormick, October 11 1905.
RAC, vol. 215, no. 462, letter to Cyrus McCormick, October 17, 1905.
AN, B116 F56, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., November 19, 1902.
AN, B116 F57, letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 26, 1903.
RAC, III 2.A B33 F253, letter from Harold McCormick, January 10, 1919.
AN, B117 F64, letter from Frederick T. Gates, November 11, 1910.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Alta Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., November 2, 1889.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F25.
RAC, III 1 SL B2 F10, Laura S. Rockefeller diary, July 1912.
AN, B122, “Talk with Everett Colby.”
RAC, III 2.Z B20, quoted in letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Laura S. Rockefeller, June 25, 1895.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Alta Rockefeller to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., March 31, 1900.
Kert, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, pp. 76–77.
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 156.
RAC, R62 B31 F237, letter from Alta Rockefeller, February 4, 1915.
RAC, III 2.Z B49 F23, letter from Harold McCormick, April 25, 1915.
RAC, III 2.A B32 F250.
CHAPTER 22: AVENGING ANGEL
The World, October 12, 1898.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis interview, pp. 1463, 1624.
The World, October 13, 1898, and The New York Herald, October 13, 1898
The New York Herald, March 18, 1899.
Ibid.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 26.
AN, B132, letter from Frank Monnett to Henry Demarest Lloyd, January 19, 1899.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 27.
Manning, The Standard Oil Company, p. 20.
AN, B117 F61, letter to Harold McCormick, June 29, 1907.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 121.
Ibid., p. 89.
AN, B126, letter to Andrew White, November 28, 1900.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1115.
Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 147.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 121.
Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 236.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 123.
Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 227.
Chandler, Henry Flagler, p. 236.
Flynn, God’s Gold, p. 381.
Bringhurst, Antitrust and the Oil Monopoly, p. 129.
RAC, III 2.Z B46, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”
Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., p. 415.
Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 350.
AN, B126, letter to Mr. Baer, May 14, 1900.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 203.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 24.
Ibid., p. 83.
Ibid., p. 99.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 91.
The World, n.d. [1905].
Lyon, Success Story, p. 146.
Ibid., p. 117.
Ibid., p. 199.
Ibid., p. 152.
Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, p. 361.
Ibid., pp. 392–93.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, p. ix.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” letter from W. W. Tarbell to Ida Tarbell, April 14, 1893.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 45.
Ibid., p. 207.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 123.
Ibid., p. 129.
Ibid., p. 130.
Destler, Henry Demarest Lloyd, p. 353.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 132.
Twain, Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, p. 478.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 211.
Ibid., p. 212.
Ibid., p. 10.
Ibid., p. 220.
Ibid.
RAC, III 2.H B14 F87, letter from William T. Sheppard to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., June 16, 1937.
AN, B131, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 227.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” “Memo of a conversation with Mr. Flagler.”
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 219.
AN, B126, “Interview with William T. Sheppard.”
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 126.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 230.
Ibid., p. 26.
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 287.
Ibid., p. 101.
IMT, B 1/14, “Interview with Henry H. Rogers.”
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 68.
Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 204.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise, vol. II, p. 50.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. I, p. 206.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, pp. 71–72.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 51.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 94.
AN, B114 F36, letter from J. D. Archbold, May 2, 1888.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 1091.
Nevins, John D. Rockefeller, vol. II, p. 85.
Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, vol. II, p. 110.
Lyon, Success Story, p. 213.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 202.
Yergin, The Prize, p. 102.
IMT, B 1/14 T-057, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, August 6, 1903.
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 145.
Ibid., p. 143.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, n.d.
The American Magazine, November 1910.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.12, “Reminiscences.”
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, June 15, 1903.
Ibid.
Ibid., letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, October 26, 1903.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 234.
Ibid., p. 235.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 236.
McCl
ure’s Magazine, August 1905.
Ibid.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.10, “Myths as to Rockefeller’s Boyhood.”
Nevins, Study in Power, vol. II, p. 403.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, January 8, 1904.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” T-066, “Memo of Interview with Frank Rockefeller, January 22, 1904.”
IMT, B 4/14 T-298, “Notes on Interview with Frank Rockefeller.”
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” T-066, “Memo of Interview with Frank Rockefeller, January 22, 1904.”
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “J. W. Slaght.”
Ibid.
Ibid.
The Cleveland Press, n.d. [ca. 1905].
Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 137.
IMT, B 4/14 T-288, “Memo on Corrigan case.”
RAC, vol. 214, no. 347.
Winkler, John D.: A Portrait in Oils, p. 28.
RAC, vol. 213, no. 348, letter to F. T. Gates, April 3, 1905.
McClure’s Magazine, July 1905.
Hughes, Music Is My Life, p. 71.
Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 239.
RAC, Inglis interview, p. 13.
Ibid., p. 1457.
Ibid., p. 1430.
RAC, vol. 215, no. 49, letter to J. D. Archbold, July 29, 1905.
The Detroit Tribune, July 24, 1905.
The Philadelphia Ledger, July 21, 1905.
RAC, III 2.Z B46, “Interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr.”
Stasz, The Rockefeller Women, p. 232.
IMT, B 1/14 T-053, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, April 28, 1903.
Ibid.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, April 30, 1903.
IMT, B 2/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, n.d.
IMT, B 1/14, letter from J. M. Siddall to Ida Tarbell, September 22, 1903.
IMT, “Documents to Be Catalogued,” T-066, “Memo of Interview with Frank Rockefeller, January 22, 1904.”
Rugoff, America’s Gilded Age, p. 162.
Swanberg, Pulitzer, p. 187.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.11, “Interview with J. W. Slaght.”
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
The World, August 11, 1907.
Ibid., February 2, 1908.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 30, 1937.
Ibid.
Ibid.
The New York Times, February 3, 1908.
The World, March 1, 1908.
Ibid.
CHAPTER 23: FAITH OF FOOLS
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 8, 1936.
AN, B122, letter from F. T. Gates to George B. Atwood, April 4, 1921.
John D. Rockefeller, Random Reminiscences, p. 104.
RAC, Inglis notes, 4.8, “On Gratitude and Giving.”
AN, B114 F33, letter to Frank Rockefeller, December 24, 1886.
