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'''William Avery Rockefeller, Sr.''' ([[November 13]], [[1810]] – [[May 11]], [[1906]]) was the father of [[United States|American]] oil tycoon and billionaire, [[John D. Rockefeller|John Davison Rockefeller]] ([[July 8]], [[1839]] – [[May 23]], [[1937]]) and [[William Rockefeller]] (1841–1922), who both founded the [[Standard Oil]] company.
William Rockefeller, Sr. was a known [[bigamist]], a [[quack doctor]], and a confidence trickster. An unreliable father, he played virtually no role in his son's business career, but he lived to a great age.
Rockefeller was born in [[Granger, New York]] to '''Godfrey Rockefeller''' ([[24 September]] [[1784]] - [[Albany, New York]] - d. [[28 September]] [[1857]], [[Richford, New York]]) and '''Lucy Avery''' ([[11 February]] [[1786]], [[Great Barrington, Massachusetts]] - d. ?). He was one of 10 children: (Melinda, Olymphia, Norman, Sally Ann, Jacob S, Mary, Miles Avery, Mary Miranda and Egbert).
The Rockefellers trace their family back to '''Goddard Rockenfeller''' ([[1590]]) of Fahr, today part of [[Neuwied]], [[Germany]]. The first Rockefeller to settle in [[Americas|America]] was '''Johann Peter Rockefeller''' (1710, Segendorf, [[Neuwied]]; 1787, [[Amwell Township, New Jersey]]).
He and his first wife, Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller, were the parents of 5 other children: Lucy, William, [[Frank Rockefeller|Frank]], Mary Ann and Francis (daughter). In 1856 William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. married Margaret Allen in [[Norwich, Ontario]], [[Canada]].
After hearing rumours that the richest man in the world — then at the height of his notoriety as a monopolist — had a shameful family secret, the press went into a frenzy. [[Joseph Pulitzer]] offered a reward of eight thousand dollars for information about "Doc Rockefeller" who was known to be alive and living under a false name, but whose whereabouts were a family secret. Despite slender clues picked up from interviews with family members and an eighteen month search, the journalists failed to track him down before he died, and the full story wasn't exposed until two years later.
William Rockefeller had spent sometime in [[Park River, North Dakota]] under the alias of Dr. William "Big Bill" Levingston. He died on May 11, 1906, in [[Freeport, Illinois]] and was buried there in Oakland Cemetery.
==References==
*''Titan: The Life of John. D. Rockefeller, Sr,'' by Ron Chernow, London: Warner Books, 1998.
==External links==
*[http://www.nd-humanities.org/html/rockefeller.html An online biography]
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