Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
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THE HISTORY OF
THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Copyright, 1904, by Ames JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER IN 1904 Born July 8, 1839
THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY
BY
IDA M. TARBELL
AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, AND MADAME ROLAND: A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY
ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS, PICTURES AND DIAGRAMS
VOLUME ONE
NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMV
Copyright, 1904, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published, November, 1904
Second Impression
Copyright, 1902, 1903, 1904, by The S. S. McClure Co.
“An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
EMERSON, IN ESSAY ON “SELF-RELIANCE.”
“The American Beauty Rose can be produced in its splendor and fragrance only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it.”
J. D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., IN AN ADDRESS ON TRUSTS,
TO THE STUDENTS OF BROWN UNIVERSITY.
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